Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1915 — SCOFIELD'S COW. [ARTICLE]

SCOFIELD'S COW.

Why It Figured Big In Political Campaigning In Wisconsin. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin tells of the long struggle tn Wisconsin to enact laws which would forbid public officials from accepting favors from public corporations. Following is an interesting little story: "H. M. Tusler,.the Madison agent of the United States Express who was a strong sympathiser with our reform movement, as are so many employes of corporations, let it be known that Gov. Scofield had shipped from his home In Oconto, in the northern part of the state, to Madison, the capital, tn the southern part of the state, free on express frank No. 2169, the following: "Jan 7, 1897, 2 boxes, 2 barrels. “Jan. 8, 1897, 3 barrels, 1 box. “Jan. 9, 1897, 2 boxes, 200 pounds. "Jan. 11, 1897, 2 barrels, 2 boxes, 1,000 pounds. “Jan. 13. 1897, 1 cow (crated). "Jan. 14, 1897, 1 box, 50 pounds; 1 box, 26 pounds. “Feb. 2, 1897, 1 package. "Feb. 26, 1897, 1 package. “March 26, 1897, 1 sewing machine. “March 26, 1897, 1 buggy pole. “Aug. 26, 1897, 1 barrel potatoes (small). “These facts were published. "It was no answer to say that this was not In violation of law. It raised a storm .of mingled ridicule and resentment. Scofield’s cow became famous, her picture appearing in the newspapers, and she came to be known in every home in the state.”