The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-09-15
SCOFIILD At FAIRS.
Chance to See the Man Who Held
UP Appropriations.
THE SUPREME COURT Is POPULAR,

Average Man-Genuine Demand to In
crease Bench to Seven Members-Not so
Per Cent, but Is Gall Out" of In
vestnent Companies = Railroads Big
Earnings Appointments.
Madison, Wis, Sept. Ex-Governor
of fairs" this fall. Some opposi-
ton paper has dryly remarked that
for a man who plans to retire from
politics, his agricultural curiosity is re-
markable, but the fact is, he feels in
good condition. He is in much better
health than last year, when he did
very little of the county fair business.
This is an ''off year''-no election
and he feels that he can go in and
among people without fear Of being
misunderstood.
Wednesday morning Of this week he
opens the good roads convention in
Milwaukee and the same day speaks at
the state fair. He is booked for La
Crosse the 18th; he will speak at the
Dane county (Madison) fair Sept. 80,
and likely be in Amherst the Goth. He
will visit both Neillsville and Chippewa
Falls, probably the Dist and 22d, re-
spectively. Hudson will welcome the
governor the 2Sth.
People Are Enthusiastic.
He has already "done" the fairs at
Mayston UuneaU; Plymouth (Sheboy-
gam, and Evansville Roca). The gov
ernor makes no pretensions to being
an orator, but he says what he has to
say, as be does things in a simple, I'M
affected way. Good sense is his strong
suite and there is a good deal of genu-
inc enthusiasm greeting the executive
this year.
AS the farmers look at him, they
think Of the unWarranted abuse heaped
upon him, which he endured quietly;
and they think Of the big apprOpria-
lions he held up.
Time is q curious Whirl-i-gig.
Third Term Talk.
AS for Scofield and a third term, the
man never said he would not take a
denomination or q reelection. With
the fight of time, his best friends
have put the situation in this more
pregnant and significant form-''No
man has a right to refuse a call to
serve the commonwealth"
This means that neither he nor his
friends will do anything to get dele
gates, but if the convention summons
him, Governor Scofield would not feel
justified in refusing. No man would.
Probably the man has never lived who,
free to take it, in good health and in
possession Of his faculties would re-
fuse to be governor Of Wisconsin.
Honorary Positions Go Begging.
There have been some comments in
the newspapers of late, with Governor
Scofelds appointees to the trust con-
ference as a teXt-the gist being that
honorary positions almost invariably
are given to men holding public office,
to editors or to others of the limited
class who illustrate the rule that "to
those who hath, shall be given
Governor ScOfield says-what is true
usually-that it is easier to criticise
than to do better. He adds: "The
trouble has been, so far as my expert
ence and observation CO. that it is very
difficult to get those outside of a COM
paratively limited number to take an
interest in public gatherings, and hon
orary trusts. [ have appointed many
men to honorary places and have pur-
posely gone out of the usual ruts, but
they have failed to accept the trusts
or to pay the slightest attention to the
work.
"Take for instance the case of the
antitrust conference. Not a single
recommendation for appointment to
places as representatives came to NE.
although for over month after it was
announced that delegates were to be
sent the matter remained OPEN"
No Money in 1t for Anybody.
The positions carry no pay-nOt even
free transportation. Very few people
can go or want to go to distant points.
The dearth of material for the Chi
cagO trust conference also suggests an
other thing-hOW few leaders there
are; how many Of WiscOnsin's 2,OO0,-
600 people are qualified to speak intel
Igently and prOftably about this new
economic stress? Mind you, one doesn't
ask for thousands. or hundreds, but
ScOreS-a dozen, even, of men who
have made study of trusts and are
equipped for debate. Our men at
Washington have some training. Large
manufacturers have given it thought,
and the editors-With all their super
ficiality, probably they know as much
about trusts as anybody. Anyway Gov
ernOr ScOfield put a gOOdly number on
the Wisconsin delegation.
But it is amazing what a small con
tingent do the thinking and furnish
the leadership for the many.
A Court That Pleases Folks.
The Wisconsin supreme court is get
ting very near the people," if by that
is meant the making Of decisions that
cause those in high places to quake
and that seem toreiterate the rights Of
the plain man." In the Plankinton
bank case, the creditors are befriended,
and the assignee and Judge Johnson
put on the toasting fork. The opinion
is some fifteen columns newspaper
long, written by Justice Winston. who
has a most vigorous and lucid style.
He is Democrat. as is Justice Dodge
and, by the way, they stood together
in the recent case where Justice Dodge
favored damages in the case of child
killed by train-a case that created
considerable comment.
In this latest case the court lays
down the principle that the supreme
court has authority and will exercise it