Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30
CAME INTO THE FOLD.
Democratic Editor of THEE Papers in Mon
roe County VIII Support Mckinley,

Announcement has been made by
Editor Jay II. Hincley that hencefOrth
The Daily Herald-Advertiser of
Sparta, The Sparta Advertiser aud
The Tomah Herald, which have been
democratic, will support the admins
tration Of President Mckinley in
party sense, "aS we'll as in a sense of
duty that every American citizen owes
to the government under which he
lives" Mr.. Hincley's announcement,
which is printed in all three papers, is
as follows:
1t is but a short shift from the
democratic to the republican fold,
and why? Simply because the leaders
of the former have adopted vaScil-
lating, nOndeSCript policy that holds
to nothing. accomplisheS nothing, and
when in power amounts to nothing for
the sturdy, old-time supporters of the
party when it was in it's pristine
power and strength. To prove this
one has only to revert to the period of
its last administration, when with its
full control it made such egregious
blunderS as the Wilson tariff make
shift bill, the bond issuing and the
docile party of the administration in
reference to Cuba Ever resonant in
platform pledges, only to pass into
''inocuous desuetude" when the
victory had been won and the OppOr-
tunty TO test the correctness of the
policies had presented itself to those
in power These things of them
selves were enough to make the road
easy, but when at the same time the
republicans were going over the way
trOd by the modern democracy and
were picking up "lOSt opportunities"
by such adaptations as Blaine's Splen-
did reciprocity. the humane and
patriotic aid of the Cubans, and later,
the placing of the United States
squarely into the column of the
worlds nations by the Philippine
policy, then it was that one could find
no difficulty in passing from one to the
other.
Like many another democrat we
tarried yet Il little, but when the
populistS who secured temporary con-
troll were made the permanent mana
gers, and when Organism and policy
that had been overwhelmingly con-
demned at the polls were still thrust
upon suffering, a diSmembered party,
and when with unbluShing etfronterv
leaders uttered such words and took
such action as bordered upon treason,
the ways parted and we no longer fol-
low the party name, stolen by the
new mongrel crowd of uncanny demo-
Gratis and refugees from populism and
all the other iSmS and dangerous
tenets of this later political age.
Henceforth The Daily Herald Adj
vertiser, The Sparta Advertiser and
The Tomah Herald will give support
to the present administration in a
party sense as we'll as in a sense of a
duty that every American citizen owes
to the government under which he
lives. How answering, and how just
to the opposition, and how fruitful to
the interests of the republican party,
we ask time to demonstrate in the
future in the columns of our papers.
Here is grasp of the hand for show
ing Il patriotic, united front as a
nation to the other powers of the
world, to putting down the inSurrec-
tion in far-away Philippines or where
ever else under the American flag. it
may raise its hydra-headed front, and
such an adjustment of government for
Cuba, Porto Rico. the Philippines as
the future eXigencieS and conditions
may warrant, so it be free and repub-
lican in form.