River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-10
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Member of Congress-Eighth District,
WILLIAM L. PRICE,
OF Jackson.
HON. WIN. t. PRICE.

for Member of Congress, at the Eau
Claire convention, held on the I'd inst.
This result had for some time been
anticipated and hence was no cause
for surprise to any one. Mr.. Price
had for months labored diligently
to secure the nomination and that he
distanced all competitors in the race
was but an inevitable result of ener-
getic efforts in his own behalf coupled
with the mastery inactivity of other
aspirants. Though Mr.. Price was not
our choice, we gracefully submit to
the expressed will of the majority of
the accredited representatives of the
Republican party of the district in
convention assembled and yield to him
our support, though it may be some
what less ELUSIVE than that which
will characterize his intimate person
al acquaintances and more enthusiast
tice admirers.
1t affords us genuine qualification to
observe that Mr.. Price is not ma
chine man. He was nominated in
spite of the machine and owes no feal-
ty to the machine managers and their
edlcts. He thinks, talks and acts for
himself, independent of instructions
or suggestions from any political sym
dictate which presumes to dictate in
political matters, and we hazard
nothing in saying that he will prove
the spiciest and most lively Represen-
| tative ever sent from Wisconsin to
Washington. He is vigorous talker
as well as worker, and with his nat
ural independence will infuse little
new blood into our national legislature
which will have wholesome effect.
| His legislative career has been suffi.
cient to enable him to begin where
| his predecessor leaves off and with
his characteristic energy he will soon
show that he is no novice in matters
pertaining to legislation. The i'm
mense jobs which are constantly be-
ing pushed for favorable consideration
| by Congress will find in Mr.. Price a
bitter opponent, his past record being
hostile to legislative steals.
Mr.. Price was born in the town of
Barre, Huntington county. Pa, June
18th, 1924, and came to Wisconsin in
1916, settling at Black River Falls:
he is by occupation lumberman In
which he has been very successful,
and besides holding several local of.
fees of greater or less Importance has
served nine sessions in the legislature
1.-TWO in the Assembly and seven in
the Senate. He is an enterprising
public-spirited citizen and has shown
evidence of his abundant ability to
make useful member of Congress.
| In accepting the nomination Mr..
Price addressed the convention as
follows:
| Mr.. President and Gentlemen of tht
ConUention:-No position can confer
honor upon an American citizen, and
yet this nomination for place In the
congress of the United States is al
endorsement of motives and methods
that should Oe, and it is inexpressIbly
dear to me. But the thoughtful man
must tremble before, if not shrink
from the responsibilities of the place.
There are in this congressional dis
| fri r a, IE0 000 yonuln N
agriculture, manufacturing, lumber
ing, mining, and the professions-2,-
32l, 841 acres of growing timber-6,'
100000 acres of tillable lands, $780,
600 acres of which are now under cul-
tivation, $50 school houses, and SIS, 700
school children, an assessed valuation
of forty millions of dollars, about one
fourth of the territory of the entire
state, 300 miles Of railroads, a lake
frontage of 125 miles, not less than
900 miles of river navigation capable
of floating to market the products of
their banks.
There is water power in the dis
trict sufficient to drive all the ma
chinery now in operation in the Unit
ed States. and enough in the county
of Barron alone to propel all the
wheels of Massachusetts.
| If the choice you, gentlemen of the
convention, have made to-day is rati-
fed by the people, become the agent
of each and all of these interests, and
not the slave or master of any of
| them.
All of these and many other inter
| ests must be protected and fostered,
| and many of them should be the sub
jects of congressional legislation to
| the end that our water ways may be
kept open and improved as outlets to
the markets of the world for the sur
| plus products of the country.
| The Mississippi River is the only
| commercial artery with which no ar
| rangement for consolidation can be
made by which productive enterprises
may be throttled, and is a bond of
| union between the North and the
| South as the Pacific railroads connect
| with bands of steel the East and the
| West.
The railroads should be placed un-
der such legislative control as to en-
sure them fair and just profits upon
| actual cost of construction and opera
ton, and not upon fictitious valuations
| or watered stocks.
The wealth of the nation should
| support its government and all prop
erty should pay its just and equitable
share of taxes, whether it be the cot
tage of the day laborer or the palace
of the millionaire.
The whole scheme of political as
| sessmentS can not be too severely con-
/ demned. If the employees of the
| government can afford to render their
services for a given sum paid by the
whole people, and then hand back a
percentage to the party in power, they
| could as well render that service for
| that sum, less the rebate or assess
| ments, and the thousands if not MILL
| ions thus saved to the government
1 should be used to lessen taxation, or
to reduction of the national debt and
a elimination of the interest thereon.
Machine politics" which subordi-
nate principles to expediency, -" Boss
ISM which makes merchandise of
men, and which would punish as trea-
son the independent utteranees of the
| citizen should he rebuked. The use-
less extravaganza of our state and ma
tional expenditures should be check
ed; the rapidly increasing tendencies
of our public men to depart from the
simple and honest economy of the ear
lier DAYS of the republic and to initiate