The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-07-20

Jerry Rusk was a master at it and
no one ever more completely was the
head and front of things. But if
offices are necessary to express amity,
there is only limited number at COM
mand, from time to time; and for
these there will be more candidates
than could be fitted out with offices in
a bee hive, with each cell a bureau Of
twenty departments 1t will not be
an easy time for the new governor,
even with things at their best. He
will deserve large charity in dealing
with the Office-Seeking public.
PeriIous Legislation Ahead.
Again, the next session of the legiS-
lature will be trying time. The tax
while it is a most judicious and con-
sentative bOdy-the state is most for
tunate in the personnel Of the tax com
mission-it will have some recon-
mendatiOnS to make and something
must be done with them. 1t is not I'M
likely that some one of the $50 legiS-
latOrs will introduce some railroad tax
bills, and railroads never take kindly
to tax bills. 1t is assured that the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
company will seek to have the Orion
bill repealed. Mr.. LaFollette has him
self advocated caucus and other re-
forms and his message will no doubt
outline important legislation. All to-
gether the session will be one Of the
most important and possibly sensa-
tional in the history Of the state.
Now just what Mr.. LaFOllette's at
titude will be toward the tax commits
sion and other reform Overtures re-
mains to be seen. AS his strength is
with the people who believe him free,
so it is to be hoped that he continue
on this vantage ground next winter.
Protection in Big Majorlties.
Likely enough there will be more
furries before the convention Aug. s.
The two Milwaukee German dailies
are restless over the drift of things
and think they see visions of the Ben
nett law through Ex-Governor Hoard
though the Catholic Citizen of Mil
Waukee is out in the mostr enthusiastic
Endorsement of Mr.. LaFollette. Of
course if the Germania should aban-
don the Republican cause it would
make considerable stir, for it's Luth-
eran readers are very Obedent to the
editorials of that great daily; but it is
impossible to believe the big Republic
an majOrities of 1896 100000 and Of
1898 (some 100000 could be Overcome.
This is presidential year. and even the
anti-LaFOllette Republicans would
think a long time before imperiling
the electoral vote of this bedrock Re-
publican state.
Homes on Two Lakes.
Mr.. LaFollette has his home on
beautiful Lake Minona facing Lake
side assembly,, but presumably will
move into the executive mansion on
the other lake when he takes office.
When Fairchild was governor there
was no executive mansion, that build
ing coming into the possession of the
state at the close of Rusk's admins
tration. 1t made so fine a private
home for Rusk that it's fitness as a
permanent home for future governors
was obvious, and the state readily took
up the idea of buying it.
Many states now have their eXecu-
tive homes. New York state at AL
bany has most elaborate one. This,
by the way, Governor Roosevelt must
renounce with a $4,000 salary to be
vice president without any official
home.
The Coming Governors Wife.
Mrs. LaFOllette will make a notable
governors wife. The story of this
interesting home has often been told.
The young people were classmates at
the state university. Mr.. LaFollette
was too busy earning his way to take
high rank, though he captured all the
Oratorical prizes in his path; but Miss
Oat in 0hC1 hi
along with prizes, too She is one Of
those loyal, devoted wives of noted
men, ambitious for their husbands, Of
whom Mrs, Bryan is a type and with
whom the records of biography are
dotted. She made a public address to
women in excellent fashion, but
though advanced" in the sense of be-
ing a club woman and alert to the
higher life of women, she is even more
an enthusiast in the way of intelligent
motherhood and rational living for
| women. She has brought to a high
| pitch of activity an association of some
| one hundred women who practice
| physical culture and discuss sense in
dress and the higher aims of the sex;
and the children of the LaFollette
home, headed by a young girl. Flora,
| est, culture. ease and pretty devotion
to parents, the sound, affectionate
RATIONAL training of good home.
There is always an interest over the
state to know of the women and
home life that are to dominate in the
executive mansion. 1t is significant
| of sound ideals lying at the basis of
our Wisconsin life that the succession
of governors wives have been types
| of all that is good and much that is
notable in the way of American moth
erhood. They have varied from types
| Of pronounced activity in public move
ments and of strikingg personality, to
the quiet and domestic home-m making
! type; but we think Of no exception to
a glorious excellence of womenhood.
Mrs. LaFOllette unaffected, earnest,
| sympathetic and womanly, fulfills the
| expectations and succeeds one whose
| gentle courtesy and uniform kindness
! have characterized her occupancy of
! the first home of the state, and the
| variety of whose experiences, includ-
/ ing the greatest blow that can come to
| a mother-the loss Of a noble boy on
the threshold of promise-has only