Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-01
Two States and Nine Dis
tricts Involved.
WISCONSIN'S TROUBLE
SPOONER- -QUARLES FACTION HAS
FILED ITS BRIEF.
La Toilette Delegation Gave Statement
of Its Side to Postmaster Gen
eral Payne Yesterday.

Mr.. Elmer Dover. secretary of the repub-
lican national committee has removed his
headquarters from the Arlington Hotel, in
this city to the Coliseum building, in Chi
cago. where he will remain until after the
convention. All the work preliminary to
the holding of the convention will be trans
acted In Chicago, including the receiving
of briefs and notices in contest cases.
There are two state contests and about
nine district contests to be decided by the
national committee at its meeting June 15
and Mr.. Dover is getting up the papers
The two states are Texas and Wisconsin.
There are three district contests from Ala
bama, one from New York. which is impor-
tant-the factional trouble going to the ex-
tent of nominating two republican candi-
dates for Congress-and the remaining dis
trict contests are scattered.
The Wisconsin Contest.
Secretary Dover has received the brief In
the case of the contest of the Spooner-
QuarIes faction in Wisconsin. He will be
handed in a few days the answer of the
La Toilette faction, contending against the
claims of the contestants.
Late yesterday afternoon, Just before the
expiration of the time for the fling of such
notices, the La Toilette delegation which
CT me 10 washington TO explain the La Fol-
lette' end of the trouble to the President
filed with Postmaster General Henry c.
Payne, acting chairman of the national
committee, statement showing the cleo
ton of the La Toilette delegation to the
national convention.
When the La Toilette missionaries found
that the time was limited within which they
Ct uld serve formal notice of the election of
their delegates, they called in a stenog-
rapher and In Mr.. Payne's room drew up
the statement, showing the selection of the
delegates. This was left with Mr.. Payne
ard notice was served that a brief resist
ing the contention of the contestants would
be fled within few days.
While the La Toilette people were here
Mr.. Payne made an earnest plea for sup
port of the national ticket, no matter what
An interesting feature of the situation is
that while the Spooner-Quarles faction say
they will yield 10 the decision of the courts
and withdraw their ticket If the decision Is
against them. the La Toilette men have
carefully refrained from such a declara-
ticn.
Indeed. they intimated that If the decision
OF the court should be adverse to them on
technicality they would not withdraw
their ticket. Some of the best lawyers IN
Wisconsin have held that the La Toilette
convention, while called and held regularly,
destroyed itself by illegal acts, and they
have insisted that the boilers were justi-
fable.
Threat Of Further Trouble.
The visiting La Toilette delegation sue
ceeded in leaving behind them a threat of
further trouble in case they are not favored
at Chicago. The intimation was dropped
that there may be mix-up in the national
electors.
Under the Wisconsin law an elector may
choose. in case of a split in the party. upon
which ticket his name shall be printed. The
La Toilette people have given the impress
sion that there may be possibility of di-
vision of the republican electors upon two
tickets.
In political circles here however, that
suggestion is not taken with great serious
ness. but is looked upon feature of the
effort of the La Toilette faction to make
it's case good. In certain popular pastime
of Americans a play of a similar character
IS known as bluff" and this expression
is applied by the anti-La Toilette partisans
to the suggestion.