Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-11-25
Mamsaaa pilot.
TUESDAY, NOV. %, 1909.
Published weekly and entered stthe Post Office
at Waussu as second class matter.
Where Does Senator Spooner
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The men who are declaring with
so much vehemence that John g. Spoon
er will be reelected to the United
State senate this winter without opposi-
ton, are generally men whose absorb
iton, in practical politics has stunted
their intelligence in other directions
To us it appears that Mr.. Spooner can
be saved only by public sentiment, and
is public opinion so favorable to the
candidacy of Mr.. Spooner as some OF his
professional friends attempt to make
out? If he is not greatly misunderstood
by the people of Wisconsin nothing
of the Independent voters to whom
Republicans owe their overwhelming
success since 1896. But is Mr.. Spooner
misunderstood? We have thought he
was not. His speeches in the late cam
paign were a disappointment to those
who had hoped to find him standing
on advanced ground with the president.
1t seemed to us that his attitude on the
tariff and trusts was suggestive of
Bourbonism more than anything else.
From Wausau comes this letter to The
journal, written by man of independ-
ent thought and high ideas of his duty
as a citizen:
To the Editor of The Journal:
enclose a clipping from The Pilot, a
local Democratic paper for Nov. 4. You
will see that the subject is Senator
Spooner, and that paper treats him
with some severity. 1t is my opinion
that he deserves castigatioD on ali sides
for his abusive speeches in the campaign
juss closed. He should learn the opinions
Of the humblest citizen are as sacred as
his own and must be respected. If he does
rot like the kind of treatment this paper
accords him, let him set the examplein
courtesy. How it lowers our estimation
of the United States senate to be
perpetually reminded that he is one of
the greatest if not the very greatest
men among them. INDEPENDENT.
Wausau, Wis, Nov. 3, 1902.
1t is not necessary to reprint the arti-
Gle. which is uncommonly well-written,
castigating Senator Spooner, who Is
likened to the old Bourbons of France
who forgot nothing and learned nothing
He is held to be wanting entirely in SYM
patty with the progressive spirit which
is making itself felt in the Republican
party and foe Of a revision of the tariff
that will afford some relief to the con-
sumner. His proposition to dispense
with elections for twenty years is re-
garded not as the fiippancy of partisan
stump speaker, but the expression OF a
settled conviction. Milwaukee journal
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On Sunday, Nov, 23d, the Milwaukee
Journal entered upon the 2lst year of
its existince, as lively as you please and
as independent as "hog on ice"
Well, the PILoT has always admired
the Journals independence and con-
sid9rs that element its great source of
strength-and the Journal certainly
cuts wide suath in moulding public
opinion. 1t states its principles well, in
the following language:
1.-The journal has always held to the
good old Democratic gospel of belief
in all the people. 1t has believed that
all the people are wiser than any part
of them, and that they work out their
own proplems intelligentIy and to
ultimate good purpose. Believing this,
: The Journal appeals to the intelligence
of the reading public 1t prints all
phases of the news, and while it is
never neutral, it is never an abject slave
to any party. Independence is not
only compatible with the highest pur-
poses of journalism, it is in harmony
with the greater political thought of
the day, nationally and internationally.
Newspaper readers will form their own
opinions if they are furnished an ae-
curate statement of facts. This is The
Journals constant effort and that il is
measurably successful it is steadily
growing clientage bears witness,
than to merit public confidence
Long live the Journal