Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-16
COUNTIES PICK
TAFT DELEGATES
Solid Delegation From Mime
sofa Instructed for War
Secretary Is Certain.
COUNTY CONVENTIONS HELD
Delegates to State and District Con.
ventiOns Named and Most of
Them Instructed.

ST. Paul, April 11-County conven-
tons were held yesterday throughout
the state for the purpose of selecting
delegates to the Republican state con-
vention to be held in Minneapolis
next Thursday. Taft has made
clean sweep. He will have the solid
twenty-five delegates from this state
and they will be instructed to vote
for him first, last and all the time.
He will have the state convention
and every district convention by
overwhelming majorities. There will
not be enough delegates opposed to
him in the conventions to make a
noise.
The hopes of the La Toilette people
were shattered. Their hopes OF
strength in the Fifth congressional
district, Hennepin, having gone glim-
mering at the primaries Tuesday
night, they still talked of strength in
the Seventh and Ninth, yet every
county in both districts that had re-
ported last night was for Taft.
Program for Thursday.
When the state convention meets
at Minneapolis next Thursday it will
elect F. B. Kellogg of ST. Paul, w. w.
Heffelhnger of Minneapolis and E. B.
Hawkins of Duluth as three of the
! four delegates at large. The fourth
will come from either the First or
Second district. w. B. Parsons of
Winona will have the Endorsement of
his district. Two districts in the Sec
ond instructed for Senator F. E. Put
nam and one for Frank Hunt of Man
kato.
In the First district every county
reported Taft instructions except
two. which reported Endorsements
without instructions. Senator A. S.
Campbell of Austin and DR.. j.. H.
Adair of Owatonna were Endorsed for
district delegates and will be the
choice.
Betz or SomerviIIe.
In the Second district there are
three counties to hear from, one for
Taft without instructions and the rest
instructed for him. T. G. Collins of
Window will be one of the delegates
and the other will be either F. w.
Betz Of Fairmont or George II. Som
erville of Sleepy Eye.
In the Third there are three to re-
port. five instructed and one for Taft
without instructions. G. M. Buck OF
Faribault and G. ]. Bradley OF Nor
wood received several Endorsements
for district delegates and will proba-
| bly, be elected.
The Fourth and Fifth districts
went solid with Taft instructions.
The fourth instructed for w B. Web
ster and G. H. Sullivan for delegates,
and the Fifth elected W. H. Eustls
and Otto E. Greeley as delegates.
Eight districts in the Sixth in
structed for Taft, one Endorsed him
without instructions, one elected Taft
men. one gave no instructions and
one has not reported. Senator G. j.
Gunderson of Alexandria and Senator
S. F. Alderman of Brainerd were in
dorsed by several counties for dele
gates and probably will be elected
Has Second Chance.
In the Seventh thirteen counties
instructed for Taft and one is yet to
report. Redwood, however, made La
Toilette second choice.
Six counties in the Eighth reported
Taft instructions, and the others have
not yet reported. Anoka Endorsed
Senator C. J. Swanson of Fridley for
district delegate, and st. Louis in
dorsed J. B. Cotton of Duluth. These
will probably be the team.
Mile Lac county's delegation to
both conventions will be headed by
r. C. Dunn of Princeton. Mile Lac
is solid for Taft.
The Ninth reported ten counties
instructed for Taft and three have not
been heard from.