Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-26
LAFOLLGTTE 10 TALK
viii Address chautauquas ETC.,
on Nomination Reform.
INTEREST IN THE GOVERNOR
| viii the 1900 Assessors of the State
Use the Full Value system?--
The New Colonies.

Lar gillette Will 90 SoDsluefADie taikluR
In a public way this summer and fall,
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 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 2T, when Wisconsin Day" oc
ours. and at the state fair in the fall
of the year. At the lecture points he
win probably talk along the lass OF
nomination reform, with which he Is
associated in the public mind. Down
east there is good deal Of interest In
the LaFollette movement. He is re-
gartied as the head of a NOV eInent for
the people. | see that Ellis Usher re-
Gently undertook 10 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
i. vi. C. A. opposed Governor LaFol.
lette's reforms, and some men who
were trustees Of UNCONVENTIONAL cod
leges Funny, isn't 1t? However, ram
under contract TO write the Wisconsin
situation as Ii Is for The Outlook and
then we shall have what Kipling
breaches Things as They Are"
And to show how a magazine lays
out It's campaign, the article is not to
appear until next winter.
No More Tin-soldier Colc8els.
The governors office s busy now
with details Of business left over
from the last Legislature For in
stance, the locations OF monuments at
yieksbuFg and Shiloh. This week the
governors staff il made ap and mil
itary men win be recognised. In times
past there have been some amusing
promotions of civilians who did not
know which SIDE of horse to mount,
and who tyeunblsd under salute like
a SCHOOL girl: but this year only men
of war. at Least to the mAlig14 point.
viii 20 on the list General Boardman
OF Oshkosh remains at the band OF the
state national guard under two
years appointment and thus Is the
political gossip that 1t Is only tenn
porary appointment disposed OF. The
| big places have now all been filled.
| though there Is considerable shifting
| In the lower ranks. as game wartfens
and factory inspectors as was expect.
| ed. Governor LaFollette IL no idealiss
| In these matters, as | have frankly
| pointed out; his friends are going on
guard 1t Is strenuous politics be
practices and he would probably de-
fend II by saying he has a vigorous
opposition to keep In subsection.
tins New Milwaukee Daily.
! He has new champion In the new
Milwaukee daily, The Free Press,
which begins auspiciousiy. Ii is
''mada up" on much the same lines as
the old Sentinel. which is clever
thing to do, as 1t Is a familiar ap-
pearanee to those who were fond OF
Rublees Sentinel
How About the senatorships
/ The thing we all want to know
! however. is whether this influential
paper has senatorial sensation up Its
sleeve. 1t is said that. contrary tf
general belief. Mr. Stephenson, the
wealthy mmberman Of Marinette, put
only 5000 into the new paper. II
this ID so. 1t means only be IL a wei
wlsher to the project aud not a mod
ern scramhling asrlrant for a placs
with the help of newspaper. IL the
new paper, which is friendly to tht
state administration, should make
war on the Spoonef cause--for IL /:
generally understood spooner Will b.
called out for q reelection. despite hi.
formal letter of retlrement--or ever
be active in urging some one else. /
will mean excitement and drawing Of
lines at once. and a well-de6ned fac
tionallsm.
Boarke Coch ran Pleased Soma.
Those who heard Bourse Coehran'l
Address TO the graduating law clas.
differed as to their Impressions Al
agreed he Is fluent aud real orato
in gesture, etc, but as to his emnha
sizing commecialism. they differed
widely. His denunciation of wa
struck people right and to Offset tn,
waste of war with the acquisitions o
industrlalism is sound logic. 1t wa
Cochran's defence and glorification o
the money-making spirit that crate,
on some. He tucked In at the end o
qualification to The effect that Their
may be danger In materialtsm, but |
: was too late and too casual to breal
the argument that every fellow go ou
and grab every dollar In sight On
nearer said:
IL could see about me meu who hal
, been giving their whole life to TIL
: sort Of thing and never letting go O
! the dollars and they were smiling a
I over. In this age, when the doIlal