The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
LAFOLLET'lE TO TALK
Will Address Chautauquas Etc,
on Nomination Reform.
INTEREST IN THE GOVERNOR
Will the 1900 Assessors of the State
Use the "Full Value" System?-
The New Colonies.

though not as much as the public
wants; for there has been an avail
anche of requests. This has been so
of LaFollette for many years When
he was a working lawyer and not es-
pecially known, he could go out and
earn $50 and sometimes 500 for an
evening address most any time he
wished
He has contracted to speak at some
Chautauquas, as Clear Lake, Ia, Mar
inette, Wis, one in South Dakota and
some others. He will be at Buffalo
July q, when "Wisconsin Day" oc-
of the year. At the lecture points he
will probably talk along the line of
nomination reform, with which he is
associated in the public mind Down
east there is a good deal of interest in
the LaFOllette movement. He is re-
garded as the head of a movement for
the people, I see that Ellis Usher re-
Gently undertook to set the editors of
The Outlook Magazine right, accord
ing to his view, and reminded them
that not all the saints were on one
side and the sinners ON the other,
as President Whitehead of the state
Y. NJ. G. A. opposed Governor LaFol-
lettes reforms, and some men who
were trustees of denominational col
leges. Funny, isn't 1t? However, am
situation as it is for The Outlook and
then we shall have what Kipling
Things as They Are
And to show how a magazine lays
out its campaign, the article is not to
appear until next winter.
No More Tin-So1dier Colonies.
The governors office Is busy now
with details of business left over
from the last legislature. For in
stance, the locations of monuments at
Vicksburg and Shiloh. This week the
governors staff is made up and mil
itary men will be recognized. In times
past there have been some amusing
promotions of civilians who did not
know which side of horse to mount,
and who trembled under a salute like
a school girl: but this year only men
of war, at least to the militia point,
will go on the list General Boardman
of Oshkosh remains at the head of the
state national guard under a two
years appointment and thus is the
political gossip that it is only a tenn
porary appointment disposed Of. The
big places have now all been filled,
though there is considerable shifting
in the lower ranks, as game wardens
and factory inspectors, as was expect
ed. Governor LaFOllette is no idealist
in these matters, as | have frankly
pointed out; his friends are going on
guard. 1t Is strenuous politics he
practices and he would probably de-
fend it by saying. he has a vigorous
opposition to keep in subsection.
The New Milwaukee Daily.
Milwaukee daily, The Free Press,
which begins auspiciously. 1t is
made up" on much the same lines as
the old Sentinel, which > is a clever
thing to do, as it Is a familiar ap-
pearance to those who were fond of
Rublees Sentinel.
How AbOut the SenntOrshin9
The thing we all want to know,
however, is whether this influential
paper has a senatorial sensation up it's
sleeve. It is said that, contrary to
general belief, Mr.. Stephenson, the
wealthy lumberman of Marinette, put
only $1,000 into the new paper II
this is so. 1t means only he Is well
wisher to the project and not mod
with the help of a newspaper If the
new paper, which is friendly to the
state administration, should make
war on the Spooner cause-for it is
generally understood Spooner will be
called out for a reelection, despite his
formal letter of retirement-or even
be active in urging some one else, it
will mean excitement and drawing of
lines at once, and well-defined fac
tiOnaliSm.
Bourke Cochran Pleased Some.
Those who heard BOurke Cochran's
address to the graduating law class
differed as to their impressions. All
agreed he is fluent and a real orator
in gesture, etc., but as to his empha-
sizing commercialism, they differed
widely. His denunciation of war
struck people right, and to offset the
waste of war with the acquisitions of
industrialism is sound logic It was
Cochran's defence and glorification of
the money-making spirit that grated
on some. He tucked in at the end of
q qualification to the effect that there
may be danger in materialism, but it
was too late and too casual to break
the argument that every fellow go out