River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-07

state central committee in the place of
delegates duly elected and accredited
thereto, and in fact given seats as dele
gates in said hall by said committee,
voted in favor of the adoption of said
majority report, and that it was only
by the counting of such illegal votes, and
the exclusion of the legally elected dele
gates to said convention, that such ma
jority reportiwas adopted. That in order
to give seThblance of regularity to said
vote and to attempt to make it appear
that no delegate, whose right to seat
was involved, voted in his own favor, the
secretary of the convention announced
the vote and declared the motion adopt
ed by vote of 573 sc ayes to 479 l-6
noes, which vote included all the dele
gates who had been illegally placed upon
the roll by the state central committee;
and said alleged 573 SO affirmative votes
was made up in part by all of said dele
gates so illegally seated voting in their
own favor and upon their own right to
sit in said convention; and said secretary
announced that upon Ashland county the
vote was SCI SO ayes, 479 10 noes, being
the number of the total vote as taken
with the number of votes from Ashland
county deducted. that he then announced
that the Second district ofDodge county
was carried by 563 So ayes, 479 l-6 noes,
which was arrived at by putting the
number of the vote of Ashland county
back in the total affirmative vote and
deducting the number of votes from the
Second district of Dodge county, and the
same method was followed as to all of
the contesting delegates.
Republicans Announce Withdrawal.
THAT thereupon a motion was made
by delegate supporting the La Toilette
faction that the temporary organization
of said convention be made permanent;
and it thereupon became fully apparent
that all efforts to hold in said gymna-
SUM, where the same had been called, a
lawful convention of the Republican
party in Wisconsin, wherein the voice of
the members of the party should be
heard through a majority of the lawfully
elected delegates to such convention,
would prove unavailing, and thereupon
it was publicly announced by delegate
that the legally elected delegates to said
convention would withdraw from any
and all further participation in the pro-
ceedings of the said illegally organized
and pretended convention at said gym
nasium building and would assemble at
o'clock in the evening Of the same day
at the Fuller Opera house in the said
city of Madison, that being the nearest
convenient time and place, for the pur-
pose of organizing and holding a legal
Republican state convention, pursuant to
the said call hereinbefore set forth.
Organization of Convention.
"That in pursuance of said announce
ment made as aforesaid, there assembled
at the time and place above stated, 554
legally elected and duly accredited dele
gates to the Republican state convention
for the state of Wisconsin and proceeded
to organize under the said call of the said
state central committee the Republican
convention for the state of Wisconsin by
electing temporary chairman and
temporary secretary, and by the appoint
ing of a committee ON credentials. That
said committee on credentials, after due
deiberation, made it's report to said Re-
publican convention so organized, report
ing that there was contest presented to
the committee as to the right of the duly
credentialed delegates from the county
Of st. CToix to seats in the convention;
that after hearing upon said contest it
was the opinion of the committee that
the contestant delegates were entitled to
seats and recommended that said con-
testing delegates be seated in the con-
vention. That thereupon, the facts in
relation to said contest in the county of
st. Croix were laid before the convention,
and, on motion, the report of the commit
tee, together with its recommendation
as to the delegates from the county of
st. Croix, was unanimously adopted.
Thereupon motion was made that the
temporary organization of the convention
be made permanent, and upon the calling
of the roll of the convention it showed
that there were present as duly elected
delegates to the state Republican con-
yention and entitled to seats therein
SGT, which number included the delegates
seated from st. Croix county.
Delegates and Candidates Named.
"That said convention so organized as
aforesaid proceeded to transact the bust
ness as designated in the said call of the
state central committee, and nominated
candidates for state offices, and chose
four delegates-at -large to the national
Republican convention to be held at Chi
cago June q, 1904, to-wit: John Z.
Spooner, Joseph V. Quarles, Joseph w.
Babcock and Emil Baensch, and their al
ternates, M. G. Jeffris, d. E, Riordan,
Richard Meyer and John Koehler; and
also elected chairman and twenty-five
members of the Republican state central
committee, selecting as such members of
said central committee, according to the
custom of the Republican party in the
state of Wisconsin, two members from
each congressional district as recommends
ed to said convention by the congress
sional caucuses of the different congress.
sional districts in said state; and adopt
ed platform declaring the principles of