Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-18

| gested by the Eau Claire Leader as
available gubernatoriaI timber if the
farmers concluded it was time to have
man from their own class fill that
important position, evidently cele-
brated July 4th in the interest of
humanity.
In the following brief letter he
| transmits to the Equity News his
open letter" in reply to w. D. Con-
nor:
EAU CLAIRE, WIS, July Is, 1910.
Ed. Equity News:-Every effort
will be made to mislead and confuse
| theissue in the coming campaign. Let
all of us farmers keep this in mind
| that the primary election law, postal
savings banks, parcels post, tWo-cent
railway fares, initiative and referen-
dunn, direct election Of .. S. Senators
and other progressive measures are
supported by the Insurgents, and bit
terly opposed by the crowd. Don't let
county option, personal attacks on
progressive candidates, party solid
| arity, or anything keep the farmers
from getting together and rolling up
a hundred thousand majority for
OUT senior senator.
l think my answer to Connor's cir
| cular may inspire some to give Of
time and influence to help unite us
in this grand crusade!
The letter follows:
Geo. r. Conngs in Reply to Con-
nor Circular.
SILVER SPRING FARM, July A.
To w. D. Conner, Sef-constituted
Advisor to wisconsin, farmers:
Dear Sir:-Your letter of July End
is at hand and it's contents have.
been carefully noted. In it's closing
paragraphs you say, eve need. youf,
advice and suggestions" ut would
please us greatly to have you write
us expressing your views on matters
| in general.
| Now, my dear Mr. Conner, nothing
is more gratifying to the average fair
ly good-hearted man, than to do
things that please and are helpful to
others. So, Mr.. Chairman, l am going.
to write you, not only on matters
in general, but also on some things
in particular.
You say President Taft succeed
ed in his efforts to secure forcefu1,
effective and timely lgislation, there
by redeeming practically every pledge
made by the Republican party.
Wallace's Farmer, a reliable farm
| journal, under the date of July I'd,
reviews at length the railway bill
drawn by Attorney General Wicker
sham, and introduced in congress- as
the ADMINISTRATORS bill, the presi-
dent serving notice upon the Repub-
lican members of the senate. and
houses that he expected them to sup
port the bill as transmitted. This
broad diplomatic course, this force
full effective and timely legislation"
of which you speak, is spoken of in
the closing paragraph of the Wallace
Farmer article as follows:
''This bill as twas originally sent
to congress by the president was a
fraud. Under the pnetense of stren1
gthening the Interstate commerce,
law, it emasculated it. The thanks
| of the nation are due to the hand
full of insurgent Republican senators
who had the courage to. attack and
expose the iniquities of the bill, and
who had the ability to so forcefully
present their views. that a majority
of the senate rallied to their sup
port"
Do you really think the men who
put up the fight against this fraud,
this administrations party measure
which had it become a law would
have undone most of the reforms in
railway management which have beef
secured during the past ten or fifteeI
years." are to be made to regret
| such action?
Was it not the defeating of this
fraud which led the coarse old boss
of the house to say, chat shooting
was too good a death; they, the in
surgents, ought to be hanged?
Do you count Wisconsin farmers
such blank uniformed fools, that
willful malicious, organized lying will
again whip them into line for poll
cies dominated by Aldrich, Cannon,
Lorimer, Sherman and Burrows?
Why should you insult us by bring
ing to our state a Jim Sherman:
man for years closely identified with
the malodorous OdeH, Woodruff, Plat
gang of plunderers?
Has the party of Phillips, Sumner
and Lincoln fallen so low that none
but the Shermans, Monkeys, Wicker
shams and Lorimers cam be found to
lead it, and those who dare stand
up for a common humanity are to be
ostracised and kicked out? Farmers
are shocked at the spectacle of
president claiming to stand for the
Roosevelt policies recognizing a man
like Lorimer: Withholding patronage
from Lenroot, trying to slug him
for helping to defeat a ''fraud'' and
to a Loriner, a buyer of Democratic
votes, dirty, low down representa-
tive of the Shiny bipartisan gang of
Chicago; TO Uorimer the glad hand
of fellowship is extended.
Yes, Mr.. Conner, l promise you my
active assistance in the coming
campaign, not to give Taft the. en-
dorsement of the farmers of this
state, but to roll UP a hundred thou
sand majority for the cause of pro-