Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-10-22
OUR SENATORS APPEAL TO The REPUBLICANS
SPooNER QUARLEs OPEN CAMPAIGN URGE SUPPOR
FOR THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN TICKET

John G, Spooner and Joseph V. Quar-
( les United states senators from Wis
consin, opene their campaigns in The
commonwealth on Monda., week
since, Their addresses are heyroi - tt
the national sItration and they urge
support of ali party men for the repub-
lican ticket, from coroner to governor.
SENATOR SPooNER AT MINIATURES
spoke an audience OF 400 Tie pre-
sented ever phase of the national situa
tion and in closing spoke of Wi consir
affairs as follows:
Now, gentlemen. if any of you sup
pose that this is only u state election
you are mistaken. IL you think there
is a state republican as contra. distin-
guished from the national republican
party you are mistaken. If you think ~
state election has no relation or effect
upon national election you are mis-
taken. The republican party of Wis
eonsin is p4rt of the republican party
of the United States ] am q republi-
can.
Voice; How about La Follette?'
Mr.. Sp0oner: Wait moment He
is'a republican. He is the nominee of
a republican convention. Now, gentle
men, we can't always have our own
way in politics. We can't always havo
a ticket made up to suit each one of us.
We can't always have platform con-
structed that meets in ali its parts the
approval of each member of the repub-
lican party, hut will tell you what we
can always do We can always support
republican tickets.
BAD TINE TO QUARREL.
Il want to say another thing to you.
1t is bad time TO settle differences in
the midst of fight. 1t is bad thing
fraught with evil consequences TO the
country at large, for republicans in q
state at an election involving members
of congress and involving the question
whether the state shall remain IN the
republican column or not. to straggle
and scatter in the face of the enemy,
and look at each other with cross eyes
instead of facing to the front, elbow to
elbow and looking to the enemy and
marching at the enemy.
II never saw any good yet to result
to the country in republican bolt that
put down a republican ticket in state
and took it out of the column of repub-
lican states. We tried it in 1890. We
lost ON local issue, which | will not
discuss, the state of Wisconsin; and in
1892, in a presidential election with u
candidate who had given the country IA
splendid administration, President Har-
rison, we were not able to take il back
doing the best we could. Do you think
III is wise thing, a patriotic thing, iu
this preliminary campaign of 1904, to
surrender 10 the enemy the great con-
servative fortress of Wisconsin because
you don't like me or don't ike some one
else?
NOT PERSONAL IN HIS P0LITICS.
my politics are not personal and new
er have been. / don't support republi-
can tickets for the men on the tickets.
| support republican tickets because
believe in ths republican party and that
in the success of it's politics Is to be
found the sures conservator of the great
public interests of the United States.
You let thi, state go democratic this
year, you surrender it to the political
enemy. Send out word that for some
reason Wisconsin, which in 1900 gave
103, oGN majority to Mckinley and Roos-
evel- and republican national politics,
has one back, has turned the state and