Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-11-01
HAVECAUSE FOR FEAR
A. upt4AM VICTORY MAY MEAN A
RAID ON THE TREASURY.


Repubiicaa state Convention 90 Promise
Thts should Not Be Done Strengthens
the Fear-what IL would Mean.
MILwAUKEE. Oct. 22.-To anyone who
has been following the state campaign
with any degree OF attention nothing is
more certain than the evidence OF pro
nounced feeling among people generally
that the success OF the Republican party
will mean n renewal OF the old Sawyer
rule; that this In turn will mean some
sort OF an attack on the state treasury by
means OF which a part OF the money col
lected from The ex.state trcasurcrs, after
so much hard work, will be paid back
Anyone who has travelled through the
state at all can not have helped running
against this feeling at every turn 1t Is no
inconsiderabi" factor In the campaign
Had the Republican state convention
put In its platform the plank that was
promised In advance plcdging the party
not to pay back any Of the money collected
on judgments from the cx-state treasnrcrs,
In all probability this suspicion would
have been nipped In the bud But the
fact that the plank was omitttd-whcn 1t
had been prcpared-after meeting OF the
committee on resolutions with ex-senator
Sawyer convinced majority OF the PEG
pie that there was great deal OF truth In
the charge that Mr.. Sawyer intended TO
have some OF the money he had paid IN ms
bondsman for Republican ex-statc treas
urers returned This conviction has
strengthened as the campaign hns pro-
crossed until It Is held probably by ninety
out Of every 100 people.
SAWYER NOT OUT OF POLITICS.
or course when Mr.. Sawyer found him
self charged by jury OF the public with
having made wny with the much talked OF
plank he submitted to al interview In
which, white admitting that the plank
was In the platform presented u him, he
did not know what had become Of It. Tho
interview bore too many signs Of having
been sawed out to order to permit OF gen
oral credcnce, and when Mr. Sawyer said
he WINS out Of politics q general smile went
round. In the face Of what they had seen
few people were fooled. In this connec
ton II Is Interesting to recall nm interview
printed recently NJ Washington dispatch
In which S. M. Hay, OF Oshkosh, warm
friend Of Senator Sawyer, after predicting
Uphan's election, said: Both ex-Sen-
ators Spooner and Sawyer are actively on
Raped In the campaign. Tho latter pro
tests that he can't render any assistance,
but notice that there IL no caucus called
In which he don't take part
In the language OF the street, Mr.. Hoy
"gave the whole snap away But then
his blunder WAS not so very bad. ~ every
one who WAN not blind knew before that
Uncle Philetus WAS working tooth and
toe nail" for the election Of Major UghaIn.
II wis we'll understood that was his, In
fluence and skillful combination OF hts
friends and the A. p. A. element that
nominated upham. II WAS also known
that his strong Oshkosh hand WIS seen In
the nomination Of Colonel CAsson as soc.
rotary OF statc, thus giving him both bow
ers In the game Of euchro which he pro
posed playing with the people OF the state.
With a friend In the governors chair and
another In the secretary Of states Office ne
could he assured that any bill he might
have passed would be signed and would
have no difficulty In getting the account
audited Uncle Philetus may be incrcas-
ing In years, but he does not need anyone
to keep insects from lighting on him.
OF course he denies any Interior motive.
That Ia easy cnought to do when he has
the game In his own hand He wins never
accustomed to show his cards and is too
old to acquire the habit.
REASONS FOR FEMl.
II there were nothing else, the fonndn.
tion laid by Mr.. Sawyor's railway for tho
passngc OF u similar bill OF rrimbursemcnt
would he sufficient to show how foxy
Uncle Philetus IL, Here 10 case where
the Omaha railway company, over MT
Sawycrs own hand, gives the state re-
Ccipt Ia full Now II demands S6, 600 In
Interest ton whatY On interest received
by Republican state trcasurcrs on public
funds committed to their charge and
which they--or Mr.. Sawyer for them
have been forced to pay back by Demo
cratic state officials Nothing was ever
said about any payment SO long rs the
Republican state trrasurcrs were pocket
ing the money and helping out the Rcpub.
lean campaign fund But the moment
honest Democratic officials forced them to
disgorgr them Mr. Sawycr's railroad
comes In with demand for u slice uf this
hard earned income of the state. They
never expected Governor Pecks admins.
tration would pay them cent The dc.
mand was made In order to kay the founda
tion for raid on the TREASURY through the
legislature, u that body should be Re
publican At least this Is the belief ot
nine out Of ten people who have given the
matter close investigation, II Mr.,
Sawycr's railroad does this, Is Mr. Sawyer
personally likely to I've any more modest
Is the question that many people are nsk
ing themselves, and apparently with good
reason
WHAT A RAID WILL MEAN.
Even should the attack on the treasury
simply take the form Of an nttompt e
have refunded the interest collected nbov'
8 per ccut, II would mean II return o
nearly II not quite S3,noo, equal 10 tn,
amount from that source which Governor
Peck IS administration was this year nhl'
to apply to the reduction of state taxes
There j. no guarantee that this Will moi
he done, beyond Mr. Sawycr's promise
What this y worth In the face of the fact
TINT the Republican state convention did
not dare make n similar promise Is some
thing which each voter will have 20 an
| swcr for himself