Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-05
LUCK HITS
BLAINE IN
FINAL TALKS
Appointments by Governor
Open to Severe Criticism.
Specifies Each One.

| Judge Lueck closed his campaign
| for governor at home this week and
will vote and await election results.
] All through the campaign the judge
| has devoted his time to an exposure
of Blaine methods in regard to an in
vestigation of affairs at the capitol
and subsequent appointments. He said
in part:
During the 1928 session of the leg
| islature a resolution was introduced
| by Senator Severson, one of the Pro-
gressive senators, asking for an in
vestigation into the public business, .
| Judge Lueck said cat the time that
resolution was introduced, charges
were publicly made about the capitol
and publications occurred in newspa-
pers alleging padded pay rolls and
other acts of official misconduct The
resolution was defeated by one vote.
And why, 1 will ask you, was that
resolution defeated? Why should any
administration-why should any man
fear an investigation, if everything
| were square and honest?
Explains Senator's Votes
"Now, l am going to explain to you
the votes of four senators against
! that investigation and let you decide
i why that resolution was defeated. One
vote against that resolution was cast
by a senator who now holds, by virtue
of an appointment by Gov. Blaine, a
position on the highway commission.
| And / take some pride in the fact that
| I smoked this chap out, because / no
ticed in the newspapers that he now
threatens that during the next ses-
sion of the legislature they are going
| to impeach the man who had the cour-
age to demand that there be opened up
to the people of this state the condi-
| ton of their public affairs, and I want
to tell you that conditions have come
| to a sorry pass when men who are in
terested in the public business, who
are interested in their constituents,
are to be inundated by threats of i'm
parchment. For myself, I do not be-
1ieve they will get very far with that
business. That is one vote.
another senator who voted against
that resolution and who was never fit
to hold that position, is now member
of the board of regents by virtue OF
appointment by Gov. Blaine. That is
two votes against that investigation.
Should Clear States Name
"There are more yet. Another SEN
ator who voted against that resolu-
ton now holds lucrative position in
the office of the commissioner of in
surance, through the, influence of the
administration. That is three votes.
Another senator who voted against
that investigation is now secretary of
the civil service commission, through
the influence of Gov. Blaine. And that
is four votes.
"Now, decide for yourselves why
this resolution was defeated and why
these men were appointed to public
office I want to say to you, my
friends-not as a candidate-but as a
citizen of the great state of Wiscon-
sin, who wants to continue to be proud
of the grand old Badger state, that if
there isn't anything wrong in the
capitol at Madison we ought to have
that investigation to clear the name
of the state of the faint that has been
put upon it. But if there is some
thing wrong, as I claim there is, the
people ought to know because they
are entitled to know what kind of a
government they have"