Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — WISCONSIN CONTEST ENDED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WISCONSIN CONTEST ENDED.

Jobepb V. Quarles, of Milwaukee,Win* the Senatorial Race. After a long and bitter fight Joseph V. Quarles secured the unanimous Republican caucus nomination for United States Senator from Wisconsin and his election by the Legislature was afterward a mere matter of form. Congressman Joseph W. Babcock, chairman of the national Repubr iican congressional committee, who has

been one' of the hardest fighters for the plum, threw his forces to Quarles when he saw that his own election was impossible, and Isaac Stephenson, Judge Webb and ex-Congressman Cook, the other candidates, followed suit. It required 100 legislative and caucus "ballots to end the fight.

mindful of the fact that Calixto Garcia, the former Cuban commanding general, shortly before, his death agreed while in Washington to have the United States advance 13,000,000 to the insurgents who are still under arms. This amount was to be paid in order to secure the prompt resumption of labor on the plantations of the island. One hundred dollars was to be paid to each of the 30,000 soldiers when the army was disbanded. Gen. Gomez opposes this scheme, which heretofore met with general satisfaction to most of the Cubans. Gomez says he is entitled to SII,OOO for his services as lieutenant general, which he claims is the American pay for that grade. Gonzales Quesada and Robert P. Porter will go to Cuba and endeavor to persuade Gomez that he is wrong.

J. V. QUARLES.