St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-11
AFTER PRICES SHOES.
Prominent Democrats Of the Eighth Wis
consin District Want Judge Larson
to Run for Congress,
Believing This the Time and Larson the
Man to Turn the District Over to
the Democrats.
The Judge in Favor Of Cleveland,
Civil Service Reform and
Tariff for Revenue.I SsUI2yUa
Mr.. Prices Legs, and the Ridiculous
Apology Regarding Them by
an Editor.
The Eighth Wisconsin.

Special to the Globe.
EAU CLAIRE, July S.-Never before
have the notes of preparation for political
fray been sounded earlier or with More
vigor in this congressional district than i'll
anticipation OF the campaign this fall, and
the same activity is observable throughout
the state. The nomination of Gov. Jere-
miah NJ. Rusk for third term is almost a
certainty, and Republican confidence in the
election of the entire Republican state
ticket is apparently strong. Various causes
however, have been at work to remove the
substantial grounds of this confidence In
Wisconsin as a Republican state. The ma
tional triumph OF the Democracy year and
2 half age, and the recognition of Wiscon-
sin by the selection of one of her foremost
citizens for place in the cabinet, are not
the only factors in the reimbursement of po-
litical forces which has tended to weaken
Republican prestige in this state and to
cheer the Democracy for the accom-
plishment of what has hitherto been
deemed an impossibility. The record Of
November, 1884, shows heavy Republican
odds. but where those odds will be this
fall. and whether kind of horizontal re-
duction may not be taking place, and lev
cling down the relative strength of the
two parties almost to equality, are QueS-
tons, the probabilities of which, afford
much more comfort to Democrats than to
Republicans, Atany rate preparations are
being made by the Democracy for most
AGGRESSIVE AND DETERMINED
fight this fall. and nowhere is this fact
more clearly illustrated than in the Eighth
congressional district, which embraces
counties containing over one-eighth of the
entire vote of the state, and of which Eau
Claire county is the chief in Importance.
Hon. William T. Price, of Black River
River Falls. yearnS for the Republican
nomination for third term in Congress,
and although strong, has good many
weak points on his side besides third
termisn. He seems to be aware of this,
and is carefully watching his organs
throughout the district An instance of
this recently occurred in this newspaper
field, and, through the over-Zeal of the
organ editor in licking the sandals of Mr..
Price, the state press was given amusement
for several days. In the absence of the
edtor-in-chief of the Free Press, hired
man had copied from Philadelphia paper
a brief, good-natured squib representing
Mr.. Price as having ''queer legs, queer
head, a queer voice." etc. Promptly from
Washington came a letter from Mr. Price.
eXpostulating. The editor-in-chief on his re-
turn, devoted a half column to an apology,
swallowing large quantities of raw crow.
and vindicating hIr. Prices legs beyond a
shadow of doubt. The apology was de-
clared by Independent Republican papers
the ''most humiliating spectacle ever
seen in Wisconsin journalism" and
the apologizing editor, in his zeal
to declare his unbounded admiration
Of Mr.. Prices legs, became
A FAMOUS LAUGHING STOCK
a. - Il
over. 1t is said Mr.. Price has written an
other letter, asking the simple editor to
stop his apologies, saying it was all very
well in the backwoods, but he would pre-
fer to write his own apologies for Eau
Claire in the future. The Free Press ed.
itor is in favor of making William Prices
legs an issue in the canvass, but Mr.. Price
may possibly have enough to do to keel
them under him this fall.