The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-20
TWO CONVENTIONS
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state tickets and two sets of delegates
to the national convention were named
here today by the Republicans of Wis
eonsin. Gov. La Toilette was chosen
to head the administration faction,
while Samuel A. Cook, of Neenah, was
selected the stalwarts' standard bearer.
Senator's Spooner and Quarles and
Congressman Joseph Babcock cast
their lot with the administration
men, declaring their convention the
legally organized body; although. the
delegates had bolted from the regular
convention when the La FolletteiteS
gained control of the permanent or
ganization.
If the party was split prior to the
convention, it is now totally disrupted.
The candidates elected by both fac
tions claim to be the legal nominees of
the party and the validity of the con-
tentions will finally be decided by the
highest court in the land.
Read Out of the Party.
The contest terminated in the NOM
ination of the two tickets has divided
the Republican party in two. The
boiling stalwarts and the members of
the last legislature who did not sup
port the administration were today
read out of the La Toilette Republican
party by the following platform clause
which was adopted by the regular con-
Vention:
We believe that platform. pledges are
sacred obligations binding upon every
member of the party. Thatsthe platform
pledges of both parties have been open
ly and f1agrantly violated in Wisconsin
must be recorded as the political history
of the last six years. No party can re-
tain and no party deserves to retain the
confidence and support of the citizens if
it knowingly entraps them ito vote for
candidates who repudiate it's pledged
obligations. The regular party organiza
ton can therefore regard as the eandi-
dates of the Republican party for state
and legislative offices only such men as
are pledged to it's support and whose
record and good faith are above question.
La FoIIette's Acceptance Speech.
In his acceptance speech Gov. La
Toilette emphatically indorsed this
plank, declaring that any candidate
who in the past has violated his party
pledges need look for no support from
the administration men nor the state
central committee. The governor took
two hours to deliver his speech of ac-
ceptance. When he entered the hall
5000 people greeted him with the
greatest volume of cheers that was
ever heard in the university armory
1t was fifteen minutes, before he was
able to begin his address, SO great was
the applause. When the governor had
finished delegates and spectators rush
ed upon the stage to congratulate him.
In his speech he dwelt upon the taxa
ton question governing public service
corporations, saying:
The necessity for the control Of the
public service corporations by the people,
through legislation, is impressed now upon
all thoughtful citizens. not only in this,
but in the other states of the Union. The.
railways of the country, created as pub
lie servants, have become public masters.
They not only carry the commerce of
the country; they control the commerce
of the country.
Those gentlemen in this state who have
arrayed themselves against an admins
tration which has sought simply to Sc
cure equal and just rates for all shippers,
In Wisconsin similarly situated must be
brought to understand that the Repub-
hcan president of this country has de-
ciared that he stands for exactly the same
principle.
La FolIette's Platform.
All the present state officers were re-
nominated. The resolutions adopted
Endorsed the national and the state adj
ministrations. They consist mostly of
laudation of the president and his acts
and declare:
We firmly adhere to the fundamental
Republican doctrine of protection to
American labor and believe that the aim
OF truly protected policy should be to
stimulate competition in the. home mar
ket and not destroy it by favoring trust
combinations. We therefore believe in
readjustment of tariff schedules in all
cases where protection is employed for
the benefit of capital only, to the injury
OF the consumer and workingrnan.
The Republican party of Wisconsin
gives its unqualified approval to the rec
concentrations of the interstate commerce
commission and of President Roosevelt.
and pledges its support to the president
and to the commission in their efforts to
secure relief from the increasing burden
imposed on the people by these public
service corporations. -
Doinss of the staIMarts.
Cooks nomination was made at the
rump convention this afternoon at the
Fuller. opera house. Emil Baenseh.
who had 356 pledged delegates in the
regular convention delegates, withdrew
in his favor in the interest of har-