Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-26
TORN WITH STRIFE
Managers of Candidates of Both
Parties Engage in Bitter
Struggle.
HISTORY WILL BE REPEATED
After Conventions Are Over Men Who
Are Now Fighting Each Other
Will Be Found Working for
Party Choice.


Will Be Found Working for
Party Choice.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-There is strife in
Washington between the forces at
tached to the different headquarters
of the various candidates of both par
ties for the presidency of the United
States. Mr. Taft's managers on their
part and Mr.. Roosevelt's managers on
their part are sending letters back and
forth full of bitterness, innuendo and
other things which are not at all nice
reading to those who think that the
time is come for peace on earth even
amorg politicians. The same thing is
In evidence among the Democratic
managers. 1t must be said. however,
that until few days ago the Demo
cratic champions of the different party
candidates managed to keep the
changed and charges are going back
and forth, and the Republican camp
and the Democratic camp look very
much alike.
Politicians of both parties here ssy
that history will repeat itself and
men who are calling one another
names win be found shoulder to
shoulder working on behalf of the
nominees no matter whom they may
be and will be entirely forgetful Of
everything that they said In the days
preceding the convention. What is
the history which has repeated itself?
Virtually 1t is the history If every
campaign, Democratic and Republican,
which has been put on the pages of the
country's record, although there have
been admittedly one or two campaigns
in both parties in which bitterness
lasted after the convention days.
Four years ago now the Republican
party was split just as 1t is today, only
the sides" were different Men who
are championing Mr. Taft's nomina-
tion now were opposed to him when
he was a seeker for the nomination
the last time, and men whC were for
l1iA luSll al NOW against uluif
though, of course, this is not to he ac-
cepted as an absolutely comprehensive
rule.
Are Now With Taft.
The champions of Mr.. Cannon and
Mr.. Fairbanks and some others for
the nomination four years ago and
who did all that they could to secure
the nomination CT the men to whom
their hearts were given are now do
ing what they can to put Mr.. Taft
into office 1t was said four years ago
that these men would carry their AMI
mostly into the campaign in case Taft
were nominated, but the prophecy
proved i'll founded. 1t was Theodore,
E. Burton Of Ohio who presented Mr..
Taft's name to the convention of his
party 1t was the beginning of the
day of harmony, and notice Mr. Bur
tons honeyed words as addressed TO
the friends of the other candidates In
the convention hall:
1--WE welcome the friendly rivalry of
candidates from other states-from
the great Empire State, the Keystone
state, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
forming with Ohio broad expanse ex-
tending in unbroken sweep from old
ocean to the uppermost bounds of the
greatest of inland seas. Each Of these
present a leader among leaders whose
achievements and renown are not con-
fined to the narrow limits of single
commonwealth.
To-day with fervid earnestness we
wage a contest for the prize. Tomor-
row united or the fray and quicken
ed by common fiery zeal, the cham
pions of all the candidates will go
forth with mounting enthusiasm to
vanquish the foe"
Before and after.
At the last Democratic convention AT
which a successful candidate for the
presidency was named, the convention
of 1892. there were New York Demo
Gratis in the convention hall to rise
one after another through the long
hours of one days session to declare
that if Grover Cleveland was the can
didate Of the party he could not and
ought not 10 be elected Il was aaid
that the division in the party was such
that If Mr. Cleveland were again 'ts
standard bearer that overwhelming
defeat would come from the Repub-
licans, and there we're insinuattons
even that the men who were protest
ing in the convention hall would lea J
a bolt against his election.
What happened? The New York
delegation which Toiced its aatago-
nism to Grover Cleveland and breath
ed out all kinds of dismal prophecies
of defeat in case he were nominated,
went back home after the nomination
had been carried against their protest,
took off their coats and worked for
Grover Cleveland and later voted for
him at the November election. When
the Republican newspapers twitted
the New York Democrats with doing
what they said they would not do, the
retort was that things are different
before and after conventions.
So it is that both Republicans and
Democrats in Washington today say
that no matter how angry they may
seem to be now and no matter what
they may say now in antagonism to
other candidates that after the June
days will come the peace of July and
the following months, a peace which
will continue until the snow storm of
votes begins on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November.