The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-06-16

central committee unlaWIully
assumed the power to hear, try, and
determine said contests, instead OF
merely acting as the committee on
credentials according to law and to
the custo m and usage of said repub-
lean partvin said state Of Wisconsin.
THAT of the fit eight duly &C.
credited an LaFollette delegates
whose right to sit in said convention
was con sted by the La Toilette
faction, the said central committee
arbitrarily and unlawfully by its vote
assumed to unseat forty-nine dele
gates, and uLlAwfully and arbitrari-
ly assumed to seat in their places
fOrtY-four persons, contestants,
favorable 80 the La Toilette faction
aud said state central Ommittee,
arbitrary and unlawfully assumed to
unseat five delegates duly accredited
to said state convention from the
second ward of the city of Milwau-
kee any and all represent ti2n in the
said state convention.
''That of the thirteen delegates
chosen and certified from ST. Croix
county, Wisconsin, whose right to
sit in said convention was contested,
as above stated, by the said antl-La
Toilette faction, the said state
central committee, contrary to the
plain and convincing proof produced
before it, assumed to diviGe said
dele cation and allow six and one
half votes from said county to the
LaFollette faction and six and one
half votes to the anti-La Toilette
faction, whereas, said state central
com mittee should, according to law
and to the proofs produced. have
merely placed said thirteen delegates
on the primary roll of the conyen-
ton as La Toilette delegates, and
should have recommended, as a COM
mittee on credentials that the con-
vention unseat such thirteen dele
gates ard seat in their place the thir-
teen men selected by the anti-La
Folette faction, who were, in law and
in fact, properly entitled to seats in
said conyen ton.
'Hhatas to the contest, or pretend
ed contest, made by the LaFollette
faction against the nine delegates
elected and duly certified as such to
said state convention from the first
district of Dodge county said state
cen trail committee determined that
such delegates were entitled to seats
in said convent ton, there being no
evidence of any kind upon which to
base any such contest.
''That as to the nine delegates
elected from the First assembly dis
trict of Eau Claire county, whose
credentials as such delegates were
not certified as required by the said
call OF the said state central com
mittee it was the duty of said state
central committee to omit entirely
their names from the primary roll
of said convention, and to have re-
ported to said convention, as COM
mittee on credentials. merely its re-
concentrations as to which set of
delegates, the La Toilette set or the
anti-La Toilette set, were entitled to
seats in said convention as delegates
from said First assembly district of
said Eau Claire county, but that in
stead of so doing said central COM
m ttee arbitrarily and unlawfully as
sulned to place upon the primary
roll of said convention the nine per
sons claimed by the La Toilette fac
tion to have been elected as dele
gates from said first assembly dis
trict in Eau Claire county,
That said state central committee
did make out a pretended primary
roll of delegates to said state conven-
ton. the majority of whom through
the exercise by said committee of
the arbitrary and unlawful assump-
ton of power above set forth, were
in favor Of the La Toilette faction,
whereas, had said state central com
mittee in the separation of said roll
of delegates to said convention, act
ed legally and according to the Gus
tom and usage of the republican
party in Wisconsin, majority. of
the primary roll of delegates to said
would have been opposed
to the said La Toilette faction
The personel of the committee is
then examined into and it is claimed
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