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

facClOn, whereas, naQ Salu SCate ceuIId1
committee, in the preparation of said
roll of delegates to said convention, acted
legally and according to the custom and
usage of the Republican party in Wis
consin, a majority of the primary roll of
delegates to said convention would have
been opposed to the said La Toilette fac
ton.
Personnel of Committee.
"That said state central committee
which so arbitrarily and unlawfully as
sumed to act in the premises, as above
stated, was composed of twenty two
members, besides the chairman, and that
of said twenty-five members sixteen were
open and pronounced adherents of the
said La Toilette faction, as was also the
chairman of said committee, and eight
of said sixteen members, asNwell as the
chairman of said state central commit
tee, held and are now holding appointive
offices under the administration of Gov.
La Toilette in the state of Wisconsin.
That another member of said committee,
part in the interests of the La Toilette
faction, had, prior to the time of hearing
said contests, been promised by the said
La Toilette administration am appoint
ment as assistant secretary of state, his
term of office to commence on June l,
1904; that still another member of said
committee was and is a partner with
w. l.. Houser, candidate of the La Fol-
lette faction for denomination to the
office of secretary of state, in the pub
LEGATION of a newspaper, the Mondovi
Herald, which had actively supported the
said La Toilette faction; that still an
other member of said committee, j. A.
Van Cleve, had, just short time prior to
the meeting of said committee on May
IL, 1904, been appointed by the chairman
of said committee to fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation of Warren j.
Davis; that said Van Cleve, at the time
of his appointment as a member of such
committee, was acting as a member of
what is known as the capitol commits
sion, to which Office he had been appoint
er by Gov. La Toilette; that still another
person, Theodore Kronshage, was APP
pointed as a member of said committee
by its chairman to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of David Har-
low; that sIch appointment was not
made until after hearings had been COM
pleted before said state central commit
tee on the contests as tosAshland county,
the two districts of Dodge county, First
assembly district of Eau Claire and the
contest in Oconto county; that never
theless, on all of said contests SO heard
before said Kronshage became a member
of said committee he thereafter voted,
and in each case voted in favor of the
La Toilette faction, as he did on every
other question that came before said
state central committee at any time of
its meetings held on May II and Is, 1904;
that said Kronshage was, at the time of
his appointment and had been for some
time prior thereto, president of the Free
Press company, which publishes the Mil
waukee Free Press, the leading news
paper for the La Toilette faction in Wis
consin, and had been, as commonly re-
ported, prior to his appointment as a
member of said committee, the retained
attorney for the La Toilette faction in
the contests as to some five different
wards in Milwaukee county.
Credential Committees Duty.
"That the custom prevailed in the Re.
publican party of Wisconsin from its or
ganization down to about the year 1888,
for the delegates certified to a state con-
vention, after coming together, to APP
point committee on credentials; that
before such committee was laid the GER
tifcates of delegates from the different
districts of the state, and such commit
tee on credentials from such certificates.
made up primary roll of delegates for
such convention, placing thereon all per-
sons whose election as such delegates
was duly certified; that in case the prima
facie right of any such persons to sit in
such convention was contested said COM
mittee on credentials heard the proofs
of such contests and reported such proofs
to the convention, with its recommends
ticn, placing, however, upon the primary
roll the names of the persons having