Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-11
GENESIS OF THE HOARD BOOM
Incidents of Its Fun Producing Capacity and
Alleged Facts Of Its Inception.

Incidents of Its Fun Producing Capacity and
Alleged Facts of Its Inception.
The one subject of prolific fun and
jest among the delegates, as well es the
universal butt of ridicule, was the alleged
Hoard BOOM" The fun began early in
the afternoon, when a few wags got to-
| gether and gravely sent their cards up to
Hod Taylor, on which we're awkwardly
penciled the caricature of combination
COW and clown. They announced them
selves as the advance guard of the "cow'
candidate boomers. During supper at
the Park hotel an attempt WAS made by
the jokers TO keep record of all who
drank milk. If they took it straight they
were classed as Hoard men still open to
| conviction, but If they took it with ice
Hoavd, Rublee and all, and to be past all
REDEEM ption.
During the deliberations of the state
central committee the room was invaded
aud the committee called upon to vacate
and forever cease its functions. That
| the farm institute crowd would hereafter
run republican politics in Wisconsin.
The true history OF the inception of the
Hoard talk as circulated among the dele
gates, s claimed to have been furnished
by couple of travelling men. Their
statement being that more than a year
ago they heard it outlined and the
conspiracy talked up on the cars
and at hotel by three or four
| gentlemen who were agging the insti-
| tutes around, and making speeches "for
| revenue only" The informers did not
know the names of the gentlemen, but
! folt fairly certain that Hoard himself was
in the crowd from his resemblance to pen
| portraits OF him they have since seen.
| The other gentlemen were from tho
southern portion of the state, but their
names they have forgotten. The letter in
the Milwaukee Sentinel month or SO
| ago nominating Hoard, revived the whole
| thing in their memories because one
statemsnt of the oonspirators that they
distinctly overheard was that "Rublce
must be let in"
| But, while the Hoard boom is making
lots of fun now, there are strong disci.
pies of it on the ground, and it Is liable
to make lots of music in the party before
it is through with it.
This correspondence in the st. Pau
Pioneer Press, from Sparta, was being
| passed around among delegates: "Tht
democrats IN This and the souuthern part
| of the state arc getting good deal oi
solid, com fort out OF the boom which is be
ing manufactured for w, d. Hoard, as &
| gubernatoriaI candidate, by a certain
class of politicians. At the last session
of the legislature the democrats deyel
oped great deal OF opposition TO tht
farmers Institutes and their 312ycOO ap
! propriation, on the ground that il was a
stitutes we're an indirect adjunct OF tht
| republican party. ThisIast claim wa
strenuously denied by She republicans
and the idea that institutes had anything
whatever to do with politics was secuted
by party leaders generally on that side OF
| the house. But now that Hoard haf
| been trotted into the field, coached and
groomed by many of the specialists IL
| institute work, reinforced by many
| republican farmers conspicuous 10
| their attendance thereon, the party
| leaders are forced to admit that
there ia q good deal more politics il this
| institute business than they were willing
| to concede at the last session of the legis
| Igture. The democrats now intimate that
| i. won't be quite so easy in future FOL
those institute politicians to get hand
some appropriations from the state un-
der the vain impression that they are
working solely for the ameiioration OF
agriculture. There are a great many
farmers and genuine institute workers
who keeniy deprecate this sally into par
tissn issues by portion of the colleagues,
as they Slain the outcome can not fail to
be bad for the institutes in Wisconsin.