Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-04-29

the LaFollette men believe it will
prove a winner" This fresh battle
cry is expected to bring into line new
contingent Of support to the COVER
nor-small shippers and the like, many
of whom don't care q rap about prl-
mary elections The big shippers are
against the bill, but the governor
probably understands that the con-
sentative contingent vote is against
him anyway He will throw him
self on ''the people" and let the law
yers and lazy business interests &c.
Big Political Fight of 1904
Already the lines are being drawn
and to some extent organization on
both sides being perfected. The gov
ernor is losing no chance to put his
| friends in Office, and as compact a
state administration aswas everknoWn
| in Wisconsin will be active to uphold
the plucky fighter his appointees SO
much admire.
Congressman to Come Out
On the other hand. the opposition
will be freshened by the active partlcl-
patton of many who hitherto have
kept hands off. The stalwarts who
have been marching up to the mouth
of the cannon" as they express it,
will insist that the Wisconsin men at
Washington come out openly here
after and aid to restore conservative,
popular government in Wisconsin.
| There will be no more Eleventh
Story blunders. The fight will be open
and avowed, and Wisconsin will see
the merriest eighteen months of war
that any state in the Union ever saw.
| If LaFollette is able to stir the
people a third time by his speeches
and magnetic personality-if he is
able to convince them that it is not
Office but reform he wants, and he
can down his enemies, of course he
would be national figure, a represen-
| tative of the same things in national
| as he is in state. Likely enough he
would go to the senate in 1905 to sue
coed Mr.. Quarles 1t would not be
a congenial seat for him, for the con-
servatives Of that body would have lit
| tie in common with him. He might, to
be sure, begin a new chapter of life,
and shed the issues and excitements Of
six years of state politics as the butter
| fly energies from it's crySalliS-but
| LaFollette is so made up that ac-
tivity and crusading are the breath of
life to him. Where he really belongs
| is in the house of representatives. 1t
was seriously urged on him to return
| there not long ago when door was
open, but he declined. However, he
is arming himself for another Wiscon-
sin battle and his opponents are pre-
pairing for the assault This, at least,
| is the situation as we understand 1t
| in Madison. 1t was some old Roman
| who said on the eve of a great battle,
| Tomorrow shall see me pontifex max
| linus or an outcast'' For the govern
or 19O4's election means Washington
and unknown glory or a return to the
| humdrum of law office. We shall
see.
Grain Inspection Bill Killed.
Senator Hudnall of Superior made
a powerful speech for his bill to set
UP a grain inspection commission at
! Superior. Mr.. Hudnall told the story
of his wonderful city in such a way
that even those who have always heard
of it's development realized afresh
what it has done and will do. Think Of
it, as lately as 1SS5-with only 1000 peO-
pie. When he freely predicted a Sec
ond Chicago no one questioned it. The
! inspecting of grain is done in Duluth
on the Minnesota side and that city
came in for serious denunciatiOn. 1t
seems that credit for what Superior
does all goes to Duluth. Everybody
Superior. Even the magazines print
pictures of Superior's beautiful build
ings and label them Duluth" Su-
perior men are bitter on this subject.
Most of the grain which sweeps in
from the west is handled at Superior,
but under the present system Mime
sofa gets the profits and the credit
The senate is rarely so closely divided
as on this bill 1t voted, Is to Is, to
indefinitely postpone action on the bill.
Telephone Discrimination.
The assembly has favored the bill
| aimed at the Wisconsin telephone
company, preventing it from charging
low rates in a city where there is COM
petition; but it has yet to run the
gauntlet of the senate and will likely
fare hard in the hands Of the consti-
tutional lawyers of that body. The
university appropriation bills have
Jared pretty well this year. A new
S15O,OOO agricultural hall surmounts
the highest hill Of all and a chemical
laboratory building is already designed.
The art critics are not altogether hap
DIV over the outlines of these, alleging
that the former suggests more a city
school building or a factory than a
gorgeous creation for a conspicuous
hilltop; but the building already erect
ed is certainly roomy and well-planned
for hard work by the hundreds Of
farmer boys who use it. The military