Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-03-28

The Routine.
Madison. Wis. March 19.-The re
publican state convention 10 nominate
"a state ticket and choose four
delegates at large to the national re.
publican convention viii - held in
Madison probably May Is. The date
is left for determination at meeting
Of the central committee next Thurs.
day In Madison.
BY a vote OF Il for Madison, against
1 for Oshkosh and for Milwaukee,
the committee yesterday determined
to hold tho convention in the capital
city. By = vote of IL to the com
mittee decided TO hold only one con.
venTion. for the purpose of electins
delegates az large 10 the national con-
ventiOn. nominating a state ticket
and formulating a platform. The
exact date was left open as was also
the basis OF representation.
The first topic taken up was the
matter Of place. Mayor Groves and
". +. Pctrie. the latter president OF
the Madison Forty Thousand club
we're present and were heard in ad.
vOcacy OF holding the state convention
i'm the capital city a had been SO
successfully done TWO years ago.
Eber l. Simpson. committeeman
from the eighth district. urged the
claims Of Oshkosh. He expressed him
self as in favor 81 passing the con
ventIon around" Committeeman
West and HarIowe 81 Milwaukee spoke
for that city. The Oshkosh number
was the only one voting for Oshkosh
The matter Of one or two c0nyen-
ti0ns was discussed at length. Messrs.
West. Rosenberg and Dillon spoke in
favor OF holding TWO conventions. one
FOR the election Of delegates 30 the
national convention and one for the
nomination uf a state ticket. A num-
Der - others, including Dr.. Sarles,
samuel Bradford and c. c Cuttings.
spoke in favor OF holding only one
convention The vote on this matter
vas II for one convention and ; for
two conventions.
The only argument advanced in Ia
yor o. two conventions was that il was
according TO custom. DR.. Sarles and
others Who favored a departure from
this rule advanced the obvious rec.
sons Of economy and the desirability
ug as little as possible disturbance on
account OF politics. Mr.. Cuttings re-
marked that il was true that two con
veutious had usually been held in pres
ideutial years. but he recalled the fact
that four years ago there was little
else done ~ citizens who believed in
faithfully performing their public du-
ties than going TO this caucus or that
caucus. This convention or that con
veation. The whole summer and part
UT he spring and fall were taken up
with Caucuses and conventions. He
expressed his belief that one cOnven-
ton would mean great economy OF
time and expense and would tend to
minimize the undesirable effect Of
political disturbance upon business in
general
Tine exact date o. the convention
vruvet a nut too hard to crack and
that matter was left open. TO be de-
cided 20 another meeting Of the COM
nitrec % he held March . in Madi.
son. The reason why the committee
tid not determine upon the date lie.
veIopeI out ~ the pres sntaJion of a
letter from the Wisconsin Editorial
association. asking that the state con-
ventECn be nor held within the dates
III May Is 70 -. these dates being the
time Of the holding of the Inter
national Editorial association conven,
ton i'm s.. louis. 4 motion was made
TO refer the determination OF the date
to the executive committee. deleEating
10 that body the power TO set the date
znd GEE issue the formal call. This
proposal seemed Co meet with general
favor bur strenuous objections In il
we've made hy N-. Rosenberg. lie
=ucgs=te5 that .n his opinion the law
would Eg. allow any such delegation
af The powers os the central com
migtce and Ee expressed his opposition
rc 20 on principle. Nfr. Nelson caused
CUuy uf rtC law To bee brought ana
ibis was studied 10y the committee.
Whether Or not the delegation If the
uUwer ca sea the date was lawful was
rot determined but it was thought
preferable go leave thar for the whole
committee J0 determine. The matter