Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-06
SENSIBLE TALK TO REPUBLICANS;
CONSIDER BEFORE PROMISING
CAMPAIGN AND CANDIDATES FOR 1906
FROM MILWAUKEE, FREE PRESS.


ought to be year of rest without any
politics to modest or make afraid. Rep
resentatives in congress haye lot yet
taken the seats to which they were
elected last November, and will not IN
til the beginning of the December term.
1t is distressing to have a discussion
started now about who is to succeed
these men two years from next Deem
Der. And the state officers have served
but eight months of the two years for
which they were elected
OF course, if gentlemen care to tell
their friends that they intend TO be can.
didates for this and that and the other
office at the primary election to be held
one year hence. there is no reasonable
objection to their doing so, And object
ion would not amount to anything IL
any event But the individual VGser is
going to be more of figure In the selec-
ton Of candidates than he has ever been
in Wisconsin, and he's so be reckoned
with in his individual capacity. To re-
coive nomination for any COMPRESSION
II, or state or legislative Office in Wis
consin next year, the candidate has got
TO receive a majority-or at any rate Il
plurality-of the votes cast by his party
at the primary election for such candi.
date. 1t was mp to the voter. The boss
the man who used to fix" his town
the man VITO picked out such delegates
as were to go to the district or county
convention to ratify the boss's choice of
delegates to congressional or state con-
yentions-is down and out. His occu-
paLion is gone. He is as much a back
number as a cradle for reaping grain, or
8 fail for thrsshing It, The voter Is on
deck.
There was a long struggle before the
primary election law Was printed in the
session laws. a completed measure, and
the friends Of the law can not afford to
jeopardize the good effects that all have
hoped would be realized from It, There
is possibility that they will be ieopar.
died, and lost. 1t is up to the individ-
ual voter to declare that this shall not
be.
There is no possible candidate for any
congressional, state or legislative Office
who will be necessary to the atate next
year. The PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH
CANDIDATES STAND WILL BE NECEs-
SARY TO THE STATE, and the contest at
the primary election must therefore be s
contest for principle. 1t will not be
question of who sheH be nominated and
elected, but what Goes the man who Is
70 he nominated and elected stand for 2
The paramount issue in the next con.
gressional election will, it seems to us,
be the sane revision of the tariff, the
government control of railroad rates and
the eurbing OF great Industrial and com.
mercial combinations known as trusts,
which have control Of the production
and distribution Of the necessaries Of
live. Wisconsin republicans, we sub
nit will DO very well if they question
their representative and candidates for
representatives regarding their attitude
towards these questions before commit
ting themselves to the support Of any
one; and if the are not. for n time, very
free about committing themselves. Let
the coming session of congress develop
the policy of congress first. There will
be time enough to make promises after
the first Of June, or JAY, next year.
The paramount Issue 10 the state at
the next election it seem to as, is to be
the enforcement of the laws passed at
the last ession of the legislature. These
laws will be best enforced by an admir-.
istration that is friendly to the laws, and
that believes in the laws. To make sure
Of such an administration there will
need TO be united action of republicans
who desire it There will need 10 be au
understanding
There viii be 40 contest to the polisi.
cal 1aetion calling itself conservative I"
and called by others staIwarts. or holt.
ers, ever candidates for state offices
Eve. = vote in the stalwart ranks will be
sivea 20 candidates agreed upon before
the primary election Their battle cry
will oe ANY thing 70 beat graf" aud
they will vote solidly for candidates So no
are opposed to the present order. And
fhas will be ali right The primary
election law provides them v ith Just the
opportunity for doing it. IL. then, the
republican vote is split up among many
candidates for the same office q plu.
rality will nominate then there will be
danger that the diacredited stalwarts or
hoii faction, will succeed in securing a
plu' elity OF votes for some Of their can.
dida es, or all of them
W. therefore. wish to urge upon all
rcpU olicans for their consideration the
ldee hat they go very slow about max
ing pledges Of support to any candidates
foI a state office BY next spring the
situation will probably clarity so that
wa shall know better what TO do than
anybody knows now. The republican
who binds himself thus early TO support
any man for governor a year from now.
may be doing what he will greatly re-
gret long before the first Of September.
906 There is no present condition that