Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-04-08
The Election in WauSau.

Wausau, Wis, April 2.-The city cleo
ton here yesterday presents some inter
esting phases To those who are watch
ing state politics. Marathon county
is counted one of the strongholds of the
stal-wart machine, and WauSau is, of
course, the center of the strength.
Here live the stalwart leaders OF this
section, and here their influence should
be strongest OF course, Marathon
county sent La Toilette delegates to the
last state convention, because La Fol-
lette had a nomination by acclamatlOn
assured before the convention IN this
county was held, and band-wagon poll
ties has ever been the prevailing system
here. Marathon county politicians have
always figured that the way to win was
To be with the winnerS-So they have
always won. But the local machine is
wholly in the hands of the stal-wart
leaders. There is no show for any man
who is not stal-wart In WauSau Re
publlcanism.
A most aggressive campaign was car
ried on here this year by the stal-wart
machine, ON pureiy partisan lines, and
every member of the party was urged
To stand up and be counted, not because
of burning local issues, but because of
its effect on state politics. That was
the cry to which the stalwart leaders
urged their cohorts to rally. Then SEN
ator kreutzer went to Florida during
the campaign, Cornelius Curtis took y
pleasure trip 10 California. tien. Alylres
commenced TO pack his household
goods preparatory to his removal to
Chicago, aud Marvin b. Roseuberry,
junior partner Of Senator kreulzer ;
firm, was left To stand the stress of the
storm which the wise politicians knew
WAS coming, Just as the late George
Miswell was left alone two years ago 10
answer long-distance telephone calls
from up the stale asking why something
wasn't doing Thus the big ones can
come back after the storm is over aud
explain that if they had been here it
would have been different.
The campaign was managed on the
lines laid down by the stalwarsS in their
state organization. Bluff, swagger aud
mendacity characterized the conduct
of the canvass and the party found it
self pushed into one corner after an
other from which there was no escape,
purely by the lneycusable laundering of
the campaign management. Mr.. Ros-
enberry cannot fairly be held wholly
responsible for this There are four or
five men ia Wausau who have for years
insisted on being the whole Republican
party for Narration county aud To re-
tuee the supply ofpoliticai sagaeily at
one fell swoop down TO one, Is asking
too much of any individual Then Mr..
Rosen berry followed ia the footsteps
of his leaders and followed the pattern
set by the state machine. The trouble
was that the people Of WSnsau can read.
You cant ram palpable falsehood down
a community which is small enough 50
that il Knows All about its candidates.
personally And the Republican city
committee raised issues which they
should have known were false before
they raised them, if they did not in
fact know il. The people refused To
stand for that kind of politics la Fol-
lette carried the city by about $50 aud
Yesterday the democrats elected their
entire city ticket, the head of ii, Louis
Marchegti. hy nearly 800 That IS how
the local machine has built up its
strength for the stat campaign
The Fourth ward of Wausau is what
is known as the silk-stockiug ward. ln
this ward the republican candidate for
MAYOR lives, and there is no citizen OF
Wausan who ii more highly respect q
or personally popular. In this ward