Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-01-19
FN'E INV REGENTS
For the University; Three for
Normal Schools.
GOVERNOR sC0FlELD TO APPOINT.


| tionalism - The Families of the New
State Oficers-OnIy One Office in the
Capital Where Nobody Smokes Rail-
road Commissioner Graham L. Rice.
| Madison, Jan 17.-Governor Scofeld is
much improved in health and declares
that he will not heed the counsel of his
physician and go to California. He
ought to take rest. His wife and son
Paul are on the Pacific coast and worry
for the boy is part of the governors
load. Then, too, the strain of the sum-
mer, politically, was terrific, as those
near to him know. 1t was not so much
the dread of defeat Gsn't it strange that
candidates are ever sanguineO but the
humiliation of the campaign wore him
to nervous wreck. And to have
governors own party seem to say
through third of their delegates that
they don't believe him fit to be gov
ernor must have been a bitter pill. What
ranked most, however, was the feeling
that he was being misrepresented.
bothered by Lack of Sleap.
Scofield hasn't the power to throw off
care at the close of business hours, that
priceless attribute of some men Of great
affairs. The smallest thing makes him
restless. The visit of u woman who
wants her son given job; the covert
threat of some big politician who is
denied something; the wording of
sentence in his MESA ge-trifles like
these Scofield has in his mind all the
time. He is a bad sleeper. indeed some
times he comes to the capitol in the
morning with scarcely any sleep and
looking it. He has cook who would
die for him (the devotion of his subordi-
mates, both here and up north, has ever
been marked; and the neighbors say
he calls up the good woman some morn
ings before o'clock to cook him some
thing to eat and the scrub women re-
port that he breaks in on them with his
greetings some mornings before
o'clock. OF course, this is not often,
but it shows the intense nature of the
man and the sense Of responsibility he
is under with respect to public affairs.
He was indicated at the polls by some
thing like 10000 majority; and most
men would take their ease happy in
possession for two long years; but Gov
ernor Scofield can't seem to get away
from the haunting thought of 400, 0O0
homes on his shoulders for even one
poor hour.
The better ability to have oneself I'M
der control becomes a man in a posi-
ton of great responsibility, but | never
meet the little man, unaffected, I'M
spoiled, upright, with his face lined
with care and his manner that of a
WORKOUT guardian of the public veal
without a sense of homage.
Scotield's Message.
OF course the message is still the talk
of the lawmakers and the politicians.
1t was $4,000 words long, and would
fill fourteen columns of an average
| newspaper: as against $4,000 in Pin
grees; but no one expects the latter's
recommendations to be considered by
his legislature. l have ever regarded
Pingree's success as an evidence of pub
lie confidence and still think he sue
ceeds, because voters have reacted to
the support of what seems to them
frank and outspoken; but it is said the
conservative business men of Michigan
are no longer in Pingrees train. Gov
ernor ScCfald's recommendations on the
other hand, will have much weight with
by even opposition sheets like the Mil
waukee Journal and the populist News.
1t should be read in the public schools,
for the information it affords-the fig
ures, data, etc, of state affairs. 1t
heWs close to the line of the Republican
platform which you remember was a
radical exposition of new things; but
| il is temperate; in fact it might be
| III 1
than bill of directions what to do.
Thus, the Milwaukee Sentinel thinks
that the governor should have told the
| legislature how to get rid Of the lobby
| (Which it seems to think could be done
! by compelling the lobbyists to register).
! But on looking at the message you will
find a discussion on the subject that
would fill my two columes, with all
known laws or authorities quoted, and
I'm inclined to think that, together with
counsel to wipe out the evil if the leg
islature can, and IA promise of eXecu-
tive sanction to any reasonable meas
ure is about all a governor could do.
1t is also noted that the message has
| between the lines some Cancellation for
| his La Toilette opponents. He is a man
of strong feelings and after the cleo
/ lions in interviews made 1t clear that
he held that there were two factions in
the party. but he is wiser today in not
noticing it.. lie has come to regard
! himself as the governor of the people,
and we shall hear no more from him
| at least of factionalism, This is the
I only dianitied attitude.
New Regents To Re Appointed.
No less than five university regents
/ are to be appointed next month (irst
Monday III February. Frank Challon-
/ er's death (the Oshkosh representa-
/ tive) adds one to the four by expiration
of term. Those whose terms conclude
are Il. j. Stevens, the Madison lawyer;
Judge George Noyes of Milwaukee;
John Riess of Sheboygan and William
Pitt Bartlett of Eau Claire. 1t is well
understood that there will he some
/ changes. but l suspect the first two will
! he continued. MIR, Stevens is a Demo-
| crat dixie his Madison colleague, eX-
Senator Nilas); but Mr.. Stevens gives
| nearly half his time to the duties of the
Office and his efficiency and acknowl-
! edged fitness have made him pretty
nearly the whole thing" But the Re
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