Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-06-10
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result. Even had Standish been the
choice of majority of the people in
all eight counties of the State, it
would have availed him little, for
through the routine tricks whereof the
Railroader was past master, his young
opponent was at the last able to con-
Matawan and Wills.
Standish's contesting delegates from
the other six counties sat sullen and
grim in the gallery. Fraudulent Con-
over delegates, who had usurped the
formers places by the various ruses
so successfully put into action at the
caucuses, held the credentials and
occupied the seats belonging by rights
to the LeaguerS on the floor OF the
Convention Hall. There the Machine
delegates smilingly sat awaiting the
moment when they should name their
Boss as candidate for Governor.
From the seats of the usurpers there
went up merry howl of derision as
Standish's two little blocks of dele
gates from Matawan and Wills
marched in and took their places well
down in front, where they formed a
pitifully small oasis among the Con-
over delegates from Bowden, Carney,
Haldane, Jericho, Sparta and Pomp-
ton counties
There was no cheering by the Stan
dish delegates on the floor of the con-
vention. Nine out of ten knew that it
was practically a hopeless fight into
which they were about to plunge.
Karl Ansel, with an inscrutable
grin on his long, leathery face, might
have sat for a picture of typical
poker player, as he slipped into his
place at the head of the Wills County
delegation.
Standish was nowhere in sight. Fol-
lowing the ordinary laws of campaign
etiquette, be did not show himself be-
fore the delegates in advance of the
nomination; but, like Conover, sat in
temporary headquarters behind the
stage About him were a little knot
of Civic Leaguers. One and all they
were Jobs comforters, for they knew
it would take a miracle now to snatch
the nomination from the Railroader's
grip.
Promptly at twelve o'clock Shevlin,
in his newly acquired capacity of
State Chairman, called the convention
to order. He had judiciously dis
tributed punches of his best trained
shouters where they would do the
most good They cheered when he
named the secretaries and assistant
secretaries who would act until the
permanent organization had been eff
fected And between times they
cheered just for the joy of cheering.
Both sides knew that the first and
last test of strength would come upon
the selection of Committee on Creden-
tials. since it was to this committee
that the contests of the six larger
counties for the right to sit in the
convention would go for settlement.
Previous conventions had always de-
| cided that delegates whose seats were
| contested should not be allowed to SIT
as members of the Committee on Con
| tested Seats. Give Standish limo
| Gently supposed this rule would be adj
| hered to by this convention. He was
wrong. Conover had no Quixotic no
ton of giving his rival any such adj
| vantage. The night before he had de-
| creed that the chairman should rule
/ that this Committee on Contests
should consist of three members from
each county, and that these members
should be chosen by the sitting dele
gates from each county. This meant