Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-08-22
A Democratic Investigation that Didn't
Pan Out Expected.

Pan Out as Expected
George II. Yenowine of Milwaukee.
editor of the well-known and widely read
~'YenoWine'S News" is Democrat from
away back, but heartily favors the candi-
dacy of Maj. Upham, and last week he
printed the following:
"A few days ago the Democratic Chica-
so Herald sent Paul Hall, the well-knOwn
correspondent, to Marshfeld to thorough
" expose the business career of Mai
Dphdm, the Republican candidate for gov
.ernOr, and TO roast him to the queen
taste. The partisan press, particularly
the Journal of this city. has idiotically
charged Upham with being an enemy of
labor, Of issuing Store-Scrip instead of
money, of bulldOZing his labOrers and in
fact of being sort of George NJ. Pullman
Of course everyone who is at all posted
knows that these charges are all false.
that While Maj. Upham is q large employ
er of labor he is a just and honest man
that he never had 4 strike or dispute with
his men, that they have always been paid
good wages and paid off in money and
that labor organized or un0rganized, has
no better friend than Bill Upham The
Herald correspondent was evidently sore
" disappointed. He could not substanti-
ate any of the charges and he was COM
Delled to say among other things that:
" If Maj. Upham is not the friend Of
aabor rs 4 principle, he is the friend of ey-
cry laborlng man or any other man who
needs help, for he Is by nature generous
sympathetic and one of the best fellows
on earth: but ne is not making bedsteads
solely for the purpose Of employing labor.
nor has he laid down the principles Of the
conduct of his general store purely for
mental exercise.
Any man in trouble can get help from
Maj. Jpham. and his own employees get
money from him between pay days if
they show cause. They do not appear TO
be an improvident class. There is no idle
ness, drunkenness or poverty in the town.
out not as many as one would suppose
get ahead months wages. The en-
Atoyes are not compelled to trade at the
Upham general store, which is eyident
from the volume of their trade at the
other stores
: The scrip had its origin with the
0pham company IN the effort to simplify
the bookkeeping of the general store.
Early III the sos, when MarshfieId was
nothing. but q clearing III the woods, when
the Upham business WAS nothing but a
saWmill the Upham store was a neces-
sIty. The employees We're loggers, working
IN the winter deep in the forest and liy-
1ng III temporary camps. They did not
want their wages or need them oftener
than once or twice Il year, but they need
ed supplies IN the meantime and their
credit was best with the men who en-
ployed them. Upham bought his logs
contracted for his lumber. made his cut
and settled with everybody. The account
of each man at the store was long one.
and the settlement of it usually occa-
stoned dissatisfaction. To simplify credit.
Jpham issued scrip, which was yeritable
money.
Marshfeld does not resemble the
town Of Pullman. Maj. Upham owns no
residences except the one he occupies and
two small! houses. One of these is occu-
pied by an Ole soldier. who has paid no
rent for two years. The major is proud
of the fact that nearly every one Of his
employees who is the head of a family
owns his own home. The laborer bought
the land Of the improvement company