When the Republican National Convention opened, Robert M. La Follette wrote a letter to Governor John J. Blaine of Wisconsin, Chairman of the Wisconsin delegation. Said the Senator:
"It is my express wish that in the Republican National Convention assembling June 10 my name be not placed in nomination. I request further that the Progressive delegates elected by the people of Wisconsin concentrate all their energies upon obtaining the adoption of the platform of Progressive principles which received an overwhelming endorsement in the April primary. . . . While the platforms submitted...