Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-07-12


ton at st. Louis. and lpon taking the
chair he attacked the ''stand pat" policy
of the Republicans. His speech in part
follows:
There have always been two great par
ties who, since the FIRST national political
conventions, have elected delegates to
conventions for the purpose of selecting
q candidate and promulgating a platform.
One of these parties has gone through its
party election of delegates, has selected a
candidate and announced platform. 1t
was one of the quietest and most unan-
imous" occasions that the muses. of his
tory have recorded. Everything seems
to have been fixed beforehand
The address of the temporary chair
man of the Republican convention was in
one sense historical. 1t dealt much in
history. most of it ancient history, and a
great deal of it bad history.
There was a labored argument to prove
that the party of Roosevelt must, by
something like evolutionary process, act
as the party of Lincoln and Mckinley.
This was necessary in order TO disguise
the palpable fact that it is not so act
ing.
Not without reason, then, this labored
argument By this great and ingenious
lawyer! 1t was to draw away attention
from Rooseyeltism, its volcanic, erup-
tive character, by dwelling upon the
fact that. at some period of its history,
the Republican party has been "a party
which did things and did them safely.
The orator hoped to have the country
lose sight of the fact that it IS now in
both of its legislative branches a party
of passivity, of non-actioE, of obstruction
to reform and progress-in a word, a
party whose only sacred precept is the
shibboleth which maketh them known
one of them to the other shibboleth
drawn from the gamblers table-"stand
pat q precept born of cowardice and
fear to move.
Quotes Tariff Speeches.
have heard that in October, 1902, Mr.
Root made a political speech in Cooper
Union, New York. in which he used
this language:
IF tariff law has on the whole work
ed we'll, and if business has prospered
under it and if still prospecting, it is bet
ter to endure some slight Inconvenience
and inequalities for a time, than to In
cur the uncertainty and disturbance OF
business which necessarily results from
the process of making changes"
And l have heard that the President
in his political tour through the Wes
in the spring of 1903 made a speech ii
which he used this language:
If tariff law has on the whole work
ed well, and if business has prospereC
under it and is prospecting, it may be
better to endure some Inconvenience anC
inequalities for a time than by making
changes to risk causing a disturbance
and perhaps paralysis in the industrie:
and business of the country"
Verify! Two souls with but a single
thought. Two speeches that read like
one.
And that Single thought so harmoni
ously expressed is not to force single
special interest to take its lips from
the public breast for fear the public, find
ing them unnecessary, might shake then
ali off
The temporary chairman said speakin;
of the Republican party, through i
more than any other party the moral sen
timent of the American people finds ex
| preston" Going back to ancient his
| tory, in the Credit Momilier, in the D.
! Golyer-Ames scandal. in the whisky ring
| in the long saturnalia of southern recon
struction or where?
| IN, ,acoDt hicforv In bo
| Department? In the Public Lands Blu
| reau? In the full sway of bosses, for
| merly cursed so bitterly and now takel
so fondly to his bosom by the President
| In the celebrated order of Hell Roaring
| Jake" Smith. prescribing ten as the ag
above which children were to be kille,
| in one of the islands of the Philippines
| In the universal honeycombing of gu
! national life with the corruption of leg
islation-bought special privileges? Wha
has ancient history TO do with presen
niquities anyhow?
Mr. Root says offenders have bee
relentlessly prosecuted and sternly pun
| shed" Isn't this remarkable thunder
ing in the index for you, when com
| pared with actual Republican accom-
1 plishments? If there ever were a deter
! mination fully entertained and fnall.
carried out it was the determination 0
the Republican administration and tn
Republican legislative body to see to
that nobody should investigate the alleg
ed culprits in the Postoffice Department
except their colleagues in the executiv
branch of the government.
There follows something, however
| 1t-bioh will bo falrap Sari011clv Tho coo
rotary boasts that the per capita of cir
culation of money among the people il
the United States increased from $23. /
in March, 1897, to $3102 in May last
and that the credit for that and the con
sequent prosperity following it was du
to the Republican party.
Was Republican legislation operativ
| in South Africa and the Klondike an,
did it cause the discoveries of gol
there2 Did it cause the new invention
for the more profitable extraction of gol
from gold ore? Did Republican legisla
Son add two billions of gold to tn
! worlds stock of money metals in the las
| eight years? Was it Republican legisla
ton which made the immense crops o
cotton, wheat, corn, etc, which enable
these United States to draw more tina
their pro rata share of the worlds stoc
| of money metals, thereby increasing thei
own stock of gold by $700000,000?
The temporary chairman next boaste
that the Republican party had, by ma
nipulation, which he described, of tn
currency and certificate denomination
made it so difficult to get gold out o
the treasury, in exchange for other form
of money. that practically it cannot b
done at ali to any large extent, an
hence that all danger of an ''endles
chain thereby produced has ended.
The ex-Secretary then boasts that tn
Secretary of the Treasury can and doe
contract and expand the country's cuI
rency at his viii. and illustrates this b
the occurrences which happened in 1907
which he quotes. Remember. he boast
that this is a fact. II so. what a mag
nifee1t one-man power il is.
As TO the Republican platform. it
chiefly boast that the Republican part
is responsible for everything good whic
has happened.
Not only is the boast thar Mr. Mckin