The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-01-28

MILWAUKEE failed to get tie national |
convention aud it may well feel relieved |
that 1t did SO, for as yet the city is utter
~ unable to care for such a crowd as the
convention will attract. But it was not
for this reason that it failed of recogni-
ton. Milwaukee never had ghost of
show since the opening of congress.
There is no denying the fact that what
ever there is Of the machine III the man
agement of the national affairs of the
party, is in the hands Of the political
triumvirate,- German, Hill and Brice.
These men maintain their power as much
through their readiness to punish what
/ they deem misconduct as to reward al
/ legiance. They are not speechmakers
+ but they are adroit manipulators, shrewd
men who are quick TO draw conclusions
and prompt to act as their interests might
dictate. They allow no opposing faction
/ the prestige of even delusive victory.
! The Wisconsin democracy won a victory
/ in 1890 which elated it bevond the bounds
OF fitting subordInation to national au-
| thority. The sentiment in the state in
favor of Cleveland was unmistakabIe.
The three political dictators are not
fighting Cleveland SO much as they are
a seemingly spontaneous offering of the
Presidency to any man, who would thus
be at liberty to disregard their counsel.
Not one of the trio would express disap-
proval OF the plan of campaign whereby
Wisconsin was made democratic. But
the arrogance of power was distasteful,
particularly when it sought to measure
| strength with the national machine, as il
did in the speakership contest. It was
not the individual congressman who gave
offense, but the state. The Wisconsin
managers should have known better. As
it now transpires, Mills was not such an
ideal Of perfection as the Wisconsin
democracy with emotional devotion, pro-
fessed he was. Besides when the con-
test had the whole nation for field the
Bennett law, which did such yeoman ser
vice on the local manure heap, didn't even
provoke cackle of enthusiasm.
Wisconsin was punished then bat it
still magnitied the Importance of its VIC
tory and refused to acknowledge it was
hedged by locality. To be successful in
securing the convention would cause for
getfulness of the spanking received in
the appointment of congressional COM
mittees. 1t was just as necessary that
the state should be taught its insignif-
canoe IN national politics as it is that the
conceited boy in school be taught he
doesn't know anything" as preliminary
to giving HIM instruction. And this was
done with all the thoroughness which the
exlgency of the case demanded The
greater the assurance of success the
more crushing the defeat which was to
follow. Wisconsin will send solid Cleve-
land delegation to Chicago 1t was as
certain to do this two months ago as it is
now. But it will not have the aggressive
force of a body flushed with recent VIC.
, tory, nor the magnificent audacity to as.
sumo to dictate policy for the nation
on the ground that it represents a state
which sat down on the Bennett law and
squashed It beyond all possibility OF
resurrection.
There may be silver lining to every
, cloud, and 1t may rebound much to ou1
advantage to realize that we are not
quite as big as we thought we were. There
was such large crop af apostles in
charge of local papers throughout the
state, preaching the "only true and saw
ing" political religion that the thing was
bewilderiug and fellow found it mighty
hard to know just what to do to be saved
1t seemed so hard to be good under di-
rectlons SO conflicting and from sources
so numerous, that those who concluded
to level in righteousness rather than
work for place in the Kings temple, are
not wholly without excuse. Hill may be,
like experience lard teacher, but the
similarity may be kept up to the limit of
thoroughness. At least he induced the
lnvinclble Wisconsin democracy to so far
dlstrust their puissance as to court favor
at his hands by cheering the mention o.
his name. Hill is good deal of a Jim
Dandy after all and The Oshkosh Times
Is to be congratulated on it's good luck in
tying to him.