River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-07-22
The Next State Ticket.

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We publish to-day the call for Re-
publican State Convention, to meet at
Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday,
September Sth. 1886, for the purpose
of placing in nomination candidates of
the Republican party for the various
state offices to be filled at the next bien-
NAL election which will come off in No
vember. There probably has not been
a time within the past twenty years
when Estates" were as scarce at this
stage of the game as now. No especial
efforts seem to have been made fOI
the formation of combinations for the
nomination of any particular set of
men, and the chances are that the del
egates to the convention will find but
little done for their guidance except
III the matter of the governorship.
Governor Rusk is a candidate for a
third term and many of his friends are
earnestly engaged in nurturing third
term sentiment, but their efforts in
this direction seem to be confined ex-
cIusively to the head of the ticket.
We understand that Lieutenant Gov
ernor Fifeld and superintendent Ora
ham do not desire to be considered in
any sense as candidates for reelection,
and learn, also, that while some of the
others do not teel disposed to push any
real or imaginary claims for third
term they will very reluctantly recOg-
nize the prOpriety of any arrangement
which shall make Governor Rusk the
sole nominee for a third term. They
argue. and very reasonably, too, that
no reason exists why Governor Rusk
should be nominated for third term
that would not apply with equal force
to themselves. All have proven them
selves faithful and efficient in the dis
charge of their official duties and in
this have followed the footsteps of
their predecessors, who with a greater
degree of propriety could have asked
for a third term than does Governor
Rusk, having served one year less than
he, and yet any proposition for third
term for them would have been treated
by the mass of the party as very pre-
sumptuous to say the least. We be-
lieye our present state officials to be
honest and capable men, who have
given us a clean, economical admins
tration, and we also believe that
should they be retired at the end OF
their present term, such retirement
could not be regarded as any imputa-
ton against their personal or official
integrity, and they have already re-
ceiyed a handsome token of the conf
dence of the people. a third term
could not add to their hOnors and we'll
earned laurels.
From what information we have it
| is safe TO say that the masses of the
party do not take kindly to the third
term proposition, and that they do not
is no reflection upon the gentlemen
who now fill the state offices. Our
system of government is opposed to
the perpetuation of men in public po-
| sitiOns and in the matter of our prin-
| cipal state officers custom seems to
have drawn the line at two terms. 1t
is idle to assume that there are not
others in the party who would prove
equally capable, us there are many
who would grace these positions with
credit to themselves and honor 20 the
state. Our Democratic opponents in
sist that there is "fghting chance
for them to carry the state this year
and they are straining every nerve to
effect a coalition with the labor organ
I ization in the fond hope that by so do
ing they can compass the defeat of the
\ Republican ticket. Ehis is a cOntin-
gency which Republicans should keep
i'm view, and it should inspire them to
/ place in nomination the strongest and
most available ticket possible, one
that shall be free from the depressing
effects that a third term campaign
would inevitably experience. The
"boom" that Governor Rusk's over
jealous admirers sought TO create over
a faithful official performance of his
duties in connection with the Mil
waukee labor disturbances is just now
suffering a reaction that bodies no good
to the third term movement. and
whether the Governor was right or
wrong as matter OF policy the Repub-
ucan party cannot afford to ignore the
sentiment of the large body of work
ingmen in this state which does not
favor his election for a third term.
We do not object on personal grounds
to a third term for all of the present
state officers, but are convinced that
the interests of the party viii be best
suhserved by a new deal. In common
with the many friends in Pierce coun-