River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-08-18
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vention SO that its reflex story may
have a salutary effect upon future
political efforts in St. Croix county.
1t can be stated without fear of re-
liable contradiction:
/. That the Baldwin convention
was conceived in sin, born in fraud,
and, SO far as the action of the La
Toilette leaders therein were con-
cerned, was carried out in iniquity.
2. That the part taken by the
La Toilette minority was not only
not regular, but, SO far as the action
of the leaders of said minority were
concerned, was not honest, not
decent and not defensible from any
conceivable point of view. There
were, trust and believe, La Fol
lette delegates in the convention
who were honest men, but who in
their zeal and the excitement of the
moment were induced to take a
course which as honest men they
now regret.)
3. That on the face of the re-
turns there was an anti-La Toilette
majority in the convention, allowing
the La Toilette opposition all con-
tests.
d. That there was an actual and
honest anti-La Toilette majority of
five in the convention.
(. That if there had been entire
ly good faith on the part Of all con-
cerned before and during the con-
Yention, the anti-La Toilette MAORI
ty in the convention would have
been I2,-or III against and 20 for
La Toilette.
6. That in the towns of Cady,
Glenwood, Forest, Emerald, Cylon,
Stanton, Erin, Warren, Troy, Hud-
son, Somerset, Richmond and St.
Joe, having in all ID delegates, the
candidates put in the field by the
anti-third- term forces were elected
by undisputed majorities; that in the
cities of Glenwood, Hudson, New
Richmond and River Falls Id of
the IS delegates elected were con-
cededly anti-La Toilette.
7. That by the chamber ac-
ton of the chairman of the Repub-
lican county committee and one or
two others, the city of Glenwood
was deprived of just representation
in the convention, only three dele
gates being apportioned to it in the
call, when the presidential vote of
1900 clearly entitled it to four-and
this Notwithstanding prompt and
vigorous protest on the part Of the
Glenwood members of the county
committee which Mr.. Walby saw
fit with silence entirely to ignore.
s. That the chairman and secre-
tary of the county committee failed
to report the delegate from the
Third ward of the city of Glenwood
present in the convention when the
credentials of said delegate were on
the table before them and the dele
gate himself was in plain view in
the hall, and attention repeatedly
called to his presence.
9. That the city of Glenwood in
its caucuses polled 90 votes for the
anti-La Toilette delegates to e for
the La Toilette candidates, and that
by all right of fair presumption it
would have elected four instead of
three anti-La Toilette delegates to
the convention had it not been
wrongfully refused its just repre-
sentation.
10. That in the town of Ham
mond the anti-La Toilette delegates
were elected in the only regularly
called and constituted caucus held in
that town.
II. That in the towns of Cady
and Somerset all the delegates
elected were in good faith supported
by the anti-La Toilette electors as
anti-La Toilette men and elected as
such, and that the two from Somer-
set and the one from Cady who left
the hall with the La Toilette mi
nority in so doing acted contrary to
the purposes Of their election, this
being especially true in the town OF
Cady, where the town caucus unanl-
mously voted to instruct the three
delegates elected to vote with the
anti-La Toilette organization in the
county convention.
IL. That in the towns of Emer-
aid and Glenwood the delegates