The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-10-21
WILLIAM II. PRICE.
Pertaining to His Record as n Friend
to Labor-The Kind of an Anti
MonopOlist his Opponent Is

Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph
A correspondent writing from Eau
Clare-a man who is we'll posted in
the Sth district-speaks as follows of
the candidates and their records: At
ter a careful survey of the field in this
district, your correspondent sees no
chance for the defeat of Judge Price.
The anti-monopolist convention had
less then half representation from four
counties, with none at all from the
other ten counties in the district. 1t
was such convention that first made
w. +. Bailey, mayor of the city,
congressional nominee. Bailey will
be remembered as the man who moved
out of his district for few days to
run for circuit Judge against the late
Hon. II. ID. Barron, and as having
been an unsuccessful candidate for
various other offices, including that of
state senator, last fall, when Hon. r.
J. Flint defeated him. He has also
been prominent as attorney for the
Cornell university lands, and other
nonresident holders of large tracts of
land He has been very successful in
procuring rebates of taxes for them
from the new towns and counties in
the state, and even drew a bill and
procured its introduction to the legis-
lature, asking that the Cornell lands
be exempted from taxation. In most,
if not all, newly organized towns and
counties, and sometimes in older ones,
technical errors occur which are sub
mitted to by the resident, first be-
cause he is not disposed to resist by
course Of law, which would entail adj
ditional costs on himself and neigh
bors; and second because he is often
too poor to conduct a lawsuit against
a county, and therefore pays the whole
tax, and these corporations, through
the agency of this ''anti-monopoliSt"
candidate, pay only a PERCENTAGE or
part. Such an "anti-monopolist" will
not down with the settlers in the new
counties. Six Of the fourteen counties
were represented at the democratic
convention which endorsed Mr.. Bal
ley. Neither Of the conventions was
enthusiastic.
The republican convention which
nominated Judge w. T. Price, had
full delegations from every county in
the district, and they were representa-
tive men. The prohibition conven-
ton which met at Menomonie and en-
dorsed Mr.. Price, was composed of
So leading citizens of the district A
comparison of the platforms upon
which the two candidates stand shows
that Mr. Bailey is committed to free
trade and free whisky, and Judge
Price to prohibition and protection to
American industry. Mr.. Bailey claims
to be friend to labor and opposed to
monopolies Mr. Price. in the legis-
lature, at home, in the woods, on the
river and wherever he has been for a
quarter Of a century, has demonstrated
his will and power to antagonize any
and every influence that would APP
proach the laborer's home to do him
harm. Your correspondent has had
the pleasure of knowing Judge Price,
and he knows that if, by misfortune
or error, relief is needed in poverty or
sickness, it is to him application is
made, and no person ever left his door
unrelieved. | shall never forget the
thrill that went through that vast au-
dience in the senate chamber during
the debate in Feb. 1879, OH the pro-
posed amendment to the constitution,
when Mr.. Price replied to an insinua-
ton made by a senator that he Price
was influenced by ambitions. The
Judge said: "But the gentleman says
| may have ambitions that he knows
not Of He does not think | would
take money. | thank him for that {:
| feel proud of that endorsement. |
will inform the senator that | have one
ambition, and that is, that when |
shall have approached life's end, and
shall look back, | can say that | never
stood as an appologist for traffic which
degrades and damns everything that it
touches; that | have done the little
that | could to make this world purer,
cleaner and brighter; that | did what
| could to lift the fallen, the erring
and the weak, and place him on the
platform Of an Independent manhood;
that | never stood back and shrouded
my convictions for fear of hurting a
political party. | have an ambition
to do my duty as a senator, to do all |
can to help every poor and weak bro
Their who needs my help, and to fight
every graceless soulless scoundrel who
would leap to personal aggrandize-
ment upon the fallen fortune and
wrecked lives of his fellows"
Volumes could not more clearly de-
Innate the character of William T.
Price. Strictly conscientious, fearless
and incorruptible, he unites with these
qualities the kind and sympathetic
heart Of a woman. If such man as
Price can be beaten by such a man as
w. f. Bailey, it will be a terrible
commentary on the intelligence and
responsibility of the Eighth district.
The telegraph announces the
death of Miss Pinneo, the fast rider
from Colorado, by suicide, on the car:
between Lawrence and Topeka, Kan
The dispatch also says that for some
time past the young woman has been
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