The Princeton union., 1904-03-17
DELEGATES CHOSEN.
Republicans of Mile LaCS County
Hold Convention and Select
Delegates.
Two Sets Chosen, One for the Duluth
District Convention and One
for State Convention.

The county convention to elect dele
gates to the district convention at Du-
luth yesterday and the State conven-
tion at Minneapolis to-day, was held
at the court house Tuesday at II a. m.
There were about fifty delegates pres
ent from various towns and villages
throughout the county. The chairman,
W. S. Foster of Milaca, was unable to
be present as he was out of the county
and the convention was called to order
by G.. I. Staples, secretary of the
county committee, who read the call,
81. r. ,Mallette of ,Milaca was chosen
temporary chairman and I. G. Patter-
son secretary. A motion was carried
authorizing the chair to name a COM
mittee of three on credentials, and
G. A. Dickey, A. c.. Wilkes and Fred
E. Mcfarland were named as the com.
mittee whose report was purely a rout-
inc one, and submitted to the conven-
tion the list of delegates entitled to
seats. The report was adopted and
the temporary organization was made
permanent.
On motion the chair named G.. A.
Dickey and L. E. Somerville of Page
as a committee on resolutions, and the
chair was also Instructed to name a
committee of one from each of the pre-
cincts represented to select list of
delegates to the Duluth and Minneapo-
lis conventions. The committee was
composed of the following: O. E.
Gustafson, John DeShaw, L. L. Hud-
son, NJ. r. Northway, L. E. Somer-
vile, G.. I. Staples and Geo. Schmidt,
and the committee submitted to the
convention the following list of dele
gates which list was accepted by the
conventions:
To the district convention at Duluth
Henry Mallette, I. G. Patterson,
Frank Weinberg, E. D. Claggett, G. I.
Staples, Fred Holm, G.. W. Harter, F.
E. Mcfarland and M. E. Northway.
To the Minneapolis convention
l.. Mcmillan, Henry Mallette, r. D..
Claggett, VIM. Cordiner, W. S. Foster,
Fred Newton, A. 81. Johnson, A. c..
Wilkes and Jacob VanRhee.
The committee on resolutions sub
mitted the following resolution which
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved That we the delegates to
the county Republican convention of
Mile Laos County, Minnesota, being
in convention assembled this 18th day
of March, 1904, do hereby heartily and
unanimously endorse the candidacy of
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt for the ex-
alted office of president of the United
States.
And we hereby pledge to him our
united support in gaining the nomina-
tion at the coming national conven-
tiOn and our votes and influence at the
November election in the event of his
nomination. .....
And we hereby request and instruct
the delegates this. day selected to at
tend the State and district conventions,
to vote for delegates to the national
convention who are pledged to vote for
the nomination Of President Roosevelt.
After the convention had concluded
it's business G. A. Dickey arose and:
stated he desired to introduce reso-
luton which, while not properly a
matter for the action of the conven-
ton, he realized that all would heart
lily endorse, and he moved that the de-
legates be instructed to do all in their
power while in attendance at the con-
ventions to advance the interests of r.
G. Dunn as candidate for the NOM
ination of governor. The chair sub
mitted the motion which was adopted
in an enthusiastic manner.
By noon hour the convention had
concluded it's business and adjourned.