Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-26

! preached the gospel of their master in
every hamlet of the state 1t is
nondescript array of talent that has
been gathered for this crusade, with
extremes between the highest and the
lowest. In its ranks are the patriots
who laboriously pick up the Iittering
leaves in the capital park, or who spend
toilsome days in policing the squirrels
and birds that disp0rt themselves in
that sylvan spot, or in playing 2inochle
in the lower galleries of the capital,
while affairs OF state are being consid-
cred above them. Then come the game
wardens, compact, weIl-discipIined
and growing body of men, their souls
with but single thought, their hearts
that beat as one. They are sent here
and there, where they will do the most
good in the cause of purity and reform.
] Call Republican primary at any
place howso'er sequestered it may be
and the omnipresent game war
dens will start from every thicket:
they will be sitting on the front
steps waiting for the loors to
open. You may wake up any morn
| ing and find that new game warden
has been born overnight at your next
door neighbours. There are fifty or
sixty of this company now, and their
monthly bills for salaries and expenses
range from Sl20 per month to $3.50. &.
+; "A little while ago such an expend-
iture of public money would have been
| looked on as atrociouS Yet sueh is
the debauchery of public opinion that
| it has the support of the entire La
| Toilette wing of the Republican party.
1t is looked on as a capital joke BY the
party humorists and with curbstone
| politicians the creation and organiza-
ton of this body of political heelers is
proof of smartness.
1.-The broadcast and most Gargantuan
! humOr of the situation is the philippe
of the La Toilette convention against
the pernicious activity of federal office
| holders.
Here is this plank in all its delicious
entirety:
"We condemn the pernicious activ-
(, ity of the federal officials in this state
in fragrant disregard of civil service
laws, in attempts to forestall and con-
troll the convention of the party to
which they owe their appointment
occasional disclosures have been
made OF the misuse of public funds that
| have shocked the people Of the state
but if the full truth ever becomes known
they will stand aghast over the work of
their servants. These evils have suf-
| fered no diminutiou under Governors La
Follette's administration, they have
rather grown into more evil proportions.
is there anything in this record of
the state administration to invite the
countenance or support of any democrat
or OF any good citizen of either party !?
Is there anything in this record that
does not belle every claim of those who
are asking democratic support for it in
this cam paign? The loaded wagon is
too heavy with evil freight for any
democrat to want to ride thereon.
OPPOSES PRIMARY ELECTION LAW.
1--WE can make no mistake in oppos-
ing the LaFollette primary election
law. although it is heralded as letter.
perfect. | would go no further in this
direction than TO enact a primary cleo
| tion law for cities and for the selection
OF local, county and municipal officers
and as means of naming delegates to
conventions. | believe that it is wise
| for us TO have party conventions at
stated times where the chosen repre-
sentatives of political parties may meet
and confer as to candidates and upon
| political questions. Conservative men
in all parties have the right To ask that
there be no radical legislation in this
| field. Good laws are a growth they
are not born in a day They do not
spring into full-fedged perfection from
| the brains OF closeted dreamers or sell
fish seekers for power.
| Upon national policies we advocate
those principles of right and Justice and
of good government that are never old
and that cannot be too often referred to
AS guides to action. Under its mon
strous tariff system the republican party
has created a Frankenstein that it can
not destroy or rid itself OF. and that fol-
lows it implacably through all cam
paigns. 1t stands before this noHs'
with palsied hands, begging for life Il
has increased import duties and stihed
healthy foreign competition to such an
extent that between campaigns one-haM
OF the party is in open revolt against
the system and the other half is, Bour-
bon-like, clinging blindly to its idols.
SPEAKS ON TRUSTS AND TARIFF.
1--WE have learned from republican
sources since our last campaign that
trust made products were being sold
abroad at prices considerably less tnan
those charged at home to the domestic
consumer, and that this was done Sc
cause we had protected the domestic
consumer against foreign competitiOa.
MIR. Schwah, the eminent expoiter
OF the steel crust, testified before an in
vestigating committee of congress that
the trust was selling rails in Europe at
S23 a ton ard at the same time was sell
ling rats iu this country at S2S ton.
In The coming campaign we shall no
doubt be cheerfully informed that these
things are merely democratic lies. We
have been told that is was the plain
duty OF the republican party, which
would be faithfully performed, to mete
justice out to Cuba by giving her pro-
ducts freer entrance into this country
through tariff reduction. We have
been over and over again informed
through republican spellbinding that
reciprocity and protection went hand in
hand that they were regular Siamese
twins-aud yet every reciprocity treaty
has been defeated by the protected in
terests and poor Cuba has been treated
with broken promises and broken faith.
MUST KEEP TRUST OVER PHILIPPINES
Regarding the Philippines, those of
US who have believed that we should
put down armed rebellion there aud
esla blish good government and extend
to those people that full measure of
constitutional rights which we claim
for ourselves. have seen the same tenn
porizing course and have been the vic
inns OF misplaced confidence.
Speaking for myself and for no other,
| will say that whether it was wise for
us TO accept the title and sovereignty to
those islands or not. is a question that
has passed into history. We have
them and we must faithfully perform
our trust 10 these wards pf our civiliz.
tion. That trust is not faithfully exc
cuied II We shall leave them TO the
shifting humor OF our changing politi-
cal dynasties. | do not claim that We
should give them statehood. for we