Show MR i Is im abdu the uc ma losea MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS they are holding a convention and denouncing the peoples party aug IT wis calain have assembled here today for the purpose 61 nominate aag a state ticket spooners ners recent re fasal to accept the gubernatorial nom hafl thrown an element of uncertainty into tho situation the republicans public ans admit that pecks adt ninis ration has been in many respects a strong one and they are to ant the best possible timber into their state ticket spooner is the magnetic statesman of wisconsin and is undoubtedly the strongest man in the party ant mr spooner once occupied a seat in the united states senate and bis recollections of his sojourn in that augait body are 60 agreeable that be has determined to sacrifice everything in order to be free to run for a second term in tha upper housa upon the expiration of philatus sawyers term on the ath of march next the recent action of the supreme court in the gerrymander case has given the republicans renewed hopes of controlling the next legislature and it is therefore quite possible that mr spooner will step into sawyers shoes with spooner out of the field the republicans admit that they are at sea there are possibilities by the acore and one of the strongest of them ic W H urbam of marshfield jerry rask is also talked of but it is doubtful it he would accept the eption it ia probable that the con yen will hold over until tomorrow as the nominations had not been beached leached at |