Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-06-08
Republican Meeting at FennimOre.

A meeting of republicans of this
assembly district was held in the
opera house at Fennimore last Friday
afternoon to select delegates to attend
the state conference of Taft republi-
cans to be held in Milwaukee today.
The meeting had been very hurriedly
advertised and the attendance was not
large but between 25 and 80 earnest
republicans assembled there at the
hour set forth in the call and proceed
ed with the work in hand.
w. E. Howe, of Boscobel, was
made chairman of the meeting and
stated the purpose of the Milwaukee
meeting. he having been present at
conference of republicans held in that
city when it was arranged for.
He called attention to the fact that
under existing political conditions
there is no organized republican party
in Wisconsin, the old fashioned con-
ventions having been relegated to the
past when the present primary system
was ushered in, and with the passing
of the convention there also passed the
state, district. and county organiza-
tons
Parties are disintegrating and per
sonal politics has taken their place.
Candidates for office are no longer
selected for their known fitness by
assemblages of representative men of
the party sent from various towns and
counties of the state for the purpose,
but we now have the seeker fol Office
acting upon his own initiative and
coming directly before the people in
search of their support with but little
being known concerning what he has
been or what he will do. The most
persistent seeker and the man who can
afford to spend the most money in
presenting his pleas for preferment
has the advantage, but in most cases
he is bound by no written or known
code of principles, is not standing
upon any party platform and is not
obligated to any party or organization.
He paddles his own canoe and if
elected is free 10 do about what he
pleases. He appeals for the votes OF
republicans for place upon the ticket
surmounted by the name of that party.
in many instances, perhaps. be-
cause it chances to be the strongest
numerically, but it is only after the
candidates for Office are safely
nominated that they get together and
make their own platform.
The purpose of the Milwakuee meet
ing. said the speaker, was to revive
party organization, to reawaken in
teret along party lines and to discuss
and promulgate party principles and
if possible to bring more closely to-
gether the raring factions of the party.
Several other brief talks were made
by republicans present at the Fenni-
more meeting, after which the follow
ing delegates and alternates we're
chosen to attend the Milwaukee con-
ventlon:
Delegates w. E Fl owe and Jacob
Miller, Boscobel; John q. Clark and
Richard Meyer Jr., Lancaster; Ed
Roethe and 7. Z. Berry, Fennimore
Hugh Pritchett, Mt. Ida; G. E. But
ton, Mt. Hops; E. H. Grifis. Little
Grant Peter Offerdale, Watterstown !;
Ed Bereheoer. Liberty and A. G. V.
Elston Muscoda.
Alternates John T. Ruka and j.
V. Galloway. Boscobel; W. E Shin
min and John F. Lane, Lancaster !;
Henry Snyder and W. NJ. Peacock,
Fennimore; o. J. Oswald. Mt Ida ;
James Davidson, Mt Hope, Sam Kitto
Bloomington DR.. W. R. Coumbe,
Watterstown Fred Lambert, Patch
Grove; Peter A. Peterson, Castle
Rock.