The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-30
Democrats of County Gather at
Court House To Select Dele.
gates to State Meeting
CONVENTION WITH0vERC0ATS
Janitor ForGets To Heat UP Court Room
and the Members of the Party
Forced To Play Freeze Out
Delegates Named
(From Mondays Daily.)

A convention of the Democracy of
the county was held at the court house
today for the purpose of selecting dele
gates to the State convention to be held
in Milwaukee next Month which time
delegates will be selected to the nation
al convention at Denver. From a point
of numbers and enthusiasm the conven-
ton was success as nearly every ward
and town in the county was represented
but if the man named at the national
convention for presidential candidate
gets as chilly a reception as the dele
gates from Kenosha county got this
morning there is no reason for the Re
publicans to be alarmed. It seems that
in sending out The, call for the conven-
ton the county chairman did not notify
the janitor of the court house and the
room where the convention met was so
cold it was a convention of overcoats
and fur caps and even spirited argument
in regard to the order for the caucuses
could not warm up the room. The men
shivered about the room long enough to
effect temporary organization and
then adjourned until this afternoon.
However the adjournment was not
reached without a clash. Soon after
the convention had been called to order
by County Chairman Scholey, Justice
Edward Donahue who was not dele
gate to the convention but who is chair
man of the third ward Democratic or
ganization, made a protest that the
caucuses had not been regularly held in
some Of the wards Of the city and ques-
toned the right Of the delegates named
at these caucuses to sit as members of
the convention.
1t looked for time as if a decidedly
spirited argument would come out Of
the protest as the secretary claimed
that Donahue had deliberately refused
to call a convention and he insisted in
heated manner that the chairman Of
the Third ward was not the party A
motion for adjournment put an end to
the argument and the question was left
to the committee on credentials.
There was no speech making at the
morning session, but the teeth Of most
of the delegates chartered with cold.
The convention was organized by the
election Of Emmett R. Shields Of Bris
toll as chairman and E. L. Marlette Of
Kenosha as secretary. There was little
inclination toward resolutions or any
thing of that kind and the only commit
tee appointed was the committee on
credentials and it was composed of John
t. Tigh of Brighton b. M. Schilz of
Wheatland and Calvin Stewart of
Kenosha.
The old principle Of Democracy of
electing delegates without slate had
a bad throw down when resolution
was passed directing that the committee
of credentials act as a nominating com
mittee and select the names of eight
delegates who would go to the state
convention and report at the afternoon
session. It was stated by the leaders
of the convention that the county con-
vention would not pass any resolutions
or declare for the nomination but
would leave the delegates free to act
when they reached Milwaukee.
It is thought that Bryan s candidacy
is supported by a large majority of the
Democrats Of the county but no effort
was made to intruct the delegates in
this regard
At the session of the convention this
afternoon the following delegates were
elected: James German, NJ J. Scholey,
Calvin Stewart, George B. McCarron, E.
L. Marlette, J. H. Tulley, John T. Tigh
and Thomas Fleming