The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-03-17
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
MADISON. March x 1851.

MADISON, MafCn IS, 1901.
To THE EDITORS OF THE PLoT:
At last the scrub race for the possession
OF Carpenters Senatorial shoes has ended
but what az ending was that, my conn
trymen? An ending which has left one
half Of the republicans of the present
Legislature very much like flock of
sheep in railway stock yard only waiting
fol the man who shall drive them aboard
the car ID be taken to market. 1t is,
alas, too true AIessrs. Editors that toward
the close of the nineteenth century re-
publican, and candidate for the speak
ership at that, has been found base
enough to betray his associates and not
only desert them and dishonor his sworn
pledges but actually sell them out, horse,
fort and dragons. To day in the Legis-
lative balls OF the Badger State sits J.
W. Rewey of Iowa county who is both
politically and socially ostracised Ignor-
ed by those whom he has deserted and
spurned by those who used him to adj
vance their own selfish interests, there
are none so poor as to do him reverence
and he wanders about like the proyerbial
cat in a strange garnet.
The story of REwEY's JUDAS IsCAR-
IATIsM may be briefly told thus. Orig
inally strong Reyes man he has ever
been one of the most pronounced oppon-
ents of the Saywer-Cameron ring rule
and when the second senatorial contest
was precipitated was chosen by the anti
Cameron men as their chairman. From
Monday till Wednesday inclusive he pre-
sided over the anti-Cameron caucuses
and when the decisive moment arrived
voted for-Cameron. Had he remained
true to his friends his convictions and his
pledges the vote would have been a tie,
as between Cameron and Bowman. In or
der to complete the sketch of this man S
infamy Ill repeat what prominent Saw
yer-Cameron Assemblyman tod me last
Thursday evening. Said he: "You people
are mistaken. Rewey's conversion was not
recent. We had him from the first and
after each anti Cameron caucus he came
to us with full report thereof" Every
where on the streets, in the hotels and at
the Capitol the subject of Rewey' treach-
cry is discussed quite freely and the OPP
inion is generally expressed by those
republicans who, refusing to be dictated
toby Sawyer & Co. feel that the last straw
has been laid upon the back of the pa
tient camel, that an Independent State
Convention next fall can be counted on
to a certainty. The movement In this
direction is crystalizing very rapidly.
Never before, venture to say, in the
history Of Wisconsin, have so many able
and representative men constituted her
/ assembly as this year. Commenting
upon this fact, gentleman who IS thor
oughly familiar with the New York legis-
latures, said recently that even an as
sembly Of the old Empire state would
have its hands full to compete with ours.
Without disparagement Of the worth of
the older members, it may be truthfully
/ said that man for man the ablest mem
bers of the assembly of 1881 are the
young men. As the assembly of last
winter was an improvement upon that of
the previous year, so that Of this winter
/ is ahead of that of 1880. It is to be hop
--- . syOIz-
tinue to be raised rather than lowered
Although the woman suffrage amend
ment was killed in the assembly last
Thursday evening by vote Of 20 to so,
its friends do not yet despair because of
the fact that a similar measure is pending
in the senate which is likely to pass that
body by two or three majority. If this
should be the case | still incline to the
opinion that it viii be done for in the
house, by from six to twelve majority.
The present legislature has also the
past week, decided to let its successor
deal with two important questions-pro-
! hibition and church taxation, both of
which are sure to come up again next
year. PAvEY.