Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-11-24
COL. H. O. TAIR FEARS
For Welfare Of State-Executive-E Elect
Wants to Run Whole Thing and May
Wreck Refuses Magnanimous
Offer.
EDITOR WAUsAU PILOT: !:

EDITOR WAUsAU Pilot:
Dear Sir:-Once more / am com
PEELED to trespass upon your hospital
ity and ask the use of your columns
| would not thus presume were it moi
for the fact that the possible welfare
of the state and nation both depend
upon my ability to give utterance to
my views.
am not nearly as optimistic as
was Immediately following the elec.
tion in regard to our having saved
the state; having rescued it from the
wave of populism into which it had
fallen; having rehabilitated the re-
publican party and given the state
into its keeping.
In furtherance OF the welfare of our
commonwealth, / visited Milwaukee
last week, III order to give the leaders
an opportunity to consult with me,
that they might make no mistakes in
carrying out the measures that are
for the best interests of the commun-
ity. / met number of those who
should be leaders in the great move
ment to carry the state back to its
former condition, but for some reason
they did not appear to value my adj
vice at its full worth, nor did they
exhibit an undue curiosity to hear
what l had to say. There was an
absence of that cordiality which they
showed previous to the election.
Among the first whom | met was
that well known political oracle, Eli
Busher, whose little game l have
promoted TO the best of my ability,
and even he was e long while in MOTTO
ing that was afflicted with cough
and of suggesting that a certain
remedy might be found in the room
adjoining the rotunda of the Pfster,
and even here it was up to me to
suggest that further libation might
be in order. Now, Busher is no spring
chicken in the matter of politics. He
has had a wide and varied experience,
covering quite range Of years and
nearly every political party of which
we have any knowledge, for like my
self he is not hidebound to any one
party, although l will give him credit
for never having given support to
either of those arch-enemies of the re-
public, Bob LaFolletts or William
Jennings Bryan.
Under the mellowing influences of
the cough remedy, barred my heart
TO Mr.. Busher. Diplomatically l
opened by telling him that / thought
the Erie was the greatest system on
earth and but for the iniquitous
measures of the LaFolletteites we
might have secured il for our state.
/ then pointed out TO him how 1 had
been the first to discover those issues
upon which the recent election was
won, how that the cry of high taxes
had first found utterance through me,
although at the time / had failed to
copyright the same, and others had
used it TO their own advantage and
to my disadvantage, havin, wrong
fully deprived me of the de faqO lead
ership, and having allowed another,
whose name / will not mention, to
carry off the visible honors which
were rightfuliy mine by reason of dis
covery. / told him that | had tenta-
lively offered TO assume the actual
reins of government in this state and
safely guide the old craft along, but
that those who had been suddenly
elevated to power by non-discrimi-
mating populace had not seen fit to fall
upon their knees and bless me. In
fact, that in their ignorance they had
been heard to do the contrary.
pointed out the dire calamities that
were sure TO befall the state, that if
my advice was ignored they might
not hope for any better results than
had attended the efforts of Wilson
and Bryan. These men would not
now be in the delicate position they
are In il they had but listened TO me.
have written both of them many
letters giving them hints as to how
TO run the country. l suggested a
currency reform measure that was
one of the grandest things ever de-
vised by human mind; l outlined the
proper course TO be pursued in hand
ling the trust matter, the Mexican
trouble, also a complete outline of
how to end the whole European diff
Guilty, the proper conduct of the Pan
anna canal and many other questions
Of vital interest TO the republic. In
no single instance have they followed
my advice, and now look at the pickle
in which they find themselves.
BuSher here interpoSed something