The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-09-26

| that powerful acceptance speech
| calm, ringing, terrifc-though but a
| few hours before he had been
closeted with Messrs. Stout and
| Buckstaff, indignant at the slaughter
of their friend Harvey and threaten
ing the exposure Of MI. Kronshag S
unwise condolences. Let the LaFOl-
| lette accusers put themselves in his
| place-cOnceive themselves without
| money to continue his war on the
| corporation in politics, the only man
| Of his generation in these parts to defy
| and put to rout the whole mighty
dynasty of money and power-it was
| no ordinary situation.
l have written good deal in these
| letters that must ALLEVIATE support
| from &c rernor LaFollette. They are
| largely read by country people. AS 1
| think of interviews I have had with
| the man in his own home, Of his
| earnest discussion of the great re-
| forms with which he is associated
| of his manly, emphatic but quiet eX-
pressions of devotion to the interest
| of the common people, l tremble lest
1 do him injustice.
| have known many public men, and
am cold in my analysis of their abili-
| ties and motives, but if l talked with
| the governor tonight for an hour,
| should leave him with my old admira-
ton and no doubt a freshened pur-
pose to give him the unqualified sup
port 1 began with l think of his
struggles, OF his aspirations, of his
poverty, of his broken health, of the
yelping pack of millions and power
| who have bounded him to his lair. Of
| the howl of delight from the corpora
| ton lobby which he has for the time
sent skulking from the capitol of the
| state to the dark cOrners-as l think
of LaFollette's past and the clean
youth he kindles and the farmers who
have believed in him, my heart is
broken. The man is not bad: he was
| designed for the greatest things. He
is weak, but only at points. He has
had at his elbows, not brOad-guaged
men who laugh and are friendly and
enjoy life and believe that truth should
revel in sunshine; but men who love
hidden ways and think plotting is bet
ter than the open, and who
| believe the people can be in
| definitely deluded. These men have
| intensified LaFOllette's natural mysti-
cism, have encouraged him to shun the
public; have guarded the doors that led
his best friends to him; have alienated
one after another men of great strength
and at last Kronshage has driven
the gentle and patient Stout and the
| ardent and influential young Buckstaff
into the growing ranks of those who
| cry 'crucify himr'
1t is too bad. What the outcome
will be no one can tell This latest
business WeakenS the Republican ticket
UNNECESSARILY. The Republican party
Der 4 is election day.
One Apple "'Wealthy'" Succeeds.
Everybody knows what difficulty
there has been in hitting upon varie-
ties of apples adapted to our north
west. The early farmers of the vast
prairies could find no apple tree hardy
enough for the climate. They spent
fortunes in nursery stock. and in plant
ing trees without success. In 1865,
Gideon NJ. Mitchell OF Minnesota,
planted thirty varieties of apple trees
and bushel of seed. In nine years
he planted, all told, 5000 trees; at the
end OF the tenth year he had left,
after the winters cold, only one tree,
a small seeding crab. From that how
ever, has come the fine apple known
in the market as the wealthy" a
fruit from which the northwest now
annually reaps millions of dollars.
How this law of battling against
odds, Of struggle, of gloom, of dis
enlargement, only to be rewarded
with triumph, follows us through all
the realm of human hopes and fears
Clearing Land Up North.
LET me solve the problem of stump
pulling and l care not who owns
Cripple Creek
This is the sentiment of northern
Wisconsin boomers, though it has not
occurred to them to word it so graphic
ally. The stumps left by the lumber
men are really the nub of the develop
ment problem. When they are re-
moved, the value of th land multi
pills sometimes ten-fold Time will
do it, but it requires slice of mans
lifetime. Dynamite and fire are
friendly agencies, but good stump
puller is the best. A Marshfield man
is about to clear a 1,20O-acre farm in
that section and it is needless to say