The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-04-23
HOARD CALLS UPON VOTERS
TO SUPPORT CONSERVATIVES


full the communication of Gov. Hoar
follows:
You are loudly and justly complain
ing of the oppressive and terribly ex
pensive system of State Government
now being imposed on you
STOP. LOOK! LISTEN!
Be practical citizens and look at thu
question in constructive way. Flo
IA years you have been in sort OF pol
itic,,l nightmare; hypnotzed by a set o
very shrewd and cunning politicians
You are the victims OF most cunning
ly devised system which, from the Prl
mary to the last act Of the Legislature
was intended to steal away your politi
cal control over your own affairs; owe
your expression of your political choice
of men to serve you, and the platform
which should express what you wan
and mean. This stealing of power
from the many to the few" begins IL
the Primary. Under the old caucus
rule, with all its faults, you could come
together in district and county conven
tions and voice your opinions. Under
the Primary you are as silent as th'
dead. Then, when it came to the max
ing of platform, your representatives
or delegates, not nominees, set fortf
what you stood for. Now you have no
a word to say The candidates, undel
the silent control of few politlca
managers, make the Platform and adj
vertise it as your opinion and expressed
will, "the demand of the people.
Was there ever bigger falsehood,
more transparent humbug, a more
plausible cheat, more complete sllen
cling of the peoples voice?
Now the System" has completed
changed the course oflegislation under
its combined leadership with the Uni
versity professors. Formerly every
legislature was master of itself and o
it's own procedure. Now we have At
rings, called Commissions, in which /:
concentrated the control over the ma
ture, purpose and passage or rejection
of every law. Every member of the
Senate or Assembly you send to Madi
son finds that he is powerless to serve
his constituents, or his state, in trul,
representative sense. He must come
under this Commission control + re
main a non-entity. You cannot be sur
prised at the effect on him. The eifec
finally upon legislation is the passag;
of an overwhelming mass of crude, i'll
digested, impracticable, as well as OPP
pressive laws, which of necessity take
an enormous amount of money out o
your pockets.
Can you not see where the trouble
begins? You. Mr.. Voter, are nothing
but non-entity, and you have consent
ed to your own political emasculatioI
by allowing this Progressive Scheme tt
have control. 1t has called itself "Re.
publican" but it no more resemble,
Republicanism of the Abraham Lin
coin type, than does the rankest Social
ism. In fact it is plain and unadultes
ated State Socialism where the people
are not considered fit to govern them
selves, and must be cOrralled by a 10
of INSCRIPTIONS non-taX paying politi
cans, and made to pay grievously fo
their abandonment of what we once
knew as a safe, sound Republican sys
TEN of party action and state control.
Nov what shall we do" you say
First of all, keep this subject in minC
and don't forget it. Next, when yol
come to the Primary, turn out like men
Don't leave the nomination of members
of the legislature to beggarly 20 pei
cent Of the party, as you have dont
ever since The Primary was established
The. Primary is bad in It's results, bu
it is hundred times worse when you
neglect it and stay away from it. II /
Progressive politician shows his heac
for Office anywhere, spot him. 'Le
not single guilty man escape" VOTE
him down in the Primary if you can
but be sure to do 50 in the final cleo
tion. Take no stock in their recen
milk and water professions OF economy
That is the same sort OF rogressiv,
gutT that you have been fooled with al
along, and which you are paying fo
now. Vote out the Progressives in eth
er party. You have had enough o
them. Put up the conservative men
Then, whether Democrats or Republi
cans win, you will have a safe, reliab.,
lot of hired men in the legislature, tina
you can reply upon to overhaul thi
mass of political debauchery that ha
been foisted upon the people of tn,
State.
As view the situation, there is n,
other way OF escape from the clutche
OF these cormorants, who are foolin,
no one rs TO their real character an,
purpose but you. You have allowed
this Delilah of LaFolletteism to stea
away your political and industrial lib
critics and load you with Oppressive
taxation. Do you think your fathers
back in 1861, would have taken such It
state of affairs as tamely as you are do
ing? Not much! They we're citizen
Of pluck and energy, who knew wher
they had been grossly deceived Ar
ihnI Il sans of the snmn Nhlnnl and iron