Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-09-20
WISCONSIN NEWS
items Of Interest From All Parts
Of the State.
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DECIDES TO Defer ACTION
Progressive Convention at Milwaukee
Instructs Committee to Name
Ticket If Necessary.

The shade of Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette of Madison stalked through
the sessions of Wisconsin's first state
Progressive convention at Milwaukee,
and blocked naming OF full state
Progressive ticket.
Progressive leaders were fearful
that the nomination of complete
list of candidates in opposition to the
Republican state ticket would not
alone precipitate bitter state fight
with Senator La Toilette, but also
would kill the possibility of support
for the Progressive cause from Gov.
ernor Francis K. McGovern.
However, there was considerable
sentiment in the body OF the delegates,
particularly among those from the
north end of the state, for complete
ticket. Some of the delegates were
instructed for state ticket.
AS result the members Of the
committee on nomination decided up
on course of delayed action to meet
the complicated situation by intro
ducing the following resolution, which
was adopted by the delegates without
word of protest:
Your committee deems it necessary
that there be in the field a complete
state ticket which the members Of the
Progressive party can heartily en-.
dorse and support at the November
election.
THE state central committee is
hereby directed to hold a meeting not
later than Sept. "a, 1912, and If in the
judgment of that committee at that
time there is no state ticket in the
field which the Progressive party can
consistently support, either in whole
or in part, then said state central
committee is hereby authorized and
directed by this convention to make
such nominations as shall be neces-
sary to insure complete state ticket,
every candidate of which supports
the national candidates of the Progress
sive party and is in sympathy with
the principles of that party"
Presidential Electors Chosen.
The nominations committee then
presented the names of the following
presidential electors, which were APP
proved by the convention:
f. Lee Norton, Racine, First; DR.. o.
B. Book, Sheboygan, Second; K. j..
Baskerville, Madison, Third; +. G.
Thwaites, Milwaukee, Fourth; Charles
F. Stitt, Milwaukee, Fifth; Florian
Lampert, Oshkosh, Sixth; DR.. A. An
drews, Superior, Seventh; George II.
Fuller, Spring Lake, Eighth; H. G.
Schultz, Black Creek Ninth; Peter
Eckerson, Superior, Eleventh. No
elector was named from the Tenth
district.
Electors at large chosen are Colonel
John Hicks, Oshkosh, and Wheeler
Bloodgood of Milwaukee.
The sessions of the conventions
were addressed by Governor Hiram
w. Johnson of California, United
States Senator Miles Pondexter Of
Washington, Medill Mccormick OF Chi
cago, Henry f. Cochems and Wheeler
p. Bloodgood of Milwaukee and Mrs.
Heloise Wynne of Chicago
1nOSe VINO expected Governor john
son to attack Senator La Toilette for
his failure to align himself with the
new party were disappointed. While
the California executive urged all to
support the movement and insisted
that the old Republican party was
dead he had no criticism for any who
sees fit to remain with il.
The governors entrance into the
convention hall was the signal for
loud demonstration and brilliant cleo
trical display. While delegates stood
on chairs and waved bandanas and
shouted, red, white and blue electric
lights were switched on and Off;
throughout the building.
The committee on resolutions at
firmed the platform adopted by tho
Progressive national convention ill.,
Th;oaon