Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-04-17
ooosEvELT AND TAFT
gym TAKE THE STUMP
= IN THE AUTUMN.
!, REPEAL THE ISSUE
:. probably viii Defend His
$'' which the Two Former
p w., Executives Are Expect
W" !, Attack in Campaign.
GEORGE CLINTON.

,E'oton-A few days ago
p gun wilson was asked at one OF
~anday conferences with the
. ACTON correspondents if it was
,.tantion to go into some OF the
:. his fall for the purpose OF
sa,iening in behalf of his party,
y tben will be engaged in a battle
:, continuance of its supremacy IN
,"r.o of representatives. The
.i.nfs answer was that he had
..+ been invited. The inference
~ THAT followed was directly to
mint that Mr.. Wilson probably
n consider seriously a campaign
WV t5n after his summers rest.
ssa president makes up his mind
n before the country he will have
! meat matters to defend, or, If
! 70 defend, to explain. One is his
atss policy and the other is the
.npa that congress should repeal
spls exemption clause of the Pan
!, canal act. The opposition par
ID n, Republicans and the Progress
= and here and there some Demo
|rsy have charged that the presi-
|s,ts Mexican endeavors have failed,
nj Watchful Waiting has been i'm
nnt to accomplish anything, and
M his course on the repeal act has
ss un-American.
Roosevelt May Oppose.
lsnocrats and Republicans here be-
ira and it seems likely that the Pro-
tssives know, that when Theodore
vSeyelt comes back to this country
viii assail the administrations pol
les IN Mexican and in toll exemption
neal matters. Colonel Roosevelt
! been a long way off for a long
he but 1t is known he has been in
lch with the leaders Of the Progress
movement in this country. 1t is
missed from what the Progressives
that the colonel has not been al
red to remain in ignorance Of the
TelOpments of affairs here, political,
monte and legislative.
Colonel Roosevelt should carry
the suggestions already made to
and should fulfill the prophecies
ch Democrats and Republicans are
King day by day, by going before
country on speech-making tour
ppOsition to President Wilson, and
lid speak simultaneously with Mr..
son speaking in defense, the coun-
would witness a warm time of it
be field of discussion.
very Progressive in the house of
eSentatives except three, voted
INST the presidents demand that
tolls exemption clause should be
aled. The Progressives who part
n this matter from their brethren
they were acting as they did
ugh conviction, for they thought
exemption Of coastwise sailing
) from the payment of tolls was a
violation of the Hay-Pauncefote
y.
Issue for Progresslves.
tn Theodore Roosevelt and VIII
Howard Taft were in favor Of
lpting American coasters from
payment Of canal tolls. Mr.. Will
taxes exactly the opposite view.
Progressives, like the Republic
now have a distinct and up-to-
Issue with which to go before
country in opposition to the de-
Of the Democrats that they be
nued in power. If this repeal
had not come up for discussion
congressional campaign Of next
'fobably would have been devoid
,eat interest. AS it is, with
lrow Wilson campaigning In be-
OF the Democrats, Theodore
eVelt campaigning in behalf of
rogressives and William H. Taft
other Republican leaders cam
ing in behalf of Republicanism
making arguments fly like arrows,
ohtest promises to be interesting
erhaps warlike.
Wilson Felt InsuIted.
IRE have been evidences of strong
nal feeling in the White House
the nature of the debate in con-
On the repeal of the Panama
TOLLS act. President Wilson has
De known that he feels nothing
le noun insults" fits In describ-
le charges of certain congress
mat the administration made
with representatives of Great
u which resulted in his recon-
alton to repeal of the tolls ex-
On clause.
Inc White House the word insult
INTO use in connection with the
eo assertion of a representative
lgress that even if Mr.. Wilson
40 had made a deal with Sir
Garden, late British ambassa-
Mexico, he had made one with
other representative of the Brit
'vernment.
las been made perfectly appar-
Mr.. Wilson in direct converse
nat he thinks it strange Demo-
IN congress who, with their
members elsewhere, always
Oeen staunchly opposed to subsi-
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