Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08

With the campaign drawing to a
close and election day near at hand,
the election of George W. Peck and the
entire Democratic state ticket is as
sured by handsome plurality. There
are bright prospects that the legislature
will be Democratic on Joint ballot.
There is promise that several congress
ion,l districts that are now represented
by Republicans will elect Democratic
representatives. Ii need cause no sur
prise should the returns show plural
ity for the Democratic electoral nomi-
nees. Whatever the outcome of the
election may be in regard to legislative,
congressional and electoral candidates,
it is absolutely certain that the Demo
cratic state ticket will be elected. The
reports that have been received at the
Democratic headquarters leave no
doubt that George w. Peck and his
associates upon the Democratic ticket
will be elected to the offices for which
they have been named
The present administration rests its
appeal to the people upon its professed
hostility to corporate interests. Its
campaign has degenerated into cam
paign of Islander and villification.
Though it reeks with corruption,
though it has wasted the peoples
money, neglected its official duties
TO engage in political intrigue,
and has saddled upon the tax
payers corrupt and odious aggrega-
ton of political shysters and heelers. il
has no defense to offer other than to
charge that its critics and opponents
have been debauched by the public
service corporations. No man is secure
from its SANDER or exempt from its
venom. Men of the highest character,
of unimpeachable integrity and I'M.
questioned honor are assailed as cEattles
of the railways. Democrats that are
faithful to their organization are
branded as puppets of the Stalwart
faction, and arc accused of having
trafficked their independence, their
manhood and their honor upon no
other evidence than that they decline
to desert their party or betray it into
the hands of its enemies. This mad
appeal to prejudice and passion, this
foul outpouring of venom and hatred,
has failed of its purpose. The great
majority of the people of Wisconsin
are not controlled by their impulses.
They are not given to Mysteries or to
unreasoning prejudice. The majority
of the electors are intelligent They
have had opportunity to compare the
performance of the present administra-
ton with its promises. Its inconsis-
tency, its hypocrisy, its insincerity, and
its false pretenses and lying accusations
are too transparent to enable it to
deceive the intelligent and unprecedented
electors of Wisconsin.
Eliminate its ISLANDERS, its falsehoods
and its pretensions and the present
state administration has not leg upon
which to stand. 1t has been weighed
in the balance and found wanting. 1t
is even unable to stand its own stencil,
and it is trying to disinfect itself by dis
claiming responsibility for its candidate
for state treasurer. 1t has not, how
ever, adopted the heroic remedy of
amputating all of its diseased members.
Were it to do so, naught would remain
but an evil spirit and an unfragrant
memory.
What are the issues in this campaign,
aside from the issues which the state
administration presents in its scanda-
lous, inefficient and extravaganza con-
duct of the state government?
The primary election act is not an