Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-09-20
Political Potnonrri.

ROHtIcal IOtpOurrt.
The Republicans want 1.-The support"
of Wall street, but they wish Mr. Nor
gan and Mr. Rockefeller would not be
so ELUSIVE about it as to attract at
tention.
Senator Lodge wishes he had al
lowed those reciprocity treaties to
come to vote in the Senate and the
business men of Massachusetts would
take more stock in his present pretend
ed reciprocity sentiments.
Teddy has met the terrible Turk and
vanquished him without even a smell
of powder, and If some other country
does not give our navy job there will
be nothing for it TO do but come home
and dance attendance on the Four
Hundred at Newport.
Secretary Shaw has started out on
his spell-binding tour, and will tell the
voters that high trust prices are sure
sign of prosperity, and that if the
Democrats are allowed to push him
away from the official trough there
will be dire disaster for everyone.
The nows from Oyster Bay is of a
very contradictory character 1t is
given out daily that President Roose-
Welt will not interfere in New York
politics. In the same breath it is de-
clared that about all the leading poll
ticians have been invited to come and
talk it over"
Another concentrate order has been
issued by Governor Wright in the Phil
ippines, and yet President Roosevelt
tells us that everything is moving
along peacefully there. If old General
Weyler were alive h.w he would laugh
at our efforts and our adoption of his
Cuban system of benevolent assim-
iIation."
Flour has gone Up one dollar bar
rel, but the price of radium has de-
creased one million dollars a pound.
Carroll d. Wright, of the Labor Bu-
reau, will have to get out another bull
letin and show that living expenses
are stationary. for -four and radium
will Offset each other, according TO his
way of figuring.
There is great rejoicing in Jelaware.
Addicks has announced that he will be
a candidate until he is elected or dies,
and that every Republican, especially
the colored brethren, should register
and be prepared to vote. There is a
rush to register. but the voting will not
proceed very lively until the cash is
produced.
The Republican campaign book
might be called an official document;
1t should be entitled TO free distribu-
ton through the mails under frank,
for it was prepared in government
department 1t is wonder the Re
publican National Committee did not
have the gall to print the book at the
government printing office.
The Filipinos may be getting all the
freedom they are capable of enjoying.
but the Americans in the Philippines
would prefer having jury trial in
stead OF being tried by a Spanish
Judge. If tle Constitution had fol-
lowed the flag to the Philippines. the
editors lately convicted of SANDER
would possibly be enjoying more COM
Portable quarters.
a press dispatch says special agent
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor is investigating the beef strike
If President Roosevelt would use the
mass Of information already gathered
10 originally prosecute the beef trust
he would help the beef consumers and
the strikeFs at the same time. One
beef baron in Jail would bring the
whole ofew 10 terms.
The Republican campais- sext book
6 out. and for the asking anyone can
learn the real truth about Teddy and
the trusts: how to have reciprocity
without reciprocating; how the door
has been opened in China. but we can't
get in: how honestly and caIAbly the
administration has run fhe govern
ment without fraud or guile: and how
the Republican party BIS put up the
price of wheat for the farmer and re-
duced the cost Of living to the balance
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