The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-06-13

of paragraphs which catch the eye,
provoke opposition and convince. Sen
ator Whiteheads method is rather to
work from statute books and legislative
Journalistic trace the facts. While
this does not kindle the popular mind,
it does make an arsenal Of information
which will be heavily drawn upon
from now On.
The McCIaughry Episode.
The stir over the resignation of
Warden McClaughry is SO great that
the board Of control issues an explain
atory statement. The giSt of it is that
while McClaughry is q good warden,
Governor LaFollette came before the
board with affidavits derogatory to the
warden signed by Waupun folks, and
IN the confusion McClaughry re-
signed. Whether the governor was de-
sirous that McClaughry be forced out,
or whether having presented the
charges in conformity to statute he
was thenceforth disinterested, readers
must decide for themselves. Members
of the board have been so enthusiastic
and persistent in their praise of the
warden that they are estopped from
criticism. They admit the board was
not aware of the condition Of affairs
set forth in said affidavits as existing
III the institution. Whatever the cir
cumStances, whether they would have
reappointed him or not, in view of Gov
ernor LaFOllette's taking an interest
and the pressure from Waupun citi-
zens, the emerging fact is that Wiscon-
sin had an unusually successful ward
en- and lost him. 1t was not long ago
that the school for the deaf lost an I'M
usually efficient superintendent. 1t
was up TO the board of control to hold
McClauShry, but it failed. What shall
it profit the state if trained warden
is out and some member of the board
Of control who was recently keeping
store. who knows as much, no more,
no less, than the rest of us about car
ing for 600 desperadOes, is in? The
citizens of Waupun have not relished
McClaughry. He was too masterful.
too blunt, too much interested in the
prison and too little in the town. vet
many of them cOncede he made mod
ell warden. They settled on Governor
LaFollette; they worried him; they
urged and insisted that McClaughry
should go. Instead of referring them
to his board of control, he treated
them with his usual cordiality
1t is likely that McClaughry is a
man of violent temper. Such handi-
cap would disGualify man competent
and even strong at every other point,
but, it is not yet proven that the late
warden was hopeless at this point.
In Bradley's Tomahawk.
I was in Tomahawk. Lincoln coun-
ty, the other day, and w. H. Bradley.
the magnate, invited the party-there
were seven of us-to dinner and gave
us ride in the country thereabouts.
His hotel is famous. 1t is no eXagger-
alton to say it is one of the two Or
three best in the state, Milwaukee in
Guided. Lake Superior is but seventy
miles north, and lake trout was served,
but the brook trout from Prairie du
CHEN were even better willie is
the landlord, and he certainly knows
his business
To tell the story Of Bradley of Tom
ahaWk would require a book He is GA
years old, with full white beard
large. powerful blunt frank man of
business. He was born in Maine and
there is a family connection with the
late Daniel Wells of Milwaukee, who
died recently Mr.. Bradley's father told
the son that if he wanted to deal in
lumber he should go west where the
1850 for few months, and thence to
GAINESVILLE. From 1865 to 1873 he spent
in the Michigan pineries. He has made
Tomahawk what it is in fifteen years.
He is its king, yet while those who
cross him are apt to feel the leaden
heel, he plays fair and works along
with even the ambitious ones of the
population. For instance. there are two
newspapers. One is Mr.. Bradley's-
for his interests run to all sides of
Tomahawk Hfe-but the editor OF the
'.other' paper has only good words
for tie man who owns the ho&el. and