Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Volume 28) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTERS TO THE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL AND GAZETTE [October 8, 1846] Madison, October 5, 1846 Nearly all the delegates, accompanied by the usual hungry swarm of office seekers, have arrived, and our generally quiet village presents a varied scene. All day yesterday a very active caucusing was going on in every direction indoors and out and will be renewed today with increased feeling and animation. The prominent candidates of the majority for president of the convention seem to be Mr. Upham of your city, Marshall M. Strong of Racine, Moses M. Strong and Moses Meeker of Iowa, and perhaps others have been or will yet be named. For the subordinate offices the zeal of the applicants seems in no wise diminished by the insignificance or pecuniary worthlesSness of the places at which they are aiming ($2 a day for a month or so). The convention will probably organize temporarily this morning and adjourn till tomorrow for the election of its officers, prior to which a caucus may be called to settle conflicting claims and "keep peace in the family." It is said that the seat of Mr. Burchard of Waukesha will be contested by Mr. Bovee, one of the defeated candidates on the Locofoco ticket. The claim of Mr. Bovee rests on an alleged false return of the votes of the town of Mukwonago. What will be the result of this movement time alone will show. Mr. Bovee has an up-hill job before him, but there is no telling what a Locofoco convention will do or rather won't do in the premises. [October 10, 1846] Madison, Tuesday evening, October 6, 1846 The convention, as you will see by its proceedings, is fully organized and fairly under way. Thus far a commendable promptness and dispatch in its preliminary action has been manifested. As a body it is respectable and intelligent in its appearanc...