Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-03

about harmony is now impossible"
Conditions would lie prettily for some
'mutualizing of interests" as Private
! Secretary Murphy once happily
phrased some negotiations) for there
will be a senatorslip, a goverhorship
and lieutenant governorShip TO be
snapped up the sleeve, to say nothing
Of the plums and distinctions that lie
embedded in a presidential election
like jewels in a diadem-but the fac
tons can never come together. La
Toilette must be all in all and the 9th
er side would not Tow trust him. 1t
will be a fight to q finish with party
lines erased to a great extent. The
business interests of the state under
| the leadership Of the big shippers
will raise the cry Of conservative adj
ministrationr'
The governor with his constant in
vasion of the democracy, will make his
appeal to the farmers and the toll
ers. One cannot permanently divorce
what are known as the business in
terests,' especially in slow, cautious
state like Wisconsin, but Pinsree,
Golden Rule" Jones and Tom john
son have achieved big things by
frankly abusing people with property
and throwing themselves on those who
have little or nothing ahead.
Part of the Liquor Interests.
A strong factor in the situation will
be the probable opposition Of the liq-
uor interests to LaFollette, following
! the antagonism of the brewers who,
through Emanuel Phillips of Milwau-
kee, were active in the freight COM
mission fight. Hitherto, LaFollette
has had his share of support in the
! liquor interest, indeed, Phillips was
| one of his Milwaukee lieutenants. 1t
| is q curious fact that with all his re-
! form proclivities, Governor LaFOl-
lette has let alone this liquor question.
He apparently has no convictions on
the subject and when he had chance
to rebuke the abundance of beer at
| Camp Douglas last summer where
thousands Of young men many from
small communities, were being tempt
ed, the governor declined to mix in the
matter The liquor question, next to
the school in religion, is the most deli
cate of all issues. While the liquor
men are not afraid of LaFollette him
self interfering with their vested
rights" he has good many conscien-
tious people behind him whose reform
| impulse may break out in any direc-
ton. An organized movement against
him directed by the brewers working
through the saloons would be seri-
Gus matter for him. Mr.. Fabcock has
/ long been regarded as a friend and
champion of the brewing interests and
if, as stated, he is to manage the anti
LaFollette campaign. every saloon
| that Mr.. Babcock can reach will have
a picture in it and it won't be LaFol
| lette
Who to oppose LaFollette?
The opposition to LaFollette real
ize the Importance of putting up a
good man to dispute the governorship
with him. The Indian commissioner,
w. A Jones of Mineral Point, would
make a very strong nominations He
served in the assembly. He is
Welchman, Presbyterian, one of the
Iowa county Jones family. He has
made a good deal of a success Of his
federal position He is man of some
property. a good fellow" man of
the highest chara cter; and he would
make an admirable executive. His
absence from the state has freed him
from fractional embarra ssments,
though like most of the federal APP
pointees, he probably does not relish
the governors iron heel government.
Strength of Whitehead.
1T is not unlikely, however, that it
will be LaFollette versus Whitehead
over again. A friend of the latter puts
it this way:
John Whitehead of GAINESVILLE re-
quires no explanation. To the citizen
he embodies all that is anti-La Toilette.
! Whitehead has made the run once and
everybody knows him Jones, the In
dian commissioner, is all right. but he
has been out of the state for. five
years 1t will take a long time to eX-
plain to the people who Jones is.
Whitehead stands for everything and
everybody that is anti-LaFollette. He
would make an ideal governor if elect
ed He has acquired confidence in
manner and public speech so that on
the stump he will make friends where
the nervous agitation of the governor
has ceased to charm. Whitehead was
not only the ablest man in the senate,
but the leader of that body, the ma
jority following his tactics as well as
his measures The ad valOrem tax
law is Whiteheads as much as any
one mans. He is the father of the tax
commission. He enjoys the confidence
of business interests; the railways
know he will do them justice; the big
men of the county seat towns and 9TH
ers who distrust the governor, will
support Whitehead; and while he is
FOO forp,oI opd> cold RI arouse thQ