The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-20
MILWAUKEE IN THE SADDLE.

i.
Milwaukee and launched a party las
week: that is he introduced a new func
ton after the fashion of populists, whose
appetite for politics is SO great that occa
sional political lunches must be INDUCED
in to stay the stomach before the tlmt
for regular meals arrive. From conven
ton toconvention a long time between
drinks for those inoculated with political
fervor communicated by contact with
populism Bryan is full of the germs OF
political unrest, and one glance OF his
eve one note of his voice is as potent t.
infame with ,ae lust Of politics as Is the
dsrr If Cupid to arouse the passion OF
love Rogers has become afflicted with
political rabies on the mere expectation
of having Bryan sup with him, and he
set ont for Milwaukee and bit 80 in that
city, who have thus become a close cor
poration with unlimited power to man
age Wisconsin democracy.
Rogers, while acting as medicine
man on this occasion, had no powers as
Rogers the whilom mayor of the capital
city and present life insurance man. He
exercised delegated power by virtue of
anticipatorv hobnobbing with the deified
Bryan His functions We're vicarious,
but We're unquestioned because he was
soon TO bask in the light of that Great
Presence which has lighted up the path
of duty and given new trend to acts of
political conscience Rogers had no diff
ficulty in securing recognition of his Gre
dentials as vice-gerent of Bryan with
men
Who would lay down their lives for the swain
Who would sing but song in his praise"
albeit Milwaukee seldom takes kindly to
ideas regarding state politics which are
not indigenous to its own prolific soil.
The Wisconsin democracy is now ex-
pected to yield prompt submission to The
Thirty Tyrants, satraps of Bryan, whose
'uomes were suggested to Mr. Bruce
as being in full sympathy with doctrines
enunciated in the Chicago platform and
with views reflected by w j. Bryan"
on whom political prescience descended
because in his own house he had touched
the hem of Bryan's garments and had
come under the influence at close range.
He charged 30 from his storage battery
of political orthodoxy; but Peck crawled
Il, Ia, l.,
duction
These 30, plus Peck. may now speak
ex cathedra to democrats throughout the
state Milwaukee is the brain and while
there may be ganglia throughout the
state their function is subsidiary They
originate nothing but serve as accessor-
les Milwaukee has always acted thus
prepared the plan OF campaign without
consulting the provinces, and issued man
dates which Were executed with The
ready obedience of conscious vassalage
and the hulAility Of practiced submis-
sion. Delegates attended state conven-
tlons with fine show of credentials as the
peoples representatives only 10 ratify
what Milwaukee had decided upon and
10 which the balance of the state was
graciously permitted to assent. The iron
hand of authority has generally been
concealed by the velvet glove of persua-
sion, but this poor fiction of voluntary
procedure on the part of the balance of |
the state will no longer be permitted to |
mask humiliation at placement of indi-
yidpality and abiect surrender to self
constituted bosses, whose warrant to Iii |
rect is residence in city whose politics
is its shame.
Trace the present movement TO its in
ceptiqn and when the pin-point of be-
ginning Is discovered, contrast that with |
the contiagration of enthusiasmwhich the |
political incendiaries will claim was
spontaneous and general and famed to
magnitude by the breath |
Of the people. 4 conference between w. |
]. Bryan, candidate, and w. G. Bruce
chairman of the Milwaukee democratic
committee was the genesis of this ground |
swell which is to be
Behold, how great matter little !
fire kindleth. Mr. Bruce takes his pen
in hand and sends invitations TO 80 per
sons whose names are in full sympathy
etc. to devise ways and means to relieve
the convention of 1900 of the onerous
duty of forming opinions or expressing
preferences a. to candidates or issues.
The delegates if they are tractahle, may
meet and make motions and thus put the
stamp Of regularity and popular approval
upon what has been decreed.
IL remains for democrats to decide
whether they will tamely submit to the
Milwaukee oGgarchy The present at
tempt at dictation is open, palpable. ar
rogant, what Milwaukee always has
been with bold assumption replacing
counterfeit expression of regard Why
should Wisconsin accept Milwaukee tn