River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-11-12
WEST SUPERIOR.

The feeling among Republicans here
is that Wisconsin has covered herself
all over with glory, and the Bryan
men regard the recent vote as a gentle
hint that the Badger State is not yet
prepared to endorse the proposition
for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio Of l6 to /.
The enterprising merchant who
during the campaign caught the at
tentiOn of buyers by heading his
announcements "l6 to l." will now
have to try something else, as that is
now a sucked orange" They will
have to return to ''see our smoke" or
something that is suggestive of re-
kindling of factory fires.
The dredging for the widening and
deepening of the channel to the ship
yard and dry-dOck here has been COM
pleted, and the American Steel Barge
Com pany expects as result OF Nc
kinley's election to find plenty of use
for the channel thus enlarged and
improved. More new whale-backs may
be looked for next summer.
While Barney Casey, an old-time
Greenbacker of Trimbelle, sometimes
acts with the Republican party this
was his "otf" year and he is now
mourning over the defeat of the
silver-tongued orator from Nebraska.
The Republicans of this county,
with Frank A. Ross as chairman of
their central committee, did some
expert figuring and carriedsthe county
for Mckinley 10y nearly two thousand,
electing their entire legislative and
county ticket. The sentiment among
Republicans here is doubtless favor
able to the election of Col. Spooner to
the United States Senate.
Within forty-eight hours of the
time that Bryan wired congratulations
TO Mckinley. work was resumed in
the ship yards here. The first work
Will be the lengthening of some of the
steel steamers and barges first built
here after the wbaleback pattern, by
which their carrying capacity Will be
much enlarged, after which work will
be commenced upon steamer TO be
larger than any hitherto built here,
to be named in honor of Capt. A. Q.
McDougal. the inventor of this
peculiar craft. The clang of hammers
over at the ship-yard will be joyful
music to many.
Able-bodied vags, tramps, and dead
beats who do not regard the fare pro-
vided at free soup-hOuses as being of a
character sufficiently substantial to
furnish proper exercise for their
digestive organs, will find this very
chilly climate in which to search for
a meat and vegetable diet, after tue
first of January, unless they can rec
oncile them selves To the requirements
of a new innovation then TO be in
augurated here. This innovation
will consist of a workhouse In which
those whom the Sheriff shall be called
upon to feed can pay for their board
By breaking stone TO be used IN
matchmaking country roads and city
streets. They will not only thus be
provided with an opportunity TO earn
their bread by the sweat of their brow,
but the properly constituted authority
will insist that the opportunity thus
offered shall be improved. While
this Arrangement may prove some
what tireSome TO tramps, ii will prove
no more so than giving them free
board has heretofore proven TO tax
payers. Stone quarries and railway
transportation are convenient to the
location decided upon for the new in
Stitution in which there will be plenty
of work for all who fall into the hands
OF the Sheriff and are not wanted at
Waupun.
During the late political whirl
between Mckinley and Bryan, gold
coin became as bashful as a modest
Young Miss who receives the attention
of her FIRST beau. but since the &C
ton this bashfulness has disappears
and the yellow metal is again circu-
lating with renewed assurance which
betokens an early boldness.