Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
In Convention Speech He Attacks
Republican Party and Leader
ship of Roosevelt.
TAFT TEDDY's @ANoINTEDo ONE
Chairman, Asserts that g. o. p. Has
Maize Many Promises but Full
filed Few of Them.

party aspirations and a severe arra;gu-
ment of President Roosevelt and the Re,
publican Congress. Frequent demonstra-
tions of wild enthusiasm came from the
listening thousands, suggestions of the
name of Bryan being the unfailing signal
for tumultuous applause. Mr.. Clayton
said in part:
This is Democratic year, Democratic
ideas popular Doctrines always
taught by our party and scoffed at by our
opponents are now urged as a gospel of
their own. Measures and policies of Dem
ocratic origin are now pretendedly advo-
ty. 1t is no longer anarchistic to declare
private monopoly TO be indefensible or that
the great transportation companies should
be regulated and controlled by public law.
Former questioning Of the decision of
bare majority OF the Supreme Court In the
income tax case cannot now be heard, be-
cause of the greater noise of the vehement
denunciation of judges and judicial acts
that have shocked the Gentry. demand
for the revision of the tariff Is no longer
threat to destroyNour Industrial system.
Trusts are not to be tolerated even by the
Republican party. We need not now
large on the list of Republican admissions
and promises for election purposes only.
Republican Promises Not Kept.
The Republican party has made marked
progress in promises to the people and
much greater progress In aiding selfish in
terests and special privileges. This party,
guided by expediency and campaign neces-
sity, would camp this year on Democratic
ground. If 1t is apparent recent progress
Is to continue 1t does not require a very
great sweep of the Imagination to see writ
ten into a Republican plctform four years
hence these immortal words of Thomas JEFF
ferson, Equal rights to all, special priyi-
eges to none
In this quadrennial contest Mr. Roose-
velt has identified himself with Mr. Taft.
Mr.. Taft has identified himself with Mr..
Roosevelt The Republican party has In
separately identified the two together. TO
praise one you must praise the other; to
And so, | must say, If it should appear to
any one that in noting and denouncing
abuses and failures on the part of the pres
ent administration any license is assumed,
urge the impossibllity Of separating the
present occupant of the White House from
his own anointe0 one.
Ii has been made evident in the pending
campaign that the Republicans will seek to
conjure with the name Of Roosevelt and will
rely upon the Presidents policies q
priced asset.
.sMy Policies" Under Fire.
The President has advertised himself and
his policies with a frequency and ability
that surpasses the best efforts of the
shrewdest press agent. distinguished Re-
publican, former Cabinet officer, once pub
create exponent Of the art of advertising
the world has known.
The country has been -old and not al
lowed to forget that in his opinion his
energies have been devoted to the accom-
plishment of many high purposes, and that
If his work Is yet incomplete X Is so only
because his undertakings were too vast to
be carried to success during his term of
Office MY policies" must continue. SO
the champion of these would transfer Office
and power to his favorite Cabinet minister,
and his spear Is to have a fellow. The
pretense is that the fight must go on under
the leader designated by him until the last
foe shall have surrendered or lies inglori-
Gus In the dust. The nomination of his
by the Of official patronage and coarse
machine methods and has delighted the
chief apostle of strenuosity, and, at the
same time, las not perturbed the conscience
of the one-time civil service reformer, now
the boss. an adept in the bestowal Of pub
lie plumber and forgetful of all his resound-
ing moral commonplaces.
stem Roller Trips Cited.
No fs.r-minded American could read the
daily accounts of the recent political doings
at Chicago without feeling modification and
regret; modification that the President
should have so abused his power In die
tating to great party his choice of sue
cessor, and regret that that party should
have submitted cowardly to a humllia-
ton that was as manifest as it was de-
grading.
What are the policies which constitute
the capital of the Republican party in this
campaign and that are relied upon to sup
port the candidacy of Mr.. Taft?
Recalls Presidents Message.
1t must be admitted that tie republic can
not long survive If frsad and corruption
become material factors in our elections
Ne .ean has said more than the President
1bout the corruption of elections You re-
call his message to Congress in December,
1905, where he said
1T has been only too clearly shown that
certain men at the head of these large cor
psrations take but small note of the ethical
distinction between honesty and dishonesty
they draw the line only this side of what
may be called law honesty, the kind of hon
esty necessary in order to avoid failing into
the clutches of the law
We have here the condemnation of the
practice. Has he proved his faith by his
works Is II true or not that four years
ago he selected for his campaign manager
novice in politics whose principal qualifca-
tion for the position was the power he held
over the corporations of the land? Is K
true or not that the official place as Sec
rotary of Commerce and Labor gave full
knowledge of these business secrets and re-
lations OF corpora lions to this campaign
manager and clothed him with power with
the assent OF the President, TO punish or
reward them by publishing or Withholding
their secrets that he had collected as such
Secretary.
Is 1t true or not that with his power
held In terror over the corporations, he
solicited or had his agents solicit campaign
contributions from thems Is Ii true or not
that such a request under such circum-
stances was q demand upon the corpora
tions-a demand that they acceded to, know
ing that the man who made il had the pow
er to punish them In case they refused? Can
Ii be doubted that Ia this way vast sums
were raised II so, how much OF these
contributions were used for legitimate ex-
penses and how much for corruption pur-
poses we do not know. Notwithstanding
savage anspse.ection denial we know that
subsequent estigafiou OF certain insur-
ance cornpanies uncovered the fact that
large amounts were contributed by these
companies TO the Republican campaign fund
NOT the money OF the men who gave II,
but money covertly taken without consent
OF stockholders or policyholders and entered
on the books in q way calculated TO conceal
the embezziemenf.
Republicans and Publicity.
Ali this was dene in the interest OF the
Republican candidate for President The
money was used, the candidate was elected,
and he continued 10 deliver Lectures on de-
cency and for honesty in elections. sending
messages 10 Congress on publicity and cam
paign contributions. bat at times when
4 sSe were certain 70 be uasyaiiing.
The Chicago convention has met. has
transacted its business. and has adjourned
The question ef a publicity bill was moofed
hhere was defeated, and IL would never
have seen the hight OF day except through
the unafded efforts OF one solitary member
of the Committee on Platform and Resolu-
lions.
Let me 20 on There has been and Is
now .-shifc demand for legislation regu-
lsting. not sb0lishinS. the process of in
junction. and the power 70 punish for al
legged indirect or constructive contempt Of
courts Ever since 1896 the Democratic
party protested against has5y aud III con-
sidered use or iniuncfioas, and has been
insisting on the right 81 fair trial IN all
eases OF constructive conteupfs-
There has not been session OF Congress
IL twelve Years at which the Republican
party could not have passed e law prescrib-
irS dean az. and regulating the Issuance OF
iajunctioDs and providing for fair trials In
contempt CASES
The Tariff Issue.
The President and his party declare that
= prediction revision Of the tariff wozld
be unElse1
THIS assertion has been repeated In ad-
vance az every election since the enactment