The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-27
LA TOILETTE
FOR THE SENATE
Governor of Wisconsin Would Like
to Succeed Senator Quarles in
the Upper House.
"A. R. Hall, Once of Minnesota, Fa-
Vored by Half Breeds for the
States Next Executive.
Congressman Babcock to Be Kept
Busy Looking After His Own
District Fences.
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District Fences.
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Milwaukee, July 27-The "stalwart'
faction OF the republican party in Wis
consin charges that Governor La toilette
is a candidate for a third term and Is
trying to make capital out Of the charge.
The anti-La Toilette press assumes that
this is the governors ambition and is
harping steadily upon 1t that 1t is max
ing some impression There preced-
ents for third terms in Wisconsin. Uncle
Jerry Rusk, the first secretary of agri-
culture. who as the tail of the cabinet
"kept the flies off the rest Of the animal
was three times governor. So too, was
Lucius Fairchild, who long represented
the United States at the court of Spain
and lost an arm on southern battlefield.
These men were great popular idols and
Wisconsin delighted to honor them. r.
But despite these precedents, third
terms are no more popular IN Wiscon-
Gin than in other states. The ''stalWart'
press believes that the governor is seek
Ing a third nomination because it wants to
believe it, recognizing the fact that the
masses opposed as rule to third
terms. Thus the "stalwart" papers hope
to make La Toilette odious to many Of the
voters.
La Toilette has made, no positive dec
pursuing a course that indiica tes he has
no intention OF fOrSaklng politics. He
has addressed Chautauquas and farmers
gatherings in a half dozen or more diff
ferent states already this summer. His
universal theme has been politics and ma
tlonal politics, too. Furthermore, it
Is expected he will speak at scores
of fairs and county gatherings in
this state this fall. No one expects that
in these addresses he will try to avoid the
issues which have made him famous. The
fact Is Little Bob is not thru with poll
tics, but is just as full of fight to-day Is
he ever was. The "stalwarts'' realize this
and attribute it to craving for office, and
particularly the office Of governor. They
hope and pray it will be a case Of the
pitcher going to the we'll once too often.
Would Wear a Toga.
Administration men here and at Madi-
son, men who have stood close to La
Toilette in every political act and some
of whom owe the offices they hold to him,
are satisfied in their own minds as to the
course their chief intends to pursue They
believe he is really candidate to sue
coed Senator Quarles and that he will be
triumphantly elected by. the legislature
wnicf1 meets in 1905.
They assert he has never yet gone after
anything by indirection and they expect
an open avowal In due time. His present
activity and the speaking campaign he
will make this fall are but steps, they be-
sieVe, in the line he has marked out for
himself. They praise him for his ambitions
and glory in the strength of his courage
and convictions. They say he was never
30 well prepared for battle as for this
one. His health, shattered at one time,
has been fully restored. Rejected by a
part Of his own party following, they con-
tend he has more than recouped the loss
by the voters of other parties who have
adopted his cause and cannot be seduced
from their new allegiance.
The masses, they assert, are for La Fol-
lette. The rank and file feel he Is their
champion as against the 'machine,'' the
railroads and the millionaires, and they
love him for the fights he has waged and
the brides of office and spoils he has re-
fused. His courage and his faith appear
to them almost sublime, realizing as they
do the extraordinary pressure that has
been brought to bear to force him and his
measures out of the way.
A. r. Hall for Governor.
With La Toilette eliminated from the
contest for governor, the question natural
ly arises who will be the legatee of his
strength in the pre-convention campaign
and in the convention itself. Administers
ton men are positive that A. r. Hall Of
Knapp Wis, will be the man.
Hall IS man of wide experience and
has been a student of social and economic
questions for many years. He is likewise
a man Of affairs, practical and successful
For eight years or more he was a mem
Der of the Wisconsin legislature and was
speaker of the house. He was prominent
politically in Minnesota before coming tC
Wisconsin. So far as the anti-pass anC
other like issues are concerned, he blazel
the way even before La Toilette became
prominently identified with these issues
The leaders of the ''halfbreeds' want him
their candidate for governor
The nomination of Hall would, of course
be wormwoood and gall to the "stalwarts,
but the "halfbreeds'' are not worrying or
this account They know that the fight i:
to the death, and that no quarter has
been declared on either side.
HatohIng Trouble for Rabcock.
It has been expected that Congressman
Babcock of the third district would leac
off in the coming campaign against Ii
Follettism. He has been widely heraldec
as the man who would turn the trick il
the next campaign. But it is on the half
breed program now to give Mr.. Babcocl
about all he will have time and opportun
1ty to do right In his own district 1t il
purposed to put up 'halfbreed" candi
date against him for the congressional
nomination. and while the ''halfbreeds'
are not over sanguine of winning they d,
expect to keep him so busy at home tina
he will not have much time to spare TO-
other sections or the state. La Follett
and his measures are pretty popular in tn
third district. But for Babcock's great pull
by reason of his appointments, and tn
chances he has us cha irman of the con
gressional committee, the "halfbreeds" sa,
they would snow him under in his own dis
trict. They consider the opening a goo,
one in any event and are now castin,
about for candidate.
The "halfbreedS" are enthusiastic 4
their support Of Governor La Toilette
They are not afraid to pit him in debat
even against the great Spooner The
say there is no ADLER man in the state
none whose private and public life ha
been cleaner or better. The promises Q
La Folettes university days and his ca
reer as a county prosecuting officer an
as a member of congress have been NOR
than fulfilled they declare, in the sturd
battles he has fought and won in recen
years. They want him in Washington a
the colleague of Spooner, and they con
f1dently expect to put him there.
DROWNED IN A CREEK.
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