Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-12-11
LIQUOR Job
IS huge OH:
BY 0. .. sr=ndenbo =, madisor


So x-Senator Ray J. Nyc Of Su-
perior succeeds Mr. Perry as fed
eral prohibition enforcement officer
It's good selection. albeit Senate
Lenroot exhibits something of a dis
position to over-centraIize federal
affairs ON the outermost rim Of the
commonwealth But partiality to-
ones old home town IL far from q
reprehenaible trait If, however,
there exists really earnest pur
pose to have boozing stopped, there
is just one individual to whom
should be assigned the duty of ef-
iectuating that purpose; and he is.
A. Il. Frederick Of Monroe county,
an assemblyman in 1913 and at
present | believe, state humane
officer Educated for the bar he
now is Methodist Clergyman. NJ.
Frederick is known as the fighting
parson, and he can clarity the Ii
quor muddle if given an opportun-
lily. This is a tip to friend Nye,
should he need help Frederick
is Just 40, and never can be founI
wanting. James A. Stone of Reeds
burg, first functionary to undertake
the job, resigned after a brave eff
fort He was embarrassed al
every point baltied beaten, even
threatened lie had no official
cooperation from superiors. POliti-
cal opportunism ruled That's the
blunt truth. Then came Mr.. Perry
far from possessing Stones zeal
and he had to 90 AS q result of eX-
actly vhaf pressure need not be
stated; and now appears Mr.. Nye.
The latter proved a most valued
member Of the legislature, where
lie served five terms, and il was n
genuine loss to the commonwealth
when he failed to be returned. He
has a big job now. Il his fate be
that Of his predecessors, then lIr
Frederick ~ commended to the al
tention Of Senator Lenroot, for he
can neither be caioied nor buliied.
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Most interesting is the fearsome
whispering that Senator La Toilette
may conclude his public career as
president Of the University Of Wis
consin, q post voluntarily yacat4i
at the end ot the current schoot
year by President Birge. Due to
the decisive results Of the election,
il is argued that the senate can now
have little cdrther attraction for the
senator. particularly IN view OF the
possible humiliation Of demotion on
Committees and Of the dramatic
collapse Of the third party move
ment Senator La FOllettn, it. ia
believed, could conserve his health
better in the restfulness Of his
Madison home and in abatement of
his intensity in political strife Al
80, his elevation to the presidency
or The university naturally would be
accepted as yndication from the
aspersiou Of disloyalty contained in
a mid-war round-robin signed By
scores Of professors in the faculty.
or course, the change here suggest
ed. il made, logically would imply
wholesale designations from the fac
ulty or these very members.
But there is quite another phase
no less sensational Were Mr.. La
Toilette to leave the senate the way
would at once be cleared for Gov
Blaine to appoint Attorney General
Herman l.. Ekern to the vacancy
and himself thus dispose Of dan
gerous rival for the aenatorsbip two
years hence when Senator L9uyoot
must stand for reelection. So
runs the dramatic report, worta
what it may be; and il is aGDtle
mented by the affirmation that at
least eleven out Of the seventeen
members oC the board Of regents
form bloc that could and readily
would select La Toilette The
latter is four years younger lhal
President Birge, who will be "a
next September. The presidents
salary is 10000 with big heated
residence III addition That is sev,
cral thousands better than { sen.
atorship, financially speaking,
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Is if not seriously 10 be dep,ored
the prepoudersting power that Mil
wau'1ce Yields in state affairs so
conspicuously indicted by the fact
that its huge majority Of nearly
$4,000 for the constitutional amend
ment assuring a second judge for
the Dane county circuit was tile
means by which the proposition
prevailed? In the absence Of that
great majority the amendment
would have failed by 10000 or
more and this much may be said
wholly irrespective Of the merits.
Of the measure The Milwaukee
electorate, with It's saturation o.
foreign spirit. is not exactly of The