Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-07-30
.eFilIed Cheese Politics.
fNnwaukee TeIegrsph. J

cOnsin political situation Is a filled
cheese.-Fond du Lac Reporter.
This isn't bad idea. There has
been too much bogus filling in the
Wisconsin political cheese. 1t has
been too easy for political managers
to turn themselves b sses before state
legislatures and the national house
Of representatives. 1t has been too
easy for both parties to breed up a
tribe Of parasites, chore boys for poll
lltlcal leaders, who have acted as
lobbyists before various legislative
bodies, and who like their chiefs have
wrought to the positive detriment
Of their parties and the country. We
speak now more particularly ofthere-
publican party. The history Of men
who have lobbied unjust measures
through the legislature at Madison
and through congress is that Of men
who have struck steady, telling, hard
blows against the best interests Of the
republican party, greatly weakening
it. They have carried through legis-
! Iatures measures which have been
positive oppression 70 the many In
order that individuals and corpor-
ations might fatten ON what did not
rightly belong to them. All such
work as that has been injurious, not
to the state and the people alone, but
to the republican party. such work
may well be called filed cheese poll
tics. 1t Is that 1t Is an imposition
on parties and on the state. 1t is
positive wrong. 1t ought to be
eliminated, and if Governor Hoard
and his friends are engaged in work
that will result in eliminating it, give
them all praise.
The Fond du Lac Reporter is right.
Wisconsin has had too much filed
cheese politics. Let us have an i'm
provement. Let us have straight goods
for a change. Let the masses of the
party drive to the rear that class Of
politicians which bends everything
TO its personal, selfish interest; that
class Of politicians that is two-faced;
that class Of politicians that is dis
grace to the party it clings to.
There is widespread feeling against
such leaders, such trieksters, men
who will adopt methods, no matter
what their character, so long as they
promise to keep them in power to
make them the leaders, 10 constitute
them the bright and shining lights
the whole thing.
| The war was not begun one minute
too soon. Y ought too have begun
years ago. One sure way to help
along the contest is for state central
committees to refuse to receive vast
sums Of money from few men Of
wealth and from corporations to
carry on campaigns illegitimately,
for campaigns carried on with bar
rels or Doodle are usually illegitimate.
Let the masses Of the party make up
q legitimate campaign fund. The
masses do not ask for a mortgage
| which they foreclose soon after the
election Is carried. The other folks
have; the other folks will as long as
they are permitted to make up the
fund to carry on Doodle campaigns,
to debaueh the public with their
pocketbooks and check-books.
Let the masses Of the party, the
/ honest yeomanry, the bone and sinew
Of the great patriotic organization,
the party of Abraham Lincoln, take
the business of conducting its politics
into its own hands instead offarming
4 il out ~ machine that has, in the
past, used it for its selfish ends, and
Will SO continue to use it if permitted
to manage it, affairs.
Let the coming Republican state
convention be made up Of independ-
emit, self-respecting, broad minded
republicans in whose nose there are
no rings % which wires can be at
tached for their handling by tricky
political manipulators. Let that
convention nominate for governor a
man who has brain enough to be
governor and n heart that will
prompt him TO be governor for the
whole state, who will be no corpo-
ration boss, no individual boss, but
who viii look to the people who ele-
waited him TO that high station in all
matters pertaining to his party, and
who viii look to All Of the people in
the state in everything pertaining to
his duties as governor; one who will
keep close 10 the people.
There is no sense in trying to dis
guise the fact that too much filled
cheese politics, bogus politics, poll
ties that are a fraud, have cuta large
figure in making it possible for