River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-08-18
REPUBLICAN, RATIONAL TICKET.
FoR PRESIDENT
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
If Indiana.
For CE-pEEsIDEST-
WHITELAW REID,
of New York
For Governor, John c. Spooner.

For Governor, John =. Spooner.
The Republicans of this State have
done wisely in selecting as the stand
ard bearer for the fall campaign the
well known and popular vindicator of
political Justice. Col. John G. Spooner.
Fox many months the feeling has been
growing that this fall it is necessary
70 select only good men for office to
lead the Republicans TO victory. The
personal strifes SO common in the past
must be laid aside. Even the mere
question of availability must not in
Huence in the choices of the candidate
unless that availability be accompa-
MED with sterling integrity and manly
strength.
In few men in the state could the
requisite demands be met more fully
than in the Colonel. Trained in the
warfare OF the political schools, al
ways honest in his work. jealous for
justice and truth. keen in foresight,
an ardent patriot. having had already
sufficient hOnors to insure the fact
that the Office seeks the men and not
the man the position we are assured
at the outset Of clean campaign, one
in which the test will be principles
rather than men so far as the Republi.
can ticket is concerned. The noble
and successful efforts Of Col Spooner
and his cOmpatriot5 to overthrow the
political steal den0minated the gerry
mauder has been possibly one of the
causes which has Fixed ell eyes upon
him as the best candidate, but il must
be remembered that brilliant as these
efforts were and valuable to not only
this state but the country at large.
the Colonel need not rest upon these
alone. His career in public life has
been one of wonderful success and
possibly bee suse men have had conf
dence in him. As a Senator in Con-
gress he was always ready to do the
bidding of his constituency faithfully
unless he felt that their opinions were
founded in error when he kindly and
firmly explained his position and con.
WINGED them by his logic of his cor
rectness. The contrast between the
lawyer, the logician, the worthy rep.
resentatiye of the peoples will, the
profound and exhaustive argument
against injustice and wrong and that
of the author of Peck's Bad Bay is too
painful a subject to treat upon were
it not involving the public good. Ii
remains to be seen whether the people
of this state will be 50 blinded by
political partisanship and so careless
OF their political duties as TO permit
the error of failing to bury deep by
their ballots in political graves the
selfshly partisan politicians who with
bad boy at their head brought into
being the ungainly gerrymanders.
The remaining nominations were as
follows as we learn just as we are
going to press and too late for COM
ments this week: For Lieutenant
Governor, Hon. John G. Koch of Mil
waukee, an able and popular resident
of that city; Secretary of State, Hon.
Robert w. jackson of ShawanO; State
Treasurer, ALLEY Peterson of Soldiers
Grove; Attorney General, James J.
.O'Neill of Neillsville; Supt. of Public
Instruction, w. II. ChandI a: Railway
Commissioner, John ID. Bullock of
Jefferson; Insurance Commissioner.
James E. Heg.