The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-11-02

A Review Of Some Of The One
Hundred Contests.
STRONG MEN ARE RENOMINATED'
Democrats Pressing Hard for Ecw
Seats - The Curse ofthe 40
tation In Office"

Madison, Wis, Oct 30.-Thcre arc
100 members of the assembly. ana at
the last session nineteen or them were
Democrats. All the Legislative CHS
tricts are within county lines, SO nom
nations are filed with county clerks,
not with the secretary or state as
with tie senator earring the three OF
Milwaukee,. These assemblymen re-
ceivr 500 for the session. plus mileage
and Il few pcrquisites though the
good old days CT plumber are gone.
Members Not Often Returned.
Thpsystem CT rotation in office works
badly at this pOint-robbing the rs
ser.b1y Of men who may add eNppfl-
ence to ability. In the session or 1871
there were bet twenty-five Of the lOo
who had ever before sat in that body
and only four who had enjoyed two
or more previous terms EXPERIENCE
Hall of Dunn county and l-ange OF
Fond du Lac the veterans: with RaS-
musSpn Of Barren county, Ray OF La
CT.nsse and Thomas Of Chippewa next
in line, with two previous terms 10
their credit. 1t is noteworthy that AL
of these men are renOmlnateu, barring
Lange, who is Il candidate for promo
tion-to the senate.
TWenty-Seven counties form CON-
plete assembly districts each sehdlis
ono member These counties vary Ill
DODulaton from about 10000 people LOT
Green Lake and Waushara counties
respectively. to 27,0CO for Vernon ana
nearly as large for MOnore ana Dunn
counties. Nineteen of the thinly popu-
lated counties in the northern part o1
the state are grOuped-tWO ana three
in one assembly district. The others
have more than one assembly dlstrlc'
within their lines. Milwaukee mas Ill
teen districts. Dane has three; 80 ooes
Rock and Sheboygan and WinneDaSo
(OShkosM. Comparing the population
of these districts it appears that Tue
uniformity Of quota is Wei cCnStlN tu.
have no complete record yet CT the
assembly nominations, but enough uata
TO give some idea of tie nature Oh Tue
body that is likely to rule the sta'e
at this most important coming session
Reformer Hall Returned.
In Barren, Rasmussen is renomln-
ated He is a lawyer Dane, ana Ia
elected (the Republican majority Is DlS)
will enter on his fourth term. III
Clarke county Sturdevant O}ep.) is re-
nominated. a fearless, careful man ana
protected by 1916 plurality. MI Hail,
tho reformer. is renOminated i'll Dunn
county. His announced purpose to re-
fire made him some trouble he re-
cpiyed thirty-nine votes In the conven-
tion against Kinney thirty-eight votes
though Hall himself put his rival IN
nomination. There was some feeling in
the equity over the unfortunate incl
dent. but the state certainly secures
continuance of a valuable legislator.
Halls plurality in 1898 was 1853.
In Green county the Republicans
want To return A. G.. Dodge, whose
plurality was TOT in 1898. Mr.. Dodge
is a Yankee lumber dealer and was
an active figure on the floor. Gree2
Lake Republicans renOminated Will
lam Middleton, farmer Of Berlin,
whose plurality was clOser-2O4. In
Jackson county Mr.. Olson, the Luther
an German (who once led the assembly
in prayer in the absence of the chap
lain) now holds a federal position.
The Republican candidate is e. A. Mil
Ter of Alma Center, a merchant and
lumber dealer at the head of the cOun-
" telephone system.
Editor EOSO SOuG' lnrOuSn Ill healtn
The important KenOsha constituency
has rerominated X. Dwight Slade
Rep). whose plurality was 44S in
1898. He is a farmer of Shades Cor
ner. The Invaluable Judge Orion Of
Darlington is renominated. His plu-
rality was pos Marinette a safe"
district for Republicans, reports Fred
NJ. Price. Monroe Republicans present
Evan X. Jones of SPARTA Richland
county Republicans offer John Rabbi Of
Sylvan. Mr. Togo being disabled by
bad health The Republican plurality
here is not iarga--176. Henry Hender-
son of Baldwin, a Norwegian would
succeed to the st. CrOiX seat, held by
Mosher, now nominated for the SEN
ate. The plurality is but 10, out of
1929 votes cast. Mr.. Henderson has
been county chairman: lived in Madi-
son in the 50's and is a lawyer. Vernon
county Republicans have renominated
A. Fl. Dahl of Westby. He is a mer-
chant and makes useful legislator.
Vernon is hopeless Republican soil,
Dahl having received 2.O16 OF
2,4G4 votes. Waushara is even
more so, Hughes in 1898 re-
ceivng 2,OS5 of 2,404 votes. David
Evans, .Jr., is the hepuDllcan call
didate Wood county is Democratic,
however. and \. e. Germer of Dexter
vile is rpnominated. He is a lumber
man and attorney and made a name
for himself. He received plurality
of 1871 votes. In the AShland-Iron dis
trict George z. ROSsman is the Repub-
lican candidate and ]. ]. Miles the
Democratic From the Bayfield, dis
trict. the retirement of Mcleod is a
loss: w. l.. Mccormack of Florence is
the Republican nominee. McGreer,
Democrat, represented Forest. Florence
and Langlade, with a plurality of $50.
l.. f. McGill, an attorney of Florence,
would succeed him. Lincoln-TaylOr is
another Democratic district where
Ryan had 37S plurality; E. w. Whitson
of Toma hawk is the Republican candi-
date.
Gov. Rusk's Son Out.
Brown Green Bay county had one
Republican and one Democrat in 1890;
the Republicans report w. e. Burdeau
and Thomas Turriff for the two dis
trcts respectively.
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