Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-30
ANOTHER IMPORTATION.

Senator. Moses E. Clapp of Mime
sofa came all the way from his home
in St. Paul to tell the people of Wau-
Sau last evening why Senator LaFol-
lette should be returned. The gath
ering at the opera house was not
large. There were some democrats
present and the stal-warts, to use an
old worn out, moss grown expression,
were conspicuous by their absence,
The senator was introduced by Arthur
Prehn.
The senator's speech resembled a
bottle of mixed pickles, in that it
contained variety of things, but not
much of anything in particular. He
spent the greater part Of the evening
in trying TO disprove the allegation
that Pet Bob spent 81 per cent of his
time at the last session voting with
democrats. His line of argument was
that the things for which Bob and
the other insurgents voted were not
democratic measures, but each was
good republican doctrine. He claimed
that measures truly republican have
always been carried out by the party
except after the time Aldrich and
Cannon and their bunch of scallywags
got into the saddle. And according
to the Minnesota gentleman's words
there was a most rascally den of
thieves in congress at the last session.
He told of some of the iniquities of
the present tariff law, which was
angel food for the democrats present.
But he did not go deep enough He
went over the subject in a sort of
hop, skip and jump fashion. One OF
the iniquities of the present tariff tax,
he said, is the way in which so-called
Injuries have been treated. The cry
of the fathers of that bill was that
''we' raised the tariff on all luXuries
and lowered it on most necessities.
In looking over the book Of schedules
he found just the opposite. He said
he congratulated himself one day for
being allowed some of the privileges
enjoyed by the oppulent, for in look
ing through that book he came across
cotton socks. Back of the two words
was the letter L, with foot note
showing that the letter meant LUX
ury." He is in favor of tariff COM
mission.
Bob, in the Minnesota senator's
eyes, is mammals little blue-veined
darling. He never ran away from
school, and, like the popular notion
about kings century ago, he can do
no wrong. Hi-hum. 1t makes us
weary. Wind up the clock, put the
cat Quits to the feathers with us.
The bard of Avon said; "The good
that man does, lives after him; the
bad is oft inferred with his bones. T"
Now, Moses was following along that
line last night He knows that Wis
consin's chautauqua lecturer is politi-
cally dead so therefore the senator
tells none of the things which have
made him so. Though Bob is the lit
tie Alexander in the eyes of the Min
nesota man, not so with Wisconsin
people. The democrats this fall will
remember that law which threatens
the loss of their party name, and the
stal-warts, well, their love for him re-
minds us of a certain judge, who
when asked if he was going to attend
the funeral of certain party, said /:
mo, but l approve of it,"
The Minnesota man is fairly good
speaker. While his given name is Moses
he bears no relationship to the little
naked fellow found in peach basket
floating in the bull ruShes. If he
thinks he can win democratic votes
for LaFollette by saying that the
democratic party don't amount-to a
sack of peanut shucks, as he inferred
last night, we are here TO say that
Moses has a brain storm blow ing at
full blast. Abuse is not convincing,
and, like bet, is FOOLS argument.
There viii probably be no more
speakers here until after the primar-
les, and it's well, for we need rest.
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