The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-12

Fifty years ago Wisconsin carried
the doctrine of state sovereignty to the
pass of successful notification, and
when the big war came Wisconsin was
under the rule to appear in the SUI
preme court at Washington to purge
herself of her contempt of the orders
of that tribunal; but law is silent in
the clash of arms, and Wisconsin went
unwhipped. of her treason. Perhaps
that is an unfortunate term in light
of the fact that notification is local
question-treason in South Carolina
and patriotism in WiscOnsin-and 50
we will just let it go at that, for since
hypocrisy was first born in the world
il is given to the elect to work iniquity
in behalf of virtue. or, as Sir John
Falstaff put it,
why, thou uncomfortable baseness, it
is as much as 1 can do to keep the
terms of mine honor precise. !, l, l.
myself, sometimes leaving the fear OF
heaven on the left hand and hiding
mine honor in my necessity, am fam to
shuttle, to hedge and TO lurch."
And so with Wisconsin and the fugi-
tive slave law, the bred Scott decision
and the orders of the supreme bench.
Leaving loyalty on the left hand, and
hiding her duty in her fanaticism, Wis
consin nullified the law of the land and
violated the constitution of the United
States.
Rut since Wisconsin's treason was
made effulgent patriotism by the for
tunes of war, Wisconsin has been q
thoroughly loyal state, and for the OLD
flag and a pension. She has always
held I'D her end of the log in congress
both houses-and in Carpenter
Spooner and Villas she was in the frs
rank in the senate. In Bragg she haC
the most feared and best-hated man ir
the house of representatives.
There was an election in the Wiscon'
sin legislature some time ago to CHOOSE
a man to supply the vacancy in th'
United States senate occasioned by th'
resignation of John c. Spooner, ant
we have the story that this paper wa:
presented TO one of the candidates fol
his signature:
I hereby promise and declare that
will. in case of my election to thu
| United States senate from Wisconsin
most heartily support and uphold Sen
ator LaFoliette in his work, endeavor
and political effort both i'm washington
and within the state as well.
He emphatically and Indignantly
spurned the offer, and besought some
/ body to tell him the answer to thi:
question: is thy servant a dog. tina
| he should do this great thing? He wa
not elected. and perhaps he would no
| have been had he accepted the propos
al to sell himself for the senatorship.
| Henry Allen Cooper was the maj
who was invited to become senator
with vote in pawn, if tradition is t
/ be taken for truth. as il sometimes is
Nobody who knows Cooper woult
credit him with any such baseness. H
is conspicuous for his independence o
thought, and independence of charac
ter. He ofttimes leads his friends an,
enemies alike to believe he is the stuf
of which mugwumps are made. H
has been known to break the shackle
of party, not only in debates, but OF
the roll call and if all the swash
bucklers had had his determination tn
congressional cat would likely hav
been belled long ago Not even t
Tom Reed himself did Cooper trembl
in fear or bend in sycophancy. He /