Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-28

republic deign to take notice of our
present political condition, they must
view with horror the lapse from the
Constitutional government they estab-
lished. The Congress of the United
States was originally the supreme law
making power. responsible only to the
people who elected its members. Now,
however. Congress is governed by an
olIgarchy, and that oIigarchy in turn
Is moved by the greed for spells to fol-
low where President Roosevelt leads.
The government has become a per-
sonal one of which the President is the
head and dictator. The whole machin-
cry of government is, to the smallest
detail. being run in the interest Of
Theodore Roosevelt. The old Hanna
machine has been displaced by a more
personal vehicle to register his will and
whims. In the last Republican con-
vention he dictated the platform. re-
vised the speeches and ordered the Re
publican National Committee to select
Mr.. Cortelyou for its chairman, giving
him absolute power.
At this time, as formerly. the whole
aim of President Roosevelt is to play
personal politics, and to force an I'M
willing party to either nominate one
of his favoSites. or to renominate and
elect himself. He virtually ordered
Senator Hanna to pass resolutions ia
voring his nomination at the Ohio Re-
publican State convention of 1908. He
Is now engaged in setting up delegates
among his subordinates in the execu-
tive offices, to control the next conven-
tion.
Brave men rarely boast, or call 9TH
ers towards, cravens, and weaklings.
The brave man does not threaten those
weaker than himself. President Roose-
welt is forever boastiDg. threatening
and brow -beating. But is President
Roosevelt so steadfast and strong that
his mind once made up does not
change? On the contrary, that he is
vacillating, and plays fast and loose
with his political ideals is certain. He
has been on all sides of many ques-
tions
First free-trader, then tariff re-
former, now the most ardent protec-
ZIONIST. Once for reciprocity, now
against it. In 1896 a bimetallist, now
for nothing but the gold standard. Once
he regarded the policy of gold mono
metalism as 'only little less insane
than that of the free coinage of silver. =
Less than three years ago he was an
Is in league with the spoilsmen, and is
trusting to benefit by their work.
In 1896, he denounced the farmers
as .'the basest set In the land" then
in his letter of acceptance, for personal
political advantage, he declared them
to be .steadfast, single-minded and in
dustrious"
These indications of a mind easily
changeable for political reasons, be-
token lack of steadfastness in Mr..
Roosevelt.
If the Roosevelt way of running the
government for his own personal ag-
grandizement, with the prospect of his
entangling the United States in costly
and dangerous undertakings, Is thought
by the voters to be for their interest,
they will vote to indorse his policies"
But they must remember that the
Roosevelt who is now so hostile to
"malefactors of great wealth and so
loud in the praises of his own exalted
virtues. has always favored the money
power.
There will be startling changes soon
Roosevelt will again bring out the ''big
stirs" from its hiding place and keep
the navy from rusting He may find
work for the army to do that will justi-
fy its being kept up to a war strength.
The cattle as he styled Congress, in
his speech when governor of New York
before the Syracuse Chamber of Com
MERGE in 1899, will be more than ever
coerced and forced to carry out his
personal government. Let the people
beware of this wonderful stage-actor,
and also of Secretary Taft, who in
dorses all he does, and who is pledged
to follow Roosevelt policies If he is
elected President