Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-18
TRIANGLE FIGHT ON
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
FOLLOWING EXAMPLE OF
THE PRoGREsslvEs.
START IN CAMPAIGN OF 1914
Opening of Democratic Headquarters
Delayed Until Wilson Makes His
ppointinents-G. o. p. Leaders
s'rHI Hope for AmaIgamation.
BY GEORGE Clinton

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washingtaon.-Be not later
than the first week in April, the cam
paigns of three parties for the con-
troll of the next house of representa-
tives will be in full progress, There
vii be no hating, it is promised at
the time OF the 1914 elections, for it
Is the intention of the three political
organizations to keep up the fight till
the successor to Woodrow Wilson is
chosen in 1916
AT the time the plans of the Pro-
gressive party and the details of it's
campaign beginnings were given in
these dispatches recently it was in
timsted that the Democrats and the
Republicans might be heard from in a
few days. Now it is fully assured that
the Democratic and the Republican
parties are to follow the early ex-
ample of the Progressive party in
starting its campaign. and each Of
the older parties hopes that 1t may
profit thereby.
The Republican leaders have Just
announced that headquarters shortly
viii be opened in the city OF Wash
ington and that the endeavor VII! be
to 'readjust matters" and to put the
organization into fighting condition
for the battle of 1914.
The Democrats have not yet made
public announcement, but your cor
respondent is able to give their plans.
The Democratic national committee
will be called to meet in Washington
just prior to the inauguration OF Presi-
dent-elect Wilson. While here the
members of the committee. after a
conference with Mr. Wilson, will APP
point four or five men to act as lead
ers of a campaign which shall be con-
tinuous from now until the presi-
Dental election of 1916, the first IS
months to be given over largely to eff
forts to make sure that in 1914 the
party shall re-grip it's present ma
jority in the house of representatives.
The Democrats intend to have their
headquarters in New York, but already
they are planning to have an auxiliary
office in Washington for the purpose
of giving immediate and direct pub
licity to such national legislative ac-
ton as they think will appeal to the
people in behalf of continued Demo
cratic rule
Wait for Wilson Appointments.
To-. L. ~
would like to open headquarters at
once, but they are held from so doing
by curious and interesting fact. They
do not know what men Mr.. Wilson in
tends to appoint to Office 1t is i'm
possible for the Democrats today to
ask any man of political prominence
and IF known campaigning strength
to agree to take the post of campaign
leader. There are four or five men
who are looked upon by their party
colleagues as eminently fit in mill
tanr and strategic way to meet the
leaders of Progressiveism and Repub-
licanism in the field, but the fear, or
if not fear the belief, is that most of
these men will be given government
places by Mr. Wilson, which will keep
them from giving anything but coun-
sci to the chiefs of the active political
organization
The Republicans closed their Wash
ington Office some time ago and it
was thought that it might not be re-
opened for long time, but the lead
ers of the party realized that the
closing of the Office might be con-
strued as an act of hopelessness.
Militant counsel has prevailed and
the Republicans are to get into the
triangular fight which many of them
hope, if only few of them believe,
may lose it's angles before long, the
field becoming a scene of battle with
two lines of fighting men opposing
each other That is, the Republicans
continue to hope that some sort Of an
arrangement can be made by which
the Progressives can be brought back
into the ranks.
The Republican leaders who talk
with the Progressive leaders are con
WINGED that there is no hope of any
such amalgamation unless the sur
render comes from Repuhlicanism.
The Progressives' campaign already is
on. Progressive political clubs, Pro
gressive service clubs and Progress
sive social clubs are in process OF
forming all over the United States.
Framing Tariff Bills.
The Democratic majority of the
ways and means committee is just
starting at the work of framing
the tariff bills which will be in
troduced at the extra session When
congress gets together again there
viii be some new members of the
ways and means committee, and of
course they will be consulted about
the bills prepared by their brethren
Of longer service, but the majority
of the present committee will be the
prevailing majority OF the next com
mittee. and so the bills which are
now being framed unquestionably will
be the ones to be introduced at the
next session.
The hearings granted to the ex-
porters, importers and manufacture
ers of the country by the ways and
means committee were ended Friday
night, January 81. The committee
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