Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-30
Madison Matters.
Especial Correspondence OF THE HERALD.)
MADISON, April 81, 1885.

Grant county; Miss Rose Bowling of
Iowa county; and d. II. Morgan of La
Fayette and Green counties.
The candidates who entered the ex-
animation were u. c. Twining and Fred
Bolender, of Green county; Harry L.
Muesse and Robert w. Beck, of Grant
county; David Ross, of Iowa county,
Arthur M. Lund, Homer A. Stowe, VIM
Cheeseboro and Percy Stickney, of Dane.
The examination was upon the
branches required for a third grade GER
tificate and resulted favorably for Rob-
ert w. Beck, of Platteville; his standing
was 93s. So Grant county. carries the
honor.
Early in the week, r. B. Anderson,
recently appointed by President Cleve-
land as minister to Denmark, received
an invitation from several of the leading
citizens of Madison to meet them at
banquet at the Park Hotel prior to his
departure for Europe. Mr.. Anderson
accepted and the noted event took
place Friday evening. Mr.. Anderson
was for several years connected with
the State University and as he is going
to Northern Europe he will have extra
opportunities to prosecute his famous
researches concerning the discoveries of
the early mortimer.
The largest and most imposing mill
tary ball that ever took place in Wis
consin was attended by many thousand
guests at Milwaukee last Wednesday
evening. 1t was given under the aus
pieces of the Milwaukee Light Horse
Squadron, at the Exposition Building
the only building in that city capacious
enough to accommodate the vast throno
that attended. Gen. Schofield, Major
Powell of the U. S. Regular Army, and
Adjutant Gen. Chapman were among
the honored guests. 1t is estimated
that 1900 dancers were on the floor at
one time. The Light Horse Squadron
is perhaps the most worthy and eff
GENTLY disciplined cavalry company
in the Northwest and has always ac-
quilted itself with credit to the State
wherever it has appeared in competitive
drill. The guests from far and near
bore away the most favorable opinion
of Wisconsin's citizen soldiers, and all
expressed their surprise at the soldierly
spirit and pride of every individual
member of the Squadron, which was so
thoroughly exhibited by their demeanor
and bearing that none could fail to no.
| tice it.
The warm south wind on Wednesday
last broke up the ice in the lakes so
completely that in the afternoon not a
particle was to be seen and now the
canoes of the fisherman and pleasure
seeker go gliding over the CLASSY sur
face.
Secretary of State Timme has been
quite i'll during the past few weeks from
neuralgia in the shoulder, caused by the
amputation of his arm during the war.
The saloon-keepers will hereafter pay
5000 instead of $75 for license, and it is
generally believed that at the FIRST cleo
ton held under the new liquor law, the
price will be fixed at $3.50.
Last Friday evening took place at La
dies Hall of the University the long
looked-for debate on the question: ere
solved that suffrage be granted to
women" As the debate was to be be-
tween the young ladies of the Castalian
society. large and interested audience
attended. The debate was opened by
Miss Carrie Baker of the senior class.
She proved that woman was not de-
barred from voting by natural cause;
that any government could bestow this
right upon any of its citizens at will,
ridiculed the idea of virtuous women
being denied the right to vote and thus
being placed on level with savages,
idiots and criminals. The negative was
opened by Miss Nina Stone of the senior
class. Miss Stone attempted to over
throw the argument of the affirmative
| by declaring that suffrage granted to
woman would draw her attention from
the family; would degrade her and lead
to domestic troubles; woman was not
expected by nature to perform the same
Office as man; and man was the natur-
al and legal representative of the wife;
and while it was true that property
holding ladies were taxed without rep
resentation, the government could not
make practice of granting special
remedies. The affirmative was con-
tinued by Miss Elsie Bristol, who MAIN
tanned that woman would elevate poll
tics; she showed that in all history
woman's influence on society was ele-
waiting, and woman by the use of the
ballot would soon sweep away the liquor
traffic. In answer to the argument
that the election returns would only be
doubled by women voting the same way
as their husbands do. she said it would
be well to double the home vote against
the tramp vote. The negative was then
continued by Miss Flora Lawson, who
proceeded to handle woman-suffragists
quite severely. She denominated them
as masculine women and feminine men
and said that it was much to our ma
tional shame that so much lobbying was
done by ladies at Washington and drew
a vivid picture of a congress composed
half of ladies whose jealous or neglected
husbands were away at home attending
to the household or preparing applica-
tons for a divorce. She asked what
lady could stand one-half the vitupera-
ton that is hurled against man in a
heated campaign? The two leaders
closed the debate with some sharp re-
butts, when the Jury cast its decision in
favor of the negative. The debate oc-
cupied about two hours time and was
made very interesting.
Last Tuesday the Board of Regents
held meeting and adopted resolutions
instructing the architects, consulting
! engineer and building committee to in