Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-06-05
CONTESTS ARE
BEING HEARD
Republican National Commit
tee Begins Work in
Chicago.
HAS 229 DISPUTES TO SETTLE
Representatives of All the Bat
tlIng Factions Are on
the Scene.
To All Practical Purposes the Repub-
ltcan National Convention Has
BeRun-Committoe An
gered Mt Reports.

Chicago, June 5.-To all practical
purposes the Republican national con-
vention has begun. On the decision In
| the 229 contests which the national
committee has assembled to hear the
result of the Coliseum gathering
which begins next week depends
Members of the national committee
flocked into the city and there were
few absentees when Chairman News
che flag -draped committee room at the
Coliseum Annex.
Representatives of all the battling
factions are on hand. Charles 2. Taft.
the Warwick of the secretary of wars
campaign, arrived during the day. Ma
jor f. {. Bryan, who represents the
anti-Taft candidates In the southern
contests before the national commit
tee, was another arrival. Foraker
headquarters were opened in the aft
ernoon in the Great Northern Hotel
with Charles l.. Kurtz, of Columbus,
o.. in charge, and nine rooms for the
Foraker boomers to have their desks
In.
In the Race for Blood.
Opening of Foraker headquarters in
the Great Northern Hotel was some
thing of shock to the Taft managers.
The Ohio rival of Mr.. Taft is in the
race for blood, his friends say. His
name will be presented to the national
convention, and he expects to get
good share of the "black-and- tan
southern delegates
LaFollette headqua ters will hs
opened before the week is over. Mr..
LaFollette is said to expect new re-
cruts from the northwest and some
delegates from Oklahoma to help out
his Wisconsin delegation when the bal
loting begins. Knox headquarters
will be opened before Saturday.
The Cannon men are organizing
campaign committee Of 1000 Illinois
Republicans, who will be In Chicago
during the convention for the express
purpose of persuading delegates to
stampede to "Uncle Joe'' Then ths
Hughes boomers from New York will
be on hand, to say nothing of tho
marching clubs for Fairbanks from
Indiana.
Senator CulIom Coming.
AS an especial mark Of honor to
"Uncle Joe" Cannon, Senator Shelby
Cullom is coming from Washington,
and will be at the annex next week.
None Of the platform builders who
have been framing up the platform In
Washington have arrived. There is
much gossip about the reports from
the White House concerning the next
tariff plank and the antitrust clause.
There is good deal of feeling
among members Of the national com.
mttee over the Taft claims that the
committee is "fxed' to seat all the
southern delegates who favor the sec.
retary Of war, and much indignation
over the reports that few of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's close friends have
written in advance the platform
which the convention will adopt
Hammond Quits His Job.
New York, June 5.--John Hays
Hammond, the mining engineer. who
recently announced his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for vice
president has severed hl. connection
with the Guggenheim Exploration
company, according to a statement
from his attorney, Charles w. True
slow. Mr.. Trueslow said. in bis an
nouncement that Mr. Hammond now
feels free to make an aggressive cam
paign for the vice presidential nomIna-
ton.