River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-07
capitol, as follows /:
Bolt of La Toilette Men.

Eleventh ...........21s North 1890
Bolt of La Toilette Men.
"That in pursuance of said notice the
said anti-La Toilette delegates elected
from each congressional district in the
state, assembled at the time and place
designated in said notice for the purpose
of selecting and did select, two members
of said state central committee, ono menu
Der of the committee on resolutions, and
one member of the committee on perma-
nent organization. That the La Follette
delegates elected to said convention from
the several congressional districts of
Wisconsin remained away from such
meeting in pursuance of d preconcerted
plan that had been devised some time
prior to the time of the meeting of said
convention, and for the reason that some
time prior to the meeting Of said conven-
ton it had been determined and was we'll
known, through publication In the press
and otherwise, that the anti-La toilette
faction was in the majority in at least
six out of eleven congressional districts
of Wisconsin; and that if the said usage
and custom of selecting members of said
three committees were to be followed
tho anti-La Toilette faction would have
majority on each of said three commit
tees-to wit: the new state central COM
mittee, the committee on resolutions, and
the committee on permanent organiza-
ton of the convention. That at said IL
legally organized pretended convention SO
held as above stated at said gymnasium
building, the said La Toilette faction did,
in order to perpetuate itself in power,
assume to abrogate and set aside this
we'll known custom and usage in the
state of Wisconsin of selecting members
to the said three committees, and to dis
regard entirely the selection that had
been made by the several congressional
district caucuses so held as aforesaid,
and to name as members OF the state
central committee for the state Of Wis
consin for the Republican party, twenty
two men, all open and pronounced sup
porters of Robert NJ La Toilette.
Contests Planned for Purpose.
"That the said contests made by said
La Toilette faction against the seating
of delegates duly elected and accredited
who were opposed to the La Toilette fac
ton, were, in most cases, planned by said
La Toilette faction, or some of them, de-
liberately, in advance of the time of hold
s,,1. ha ION hof ta1 IN
gates so certified to the state convention,
and for the express purpose of furnishing
some excuse to the said state central
committee 80 controlled by said La Fol-
lette faction rs heretofore stated, TO UNI
seat such delegates and to put in their
places those unfavorable to the La Fol-
lette faction, and thereby give to said
Ia Toilette faction control of the state
convention.
"That from the formation of the Re-
publican party in Wisconsin it had been
an unbroken custom for the state central
committee to call, in presidential years,
a separate convention for the election of
delegates to the national convention and
for the nomination Of electors-at-large,
and for the confirmation Of electors tenn
porarily chosen by the Republicans Of
congressional districts, either in caucus
at the convention or at the district con-
vention duly called and held for the nom
nation of Republican candidates for con-
gress. That the object of this holding q
separate convention for the election Of
delegates to national conventions and the
nomination of presidential electors was
to safeguard in the state the national
party ticket by excluding, as far as pos
sible, in it's selection, the bitterness and
strife often incident to local contests for
state offices. This custom has been by
common consent approved by all the
party conventions and by oil the party
at large as policy of wise conservatism.
That the said Republican state central
committee, without authority from any
party convention, purely OF its own mo-
ton, and in gross violation of said GUS
tom which had grown to be party law1
combined by Its call, IN one convention
the function of electing delegates with
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That prior to the date of the assembling
of the said state convention, Republican
candidates for congress had been nom
mated in ten districts by conventions
duly called and held for that purpose,
which conventions had also nominated
district electors. That the said pretend
ed convention which renominated for a
third term Robert NJ. La Toilette for gov
ernor, disregarded the electors nominated
at the congressional conventions afore.
said, and nominated full set of presi"
Dental electors from the state at lsrge
and from the congressional districts,
overriding the action of the Republicans
of the said several districts and need
lessly creating complication, the exist
ence Of which oil loyal Republicans must
regret That deploring the methods no
longer to be borne, which compelled
majority of the duly elected delegates to
the state convention to meet in regularly
constituted convention governed by party
law and adhering to party procedure,
and resolved to protect to the uttermost
from danger through local division the
Republican electoral vote of Wisconsin,
the said convention nominated the same