Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-29

of the whole, and it's action is not.
binding either in law or conscience
upon any one. His nomination. such
as it is, / believe to have been brought.
about by fraud and force, and I'M
worthy Of consideration.
MIR. La Toilette has no claim to re-
publican support. During the last.
four years he has said no word, writ
ten no declaration, which indicates.
that he is in full sympathy, with ma
tional republican policies or prlnci~
pies.
His appeals for support have not.
been to the large republican majority
OF the state, but to what he calls "fair
minded democrats He assaults and
Whites the trusted leaders of the
party. He turns his back upon shem
to seek and win the recognition and
approval of men who have had no
part in making the honorable record
of which Wisconsin republicans are
proud.
He refuses to support loyal repub-
icans who have been regularly NOM
mated as members of assembly and
state senators. Not that only. He
has gone upon the stump and urgedI
the republican voters OF their dis
tricts to defeat them and elect dem.
ocratS-
He is openly urging the republicans
OF one congressional district to defeat
a republican candidate for congress
and elect I'm his stead democrat
whose every act and vote must and
wild necessarily be against the admin
istSation and policy of Theodore
RoosevelT and I'M opposition to the
principles of the republican, party. He
and his followers are covertly seeking
to compass the defeat of att least two
more members of congress and elect
democrats i'm their stead to- stand as
stumbling blocks i'm the way of re-
publican, NATIONAL administration.
Several of RiS followers, and some of
his factionaD newspapers, have declar-
ed theinreadiness to oppose Roosevelt
and Fairbanks, unless they bow down
and submit to his dictates.
He is not q republican. HE has
slhndenedi and betrayed tins party
which' trusted and honored him by
making him governor. He has brought
hired! MbeleHs unto the state. to con-
soct and pub1ish in the magazine lit
srature of the day the viless ISLANDERS
uponi the. most hOMored anH trusted
party leaders, present andi past, in
order t@aggpsndizs himself. Worst of
all, he has, not hesitated in carrying
cut this policy to. violate the-solemni-
BY of the death chambers and the
sanotity Of the grave. His attack upon
taie characters of Henry G. Payne and
Senator Sawyer was an assanlt upon
bheedNiR@ and the dead.
Hb is, not republican. The republi-
can panty has stood for civil service
neform 8oD the past quarter century.
In violatipn of his principles he has
made the tenure of Office, im Wiscon-.
sin to depend solely on the will and;
ability of the incumbent tsD spend his,
time and contribute money to advance
the political fortunes, ofth6s superior.
He has; made traffic of the appointive
offres,in the gift Of the governor, u.s..
ing them as rewards and compensa--
tionl hon cancus packing and political
wine working.
Without just cause. he has removed,
men from the offices to which they
We're elected by the people, and given
thefr places to others as reward for
th@ir devotion to his PERSONAL inter-
ests. I'm violation, of the principles, of
civil service reform he has caused or.
permitted employees in the service of
the state to absent themselves from
their duties fon long periods. in order
to work for his, nomination to office
or to defeat the nomination and cleo
ton of republicans. meanwhile. draw
ing salaries from the stare without
rendering service.
He has levied assessments upon his
appointees,, and used the money thus
obtained to secure his nomination to
office.
He sold the nomination for tho office
of state superintendent of schools for
the price OF $1,000 and used money in
his personal campaign, in violation of
the we'll known policy of the repub-
lican party of Wisconsin that our
common schools should be kept out
Of politics.
He has disgraced the republican
party by giving to the state the most
corrupt and extravagant administra-
tion it has ever had, Increasing the
annual expenditures of the state by
100000, beyond what it ever previous
~ had been. By perversion and mis-
application of the law his ccslmis-
sioner Of insurance collected illegal
fees from a life insurance company
and he has participated in this act by
accepting donation of $1,000 to his
campaign funds.
By reason of these things Mr.. La
Toilette has forfeited any and all
claim he might have had to the sup
port of the republicans of this state.
Let him remember that it was once
said: