Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-30
WILL WIN.
The following is from the Milwaukee
Daily News, written by correspondent
of that paper

The following is from the Milwaukee
Daily News, written by correspondent
of that paper:
Mayor David S. Rose this morning
starts onA be third week of his special
train campaign trip in Wisconsin.
What the fesults Of this campaign will
be is hard 10 say, but there can be no
doubt be is making strong impression.
and that as far as crowds and applause
are concerned, the mayors trip has
been "a success. Whether this is sue
cess which will show results at the
polls in November is question only
the ballots can answer. Mayor Rose
himself is certainly highly elated over
the results his trip has shown and is
now entirely confident he will be the
next governor of Wisconsin. To close
observer Of the audiences TO which the
mayor is speaking there would seem TO
be considerable foundation for this view
and it can be put down as funda-
mental proposition that if Mayor Rose
is defeated it will be democratic votes
which will keep Robert VI. LaFollette
in Office. No person can travel through
the state without discovering that the
democratic candidate will receive a
very large number of republican votes.
The factional fight of tie republican
party has practically rent that party in
twain ia Wisconsin and on every hand
there are indications that there gre
thousands of republican votes gong to
be cast for Mayor Rose.
Even should the republican leaders
in this state now harmonic, they will
never, with the existing feeling among
the rank and file, be able to get the
voters of the party together. Should
John C.. Spooner come back 10 this
state tomorrow and speak 10 the end of
the campaign he would not be able to
bring the voters back into line. The
knife OF factional strife has cut too deep
now and the results of the sores are
going to be plainly seen when the votes
are counted in November. Now as to
the alleged democratic disatfection.
If there is any, it is keeping very quiet.
LaFolette leaders in many of the
counties claim to have assurance that
Gov. LaFolle..e will receive thousands
of democratic votes. 1t is noticeable
fact, however, that they point to other
counties than their OVID when requested
for details as 10 the location of the dis
affection. They say they have heard
OF reports in other counties where there
are to be cast hundreds and even thous-
ands of democratic votes for Gov. La
Toilette. When you talk with these
men, however, in regard to the condi-
tions in their own counties, they admit
that the democrats are lining up pretty
solidly there for the ticket
INTEREST IN KARL MATHIE.
But it is not only on the gubernator-
ial issue that the people of Wisconsin
are thoroughly walked up in this cam
paign. No person can go through Wis
consin without becoming convinced that
Karl Mathie will be the next state SUI
perintendent of public instruction. The
independent book company subscription
TO the LaFollette campaign fund has
thoroughly aroused the people of the
state TO the methods which the school
book companies are using to control
the school politics of the state, and the
public is very rightly judging that Mr..
Mathie is the right man to free the
state from these influences. AT Wau-
paca the other night it was asserted by
a LaFollette republican that Mr.. Ma
THE would carry that county. 1t was
this mans statement that the women Of
l,ew London were thoroughly walked
up on the school issues, and that they
are preparing to vote for Mr.. Mathie.
This information gained in Waupaca
county was repeated in nearly every
county visited by Mayor Rose. The
feeling everywhere is very strong
against the book companies of every
kind, and everywhere it was declared
that Mr.. Mathie would run way ahead
OF his ticket. The school teachers OF
the state are doing good deal to aid
Mr.. Mathie, and it is safe to say there
will be no teacher in the state who will
not be thoroughly informed of the stu
alton before Nov. A. Circular letters
are being sent out to all the teachers
urging them to take an interest in a
matter which is of such vital import
ance to them, and they are also being
asked to interest their friends in the
matter. These circulars are, however,
almost unnecessary, as before the cir
culars were sent out the teachers of the
state were working very hard for Mr..
Mathie and doing all in their power to
secure his election. This work also is
counting, and the results will be shown
in the votes which Mr.. Mathie will re-
ceive even from the LaFollette ranks
in November.