Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-06-24


may be lobbying in one sense but if it
Is. | guess all the presidents since
George Washington have been guilty
OF it, and l am quite convinced that
the charge has been made against
presidents in ever congress since the
country was founded"
Believes in Majority Rule.
Here's the way that another mem
Der put his estimate on this so-called
lobbying by President Wilson and by
other presidents before him: "You
see every president naturally thinks
that he represents the entire country
while cenator represents only state
and a representative only a district
Now the president believes that where
four or five senators hold out against
bill they do it for local reasons and
that they are holding up legislation
which perhaps nine-tenths of the coun-
try wants. Believing in the rule OF
the majority, all presidents have felt
that they ought to use such influence
as they can to make the few get the
view of the many"
There have been intimations in
Washington from some quarters that
President Wilson has been using pa
tronage to further his legislative ends.
This charge is one also that has been
aimed at every president since Wash
ington's time, according to the views
of men who have made study of DO
litical history 1t is remembered by
the old-timers how President Garfield
refused to appoint collector of the
port of New York who was demanded
by Roscoe Conklin, in behalf of his
prerogative as senator from the
state of New York.
Patronage matters and patronage
charges were prominent during the
Cleveland, the Harrison and the Nc
Kinley administrations and were not
at all unknown during the Roosevelt
and Taft administration. During some
of the administrations they were more
scattered than during the others, but
it is not hard to recall how Theo-
dore Roosevelt changed his mind in
might be certain to get the support of
two senators for his railroad rate leg
islation. Mr.. Roosevelt argued that
the legislation was for the good of the
whole country and that he might prop
erly yield in small patronage matter
to secure for the country what he
thought was blessing.
Hundreds Of Cadets Graduated.
There has been an outpouring from
Washington for some days Of army
officers and their wives and fam
lilies en- route to West Point to
see "our boy" or some other
family's boy graduate. The Naval
academy's graduating exercises came
first, to be followed closely by those
of West Point. Something like one
hundred new officers have just been
added to the United States army
through the exercises of graduation at
the old Military academy.
At West Point Cadet Francis K.
Newcomer of this city has just grad
uated. Moreover, his father, Col.
Henry C. Newcomer, was present to
see the boy take first honors, and the
colonels thoughts went back about a
quarter of a century to the day
when he, like his son, graduated and
was given the laurel of first place.
The chances are that young New
conner will enter the engineer corps.
He can if he wants to, because the
l,,o OF fhn head nf hiG
class is given the right to take any
vacancy which exists in the lowest
commissioned rank in the United
States army. There are always some
vacancies in the engineering branch
at the time that a class graduates.
In the army today there are many
cases of fathers and sons" The
president of the United States has ten
cadet appointments year at his
command and almost invariably he
elects to name the sons of officers OF
the service 1t does not always fol
low that boy graduates as high or
as low as his father did. Colonel
who is building the Panama
canal, however, has son in the serv-
ice who graduated pretty nearly as
high as his father. The boy is now
on the isthnlus doing the work of
While his father looks
down on him paternally from the
height of colonel's place.
Fathers and Sons.
Ulysses S. Grant, the third. is
first lieutenact of the engineer corps.
This Grant graduated way up at the
top of his class. and went into the
engineering branch His father, Fred
erick D. Grant, graduated way down
at the foot Of his class, taking five
years to complete his course, and be-
ing lucky to find a vacancy left for
him in the cavalry. Ulysses s. Grant.
the first. graduated squarely in the
middle of his class, and so with the
son and the grandson graduating at
the top and at the bottom. the aver
age of academy accomplishment for
the family is literally what might be
called middle class"
William T. Sherman graduated No
I In his class. Phillip H. Sheridan
held a standing consistently near the
foot OF his class during all the time
of his cadet career. You can't always
tell what man Is going to do in the
world by the place his name occupies
on the graduating list. George E
Pickett, whose soldierly qualities. and
whose tremendous charge at Gettys-
burg viii be concentrated soon, was
of laggard in his studies
Robert E. Lee graduated high. and he