Show t GI FOUNDING M MOOT I QUESTION JN IN P PARTY ARU RANKS RANK x By EDWIN A. A LAHEY Associated Press Staff Writer CHICAGO May 2 25 AP AP- AP Now Ai oW Is the for all aU good men en to come cometo cometo to iho t ad of their party s Republican party part calling f orn champion who will decide the question qu u stion n unanswered In its seventy seventy- fh years five years Who Vho founded the G. G p 0 P. P rr r.r. I 4 But the good Republicans Re who Vrho celebrate te the party's part s 's diamond Jubilee lee lc anniversary ersary thi this year will vilI have to for tor themselves s Us birth birthplace place lace for tor Ripon a coIl college ge town In l Yond du Lac county count Wisconsin and Jackson Jacks Ja lu Mich through more than thana a a 1 half l century have vaunted aun ed t them them- em- em elre 1 each as the cradle ot of the party part Today each of ot the rival rh-al to towns to was vas preparing a festive birthday party part Ripon which pro- pro Itself for June Juno S Sand and Jackson for July 6 6 HOOVER HOOVER- DECLINES President Hoover Hoo whom the dIsputing dIs- dIs puling cities cHItS would cast in therole of If Solomon with Solomons wisdom declined invitations t to tb both of the celebrations and accepted tha th honorary honor honor- ary chairmanship of t each Jacksons Jackson's claim Is formal resting on the fact that a a. convention thereon there thereon on July 6 1854 framed th the first C state ticket and platform under the name name Republican In consequence whereof numerous stat statesmen sm n. n head- head ved by Vice President Charles W Fairbanks Journeyed journe ed to the Jack Jack- Jacl son son on shrine on its fiftieth Republican anniversary President Taft ded- ded a memorial tablet there in 1010 1910 lo r But numerous reputable historians in ina ahdout nc d out of oi Ripon h held ld that the erm of the Republican party had been een incubating In the Wisconsin city for two years ears prior to the Jackson Jack Jack- to son ion 1 convention BOVAY'S OV YS CLAIMS In In 1852 when th the Whig general Winfield Scott was overwhelmingly defeated for the presidency by the Democrat Frank Franklin ln PIerce many many in- in Whigs decided th that thit t the spirit had passed from fron the still am- am ambulant corpse of ot their party and ex expressed expressed ex- ex pre pressed sed a a. determination to abandon the carcass Prominent among these was Alvin Alvin- Earle arlo Bovay ot o ru- ru i- i pori pon a a. delegate to the Whig convention convention con con- and anda a friend politically o ot Horace Greeley In later life life- BOv BOvY Bovay Y asserted that he had bad discussed the Idea ide of a new party with Greeley during durIng- the 1852 1832 convention an anI had bad even su suggested est d Ute the name Republican can cn which he said Eaid appealed t to among among- other reasons for foi lt its adaptability to the diverse tongues then of ot Immigrants swarming 6 a at Americas America's gates tes The rh he need of a a a. new party patty to op oppose op- op rose pose lose the Democrats was was was' apparent to many at the time for the forces r-o r opposed to the extension of sl slavery etT re hopelessly divided in groups lacking direction and andl l' l control control i Bo ay Bovay r retained a a. mental note ote of the ne new pa party t plan and in 1854 midway between presidential elec- elec decided to strike During tho the inter congress had been considering considerIng consider- consider Ing th the Nebraska Kansas-Nebraska bill bilI ilI which Would smooth the way for extension j t ot t slavery into the northwest terri terri- and end repeal the Missouri compromise com corn promise of 1820 until then re regarded ns ns its sacred The north was inflamed CALLED MEETING Vova canvassed the citizenry ot of and gathered them Into the Con church on February for a political al nias mass meet- meet Ing InS The townsfolk adopted a a. reso- reso uton pledging PI themselves to meet i and form a new party If JC the c Nebraska Kansas ansa bill became law to IThe The he second se ond meeting was w s called tarch 20 in a little white school school- bouse b use still sun standing on the campus J- J Ripon of R J Ripon n college The assembly formally form lh voted to abolish the the- town committees s of the Whig and Free foil Soll oit parties and named a commit commit- tee iea ee of five live to work out the forma forma- ton of a new party part The committee i comprised three Whigs a Free Seller oller r and a Democrat This say the was the birth Ir h of or th the G. G 0 OP 01 P. P |