Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-10

state at Sparta, but whenever this is
tried, a high mortality is the result.
Older children may be kept together
| Though this is in lessened acceptance),
but not infants.
What Kind of a Candidate?
Some of the newspapers recall that
next year is presidential election year
and advise the party to get together
They want factionalism buried. We
shall hear much Of this sort of talk
from row on Practically it raises
the issue, Shall the anti-LaFollette
Republ cans name q pronounced OPP
ponent of the governor and fight it out
with bitterness, or shall the effort be
to promote the feeling that two terms
are enough for any governor, even La
Toilette; that the people want peace.
and that some amiable non-factionalist
should be put in the executive cham
Der It is possible that the country vot-
er might be influenced by such an APP
peal and relax in the mad devotion to
the magnetic LaFollette. The admin
istration machinery is in good shape
and LaFollette delegates would be
sought and secured. But if the opposi-
hon, instead Of infiaming and cement
ing the LaFollette sentiment; instead
of raising the cry Down with La
Follettew and naming an aggressive
man known to be hostile, should nomi-
nate a man of peace, not identified
with the fractional fight Gf such one
can be fOund some think the results
might be favorable Instead of plead
ing with the voter to vote for an anti
LaFollette candidate, the plan would
be to throw an arm around the voter
and say "Here, we're all Republicans.
We want peace. We're for SpOoner,
for LaFollette, for Roosevelt, for ev-
erybody and everything that is Repub-
lican. But we want peace. We must
have it, 1t is presidential year. Let's
send delegates to the state convention
for man who is tied up with neither
faction and have harmony"
Some reason this way. They think
ex-Speaker Ray would fill such bill.
| If Senator Stout, who has stood by
and so reflected the wishes of most Of
his constituents-if Stout could be per-
suaded to offer his name, the voters
might get non-fa ctional viewpoint
and abandon the pro-LaFollette and
anti-LaFollette standpoint. ]. G. En-
cry might have made a canvas of this
sort-designed to break the spell of
| factionalism and to lead Republicans
to vote as such and not as factional-
| lists, had he not accepted the office Of
dairy and food commissioner under
Governor LaFollette. He had been
state superintendent, he is an agricul-
turist and he enjoys public confidence.
These theories are interesting but
probably not more than that. It is
likely that every Republican will line
up for or against the governor, as in
! 1900 and in 1902 The fight will be
open, every one will understand it.
Rev. Wallace Short of Evansville.
Rev. Wallace N. Short, who has been
the Congregational pastor at Evans
vile for the past seven years, has re-
signed to go to church in Kansas
City. The formal letter expressing the
sentiments of the congregation is inter-
ing as showing the qualities that peo-
pie admire in a pastor:
GAS the years roll by we have come
to see the sterling qualities of chris
tan gentleman exemplified in your
daily life.
| or hnx Ivy, laoo
man, and never man of policy; al
ways ready to express your views on
any living issue, even though such eX-
preston might sometimes seem to be
at variance with some of our precon-
eeived ideas.
Your religion is practical; you don't
think it is what a man believes, but
what he does that determines his value
TO God and man, and we indorse that
kind of piety"
| I have known Mr.. Short all these
years. He is a Beloit graduate who
reads the ''Outlook." Thus you get an
old school foundation with the new
school viewpoint
Whitehead in High Favor.
Senator Whitehead has been at the
head of the Y. M. c. A. of the state
for nearly ten years. It is a narrow
and petty clamor that because he has
not always voted to please individuals,
he must therefore quit position that
so far as personal wishes are con-
cerned, he would never have assumed
do not know Senator Whitehead's
reasoning as to the cigarette bill, but
do know that one swallow does not
make a summer and that greater evil
dence must be filed to convince those
who know the man that duty has been
dethroned to make way for eXpedien-
cy. The high officials of the Y. M. G.
A. thinks everything of Whitehead.
1t is the little fellows on the outside
who have been carping.
ORLANDO BURNETT. s.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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