Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-08-26
PRIMARY ELECTION
NEXT TUESDAY, SEPT. |
it will Decide the Fate of
Many ASpirants
A Glance at Some of the Men Who
Are Asking fer PoIti-
cal Support.

/ the CaIe OF Gn0 primary election,
which will decide whom the people
have chosen as candidates for the
various offices to be filled, according
to the results at the general election
in November. There is multiplicity
of candidates for nomination, as has
been announced in detail through the
Herald's columns in previous issues.
Many of the men seeking support in
their ambitions have personally ap-
lpeared before the people and made
their appeals for votes. Hatton
and Dahl republican candidates for
governor of Wisconsin-H atton
understood to be the personal choice
of the present governor, McGovern.
and Dahl urged as the choice of
Senator LaFollette, have both adj
dressed small audience in Lancaster
during the past two weeks, and
neither has seemed to arouse en-
thusiasm. Of the other republican
candidates for governor, Philip,
Hull, and Roethe, who are recognized
as standing strongly for putting an
end to the tbrainstorm of extravag-
ence which has caused an indignant
uprising of the taxpayers, regardless
of party, throughout the state during
the past half year, the two former
have made no speeches in Grant
county and Roethe is resident
thereof. 1t is likely that Philip
and Roethe will both receive a heavy
vote in this county. With all the
fuss that some of the partisans of
the present administration try to
make in alluding to Philip as q
reactionary' they all recognize the
personal ability and fitness Of the
man for the office for which he is a
candidate.
AS to Mr.. Philips attitude upon
state affairs, he recently said: Z
know that my opponents are saying
that / am reactionary and that
would tear down everything good in
this state if | am elected Governor
/ expected when | started out in this
campaign that would encounter lies;
that some men would like to see me
defeated and would not stop at any
fabrication to gain their ends.
suppose that this is part of politics.
But that does not bother me. /
believe, first, in the sense of fair
lplay which is inherent in the people
and am willing to take my chances
by leaving the verdict to them. [
am interested in state government as
a citizen and taxpayer. believe
l feel the injustice as much and no
more than those who live hundreds of
miles from Milwaukee,. | am going
to see if we cannot get together and
solve our problems after | get to
Madison, if l am elected. l believe
that some good things have been done
during the past fifteen years at
Madison. I believe in holding fast
to that which is good, and l am in
favor of retaining the good things.
but l cannot be for the many need
less and useless boards and commits
sions which the taxpayers have had
to pay for
For the office of United States
senator present governor Francis E.
McGovern, ex-Attorney General L.
III. Bancroft, and lieutenant governor
Thomas McGovern are the republican
candidates. Morris made a brief
speech to a small crowd upon the
street here last Thursday, from his
automobile, and McGovern is schedul
ed for meeting here this afternoon,
about three o'clock. McGovern has
for years worked in unison with
Senator LaFollette, but they have
reached the parting of the ways and
the senator is now opposing the
choosing of the governor as his as
sociate at Washington and favors the
nomination of Morris for the place.
LaFollette charges McGovern with
being largely responsible for the
present high taxes and the governor
replies that the state senate, con-
trolled by LaFollette and presided
over by Morris, passed appropriation
bills amounting to millions of dollars
with but few minutes of considera-
ton. Neither can escape their share
of the responsibility. Bancroft IS
man of much ability and fearlessness,-
a strong supporter of LaFollette IN
the earlier years, but now at variance
with him and by the progresslves -
also alluded to as a 'reactionary,
term of reproach they think very
effective in applying to any man not
in accord with all wild schemes for
the extravagant spending of the tax
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