Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-02
GOV. UPHAM AND THE LEGIS=
LATURE.


From the Madison notes in the
Milwaukee Saturday Journal: AS
the facts leak out about the last
meeting of the governors cabinet,
they bring additional confirmation
of the report that the executive
tried to bluff the encouragement
about the cases Of the ex-treasurerS
and was most effectually rebuked,
Mr.. Mylrea telling him that he did
not care to associate with a man
who dared to even hint that his
official actions were governed by
ideas of personal ambition. With
this remark he started to leave the
room, when the governor descend
ed from his high horse and
apologized for limiting that the
Encouragement was taking his
stand to make himself popular
When considering the bills the
governor did not consult the
encouragement as to their constr
tutionality, and seemed afterwards
to consider it a personal affront
because that official did not fall
into his way of thinking, without
stopping to examine the law.
Merrill Advocate::-"Gov. Up
ham missed the opportunity of his
life when he failed to veto the
Baetz and Kuehn bills. Had the
governor done SO he would have
been the most popular man in the
state to-day; as it is his political
career will end with the end of his
administration. 1t makes a man
sick to think that the republican
members of the legislature should
SO far forget their pledges and
duties as to pass a law relieving
ex-Treasurers Baetz, Kuehn and
McFeteridge from their liabilities
to the state. It was no more of a
hardship on them to pay over to
the state the interest money they
received than it was for the others.
Then to think that republican
governor should sign such laWl
The whole matter is SO disgusting
that the less said about it the
better"
There appears to be some
discord among the brethren. The
Superior Leader says: Gov. Upham
and his administration are all right.
They cannot be run by the Mil
waukee Sentinel. The Sentinel
was the dominant influence, the
Mephistopheles of the Hoard ad-
ministration, and not only defeated
Hoard and dumped the Republican
party into the soup, but gave us
two Democratic senator's and the
treasury imbroglio. So long as
the people can see that Gov.
Upham is not being run by The
Sentinel they will have full conf
dence in him.
Post Black River Falls: Gov.
Upham accepted a nomination and
was elected upon platform that
declared in regard to the treasury
cases that there "should be no
surrender or compromise of what
ever legal rights the court may
hold to exist in favor of the state"
That was the promise. What will
he do about it?
Madison Correspondent to Pilot
Review: Notwithstanding the
opinions of such men as ex-sena-
tor Spooner and attorney general
Mylrea that the measure is I'M
constitutional, Gov. Upham has
signed the bills releasing the
ex-treasurers McFetridge, Baetz
and Kuehn from the judgments
the state holds against them,
amounting to something over
100000. This is directly in
contradiction of the promise made
to the people by the last republican
state convention.
Milwaukee Telegraph: Gov.
Upham, what lot of trouble you
would have saved yourself, not to
mention the Republican party, had
you named a good man for judge
to succeed the late A. Scott Sloan,
within day or two after his
burial. Every day adds to the
candidates and the interest of the
candidates and their friends in the
contest, and when the appointment
is made there will be an army OF
disappointed ones whom 1t will
take years to fully recover from
their disappointment.
Appleton Post: Governor
Upham's cabinet" idea, which
was so generally commended at
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