The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-03
THE STALWARTS ARE IN CONTROL
Delegates Opposed to LaFollette Selected
and Strong Resolutions Passed
All For Reynolds.
(From Saturdays Daily.)


party ever held. For the first time in
the history of Kenosha county dis
senting delegation took up their bags
and baggage and left the Convention
Hall. The convention was Sta1wart
one, and the minority which favored
La Toilette was not sufficient to make
more than a ripple in the general ac-
ton of the Convention.
The resolutions passed were in favor
of the anti-La Toilette faction of the
party, and the men elected as delegates
to the State Convention we're in favor
of some candidate other than La Fol
lette.
The Convention was called to order
by County Chairman Buckmaster, and
H. S. Van Ingen was elected as Chair
man without opposition. Paul E..
Sauer, of Wheatland, was elected as
Secretary.
The committee on credentials re-
ported the following delegates present:
Kenosha-First Ward-H. S. Van
Ingen, Frank Hansmann, E. F. Mark
ham.
Second Ward-B. F. Windsor, John
t. Yule, James Balloon.
Third Ward-John M. Keh1or, Fred
Becker, Lyman Starr.
Fourth Ward-Chas. H. Conner
mann, James Larsen, D. F. Brister.
Fifth Ward Charles Reinardy,
Michael K1eist Carl To1f.
Sixth Ward-George Fischer, Frank
Ho1derness, J. A. Jackson.
Seventh Ward-Char1es Niles, r.
Borkenhagen, Otto Kohls.
Eighth Ward-Fred Joerndt, Phil.
Home1son, Jacob Kruder.
Town of Bristol-Char1es Marsh,
Clarence Williams, A. Cornwell.
Town of Brighton-W. V. Gull, Jr.,
f. G. Hartne11, James Martin.
Town of Pleasant Prairie-S. B..
Cropley, H. A. King, Evan Powell.
Town of Sa1em-Henry Lubeno, A.
H. Kruckman, Ira Brown.
Town of Randa1l-H. G. Vosburg,
George w. McKesson, w. H. Harrison.
Town of Somers-L. E. Ozanne, N.
E. Thompson, Conrad Shearer.
Town of Paris-Herman Burgess,
Russell Jones, Lewis Williams.
Town of Wheatland-Pau Sauer,
George Fay, o. w. Eddy.
AS soon as the Convention had been
organized, and committee on creden-
tia1s appointed, the fight began. The
minority favoring Governor LaFo1-
1ette started the fight, and heaped IN
suit on the Chairman and the Stalwart
members of the Convention. It is true
that this action was not a unanimous
one, and several of the La Toilette
delegates plead for union in the party,
which plea was seconded by the Stall
warts. Ia some cases the slurs and in
suits of the Governors friends were so
direct that later in the morning the
delegates apo1ogized to Chairman
Van Ingen for the statements they had
made. The Convention was so strongly
Sta1wart that the delegates paid little
heed to the taunts of the opposition.
A committee of five delegates, con-
sisting of c. H. Gonnermann, John T..
Yu1e, w. FL. Harrison, E. H. Burgess
and C. E. Williams was selected by the
Chair to name the delegates to be
voted on by the Convention. This
committee was violently opposed by
the LaFo1lette men, who insisted on
balloting for the delegates, and when
the motion was decided in favor of the
Sta1warts and the committee, the ma
iority of the La Toilette men bolted
the Convention, only the country mem
bers favora BILE to La Toilette remain
ing.
When this delegation bolted the dis
turbing element of the Convention had
practically left the hall, and the re-
mainder of the mornings work was
done in harmony, the Stalwarts hav-
ing complete control.
Conrad Shearer, H. A. King and
James Balloon were appointed COM
mittee on Resolutions; and G. W.
McKesson, John Keh1or, Johnson A.
Jackson, Fred Becker, and Nicholas
Thompson were appointed committee
to name the delegates to the Senator
ial Convention to be held at Racine.
With this action the Convention adj
iourned for dinner, and the noon hour
was spent in marsha1ling the hosts for
the afternoon.
AS soon as the Convention assem-
b1ed this afternoon the committee on
Resolutions presented the following
set of resolutions, which were adopted
amidst great applause, the names OF
Cooper, Whitehead, Spooner and Rey'
no1ds being greeted with prolonged
app ause. The resolutions follow:
+ We, the Republicans of Kenosha
county, in convention assembled
hereby re-affirm our fidelity to the
principles of the Republican party, as
exemplifed ia the administration Oh
| the late President Mckinley, and sc
faithfully carried out by President
| Roosevelt.
| We deplore The untimelv death OF
William Mckinley, whose statesman