Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-11-10
Wilson Endorsed.

senator-elect Husting is very decid-
ed endorsement of the President. The
people of Wisconsin have known
Senator Husting as man who has
consistently stood for the policies
that have made President Wilson's
administration popular. The voters
felt that by voting for Husting they
were voting support to the President
and that they did so is clearly evil
denced when a comparison is made
between the Philip and Karel vote
and the Husting and McGovern vote
in this state.
In the nation at large the Wilson
administration retains a working
majority in the house of representa-
tives and increaes its majority in the
senate. This is also an endorsement
Of the President. This an off year
1t has been the experience of over
half century that the administra-
tion loses in the "off" year election
and in many such an election the
party i'm power has lost control of
congress. The situation was aggra-
waited by the European war, the
changes in the tariff, and the inaug-
uration of the new currency law.
The war suddenly and somewhat I'M
expectedly cut off the revenue derived
from exports and made the so-called
war tax necessary. Any new tax is
bound to be unpopular and the oppo-
sition made much use of it. The
changes in tariff and in the currency
laws were needed and have long been
demanded. Business, however, had
not been adjusted to the new con-
ditions and this with the unsettled
condition resulting from the Euro
pean war upset to some extent the
ordinary ease Of the money market
and business of the country. 1t is to
be expected therefore, that there
would be some losses in the elections
of this year no matter how popular
the work of the administration might
be in the minds of the people.
President Wilson begins the second
half Of his first term with working
party majority in both houses of con-
gress. All business men look forward
confidently and with reason to an era
of unparalleled prosperity. The
President has every reason to view
the results with satifaction and to
feel that the people are with him.
The democrats of Wisconsin re-
elected the three democratic congress
men and gained United States
Senator. They also made gains in
both branches of the state legisla-
ture. Ordinarily this should be glory
enough to cause active members of
the party to feel that their work had
not been wholly in vain. Their
party is to-day in better shape for
fight than it has been for years. The
men who have for years divided the
party into factions have been elimi-
mated and new blood has been inject
ed that will make it live party in
the next election. There will be
new line up two years from now and
the people of the state will have
chance to support and elect new men
who can carry out the policies and
the principles of the democratic
party without factional squabbles.
The republican party cannot look
with equal complacency upon the
struggle for control two years from
now. LaFol4ette has one more big
fight in him and If he lives will make
things mighty interesting for those
who imagine that he cannot come
back. If Senator LaFollette retains
his health he will be heard from two
years from now.
McGovern has suffered his first de-
feat. He has machine, slightly out
of repair it is true, but the only poll
tical machine i'm Wisconsin worthy of |
notice at the present time. He is en-
titled to an explanation of the reasons
for Philips election and his defeat
and when that explanation comes it
will have to be satisfactory to Nc
Govern or there will be trouble.
Philip is likely to need a larger
hat and we predict that he will not |
be as unreasonable a reactionary as
the old stalwart wing of the repub-
lican party has been led to expect.
Then, too, he may find himself handi-
capped with legislature that can be
controlled by a combination Of La
Toilette and McGovern votes or by
the McGoyern votes alone Philip
is human enough to have personal
ambition and he may find it to his
interest to ease up very decidedly in
his pro-stalwart views. He showed /
something of a tendency in his direc-
ton al the platform convention. 1t
will take a steady hand to steer the
Phillip ship clear of the rocks during
the next two years.
The democrats have gained much |
in this election and can view the
future with complscency.
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