Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
UNFAIR CRITICISM.


city convention. The Mayors letter is
dignified but pointed reply to the
charges made against the city govern
ment
We also publish the disingenious and
evasive reply of Mr. Rosenberg, who
refers to the Mayors letter as a "chal-
lenge or manifesto, or illumination, or
whatever it should be properly called
The people of Wausau will judge be-
tween the Mayor and his carping critics.
Mr.. Rosenberg says it is not he who
is responsible for those planks in the
platform, but the republican party is.
He shifts his responsibility upon his
party and finds fault with the Mayor,
because the Mayor, like the man he is,
accepts the responsibility for the city
government Which course commends
itself best to the people They will
decide that by theirvotes.
The sneer, ttat Mr.. Marchetti has
had no experience in republican con-
ventions, will do him no harm. IL is
true that his political convictions and
associations do aot change with every
unfavorable breeze; that he is not
political acrobat as some OF his critics;
ne is Il democrat and has never made
secret of his democracy; and being
democrat he has;never been delegate
in any other, but democratic conven-
| ton
Mr. Rosenberg says Nobody has
accused you or anyone else of misappropri-
ating The funds Of the city, but you have
made claims which it is impossible to
substantiate," etc.
Our Mayor has made no claims at all,
except in reply to the republican plat
form-he is not given to Dragging,
every body knows that. Let nobody be
fooled
1t is the Mayor who is on trial; this
democratic administration is his adj
minisFation; if it was bad, he is to
blanchard should be retired; if it was
good, ne deserves the credit, instead of
unfair, carping criticisms.
1t appears now from Mr.. Rosenber-
RVS own letter, that 20 money was
raised for an engine house-nor was
there any money appropriated for that
purpose. He might also have truth
| fully said, that there was no money
for such purpose in the treasury"
Were the city finances juggled for
political purpose?
Much space is spent to prove that
there was no bad meaning in the word
''juggled," ana che correspondent I'M
derstands now til Pt it was meant in the
sense of amusing This is crawling into
very small hole and pulling the hole
in afterwards. Let's have the detini-
ton of the word as given by Webster,
which Mr.. Rosenberg in his letter does
not give. 1t is this Juggle-to prac-
tice artifice or imposture.
"Be these juggling friends no more believed
shakespeare.
| ITO deceive by tricks an imposture, decep-
| ton
| In his correspondence MIR. Rosenber-
ry admits that he cannot find out how
or in what manner the city funds were
iuggled. 1t would take an expert to
find out. Well, then, who was the ex-
pert that informed the committee of
the jugglery? II he knew it he must
be able 20 show Is up. if he did not
| know it then he drew on his magma
ton for his facts, not caring whether it
was true or untrue. In order to lam
it to the democratic party ia one way
or another he speaks of the foolishness
or wrong of the democratic party in
putting in a system of waterworks and
in making the debt payable in eighteen
years, Our waferworks sysem is the
glory of Wausau; ii was put in under
democratic government in spite of
the opposition of some prominent re-
publican business men. Everybody is
now glad that we own this plant. Ash
land, Appleton, Oshkosh and many
other cities wouii be glad if they owned
their own system. too.
Mr.. Rosenberg says: ut may be
good business under the conditions, as
they exist, for the city to borrow from
the trust fund" lmeaning the sinking
fund for the payment of these water
works bonds.l
And in the next sentence he calls such
borrowings democratic wrong" Was
it wrong to take! that money instead of
borrowing in banks and paying inter
est? People wall not agree to any
such propositions, especially as this
fund was kept intact by tax levy.
Why do not these critics say, hon
estly: I'VE are republicans, you are
democrats, aud we want the offices
We want To use tliis election to marshall
our forces for next county and state
elections
That would be honest, and that is
what you are after; but do not attempt
to win this election on pretense that
the city government deserves to be con-
demned and denounced
With naivety which is only par
allied by the affei,ted explanation that
no particular harm was meant by the
platform eondemning and denouneing
the city government, the correspondent
speaks of the grand, old, republican
party, etc, in one breath
the late lamenteG President Mckinley
and the present chief executive
Who can tell now, whether there viii
not be the same conflict in national
affairs next fall in the republican
party, as there is now in the state A
judieious, but ominous silence is OBJ |
served, regarding the republican state |
administration. is this silence the re-
suit of accident or was there a pur-
pose Is the Governor of Wisconsin |
false to his trust, and is the party to be |
organized now 70. his overthrow, and |
for the elevation of Whitehead. of |