Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-18
The Great Champion.


The Wausau Record sneers at the fell
citation by The Times of the democratic
party of the state of Wisconsin upon
the fact that the party was fortunate
enough to have Mr. Bryan open the
campaign in person and be present
when the tocsin was sounded.
| The Record says:
I "Tocsins are very fine things, and an
| impetus to democratic affairs is indis-
| pensable, but a great champion of
political freedom is a person who ranks
the tocsin and impetus several grades.
Never before since the days of the
X. X. Il. has there been a more crying
need for great champion of political
freedom. But we dc not require his
services in Wisconsin We have here
enough political freedom for all, and
we have in addition a certain amount
of license of which those who wish ~
| libel and SANDER public men may, and
do, avail themselves"
| The last statement, The Times will
concede to the Record. We will admit
that the Record furnishes abundant
proof of the accuracy of the assertion
by the abuse which it heaps upon the
democratic candidate for the presidency
in the very article of which the above
extract forms part.
But, to the averment that there is no
need at present for a champion of polit-
ical liberty in Wisconsin, we except.
What does republican victory in the
state of Wisconsin mean this fall?
does it not mean that the ultra know
nothing wing of the republican party is
to be placed at the helm of affairs !?
Does it not mean that the man who
boosted that he would assist in ''cram-
ming the Bennett law down the throats''
of the German American citizens of the
state is to be placed in the chair of the
chief executive Does not republican
victory this fall mean that that apostle
of the cruel bigotry of nativism, Former
Governor Hoard, is to be groomed for
the United States senate !? Both La
Toilette and Hoard are known to reek
with the narrowness of religious and
national prejudice. Is there no need of
champion of political liberty to pre-
vent, if possible, their being placed in
power?
In the same article, the Record de-
livers this singing jab at the democracy
Let Mr.. Bryan, the great champion
| of political freedom, hasten to the
southern states where one class of citi-
ZenS is engaged in the connection and
| execution of schemes whereby the
members of another class of citizens
are to be deprived of their political
freedom. 1t he can succeed in prevent
ing his party from accomplishing its
designs in the south he will have
wrought great work, and future gen
erations will bless him."
The Record ought to post itself upon
the current news of the day and it
would save itself the ignominy of per-
petrating SO great blunder as is the
intimation contained in the above
Did the Record occasionally read the
Associated Press dispatches published
by the The Oshkosh Times and other
large, up-to-date journals, it would
know better than to make such loose
and inaccurate statements, though even
then it is doubtful if it could rise above
partisan prejudice sufficiently, or is
honest enough to give the matter fair
presentation. But the Record should
know that the fact of the matter is that
the law attaching the qualification of
being able to read and write to suffrage
in the state of North Carolina, which of
course is what the Wausau paper is
limiting at, was devised by both whites
and blacks for the purpose of taking
the negro question" out of politics in
that state. The Record should know
further that the law was voted for by
OhC OidChS VI tuG Slttte, III
GLIDING the faculty of the only negro
institute in the state. The Record
should know further that Mr.. Booker
L. Washington, the Moses of the black
race in this country, has declared the
North Carolina law good one and
that any law that changes the trend of
the Negroes mind from politics to in
dustry is good.
Again, since this race question APP
pears to trouble the Record SO much,
why should that paper advocate the
paying of millions of money and thous-
ands of lives for another race question
to add to its already full list of troublesg
The Record is all right according to
its light But before it undertakes to
discuss political questions or any cur
rent topic it ought to read up--Oshkosh
Times.