Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-08
But Governor LaF GILLETTE Is Booked
for Frequent Speeches.
sPIRITIsM IN WHITEWATER
Where There is a Boarding School fof
Devotees' Children-When Mrs.
Bragg Thought Her
self Widow.

sembly Thursday pleased or dis
pleased, according as ones sympathies
were Most of the material Of the
speech he had used before; but. so far
as that is concerned. like most men
who arouse folks, he has but one
speech-one message; and LaFollette's
is that the public-service corpora lions
must be kept under. He was in good
voice and as an oratorical exhibition it
was effective. what a great actor
he would have made" was on more
lip than one. His form is inadequate
to the conventional conception Of King
Lear; but there have been Smallish
"Hamlets" and as Macbeth, he would
be notable. He made a marked i'm
preston on the country people as he
described the machinery of politics and
the power of corporations There was
no wild, excited enthusiasm, as at the
state convention, for this audience was
not Of picked delegates, but good in
terest was manifest. Granting the
mans premises, that legislators are so
generally unreliable, and accepting
the governors promises that he can do
things, it is not strange that he pleases.
Anyone who can solve the difficult
problem of corporate power ought to
be accepted and encouraged.
Opposition to Work Quietly.
The campaign is not yet well de-
fined Mr.. Babcock is in and about
Madison more or less; and no doubt
the opposition will "do things" with
power, but it will be Of quiet char
acter Not all approve this. Some of
the stalwarts think the only way to
defeat LaFollette is to get out in the
oren and "snow him up" as they de-
scribe it; but there is little movement
in that direction. Meanwhile he al
ready has a long list OF speaking
dates including a talk to labor at Be-
lott and many county fairs and is get
ting his work in No candidate for
governor has yet appeared against
him. It is generally believed that the
governor will make the run himself
for third term" though he himself
uOCS lLOL yet hLOW w LAT PO-
litical eXigencies may demand.
Uuless something in the way of a
winning opposition takes shape soon,
it is not impossible that influential
stalwarts might advise letting "a La
Toilette man" have the governorship,
if such one as Stephenson, Cook or
Cooper could be landed in the office,
on the theory that these men have
little or none of LaFOllette's radical
spirit but train with him because he is
politically powerful at this time. In
deed, Senator Quarles himself was
criticised for paying attentions to the
governor in Milwaukee the other day,
taking him to the Milwaukee club and
visiting with him.
Spiritualists in Wisconsin.
There is a spiritualist encampment
at Waukesha and Harrison D. Barrett
of Boston. president of the national
association has been there and spoken.
1t is not generally known that there
is q boarding school at Whitewater
conducted by spiritualists. They have
a fine large building left to them by
pupils is not large-a few children of
the enthusiasts in the mystery-and
the financial problem is a severe one
for the school.
In the early days Wisconsin was
much identified with spiritism. Whole
communities were not only swayed by
it at times, but it was the religion
of the whole communities. There is
less heard of it now. There has been
SO much nonsense and fraud in con-
nection with it that serious minded
people do not care to stop to dig out
the residue and truth. Then again the
ground of investigation has shifted.
Tt is now scientific, cOldly So Har-
ward university is taking it up on
psychological lines. 1t is seriously
hoped to prove Immortality by science.
But this is business, not for emotional
folks who can be made to see their
grandmother in the shape Of an Indian
chief or who believe that Napolean
would send badly spelled message
written on a piece of grocer's brown
paper. Everybody has an interest, a
curiosity, perhaps some belief in the
return of those we love. But it must
be dignified, reverent business. And,
too. it must be part only, mere
incident in life. A generation that
spent it's time listening for grandpa
TO rap three times would never get far
with the burden of making the world
better.
Daniel Wells Estate.
One Of the largest, if not the largest
estate in wisconsin, is that of the late
Daniel Wells of Milwaukee. 1t is said
to foot up close to $1O,000,000 includ-
ing many pieces of property in Chi
cago. and a block of stock in the ia
nous Homestake mines in the Black
Hills. With regard to the rate of the
inheritance tax it is said at the office
of the collector of internal revenue
that in an instance such as that of the
Wells estate tha fax would he either