Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-28
SEES T. r. PERIL

Henry Watterson Fears Civil War
If Roosevelt Wins.
Under the caption, An Invoca-
ton to Civil War, Mr.. Watterson
says in the Courier Journal
''The result in Ohio makes it GER
tain that the voters of the United
States will have to reckon with
Theodore Roosevelt next November
at the polls.
1t will matter not whether he
appears under the emblem of
regular party nomination or as an
insurrecto appealing to all parties.
Unless he breaks down under the
strain and is taken to a lunatic asy-
lum he will be a candidate for pres
ident.
There can be in his name and
person but one issue-life tenure in
the executive Office and a civil
fabric imperial in everything ex-
cept its nomenclature.
''Thus our system of representa-
tive government laid in constitu-
tional checks and balances, having
achieved the battle for independent
existence and survived the several
ordeals of foreign invasion and in
ternal conflict, the disputed sue
cession and the strife of sections
and factions, must face the final
and yet greater peril of mad am
bition, supported by corrupt and
corrupting millions, playing upon
the restless, the unknowing and
unthinking, the purchasable, the
brutal and the vile.
1.-THE hideous spectacle of an ex-
president, bawling like a drunken
harlot from one end of the land to
the other, dragging republicanism
through an ocean of filth, to the
horror of Americans having any
sense of decency and the alternate
delight and disgust of the enemies
of republicanism all over the world
gives us foretaste of the infamies
before us.
There is nothing which this
mailman will not dare to attempt
under the excitement and the pas
sion of the state of wdr he has
stirred up in his own mind and in
the minds of the crazy mobs that
follow and applaud. That he was
able to draw a man like Taft into
the cesspool, attests the cruel in
jury and wrong a maniac armed to
the teeth may accomplish. for Taft
is not only the president of the
United States, but ne is = gentle
man of upright, self-respecting
character. Being such, he has
proved wholly unequal to the bloody
fray and the dishonorable warfare
forced upon him. 1t is clear Low
that he had better remained in the
White house, leaving the frenzied
paranoiac the field to himself
''The country has reached anoth
er parting of the ways. From the
exit of Washington to the death of
Mckinley the citizens selected for
presidents of the United States
were level-headed and well bal
anced men, about whose mental
integrity there had never been the
slightest question.
cat length this nation is world
power. The issue precipitated by
Theodore Roosevelt is to decide
whether that arbitrament was in
vain; whether that sublime decision
of the sword, with all that went
before it and all that it carried
with it, shall be nullifed; whether,
become world power, this nation
shall proclaim to mankind its own
failure by the abandonment of its
constitution, the overthrow of its
safeguards and the naming of
dictator. He who says this is not
the issue, little recks what he is
saying; he who thinks it is not,
were prudent to question his sanity.
In its ultimate analysis and its
last word the Roosevelt propaganda
is the invocation of mailman to
civil war.
TT was a sad blow no President