The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-23
LaFoIIette Delegates and
Sympathizers to Meet in
Milwaukee.
BITTER TOWARD ROOSEVELT
Effort viii Be Made to Prevent Wis
consin Delegates Switching to Either
Taft or Roosevelt if LaFollette Has
no Chance Of Nomination

The LaFollette leaders have formal
ly called the meeting Of the Wisconsin
delegation to the Chicago national
convention and it will be held June Is,
in Milwaukee. At that meeting reso-
lutions will be presented which will
formally pledge the Wisconsin dele
gates to the Republican national con-
vention to support Senator LaFollette
on every ballot and not under any
circumstances give their support to
any other candidate. What is more,
every one of the members Of the
Wisconsin delegation will be asked to
attach his signature TO the resolutions.
1t is not intended that any excuse of
any character shall be given any Wis
consin delegate to support any candi-
date but the senator. The sole pur-
pose in the calling of the Milwaukee
meeting is to line up the members of
the Wisconsin delegation for Senator
LaFollette and to make sure Of their
loyalty under ali contingencies to the
senator.
This is admitted by the LaFollette
people, who say they intend that the
Wisconsin delegation to the Republi-
can convention shall be distinctively
LaFollette delegation and that it shall
remain faithful to the senator, no
matter what may occur in the con-
vention. The resolution which will
be presented at the Milwaukee meet
ing will be Of the most ironclad char
actor and will be so drawn that there
will not be any loophole which can be
used as q shield in case any Wiscon-
sin member should cast his vote in
the Republican national convention
for any other candidate.
Undoubtedly the meeting of the
Wisconsin delegates to the Repub-
hcan national convention has been
called for the reason that some of
the LaFollette leaders were worried
over the rumors that some of the
Wisconsin delegates might, if there
was real test in the coming con-
vention where their votes might be of
use in the convention to Col. Roose-
welt, support the man from Oyster
Bay. There has been much talk in
the east that the Wisconsin delega-
tion might support Col. Roosevelt in
an emergency and, in fact, many
eastern papers have been publicly
crediting the Wisconsin delegation as
second choice Roosevelt What is
more, there has been talk in certain
circles in this state that under stress
there might be at least four members
of the Wisconsin delegation who
would support the man from Oyster
Bay. To avert any such contingency
the Milwaukee meeting has been
called that it may there be explained
to tn, members of the Wisconsin dele
cation that 1T is the expectation that
they will support Senator LaFollette
OIL every ballot in the convention and
never give vote to another candidate
As matter Of fact, as far as lead
Irs of the NLaFollette movement in
Wisconsin are concerned, they are as
much, if not more bitter against Col
Roosevelt than they are against Presi.
dent Taft. One of the strongest of the
supporters of Senator LaFollette in
Wisconsin has publicly made the state
ment in Madison that if Col. Roose.
Welt should be the nominee of the Re.
publican party at the Chicago conven.
tion he should support the Democratic
nominee for president and has said
that so far as he, the LaFollette man
nomination of Col Roosevelt as more
dangerous to the nation than the re.
nomination of President Taft. This
statement likely also expresses the
sentiment of large number of the
LaFolette men, who have become very
bitter toward Col. Roosevelt ever
since the latter publicly entered the
field as a candidate for The Republic
can nomination for the presidency
The LaFollette people consider that
Col. Roosevelt deliberately and clearly
Srespassed on the political preserves
/: Of Senator LaFollette when the New
York man "shied his hat" into the
Republican presidential ring.
There has been talk that with a bal
ance of power in the Republican ma
tional convention Senator LaFollette
might be influential in the dictation OF
some man not now prominently men
toned for the Republican nomination
for the presidency-some such man as
Senator Borah of Idaho, for instance
No one who knows Ser ator LaFollette
however, for minute thinks he vii
do this. The political experience Of
this state has certainly never beer
that Senator LaFollette took any
eat interest in compromises Of which