River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-05-26
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suffering, prevents more heart aches
and diseases than any other RENE
dy. That is what HOLSTERS Rocky
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tea or tablet form. C. r. Taggart.
The law for the conduct of eau
cuses specifies, that cities and vii
lagos shall open the meeting for
caucuses in the evening at 7:30
o'clock while in towns the caucus
shall be opened at 500 O'Clock in
the afternoon. The question of
convenience in attendance is con-
templated in this provision. 1t is
supposed that as township is or
dinarily six miles square it is more
convenient for most of the voters to
attend the caucus in the afternoon.
But in a busy time the farmer would
rather go two or three miles in the
evening than to spare the time to
attend the caucus in the afternoon.
The town of Kinnickinnic inaugu-
rated novel scheme the fourteenth
for the convenience of all. 1t open
ed the caucus at 500 o'clock in the
afternoon and kept it open until
500.
The Ellsworth Record of last
week, in speaking of La Follette's.
visit, says:
Ellsworth accorded the Governor
cordial reception. At River Falls,
the seat of a state Normal school,
which we all pay taxes to support,
bills announcing the Governors
speech were torn down almost as
fast as they could be put up and
efforts otherwise [madel to deny
the right of free speech.
The Record could have had no
personal knowledge of what it as
serts above, but it was evidently
told what it states. Nor do we
know positively that the statement
is not true. 1t is difficult to prove
a negative, but we have abundant
reason to believe the Record has
been grossly misinforlned. 1t is a
fact of common remark that the
Governor visit here was not prop
erly announced. When the JOURNAL
was issued last before the visit we
did not know that the Governor in
tended to stop here. Had we known
it we should certainly have pub
lished the news. Our contemporary,
which that week was not published
until Wednesday, the day before
the visit, did not mention the fact
that Governor La Toilette would
speak here Thursday, and yet that
Office got out what bills were print
ed for the occasion. We saw no
bills of announcement except one
little "2x4" affair pinned on the
postoffice bulletin board, where it
could readily have been swiped,"
if any one had an intention of tear
ing it down, nor did we see this un-
til after the Governor arrival here
had been announced by those who
saw him get off the train. If bills
had been generally distributed why
were they not in evidence in the
places cf business of the Governor
friends? Were they distributed
there and "torn down almost as
fast as they could be put up?" Is
Mt that yarn little too much at
tenuated to hold good? If it was
not known until late that the Cover
nor would stop here, then to make it
known that he would speak, big bills
should have been printed, and post
ed where they could be seen, instead
of little inconspicuous dodgers"
that lodged out of sight?-with
nothing on them to attract atten-
ton. The Governor may refer this
failure to make the proper an
nourcement to whom it may con-
Germ" 1t seems to US that this
statement, ''the bills were torn
down." is a womanish way of max
ing an demonstrating something
not as it is, but as you would like
to have it appear. We have made
general enquiry about this torn
down" assertion and fail to find a
particle of evidence for it. The
Record means to be fair. 1t gener-
ally is. 1t will sustain its reputa-
ton for fairness in this case by
stating the facts as they are, and
at the same time explain it's in
definite phrase, "and efforts other
wise to deny the right of free
speech"