Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-22
ONLY ONE ISSUE LEFT.
~ L. the Offices, and the Dem ocrats
will Never Abandon 1t.


will Never Abandon 1t.
There is one issue the Democrats have
not and never will abandon-the Of
fees. With a light heart and an easy
conscience they are willing to swallow
the gold standard, to enter nolle PROSE-
as to the tariff robbery" to con-
struct the Panama Canal and to post
pone independence for the Philippines
until the Filipinos have donned clothes,
but the offices-these they must have or
the last excuse for their party's exist
ence is gone
Editor Pulitzer is writing page upon
page Of open letters in the New York
World, which prints them because
he owns it, to prove that Theodore
Roosevelt and he alone is the issue
The paramount issue Of this campaign"
the editor writes, addressing himself d.
rect to the President, sis not as you
would have it, free trade or free silver,
but YOU YOURSELF - Theodore
Roosevelt. This issue inforced upon the
country by your unusual temperament
and talent-your own strong, able. am
bilious. resourceful, militant, passionate
personality, your versatile and surpris-
ing genius"
III this were not meant to be alarm
ing 1t would fittingly describe one side
of the personality OF the Republican
standard bearer worthy OF being print
ed in flaming type and posted at every
cross roads in the country. Add to ii
the unquestioned attributes Of honesty
courage and patriotism. AID you have
the true measure of the head of the
Republican ticket. Mr.. Pulitzer cannot
lind that the possession of any of the
impuisive and willful traits he has at
tribnted tc the President has led him
into hasty, arbitrary or il-consdered
acts, or into any policy inimical to the
public welfare or that has not been
fully justified by the event.
No higher tribute could be paid TO the
President than the way in which he has
been singled out by Mr.. Pulitzer as the
one engrossing, overShadowing issue of
the campaign.
Now. why does Mr.. Pulitzer wish to
get rid OF President of such known
and approved qualities to make way for
the infested and inexperienced master
OF Rosemount?
The answer is plain-THE OFFICES.
MIR. Pulitzer is Democrat-a trans
planted Missouri Democrat. He knows
that the national Democracy is very
hungry and very thirsty and that it is
| weary of feeding upon the husks that
| fall t. the share OF the opposition party
| at Washington.
So long as Mr.. Roosevelt is in the
White House Mr. Pulitzer knows that
| every office. outside of the classified
service. will 20 to a Republican, provid-
| ed there is no Democrat SO much better
qualified for il that to ignore his claims
would create national scandal
What Mr.. Pulitzer and the Democracy
want Is that the only tombstone of fit
ness for federal Offices shall be the fray
ed maxim Of David Il. Hill, Il am a
| Democrat" Upon this issue he has no
m'sgivings as to the firm and irreyoca-
BILE convictions of the Sphinx of Esopus.
In Judge Parker's eyes the author of the
| maxim 10 the yictorS belong the spoils"
was the greatest statesman, not except
ing Boss Tweed. New York has ever
produced. And Mr.. Pulitzer believes
that Democratic mummy of the Marcy
| school in the White House would nor
permit any question of fitness TO inter
fere between the faithful aud the fed
eral pay roll.
At present the sturdy, robust repub-
lcanism OF Theodore Roosevelt stands
between the Democracy and the offices.
How 10 remove this stumbling block in
the path of the lean and hungry wan
derers of 1896 and 100 is the supreme.
the only issue left to the Democracy.
Ii national election could be deeid-
ed by the voters wanting job, ire
spective of their fitness for il, the De
mocracy under the leadership of Mr..
Pulitzer would be inyincible.