The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-08-30
correspondent TELLS OF JOE DAVIES;
HE CALLS It A YOUNG MANS FIGHT

Oliver p. Newman who wrote "The
Fortunes of the Sum-" is now cores
pondent "coverfngIehe democratic end
OF the presidential Campaign on Joseph
+. Davies Of Madison Editor.
BY OLIVER p. NEWMAN
Once upon a time there was a young
man named Davies who lived at a board
ing club at the University of Wisconsin
with another young man named Prlt-
chard. Neither had any more money
than he needed. One day Pritchard
looked out Of the window of the room
occupied by both and said:
"There comes Burton, to collect my
share of the last months board, and /
haven't got the money. What'lI | do?"
Crawl under the bed" suggested the
willy Joe.
Pritchard craWIed. Burton entered
is Pritchard in?" asked Burton.
Sure" replies Davies.
where is heP" asked Burton, looking
about the room.
Under the bed,'' said Davies, nonchal-
antly.
Which is about as good an example as
you could find OF the malicious, good
natured sense of humOr of the Honorable
national democratic committeeman from
Wisconsin and lately elected SECRETARY
of the donkey organization that's taken
over the job Of shunting Woodrow Will
son into the white house.
He has just taken charge of the demo-
cratic headquarters in Chicago, and will
run the campaign in the west and mid
die west.
Davies is another of those inexperi-
enced youths possessed of nothing but
brains and energy, to whom the conduct
of the Wilson campaign has been turned
oyer-much to the surprise of the old
war horses, who are used to think that
man can't be regular politician until
he's bald or has gray hair.
AS a matter of fact, Davies has most of
the ancient captains defeated 4S Ways
for the Sabbath when it comes to poll
tics, for he's been neck-deep in that lit
tie game since he tOddled out from un-
der the parental roof at WatertOwn,
Wis, in pursuit of education and honor
in 1894. He's been playing college poll
ticS-which as every college man will
admit, is about 80 and 44-1O0 per cent of
the real thing.
Having impressed upon the university
world that he could crate better than old
Mr.. Orator himself, Davies decided four
years We're not enough to give him what
he was entitled to, so he took a three
years law course, winding that up in
1901 as commencement spieler and pre-
sident of the senior class.
Joe Davies father was Welsh black
smith who came to America few years
before Joe was born to find room enough
to swing his sledge, so Joe just naturally
had TO be "agin the government which
of course meant he must be a democrat.
Now, being a democrat in Wisconsin
during the last ten years has been an
all fired hard job.-M0st of the boys gave
up long ago and became LaFollette re-
publicans, but not Joe. He stuck it out,
and GRATED, and tried law cases in Madi-
SON where he hung up his shingle-and
organized campaign clubs, and made
speeches, and held democratic conven-
tions, and wrote pieces for the papers
and now look at himl
In spite of deyoting eleyen-tenths of
his life to law and politics, Davies has
managed to save about half Of his time
for making one of the most ideal homes
III America. At Madison his young wife
and two children wait patiently for their
br0ad-sh0uldered, black-halred, smiling,
happy-natured daddy 20 get through with
those horrid politicians, knowing that
when he's home again, team of Mis-
souri, mules couldn't drag him off his
porch.-Mahison Democrat.