Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-10-04
Madison. Sept. 2e.

Madison, Sept. &c.
W. D. Common for chairman Of the
state central committee.
: That was the contamination of one of
the. hardest convention fights in the
history of this state, Notwithstanding
that there were people who believed
that the primary election law had
put an end to the time of heartbreak-
ing political convention fights.
The end came at two o'clock this
morning, after IA hours of struggle
since the convention had been called
to order. Attempts to delay the cleo
ton OF Mr.. Conner we're temporarily
successful, but they were only tenn
porarily so. The final vote was Con-
nor II. Dick AZ.
When Chairman Hudnall announced
the result of the vote, the assembly
chamber, filled with tired delegates
and anxious, expectant spectators,
rang with cheers. The Conner people
cheered for the hard victory they had
won, and even the others joined in,
OCSouoO ~ Noo q lo1l flStOlJ y, well oC-
served if hard fighting counts for any
thing. All through the convention,
everything seemed to be pushed aside
in Importance before the overshadow-
ing contest, that for chairman of the
state central committee Even the
formulation of the platform seemed
to be of secondary Importance; and
even though that process occupied
nearly eight hours of hard work in
the committee on resolutions, it was
said by leading delegates and mem.
bers of that committee that an eff
fort to delay the election of state
chairman was the reason for the long
deliberation in the executive Office
Certain it is that the Connor mem
bers of the committee wanted to re-
port at 9 o'clock, but were held for
more than three hours longer because
Assemblyman Ekern and A. H. Dahl
offered almost multitudinous pro-
posed planks for careful consideration.
These men, however, did not fail 70
gain some points in this long meas
urement of reason over the table in
the governors private Office, for it
was after II o'clock that an amend
ment to the previously completed
platform was secured, consented to by
both Governor Davidson and Chairman
Conner, endorsing the work of SEN
ator La Toilette in the national con-
~ ho no hanr N Wa ob iy,cr
ton, and calling upon the others in the
Wisconsin delegation in the senate
and house of representatives to sup
port his wise course.
Roll Ca Five Times.
Five times during the convention
was the long roll of delegates called
and each individually responded to
his name. The lines were closely
drawn and victory lay first on one
side and then on the other. On one
vote, that on the question of adjourn
ing until morning, the vote was in
favor of the anti-Connor people, SO
to IS, but Assemblyman Leroy took
a long time to count up the result
and verify it, and meantime w. L.
Essmann, handy assistant and earn
est worker in the interests OF Mr..
Conner, FASTENED to cause some
wheels to move. The result was that
Senator j H. Stout arose and changed
his vote from favoring adjournment
to favoring sticking it out" Then
George G. Sedgwick, nominee for the
senate in the fifteenth district,
changed his vote the same as did SEN
ator Stout, and they we're followed in
this step by Wallace Hager, nominee
for the assembly in the second dis
trict of Brown county. These three
changes reversed the standing OF the
vote from SO to So in favor of adjourn
ing to 81 to so in favor of enduring
without sleep to the joyful end" as
Mr.. Conner is reported to have given
ont as the program he desired to have
followed. That settled it, and after
a bit of sparing, in which speeches
were made for and against electing
a chairman in the wee sma' hours,
and for and against the advisability
of electing Mr.. Conner as the man.
aper of the state and legislative cam
naign. the final passages took place,
tbe last vote taken and the republican
convention of 1906 was quickly wound
M. When at last adjournment was
taken the hands of the clock pointed
to 2:30.
The first roll call was had on
motion of Assemblyman Dahl propos-
ing to amend a motion OF Senator
John NJ. whitehead OF GAINESVILLE.
Senator whitehead proposed the adop-
ton OF the rules Of the Wisconsin as
sembly as the rules of the convention,
but Mr.. Dahl desired that there be
congressional district meetings and
that the membership of the platform
and central committees be determined