New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-05-22
ABOUT The STATE
nsus d Especial hlefsst 10
Minnesota Readers.
ROOSEVELT men N CONTROL
Republican State Convention lnstructs
Delegates for coionel- casweII
National Committeeman.

| IN Tue NopuUIlCdu Uc1oSdt0 COuVcuClOl
at Minneapolis, beat down the effort
of the La Toilette delegates to start
second choice movement for the Wis
consin senator and to insert La Fol
lette policies in the resolutions ant
elected six delegates at large to e
to the national convention at Chicago
under binding instructions to fight fol
the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt
to the last ditch.
The delegates at large are Nose:
E. Clapp, st. Paul; Milton D. Purdy
Minneapolis; J. F. Jacobson, Madison
E. X. Roverud, Houston county; O. J
Larson, Duluth; A. L. Hanson, Ada.
Frank B. Kellogg, Republican ma
tional committeeman, will be succeed
ed by l. A. Caswell, clerk of the SUI
preme court and state Roosevelt man
ager Caswell's name was the only
one presented to the convention and
he was unanimously elected.
Strong resolutions. that endorsed
Colonel Roosevelt and progressive
principles, took fling at the state Re-
publican central committee for it's op
position to presidential primaries and
termed this opposition "the oppression
| of bossism."
Want Primary for Governor.
A recommendation to the state Gen.
trail committee that Republican voters
be permitted to express their choice
for governor at the coming primaries
was recognized by the delegates as a
direct slap at Governor Eberhart for
aligning himself with the Taft element
and refusing to call a special session
of the legislature to enact a presi-
Dental primary law.
There was scarcely noticeable
hitch in the program mapped out by
l. A. Caswell and other Roosevelt
leaders. Taft delegates played no
part in the convention. The one real
fight on the floor was on resolutions.
Here a handful of La Toilette dele
gates attempted to obtain instructions
for delegates to vote for their leader
in case Roosevelt's nomination is an
impossibility. 'Ss
Frank Knox, vice chairman of the
Republican national committee, who
came to Minneapolis to head off La
Toilette sentiment, engineered the
move that killed off the attempt for
La Toilette second choice instructions.
Defeated by Close Margin.
Declarations for the Initiative and
referendum and recall and several 9TH
er recognized La Toilette policies
Jared a little better, but went down
to defeat by close margin. On roll
call the motion to incorporate them
in the resolutions was defeated by a
vote of 606 to 47S.
The resolutions presented by the
resolutions committee, as adopted by
the convention, follow:
Resolved, That we endorse the can.
didacy of Theodore Roosevelt for pres
ident and hereby instruct the dele
gates selected by this convention to
the Republican national convention to
vote for the nomination of Theodore |
Roosevelt first, last and all the time.
Resolved, That we unreservedly en- |
dorse the principles of progressive Re.
publicanism as expounded by Theo.
dore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Toilette
and other great Republican leaders of
the progressive cause.
Resolved, That we unqualifiedly en-
dorse presidential primaries and insist
that the election of United States sen.
ators shall be by direct vote Of the
people. .@
Resolved, That we demand the i'm
repeal of the Canadian reci-
ciprocity treaty.
Resolved, That we demand the puri-
hcation of the ballot by the enact
ment of more thoroughgoing corrupt
practice act.
Praise Progressive Leaders.
I'VE congratulate the people Of Min
nesota upon their determined and un-
efforts in support of the pro-
gressivism advocated by such leaders
as Theodore Roosevelt and Robert M.
La Toilette and we point with pride
to the fact that in the face of great
odds. the lack of proper legislation
and the opposition of bossism the
spirit of patriotism prompted them to
speak for themselves in the recent
contest; and be it further
Resolved, That it is the sense Of
this convention that in all future con-
tests for nomination to public offices
he people shall be allowed to express
heir preference in such manner as
shall give each individual! an effective
voice in the affairs of government;
md therefore, be it further
Resolved, That the Republican
state central committee be instruct
ID to provide suitable means for each
Toter to express by ballot his indavid-
lal preference for governor of Min
lesota at the coming Republican pri-
naries.
Resolved, That we place ourselves
N rocord 90 in fovor ~ %ho crooff0n |