River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-07

persons as electors at large and from
the districts as had been named by the
said pretended convention.
Invoked Aid of Democrats.
"T'hat upon the nomination by the Re-
publican party of Wisconsin of the said
Robert NJ La Toilette as candidate for
governor of said state in the fall of 1900,
he began a systematic effort to secure,
in various ways, the support of the vot-
eTs belonging to the Democratic and
Populist or Socialist parties in Wiscon-
sin. That in his campaign for nomina-
ton in 1902, and for a nomination Tor
third term in 1904, he caused lists to be
made of so-called fair minded Democrats,
in each of the several voting precincts
of the state of Wisconsin,; that he used
such lists as mailing lists and directed
personal letters to the individuals named
in such lists with a view of obtaining
their support in the Republican primaries
and caucuses, and that a large number
of the members of the Democratic and
Populist parties in said state responded
to said appeal and did in fact support
end vote for delegates favorable to his
faction in said caucuses and primaries,
and that his appointees for public offices,
many of them Democrats, have taken
On active and prominent part in the pre-
convention canvass conducted prior to
the election of the delegates to the con-
vention held in Madison on May Is.
That by reason of these methods openly
proclaimed and pursued by said Robert
W. La Toilette and his faction q large
number of the said delegates elected and
certified to said Republican convention
in pursuance Of the call hereinbefore set
forth, were elected by Democratic and So
ciaiist votes that were cast at said pri-
7naries, and had it not been for the secur-
ing of such Democratic and Socialist
votes in the manner herein stated, very
large majority of the delegates to said
Republican convention would have been
selected opposed to said La Toilette and
to his denomination for a third term as
governor.
"That the appeal for support so made
by and on behalf of said Robert M. La
Toilette to the Democratic and Populistic
voters of this state, has been made for
his benefit personally and not for the
support of the national party and its
general party policies. That as evidence
of the fact that q large majority of the
Republican voters of Wisconsin are OPP
posed to said Robert NJ. La Toilette and
his faction in the Republican party, the
fact is here stated that out of the TWEEN
ty-two delegates elected from the eleven
congressional districts in Wisconsin to
the national Republican convention to be
held at Chicago June Fl next, eighteen
of such delegates were chosen by the Re-
publicans who constitute the anti-La
Toilette portion of said party, and only
four of said delegates, or those selected
from two congressional districts, were
chosen by the La Toilette faction, and
that the reason why such very large
majority of delegates SO selected are OPP
posed to the La Toilette faction is that
the Democratic and Populistic voters of
the state did not attend or vote at the
caucuses which chose the delegates to at
tend the congressional conventions which
elected said delegates to the national
convention.
"That i'll support of all the foregoing
allegations, proper proofs will be sub
mitted before the national committee Of
the Republican party at the time and
place designated by said committee, at
which time and place the said John O.
Spooner, Joseph V. Quarles, Joseph w.
Babcock and Emil Baensch and their al
ternates will ask to be heard in person or
by attorneys"