Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-09-25
COMMENTS ON CONFERENCES.
Usher Says Gov. Philip Has Not Ex-
posed His Hand Even to
Closest Friends.

| tiitu lIiIOuRH view Eng iabh III oh ho-
tomObile said that in passing a rural
cemetery, near the entrance of which
she saw some conspicuous bill boards,
she saw on one the familiar lad" of
A Minneapolis brand of flour that was
founded by one of Wisconsin's great
est governors, G. c. Washburn. The
well-known sentence, Eventually,
why not nOw?" took on new signifi-
canoe. | was reminded of this tale
Wednesday when / met number of
Republicans from out in the state
who had come to town to attend Go
vernon Philipp's conference. They
had been asked to confer for the first
time since they separated from the
| convention that nominated the COVER
nor, at Madison, year ago last June.
and they came to the number of about
twenty-five, none of them knowing
for what they were summoned, but all
assuming that the newspaper CORE
spOndents had been guessing closely,
and that the governor really wanted
to be urged to enter the race for Uni
ted States senator against La Fol-
lette. So whole lot of the guests
braced themselves to tell the COVER
nor where he'd get off, " and to tell
him what they thought Of the way he
had ignored them for more than
year; and what they thought of his
appointing Harry Myrick as censor
of their party utterances, and whole
lot of other pleasant things that had
been sitting cold on their political
stOmachs Eventually why not now
was the way they felt about having
their grievances out with him. But
nobody had guessed within gun shot
of the number of the governors pack
age Al he had in mind was the ne
cessity of beginning early if his fac
ton of the Republican party wanted
to see the inside of the next national
| Republican convention. That was the
only business proposed, a committee
was named to attend to it, and, for
once, nobody could say the governor
had not been "a leader" The fell
lows who brought to town the pur-
pose Of telling him that he cannot
beat La Toilette, and that it would be
desertiOn of his friends to go to the
senate, even if he could, etc, ETC.. all
took their bundles back home with
them, for the governor didn't consult
any of them about his own prospect
or purposes.
TO SAVE THE PARTY.
They were pointed to the duty of
saving the Republican party from the
perils that, with well-timed German
American support, seem likely to
swamp it. The effort to stem Will
sons popularity with renewed cry
for high protective Tariff, seems very
funny at a time when this country
has all the money and about all the
export business in the world, and
when its imports are the smallest in a
generation. Even so close a friend
of the interests" as the Wall Street
Journal, sees the humor of the situa-
ton so fully that it copies the follow
ing from an exchanges:
THE FITNESS OF THINGS.
That business is still insisting on
protection.
Well. I'm sure it's natural for an
infant industry to plead the baby act
The Wilson tariff bill amounts to
nothing, and affects nothing, under
existing circumstances 1t would have
been of no Importance even if the
war had not upset all business calcu-
lations. AS matters stand, there is
so little of substance to the tariff talk
that | am surprised to see a man of
sense, like the governor, undertake to
discuss it seriously with anybody. He
should not thus reflect upon the in
telligence of Wisconsin people.
DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE.
The Democratic county chairmen
of the state met on w ednesday. to a
very goodly number, and made per
manent organization to prepare for
1915. The Democrats, like the Re
pubhcanS, have their factional fric-
ton, and seem quite obliyious to the
fact that Senator Husting polled less
than 1875, 600 votes of the Dos, 900 cast
for candidates for United States Sc
nator, a total that is itself under so
per cent. of the potential vote of the
state. If the Democrats expect to
make showing here next year. they
must at least be prepared TO bag the
vote Mr. Wilson may make possible.
One of the largest deeds ever recor-
( ded IN the upper Peninsula is that
filed by the Lake Superior Iron and
Chemical Company W hich transfers
/ Its property to the Charcoal Iron