Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-06-17
NMscoNsIN's STATE CAMPAIGN

State politics are now warming up
and there will be some lively diddings
all along the line until the Sep TENDER
primaries put fatal crimp into some
of the ambitious booms that have
been set in motion.
Gov. McGovern, who in the last
campaign got himself pretty squarely
aligned with the Bull Moose move
ment. so much so that for time it
was thought he had been defeated for
governor at the November election.
as now actively in the field as a
candidate for the United States
senate to succeed ''Unkle Ike"
Stephenson. He announces himself
for the republican nomination. OPP
posed to him as candidate for the
same Office. is his associate, Tom
Morris, the lieutenant governor,
who thinks he would make a fine
looking senator himself, and who has
the LaFollette backing for the job.
Unkle Ike is not saying a thing
get as to his intent ions, and if he
doesn't make another race for it him
self it is not known whose cause he
will espouse. Then there is Prof.
Estabrook, OF Milwaukee, an old
fashioned republican once a resident of
this county, who some time ago an
.ROunced his candidacy for the place,
entirely upon his merits and aloof
from fractional affiliations. The line
up will now begin. There will be
several democratic aspirants for the
place also and there will surely be
some vim to the senatorial fight be-
fore it is decided in the primaries
who the voters want for the place.
There is also going to be lively
tussel over the governorship. Dur
ing the past couple of weeks there
has been much said about the candi-
dacy of w. H. Hatton, who doomed
up prominently as candidate against
Stephenson for the senatorial nomina-
ton six years ago. Hatton is bust
ness man and man of ability. He
also mas barrel which he was in
duced to tap rather plentifully in the
senatorial campaign. 1t has been
quite generally understood until
within the past few days that he
would have the LaFollette backing,
but it now seems that that support
will go to ex-State Treasurer Dahl,
OF Vernon county, who is the latest
candidate for governor to toss his
nat into the ring. Sundays papers
say che LaFollette people will not
only support him but that it was the
senator's intimate political associates
who induced Dahl to enter the field
They are reputed TO have believed
that Hatton was better qualified for
the place but would not be so good a
campaigner as Dahl, who is a
Norwegian and good tinker.
: There is also Merlin Hull, editor
rUf weekly paper at Black River
Falls, whe was speaker of the As
,sernbkg IN the last session of the
legislature. He is in the field as a
'qandidate upon a platform of lower
taxes, economy and shorter sessions
of the legislature. 1t is understood
that Hull has been given much as
surance of support in the western
and northern parts of the state. His
1uaintance and standing with the
yspapermen of the state was
banked upon as much in his favor and
by some it was thought that if the
,LaFollette influence did not go to
Hatton it would be given to Hull.
Then there is Henry Roethe, who
IS making a walking campaign over
the state, with his own special plat
form for economy and decreasing the
number of state commissions talking
lung to lung" with the farmers and
workingmen, attired in blue cotton
shirt, kahki clothes and cowhide shoes,
eating and sleeping at farm houses or
wherever he chances to be at that
eime By many his campaign is
looked upon as joke, but there is no
telling, when the nomination depends
upon the ballots cast individually at
the polls in September just how the
kind of campaign he is conducting
may turn out. Roethe likes to cuddle
up to the farmers and taffy them up,
;and sometimes that sort of thing
proves very effective. 'Blue Jeans"
Williams was elected governor of
Indiana in about such a campaign
thirty-fve years or so ago, and
bob" Taylor with his violin fiddled
his way into the gubernatorial office
of Tennessee. And why not Roethe
says Henry. It's we'll to keep him
inside the calculations as to results
an the primary.
E. L.. Philip, of Milwaukee, has
been working up delegations of late
s.. i, aonvan4;0r Of acto Iuarf ropVhIi