Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-08-31

offices.
Nearly 400 delegates attended that
conference. These included support
| ers of former Governor McGovern and
State Senator Otto Bosshard, both of
whom had announced their candi-
| dacies for the republican nomination
for governor previous to the calling
of the conference. In this conference
three ballots were taken on the gov
ernorship, and Mr.. McGovern, Mr..
| Bosshard, Mr.. Sanborn and Mr.. Hatton
were voted for. Upon the third bal
lot Mr.. Hatton was endorsed by vote
more than twice as great as that of
all the other candidates combined.
Thereupon the Hon. Walter D.
Corrigan, leading McGovern sup
porter, arose and moved that the en-
dorsement of Mr.. Hatton for governor
be made unanimous. In supporting
this motion, Mr.. Corrigan made the
following ringing speech:
| Mr.. Chairman:
understand, Mr.. Chairman, that
| the result of this, the third ballot of
this convention, on the question of
who shall be nominated for governor,
shows that Honorable William H. Hat
ton has received more than two-thirds
OF the votes of this conference, and
therefore, under the rule which re-
| quires a two-thirds vote to nominate
on any ballot prior to the fourth, Mr..
Hatton is the nominee of this conven-
ton. That being the situation, / de-
sire, as one of those who has consist
emily, throughout the balloting, voted
for another candidate to move that the
nomination of Honorable William H.
Hatton, be made unanimous. (Great
applause.)
Upon the motion being seconded
from various parts of the hall, Mr..
Corrigan said:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
convention:
Before my motion is put by our dis
tinguished chairman, I desire to be
briefly heard in support of it.
! Was For McGovern.
have consistently voted in this
convention for Honorable Francis E.
McGovern. He has received the solid
/ vote of the Milwaukee delegation upon
every ballot. He has been defeated,
and Honorable William H. Hatton has
been made the nominee of this con-
vention. (Applause.)
! Mr.. Hatton has been fairly nominal
ed. (Applause.) I am sufficiently
familiar with the history of this con-
ference, from its inception until now,
to know that it has been, and is a fair.
honestly constituted body. No one can
/ honestly gainsay this. 1t has brought
| together as representative a body of
| Progressive Republicans of Wisconsin
as has ever assembled in this state in
! conference or convention. (Applause.)
believe that this conference repre-
sents that great body of Progressive
ieSPubAASeI NOlSIS Ol Wisconsin VINO
have, by their answering loyalty to
the principles of representative gov
eminent, made this state what it is
today, the brightest star in the con-
| stellatlon of governments of the civil
Ized world. (Great AppIause.) They
have made Wisconsin the best place
on earth in which to live. They have
stood, and stand today, in favor of
| government of, by, and for the people.
They are unselfishly loyal to the cause
| of better government and have the
| profound hope that they may hand
down to their posterity those blessings
which our forefathers so wisely con-
ceived and propounded for US.
Strong Leaders.
In this great Progressive movement,
started twenty years ago, in this state,
we have had many leaders. Some of
them have been so great that through
| their power and influence, with the
aid of the great progressive army of
| voters, Wisconsin has been put in the
front rank among the states of this
union, so much for several years, last
! past, that every state of this union
has looked to Wisconsin until today we
are recognized as first and foremost
by educators, statesmen and other men