Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22


The latest attack on President Taft
comes from the Worlds Work maya
zine. edited by Walter H. Page, former
member of Rooseveits country life
commission.
The article says that Taft himself
has said that, because congress repre-
SCENTS districts. sections, etc, the Presi-
dent Is the only real representative Of
the people.
No man in recent times has goue
into the White House with so nearly a
universal trust of the people" writes
the editor
But now, at the end of year, his
party is divided into fierce factions.
his well-night universal popularity has
waned
He made a logical and well
thought out plan for his administra-
ton. He contended for better and
more sincere tariff revision-too late.
The people respected his sincerity
while they regretted his yielding
They saw clearly that these leaders Of
the party Gin congress) could not be
trusted. Yet they accepted the unsatis-
factory result without severe personal
criticism of him, and they said, Nov
the President sees that these leaders
do not represent the conscience and
sincerity of the party and henceforth
he will not yield to them They hoped
that he had opened the way to shift
ing of leadership and they still kept a
high expectation of his administration.
If the Republican masses could
have voted on the question. Shall Mr.
Aldrich and Mr.. Cannon be retained
as leaders in Congress?' nobody doubts
what their answer would have been.
The President must decide between
party regularity and the leadership
of the people The old leaders stand
for the undue influence of wealth on
government.
There is something terrible and
cruel in many a wave of popular dis
approval that sweeps over the land.
but it is public opinion that is domi-
nant in our democracy and public
opinion has fast withdrawn approval
from the administration since last
summer
THE people feel that the admins
tration has gone out of touch with
them. They are saying that the cabi-
net has not a single man who has ever
held an elective Office of Importance
Except the secretary of agricultural
1.-THE President has able counsel;
gentlemen who have all won distinc-
ton as counsel for corporations and
railroads. But the people, right or
wrong, feel that these gentlemen may
not know their case.
THE people expected that the tariff
would be revised, that the conservative
policy would be developed and that
new regulative acts would be passed
The failure was threefold.
"And still, it is pointed out, Taft
hopes to hold his party together. The
people think the Republican Lead
ers will treat the conservation plan
as they treated the tariff revision.
IF the party leaders again give
him what they want and not what the
people want, and if the President
again submits to such treatment, his
party viii be hopelessly split and his
chance of leadership will be gone.
~The people cannot reach Mr.. Aid
rich. He comes from Rhode Island.
But they will not elect a Congress that
will dare to elect Cannon speaker.
THE future of the Republican party
belongs to the faction now called the
insurgents, because they represent the
convictions and conscience of the peo-
pie.
Party control is about to be shift
ed. To lead party was a worthy aim,
but our parties now are dissolving
groups.
The makers of wealth and the max
ing of parties and the makers of presi-
dents are not Republicans and Demo
Gratis, as they once were
Factions, parties, even presidents,
have lost power to allure or obscure Or
brighten. What the people want is a
leader, leader without hesitancy.
They have but one enemy in political
life, and they are in earnest in their
fight against that. That enemy is the
power, whether Democratic or Repub-
lican, that money has to do the PEG
pies business out of the peoples sight
and by so doing 1t to secure immunity
and privilege and more complete con-
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