Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-23
POLITICS IN GREEN.
POT BOILING AT A LIVELY RATE
II THAT QUARTER.
Monroe Alone Has Candidates Galore
La F'ollette's Chanc.>s-New
Silver Paper.

Monroe, Wis, July 21.-La Toilette
has arranged to have the Green county
delegates to the state convention in
structed for him The county conven-
ton is set for a week from Wednes-
day. Assemblyman n. B. Treat was in
Madison Thursday to confer with La
Toilette. The program was arranged
there and all that remains is to carry
it out which will no doubt be done
Samuel A. Harper, a former law part
ner of La Toilette, now .deyoting moSt
OF his time in the interest of the ex-
congressman candidacy for the gov
ernorship, was in Monroe the other day
and conferred with a couple of dozen
of the leading republican local lights.
That was before Jim Monohan of OAR
lmgtOn withdrew from the race for the
gubernatorial nomination. Green
county republicans felt a neighborly in
terest in the aspirations of the Lafay-
cite county man and told Mr.. Harper
so. The latter, however, finally pre-
vailed upon the local republicans to
agree to send an instructed delegation
to the state convention. This was the
situation when Mr.. Monohan withdrew.
The latter went to Milwaukee about a
week ago and met some of the La Fol
lette men who persuaded him to with
draw. Then La Toilette sent for Mr.
: Treat and the arrangement was made
for the delivery of the Green county
delegation. While La Toilette was in
congress he represented this section OF
/ OF nil
made many friends in Green county
Still they are somewhat distrustful of
him on account of his we'll known nos
tility toward ex-senator John G. Spoon
er whom they want returned to the
United States senate. They are ap-
prehensive that the little eX-congress-
man has a cold deck up his sleeve all
ready to spring as soon as he gets the
nomination for governor. They know
of his intimacy with eX-Gov. w. D.
Hoard who is an avowed candidate FOR
the senatorship. La Toilette has some
what allayed this distrust, however, and
will receive the support of Green
county
The candidacy of State Senator Put
nam Of Brodhead for the nomination
of lieutenant governor on the republi-
can ticket is looked at as more or less
of a joke by nearly everybody but
Put" himself who regards it very
seriously. Republicans in Green county
believe that he has had about all that
is due him anyway and it is doubtful
if he could carry his own town in a
sharp contest. The latest piece of po-
liticaI gossip in this section is
that n. B. Treat is an as
pirant for Congressman Cooper's
seat in the house of representatives.
Mr.. Treat introduced and fathered the
Kelley cure law at the last regular SEES
sion Of the legis lature. The operation
of this law caused such a burden on
taxpayers that the beard Of supervisors
in Dane and many other counties re
Cuested the judges not to commit any
more drunkards at public expense.
Friends Of Mr.. Treat deny that he is
endeavoring to get the congressional
nomination. He is reasonably certain
of being renominated for the assembly.
1t was also rumored for while that
Ex-State Senator J. B. Treat of this
city would announce himself as a can
didate for the nomination of lieutenant
governor. He has decided, however,
not to enter the lists. He was Hoard S
running mate in go when the republi-
can ticket went down in defeat under
: the Bennett law issue.
The financial question has thrown the
democratic hosts of Green county into
disorder to some extent and just what
effect the disintergration will have
when the voters are counted in the fall
is difficult to forecast. For some time
. past this county has been widely tinct-
ured with populism. On this account 1t
is probable that the accessions of the
democratic party in this locality will
materially exceed the desertions. The