The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-05-22

State Republican Committee Makes
a Radical Change in Selecting
the Convention City.
AT THE BIDDING OF GOVERNOR.
Milwaukee Made a Strong Bid For the Con-
vention But LaFollette Selected Madi-
son as the Best Place.

The Republican State Central conn
mittee met in Madison Tuesday after
noon and sent out the call for the State
Republican convention to nominate a
candidate for governor and other State
officers.
The committee, at the bidding of the
governor and his leaders, made a de-
cided change in the plan for holding
State conventions and the convention
will be held at Madison on July 10th
The change of the convention from
Milwaukee to Madison, while undoubt-
eddy of some assistance to the governor
in his fight for the nomination, will
prove hardship to many of the dele
gates who will be selected to attend the
convention. Many of the delegates
will have to expend large sums in
railway fare in order to reach the State
capitol and the hotel accommodations
are held to be entirely inadequate to
care for the crowd attending the con-
vention.
The action of the committee was
bitterly opposed by leading Republi-
cans in all parts of the State but the
committee, large majority of which
are favorable to the candidacy of the
governor, overruled any preference of
party and set to the convention for
Madison. The date set is earlier than
any date set in many years and will re-
suit in long and tiresome campaign
lasting more than four months. He-
uosha is allowed twelve delegates to
the convention. The official cali for
the convention follows:
To the Republican Electors of Wiscon-
sin:
In pursuance of the law and preced-
ents, the Republican State central
committee directs that convention of
the Republican electors of the State of
Wisconsin be. held in the gymnasium
building in the CITY of Madison, on the
10th day OF July. 1902, at II O'Clock,
noon, for the purpose of placing in
nomination a Repu b1ican State ticket,
namely, governor. lieutenant COVER
nor, secretary of state, state treasurer,
attorney general, late superintendent,
insurance commissioner and railroad
commissioner, TO be voted for at the
general election in November next;
and electing a chairman of the Repub-
1ican state committee and two mem
bers from each congressional district
to constitute such committee; and the
transaction Of such other business as
may properly come before the conven-
ton.
The Republican electors of Wiscon-
sin, and all voters without regard to
past political affiliations, who believe
in Repu b1ican principles, are cordially
invited to unite under this call in send
ing delegates to said State convention.
Each county is entitled to one dele
gate for every $50 Republican voters or
majo fraction thereof cast at the pres
Eidential election of 1900. In counties
except Milwaukee county, having
more than one assembly district the
convention shall be on call of chair
! man of county committee and shall be
held at the same time, and the dele
gates SO elected by the several assem-
bly, districts and counties shall be GER
tilted to the State central committee by
the chairman and secretary of the
county committee.
Chairmen of Republican county COM
mittees will take notice that all con-
ventions to elect delegates to the State
convention must be called on notice
of not less than four weeks; all town
or ward caucuses S primaries to State
convention on notice of not less than
ten days; and that notice of meeting
of such convention or caucuses shall
be given in the usual manner.
As the State central committee acts
as the committee on credentia
it is requested that credentials of
delegates elected, duly certified to by
the chairman and secretary of county
committee, be forwarded to the secre-
tary at Republican State central COM
mittee headquarters in Madison, Wis.,,
Immediately upon their election, in
every case giving the name in full and
postoffice address.
Whenever any delegate or delegates
are absent the vote of such absent del
egate or delegates, instead of being
represented by proxy, shall be di-
vided equally between the regularly
elected delegates present from such
assembly district, county or ward,
whatever the unite of representation
may be. GEORGE E. BRYANT,
Chairman.
ZENo M. HosT, Secretary.