JOHN COIT SPOONER
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Essentially Spooner was correct in his predictions. Only, most people in Wisconsin, and later the nation, saw the existing system of candidates picked by party bosses, to be far worse.
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John Coit Spooner was a politician and lawyer from Wisconsin. He served in the United States Senate from 1885 to 1891 and from 1897 to 1907. A Republican, by the 1890s, he was one of the "Big Four" key Republicans who largely controlled the major decisions of the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt of Connecticut, William B. Allison of Iowa and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island.
