Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-09-27
A BITTER PILL.
So Say the Stslwart Republicans,
Defeated for Control Of
Machine

The republican party of Marathon
county was reorganiZed at meeting
held in the court house Friday, and
for the first time since LaFollette
came into the spot light his followers
gained control of the county organiZ-
alton. The stalwarts are trying to
|swallow the pill, but it is tough
proposition. They have licked off the
sugar coating, and got down to the
bitter part-the aloes. Not only did
the halfbreeds get possession of the
county machine, but they passed reso-
lutions lauding the pompadoured
gentleman they have defied; also Mis-
representative E. A Morse. The en-
dorsement of Taft and his admins
tration, if such it can be called, was
about as weak as is the tea you get at
a railroad lunch counter, and of the
same color.
The program as previously fixed,
was that Frank Chesak of Athens,
should call the meeting to order, but
he evidently get tip on what was
coming, and failed to appear. In his
stead, w. j. Kregel brought the
maui down on the table for order and
informed the three dozen people pres
ent that in order to get any order
out of the meeting it was in order for
them to understand that the meet
ing was in order, and asked the dele
gates to remove their brogans from
the county supervisors desks, and to
quit expectorating on the floor. Some
objected to this, saying that such
breaches of decorum are recognized
part of republican convention.
The name of DR.. L. E. Spencer, an
avowed La Folletteite, was proposed
as chairman and he was elected.
Then someone proposed the name
of Arthur Prehn for secretary and he,
TOO, was elected. Mr.. Prehn is one
of the moving spirits in the local Nc
Govern club.
The stalwarts thought it was about
time that they were getting some of
the pie, and the name of Walter
Alexander was proposed for treasurer.
Walt has been used to handling and
supplying funds for the party in the
past, and it was thought by members
of the old ring present that he would
fit in to nicely in the present cam
paign, but there was the man on
horseback to contend with. The man
on horseback was the halfbreed ele-
ment. The latter has been ignored
SO long by the sawmill crowd that
now, when the opportunity presented
itself, they proceeded to get all there
was out of sweet revenge. Otto
Lemke's name was proposed in oppo-
sition to Mr.. Alexander. Who won,
did you say? Well the PILOT is not
going to offer steam calliope for the
best guess.
Then the chairman appointed a
committee to draft set of resolu-
tions, which had been drafted several
days In advance.
The genii of olden times and Allad-
an and his wonderful lamp could not
perform more mystifying things than
does committee on resolutions. The
retires to an empty room
and conYerses for about five min
utes on the output of the
Saginaw salt wells and the hop crop
near Baraboo. No click of a type
writer is heard, nor are any sugges-
tionS made as TO what should go into
the resolutions. But 10 and behold!
when the committee returns to the
pen, several nicely typewriter pages,
a little the worse for wear in the
pocket, are presented. 1t would take
a scholar man half hour or more
to craft .lem, yet this committee,
usually of mediocre thinking ability,
has evolved them in five minutes.
Marvellous "'Tis strange, tbs pass
ing strange"
w. N. Daniels, H. G. Tank and A.
+. MarQuardt were recommended to
the patriotic citizens of the county,
because they are pledged to support
little Bobbie.