He served as health officer of the Towns of Herman and Rubicon; and worked as United States pension examining surgeon in Milwaukee in 1893, and in 1894 transferred to the Horicon, Wisconsin regional headquarters.

Although Clason had been elected as a delegate to the state's Democratic convention, he was an outspoken advocate of the gold standard.

When the Chicago convention nominated William Jennings Bryan and adopted a free silver platform, he repudiated it.

According to his biography in the 1897 Wisconsin Blue Book, he endorsed the Republican presidential ticket of McKinley and Hobart, and Edward Sauerhering the Republican candidate for re-election in Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district; but the Milwaukee Journal had reported before the election that he was denying reports of his support for McKinley and advocating the National Democratic Party (Gold Democrat) ticket of Palmer and Buckner.

[6] He was elected to the Assembly's 1st Dodge County district (the Towns of Ashippun, Clyman, Emmet, Herman, Hubbard, Hustisford, Lebanon, LeRoy, Lomira, Rubicon, Shields, Theresa, and Williamston; the Village of Horicon, and the Fifth and Sixth Wards of the City of Watertown, and the city of Mayville, having been nominated by the Gold Democrats and endorsed by the Republicans.