The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-11-27
Some of Wausau's Notables.

lZatlOnS n0lG their sessions IN the Wau-
cau club.
Some of Wausau's Notables.
It is an intere sting city in it's peo-
pie Everyone knows Of the big saw
mills and industries there; Of the hand
some business blocks; Of the art print
ing done at the print shop Of The
Philosopher" Wausau is the home of
ex-State Senator Neal Brown, who has
a palatial home with such q den as q
man of his tastes would be apt to
have; and of Silverthorn, circuit Judge;
of Kreutser, the present state senator.
and his brilliant law partners Rose
berry and I ird. Plummer one Of the
few silver Democrats in the profession
Of bankers, lives in Wausau, and is
still strong in the faith; and Carl Mat
THE is over the schools. This city, too,
gave to Madison the lamented Judge
Bardeen. Alex Stewart, the eX-con-
gresham, lives here, and Ed"
Wheelock, the amiable gentleman who
presides over the editorial page of the
Sentinel, conducted the Wausau daily
for years.
Wisconsin and Porto Rico.
a Wisconsin young lawyer and edi
tor has cut quite figure in Porto
Rico. There are about a 100000 p5o-
pie on the island and San Juan is the
capital city, a place Of $4,000 people.
Is IS the political nerve-center of the
island. The people are divided into
two parties, Republicans and FEEDER
alists. Rougly speaking, the latter are
the men Of property and standing, the
Republicans being the popular party
with a majority and now in command
of the local offices. The FederalistS
are the conservatives and the rapidity
Of events under the American system
has daZed them and made them some
what shy of us. Mr.. Bird, who was
a Madison boy, took his printing press
and bride into the islands and began
to expose official corruption on the
American style. He made it warm,
especially for the Republicans, they
holding the local Offices. AS l under
stand it, there is good deal of crook
edness among those Latin-American
cousins Of ours; public moneys are re-
garded as lawful prey. AS for the
truth, there is SO much reverence for
it that it is rarely resOIs-2d to by these
Spanish folk. The representatives Of
the federal government, beginning
with Governor Hunt, have not relishel
the succession of exposures, including
the mayor Of the city (whom Governor
Hunt finally retiredD; and the Republi-
cans have arrested Editor Bird re-
peatedly and put him to great expense.
The political methods in use in Porto
Rico transcend belief. When feeling is
hot it is not safe for Federalist to
venture into Republican district and
vice versa. There is much violence in
the island, the old Spanish hot-blood-
edness still lingering in the spirit of
the people.
Federation of Re forms.
The new agent of the Anti-Saloon
League, Mr.. Flare, formerly of Ohio,
made q favorable impression at the
WaUsau convention Of the Federation
of Churches The worry of the traffic
by the league is reduced to a science,
with prosecution department added
to the public sentiment work. 1t is
we'll known that if anyone will take
the trouble to get the evidence and take
case OF violation Of law to court, a
verdict is almost sure to follow, for
the courts are honest.
E. r. Hicks, the ex-attorney general
of Oshkosh, is 4 speaker whose voice
is at the disposal Of any good cause:
he was there, with Superintendent
Cary of schools and State Senator Bird,
who wages ceaseless war on the cigar
cite. One of the most powerful
speeches was by Bishop Grafton's
coadjutor, Bishop Weller. He is
southerner and talked of Sabbath Oh
servance. He said as a boy he was
fed on cold dinners Sundays, his
mother being rigid in her ideas of the
Sabbath day; and he scored themodern
home where the kitchen is never so
busy as on Sunday, taxing the women
from the mistress to the servant,
The bishop has the mannerisms
of the cloth, but he is an orator
of real power. He said it may not
have occurred to all his hearers that
the faithful attendance on mass Sun
day mornings by millions Of American
Catholics had done not Il little to pre-.
serve the day in the face of non-at-
tendance by Protestants.
The object Of the federation is part
~ to prevent the waste caused by
multiplying churches in small COM
munities, and to combine the moral in
fiuence of the church membership of
the state to pass good laws and oppose
bad ones.
Sea Lion Holds Up Michigan.
How long will the escaped sea lion
from Lincoln park be an object of in
terest to those who go down in ships
on Michigan? The other day he leapes
up on Il dredge in Chicago harbor and