The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-06-30
LA TOILETTE
HURLS INSULT

report being in favor of the stall
warts.
Chicago, ILL.,, June % Special
La Toilette has backed down. He
declined to present his case to the
committee IN credentials of the ma
tional Republican convention. With
direct insult to the highest au-
thoritv on contested matters in the
Republican party, he refused 20
play, took his doll baby and went
home. He left Chicago Tuesday
afternoon at $50 o'clock Immediate
ly after the statement Of his four
delegates at-large had been submit
ted to the committee.
The committee was aghast for a
moment. Then it was mad mad
clear through. Several of the mem
bers said openly that it was an in
suit, a slap in the face. Ii the La
Toilette people withdraw, one OF
them suggested, there was no con
test. Everything was settled. The
man had read himself out the party.
Senator Dick of Ohio, counselled
moderation. The Wisconsin case
had been called first when the COM
mittee met at 4 O'Clock Tuesday
afternoon in the Coliseum annex,
because it was the most important.
Senator Dick urged that it go over
to the regular order and be taken
up in it's turn at the end of the alph-
abetical roll call. BY that time, he
said the committee might have re
gained it's composure. That course
was adopted.
The half-breeds then presented
the following statement:
To the Honorable, the Committee
on Credentials of the National Re
publican Conventions: The under
signed. delegates at large, duly
elected by the Republican state con-
vention of Wisconsin, to attend the
national Republican convention as
such delegates, held in Chicago, June
81, 1904, whose right to seats in said
convention are contested by John G.
Spooner, Joseph V. Quarles, ]. W.
Babcock and Emil Baensch, here.
after referred to as the contrasting
delegates. hereby respectfully sub
init the following statement to the
committee on credentials of the re-
publican national conventions:
The above contest was heard by
the national committee acting as
committee on creden tials on June
IL, 1904. In order to have the case
presented to such committee, we had
caused to be carefully prepared a
printed record, every fact in which
was duly verified by the oath of re-
putable and we'll known citizens of
Wisconsin, and at the time of the
argument before said committee,
such recoed was placed in the hands
of every member thereof, with the
statement that the original docu-
ments con tanned in and referred to
in said printed record were present
subject to the inspection of said
committee or any member thereof,
or any subcommittee that it might
choose to appoint; that said record
contained the evidence showing con-
clusively:
l. That the proceedings of the
Wisconsin Republican state conven-
tion which elected the undersigne d
as delegates were in all respects
regular and strictly according to the
presidents of the party. and that it's
proceedings were in every respect
entitled to the fullest recognition.
2. That the delegates in said re-
publican state convention spoken Of
as administration delegates, duly
elected and duly credentialed upon
any basis that ever has been suggest
ed, constituted a clear majority of
said convention, and that said dele
gates unanimously voted to send the
undersigned as delegates at large to
the said national republican conven-
ton.
3. That the meeting organized at
the Fuller Opera House by portion
of the delegates who left said regular
conven ton had neither the form nor
the substance of a republican state
convention, and it's representatives
are not entitled to recognition in
said national convention.
At the hearing before said nation
al committee on said contest the
attorneys for respective parties were