Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22

the eyes of many who believe in the
principles he advocates. But he does
not try to carry them out. only SO far,
and then let's them drop, until he may
get before the people shouting for
himself and against others in another
campaign, in place of attending to the
duties of his Office, that he is drawing
salary for.
The only bill that the Governor
could question my vote on is the very
one he claimed to me was not as good
as the ad valorem bill, which I sup
ported.
Now, to be sure, Mr.. LaFollette
is very clever gentleman and can
make many who believe in him think
what he says about the under dog is
true. But hope to see the day when
the people Of Wisconsin will see him
in his true light. I would be only loo
glad to turn my record wrong side out
while was in the Legislature with
his while he has been governor and let
the people decide who had the better
AIOolfO dU AOdlU lOI UIl0u1s
Why should LaFollette appoint Ov-
erbeck game warden? Was it because
he voted right on primary election or
wrong on railway taxation? Of course,
Overlook is conceded to be a good
politician.
Now this is exactly how voted on
the railroad bills and any man can
look up my record. He will find it in
the Assembly journal. have the
journal and would be glad to let you
see it,
l also understand Mr.. LaFollette is
going around the state, saying favored
shippers are getting rebates and the
facts are with Railroad Commissioner
Thomas, the same man who was chair
man of the railroad committee in the
Assembly when / was in the Legisla-
ture and voted against the freight
rate bills No. 79a and 53a, both in the
)mmittee and on the floor, and who
is now a candidate for reelection on
the reform LaFollette ticket If the
facts are known, why don't they show
who are the favored shippers and who
are getting the benefits of the law be-
ing violated? What are they waiting
for? Why don't they have some of the
attorneys in the attorney generals
office. get out with their railroad
passes and show it up? Why keep the
people in suspense and wait for the
Democrats or Stalwarts to get in and
attend to the duties before the officers?
Many people think I am getting re-
bate. | want to say right here | have
lived in Fennimore eleven years and
shipped stock continually over the
railroad to Chicago and have never
received a rebate of any amount other
than few times legitimate claim for
damages the same as any farmer
whose stock is damaged by neglect of
the railroad company; and that. al
would not exceed 5000 in
eleven years. If Mr.. Thomas, the
Governor, or anybody else, says any
thing different they are not telling
the facts.
The Governor said in his speech
here that | happened to stop off at
Madison at the opening of the last
session of the Legislature and intro
duced J. P. Chandler to Ray and then
ducked we'll, what of it? I did. Mr..
Ray was speaker when / was mem
Der and asked me to introduce him to
our members. He was candidate
for reelection. | asked Mr.. Chandler
if he wanted to meet Mr.. Ray and he
said yes; he wanted to meet Ray and
Lenroot both. introduced them and
left them talking can't see anything
wrong in that, I was not the only one
at Madison from here, nor did not go
there with anything up my sleeve.
I also understand he said I was
talking with railroad attorney about
shipping cattle from Dakota, while in
the Legislature. All there is to that,
Mr.. Storrs and I we're partners in the
stock business, when I was elected,
and that fall we shipped 80 cattle to
South Dakota to winter them and
thought of shipping them home in the
spring. During the session of the
Legislature Mr.. Storrs called On me
and introduced me to a Mr.. Fisher,
whom he had met at Fennimore and
told me he was the travelling freight
agent of the Northwestern Company,
one who solicited business for their
road and who had happened to meet
Storrs while in Fenn1more. In my talk
with the agent I told him we expected
to ship our cattle from Dakota in the
spring. He said if we would ship them
over his road he would give us pass
out after them, the same as they
would pass us back if we rode out
with the cattle. But in the spring we
sold the cattle to Joe Wright of Lam
caster and did not have to go after
them nor ship them as Wright paid
us here and took the cattle there.
That is all there was to that. But of
course a story half told looks bad.
1t was put on the taxation committee and
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