The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-02-22
@. o. p. Headqu arters In petrolt.

@. o. p. Headquarters In Detroit.
The meeting of the state central
committee and conferences preceding
the G. o. p. convention in Lansing
were peaceful affairs
The state central committee met
and nobody demanded that Alex
Groesbeck resign as chairman or that
the present committee quit it's job
and allow other ambitious persons to
replace them. This despite rumors
galore in the past two weeks.
Candidates met in the lobby of the
Downey house without any ears being
found missing. noses broken or eyes
BACKED. Instead there were hand
shakes and good wishes. 1t was just
about like old times before the war
of 1912" Better even, for there was
more courtesy evident on all sides.
Practically every candidate had
Headquarters in the Downey house
and the various parlors were packed
with friends of the candidates.
Party leaders were kept busy talk
ing with chairmen Of county delega-
lions and with individual delegates.
With everybody disposed to harmony.
the outlook that Senator w. Frank
James of Hancock would be made
permanent chairman of the conven.
tion, while Allan II. Frazer of Detroit
delivered the keynote speech, re-
NAMED undisturbed until It began to
be looked upon as a practical GER
tainty.
Fully 500 Republicans gathered in
the Masonic temple for the Zach
Chandler club banquet, and the
speeches by Dr. John Wesley Hill Of
New York. Philip T. Colgrove of Has
tings, Speaker Currie of the house Of
representatives. Patrick H. Kelley,
an-at.large-elect, and others.
The banquet enjoyed the biggest sue.
cess of any given by the Lansing club
in years.
Peace marked the session OF the
state central committee. The commit
tee met first in the Coliseum, where
the convention assembled the COM
mittee's rules calling for a session in
the convention hall the afternoon be-
fore the convention. AS skating
party was in progress in the Coliseum,
however, the committee adjourned to
the Downey house.
The committee first confirmed the
selection Of Allan H. Frazer as tenn
porary chairman, the confirmation
being unanimous. Then Committee
man Sprague offered a resolution
that hereafter no member of the
committee be represented by proxy
unless the proxy holder resides In the
members congressional district. This
started quite an argument. Mr..
Sprague explained that II was de-
signed to cut off criticism Of upper
peninsula members being represented
by Wayne county men at Detroit
meetings. but Claude Hamilton Of
Grand Rapids, and other members ar.
gued that 1t was better to be rep
resented by some one outside the
members district than not represent
ed at all. Hamilton offered an
amendment that a member should
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carry his proxy, II possible, but that
in urgent cases he be permitted to
give the proxy to an outsider. The
amendment was defeated, 9 to 7, and
the original motion was defeated by
the same vote, but on a different
alignment of members.
DR.. Brett Nottingham of Lansing
moved that state headquarters be es-
tablished in Lansing for the state
spring campaign, on the ground of
economy, and because Secretary
Pierce of the state central committee
and the leading candidates for the SUI
preme bench who will head the state
ticket, live here. Chairman Groesbeck
remarked that he would not be able to
handle much of the campaign II the
headquarters were in Lansing, and the
committee, by 14-to-3 vote, left 1t to
the chairman to decide where head
quarters is to be established. 1t Is
probable that 1t will be in Detroit,
with branch headquarters in Lam
sing in charge Of Secretary Pierce.