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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: Organizing Wisconsin Chapter Four. N the exercise of the discretion with which it had been invested by the meeting of January 18th, 1876, the State Committee called a second meeting at Madison on the 10th of May of that year. This meeting was described in the Milwaukee Sentinel as "a flat failure," with "only a dozen present," but it chose a full delegation of twenty men to attend the National Convention called to meet at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 17th of May. The delegates-at-large selected, were; J. H. Osborne, E. P. Allis, Judge Harlow S. Orton, and William Orledge. An Electoral Ticket was also named, headed by William Orledge of Kenosha, and G. W. Lee of Grant county, as electors at large. A State Central Committee was named, as follows: At Large, Wm. Orledge, 1st District, G. O. West, of Walworth, 2nd District, H. S. Orton, of Dane, 3rd District, G. W. Lee, of Grant, 4th District, A. N. Horner, of Milwaukee, 5th District, E. N. McGraw, of Sheboygan, 6th District, G. H. Foster, of Winnebago, 7th District, E. S. Miner, of Juneau. There was no state election held in that year. The campaign developed some discussion through the newspapers but the nominees of the "Independent National Party," as it was named at Indianapolis, got few votes in Wisconsin. McKee's publication, "National Conventions and Platforms," shows that the nominees for President andVice President, Peter Cooper of New York, and Samuel F. Gary of Ohio, got but 81,740 votes in the entire nation and but 1509 in the state of Wisconsin. But the Greenback Party was launched and the controversy that ended in giving the presidency to Hayes, through the extra-constitutional Electoral Commission, did not allay the prevailing political uneasiness or settle the financial difficulties. ...
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