Good morning.
Whitewater’s Tuesday will be a mostly sunny day, with a high of eighty-one.
The city’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 6 PM, and Common Council at 6:30 PM.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1854,
Republican Party Founded
On this date Free Soilers and Whigs outraged by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, met in Ripon to consider forming a new political party. The meeting’s organizer, Alvan E. Bovay, proposed the name “Republican” which had been suggested by New York editor Horace Greeley. You can see eyewitness accounts of the meeting, early Republican campaign documents, and other original sources on our page devoted to Wisconsin and the Republican Party. Though other places have claimed themselves as the birthplace of the Republican Party, this was the earliest meeting held for the purpose and the first to use the term Republican. [Source: History of Wisconsin, II: 218-219]
Google’s daily puzzle asks a political question: “How many electoral votes does your state have if your capitol building is adorned in ‘Beulah Red’?”