Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-06
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towns and sell beer with near
kick in tat least a little wlggle,
if not a kick. But the booze indus
try which used to absorb the earn
ings of a certain per cent of laborlng
men. and which used to run the poll
tics of the community more or less
subservient to big business in the
town-that booze industry is gone.
To the extent that liquor is dis
organized, SUBSCRIPTIONS and sneak |
ing in its attitude toward society, |
prohibition prohibits. John Barley
corn is whipped. He is down and
out: in a few months or few years
at most even in Wisconsin, which
should be the last state in the Union
TO surrender it's god-giyen right to
swill it's beer, prohibition is working,
and the bank clearings prove it. And
no one is so pleased as the big
manufacturers. It means a sixday
week in the factory and a workman
buying home And that class or
labor is highly efficient.
Politically, Wisconsin is stark
mad. That doesn't mean the kind OF
mad one thinks about in connection
with the name Of Wisconsin. 1t
doesn't mean that DR. Charles NC
Carthy, OF the legislative reference
library, has been made absolute
despot with powers. On the other
hand, Doctor Mccarthy was defeated
at the primary for the Democratic
senatorial nomination not long ago.
and the kind of mad that is affecting
Wisconsin is not a fixed idea OF So
cial reform, but the delirium
tremenS.
All Lines Broken
All lines are broken; all factions
scattered, all Ieaden ships discredit-
ed. all bets off. For instance they
are taking Of an alliance between
Governor Phillip and Senator La
Toilette. Two years ago La Toilette
was going about Wisconsin saying
that Phillip was the lobbyist of the
brewers, and Phillip was going about
the state insisting that La Toilette
was crazy. 1t may be that next year
Ia FOlIette's friends will come roar
ing down to the national Republican
convention with delegation cheer
ing it's heads off for Phillip for vice
president, while La Follette's friends
take the governorship without
contest and coruscated standpat-
ter sallies forth for the scalp Of
LenroOt.
Strongest Man In Wisconsin
La Toilette is the strongest man
in Wisconsin. And yet he seems to
have lost many of his old friends,
and much of his old following. But
he has picked up a new crowd. The
Germans are for him, and the arch
standpatters like him because he
hates Wilson. If he were running
today he would be nominated over
whelmingly For in spite of the
fact that many of his old insurgent
friends disagree with him in his at
titude toward the war, still they
disagree in sorrow and not in an
ger, and they will sneak into the
polls and vote for him on account of
his economic creed.
But politics in Wisconsin is en-
tirely personal, as it is all over
America. Parties stand for nothing.
Chiefly; the Democrats of Wiscon-
sin are for Wilson. Party regularity
still functions in the democracy, but
not with much voltage.
After Wilson there is no Democratic
enthusiasm in Wisconsin. The Wis
consin Democrats would not rally
around Baker or McAdoo with any
ardor, and no other name puts their
hats in the air. They realize that
Wilson is a heavy liability, but that
they have no other asset.
Republicans Talk Wood
The Republicans talk about Wood,
about Johnson, and about as gloomily
as a lot of pallbearers 1t looks as
though neither party would win this
election coming next year. And
there is no talk of new party,
either. There seems to be no diff
ference between the Republicans
and the Democrats; no issue, no
leaders no enthusiasm marks the
political feeling in Wisconsin, which
may well be taken as the feeling at
the heart of the middle West And
for all that the people are prosper
GUS, business is good. despite