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

u uClI DOOh, llOUle huOW, Sdlu lIl6
Indian in referring to the white mans
knowledge of Nature and her ways.
Ii we were to supply the word ''talk''
for book in the above quotation we
could then use the aborigine's re-
mark in describing Senator Fairchild
and his CAB at the "opery" house
Friday night. There isa very notice
able thing in this campaigns: The
corporation or stalwart candidates
are about the weakest ever presented
to people. We wish every voter
could hear Fairchild and Hambrecht
talk, especially the latter The dem
ocrats would then have very easy
picking. A party, or any wing of a
party, has the nerve of a road agent
when they ask the people to vote for
wooden head, and the corporations
candidates who have appeared in
Wausau this fall have never, to our
knowledge, been accused of knowing
more than was allotted by the creator
to geese. Well, some people can't
help it.
A few people turned out Friday
night to hear the Milwaukee man.
Most of them went for the same rea-
son that one goes to a circus. A good
many remained about as long as a
free thinker would at holy jumpers
meeting, Notwithstanding the fact
that the honorable Mr.. Fairchild was
not the only attraction.
In introducing the man, G. B. Bird
talked for fifteen or twenty minutes
and spent some time in defense Of
the industrial insurance plan of We,
Us & company. Fairchild says he's
not 'again' it either. Mr. Bird said
that he, as 2 lawyer knew that it was
costing the employer and laborer a
heap of money TO carry on suits
known as personal injury cases. OF
course, he said, these cases work to
the financial interest of the lawyer,
but he for one would be satisfied to
see them done away with and would
take his chances of prospering with
the rest of the people in community.
A few minutes later Mr.. Fairchild, in
speaking on the same topic, said that
the complainants in such actions
usually got only as much as the at
torneys agreed to allow them. The
lawyers present eyed one another, but
it was the other people who smiled a
smile. The only hit of the entire
evening was made by Messrs. Bird
and Fairchild, the other occu-
pant of the stage, whom we shall
mention later, being an on-looker. In
base ball parlance it was double
play and happened this way: The
former went out behind the stage
wings to investigate the report that a
democrat and prohibitionist were
eayesdropping. When he returned
he was going to sit down on chair,
but suddenly changed his mind and
sat down on the floor. Two legs of
the chair, TO use pill giyer'S express
sion were fractured. Mr.. Fairchild
at the same time was describing
factory conditions and the danger in
handling modern machinery. Though
the utmost care may be exercised he
said, accidents will happen" 1t was
when he spoke the last three words of
the sentence that Mr.. Bird injected a
little life into the meeting.
Mr. Fairchild says he was raised by
poor parents. So were other boys,
and many of those same boys are still
poor.
He's awfully put out" he af1irms,
to think that there are some bad boys
in the republican party, who are
breeding dissention in the party and
voting with democrats. If they don't
watch out, he said, there will be an
other panic. He then pictured dole
full scene Of hungry men and starving
women and innocent children. This
picture, you know, is drawn ay every
spell binder, as threat, When de
Tending a high tariff law. It's a
habit which they can't help. After
the Milwaukee man told few of the
oldest, stalest, mildewed Hear-jokes- -
stories which have raised family of
grand children-he got sick of his job
and sat down.
Mr.. Bird then spoke for fifteen or
twenty minutes longer and introduced
E. r. Hicks of Oshkosh. Mr.. Hicks
didn't say what Office he is after this
fall, and we forgot TO ask him. Mr..
Hicks has cart load of sarcasm. He
spent the balance of the evening in
lambasting the halfbreeds and demo-
Gratis, in defending the Aldrich-Can-
non tariff law and in admitting that
the republican party has made many
mistakes lately, which is disgusting
voters and driving them out of the
party. His defense of the tariff tax
would have caused that granite
soldier on the court house square to
smile, had he heard it. "TheS say
we didn't revise the tariff downward.
OF course we did" Wouldn't that
frost your nose? "And still it is rails
ing more revenue (for the baronsl
than the Dingley law did" Instead
of saying revenue he should have
spoke that monosyllable which starts
with an h and ends with an l. We
presume that if Mr.. Hicks were asked
if there is much material difference be
tween the tax levied by King George
on the coloniSts and that levied by
Aldrich and special interests on US
poor fools of today, he would chirp
Yes" Hicks would make very
desirable member for RoOSeyelt's s