Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-20
CLEAN AND CAPA ABLE MEN
Wisconsin Republicans Have a
Very Strong Ticket.
MR.. SCOFIELD'S RECORD.
An Honest and Efficient Administra-
ton of State Affairs
Promised.

The Republican party of Wisconsin has
placed in nomination a state ticket to the
support of which it may, with confidence,
invite the support of every voter who
wishes a capa bic and honest administra-
ton of state affairs. At the head of this
ticket is Edward Scofield, who, two years
ago, was elected governor by q plurality
of 95,561, the largest plurality ever re
ceived by any candidate in the state. His
administration, now drawing to a close,
has been characterized by intelligence
and devotion to duty which have had no
superior in the history of the state, and
which have commanded the confidence
and esteem of the thousands by whose
votes he was placed in the gubernatOrial
chair, but to whom he was an entire
stranger when he received their suffrages.
A native of Pennsylvania, of English
and Irish descent, the son of parents in
moderate circumstances, he early showed
that he was boy of the stuff of which
true men are made. A printer at is, a
private in 2 Pennsylvania regiment at
20, he was rapidly promoted to lieuten-
ant, to captain and to major, flor meri-
torious service in the field" He was in
the bloody battle Of Gettysburg and
fought in the desperate struggle of the
Wilderness where he was taken prisoner,
and during the following ten months, he
had an experience in twelve rebel prisons.
Long after his term of enlistment had
expired, he was released by his Confed-
crate captors, and went home, broken in
health, but not in spirits; for, upon re-
covering his health, he went into business
with the same energy which carried him
through his military career, and was sue
cessful in all his undertakings, because
of the zeal and fidelity with which they
were prosecuted. 1t is but natural that q
man with such antecedents and such a
record should make a good governor, and
that his administration should be able
and without scandal.
His record on all the great questions of
the day has been above question. When
the great question Of the war with Spain
was agitating the country he briefly but
forcibly set forth the dangers and ex-
pense that would attend it, and advised
moderation IN every step; but when the
war came he was one of the most active
and energetic of the governors in filling
their respective quotas, equipping and
sending them to camp at the front; and
his care of the states soldiers has never
for day relaxed. This care for the sol
der illustrates the promptness and thor
oughness with which all his duties,
whether official or otherwise are per-
formed, and the voters of Wisconsin will
be neglectful of their own interests if
they do not re-elect him by plurality in
excess of the phenomenal one by which
he was first placed in Office
The other candidates on the ticket are
clean, honest, efficient, as their careers in
private life have abundantly proven. Not
one of them can be justly pronounced n
place-hunter or unduly ambitious, for they
are capable OF earning an honest living
If their fellow citizens do not choose to
place them in the offices which they seek.
The whole ticket, however, is certain of
election if the citizens do their duty at
the polls, and if elected there is no aues-
ton that the state will be ably and faith
fully served. The nominees are not seek
ing office by promising some wild and in1-
practicable reform in government or 8
dishonest system of currency in the inter
ests of the laboring man. The Republican
party presents state ticket of honorable,
capable men and promises only an honest
and efficient administration of state af-
fairs on those lines which long experience
has approved.