Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-01-19
COL. III. O. TAIR
RECOGNIZED
BY Governor As the One Who Can Settle
Mexican Question.-He Is in
Madison Now.

EDITOR PILOT -
You will undoubtedly be surprised
to learn from this letter that / am
now in Madison, / was one of the
first of the patriots to reach this city.
/ came early for two reasons. The
first was to secure suitable lodgings
at reasonable price. The other was
the hope that | might have few
hours private conversation with Gov
ernor Philip. | was disappointed in
both instances. The capacious land
lords have formed a trust and the
best | could do was S. per week in
advance. The governor did not reach
here until Monday, and that barely
in time to be inducted into Office.
He was accompanied by horde OF
Milwaukeeans, all of them keen for
jobs, and if the governor makes good
on his promises to abolish all state
offices, he is going to lose lot of
friends.
1t is with some humiliation, not
to say surprise and modification, that
/ am forced to admit that l was
an unbidden guest at Madison,
/ was going to say at the Inaugural
tion, but the latter / had no oppor-
tunity of attending.
The governor is very much pulled
up over his job. The idea grows upon
him each day that he was elected be-
cause of his personal fitness, because
he stood as the embodiment of GER
tain reforms the people of this state
we're demanding, entirely forgetting
and overlooking the fact that | was
the original discoverer, that it was me
who first discovered the grevious evils
under which we were suffering, which
threatened our freedom and liberty.
1t took me several days to gain brief
audience with him. ME, without
whom he would never have attained
to such lofty office.
That / received no formal invitation
to the Inauguration, | might have
overlooked as an oversight, but
to have my card returned to me sew
eral times, before being permitted to
see him, was indeed a monstrous in
suit, especially in view of my prom
inence, my proved patriotism, my
well known devotion to the party, my
disinterested labors in behalf of re-
storing rational government to the
state.
| must digress here to state that
for sixteen years have been the one
leader in the movement in opposition
to state regulation. 1 recognized its
evils at an early day. | was the one
who clearly forsaw the evil of placing
the power to nominate in the hands
of the rabole, the common herd, who
should have been. we'll contented to
vote for one of the two candidates we
wiser ones had named All other
evils have followed in the wake of
this one, great, initial and over
shadowing sin that eliminated in the
abolition of railroad passes, franking
Jersey cows from Oconto to Madison
and those other denominations that
have made these sixteen years one
"Walpurgis Nights Dream" q do
not know exactly what this is, but |
guess it is bad enough as | took it
from the columns of one of our
staunch papers.
But to return to my visit to the
governor. When was ushered into
the room, he pretended not to see
me, being apparently very busy writ
ing something. This think was
done to impress me with the idea
that he was busy repeating all
the progressive legislation of the last
sixteen years, which had resulted in
political paranoia, mat the psycholog-
ical moment had arrived to provide
proper political ventilation and more
perfect ASST imitation.
"Who are you and what do you
want ?" he said, dropping his pen and
looking up at me.
Governor" l replied, in my most
impressive manner, 81 have the honor
to be no less parsonage than Col. III.
o. Tair, patriot and statesman Of
nationwide fame"
sold Hot Air! Yes, yes, l have
heard of you, in fact l believe have
met you some where" he said, grab
bing his pen as though to resume his
political pathological labors.
Sir" replied, drawing myself up
with a dignity that could not be sur
passed by even that sanity man,
Prof. Taft, whom / hope soon to see
at the head of our university. "My
name is not Old Hot Air. 1t is Col.
II. o. Tair. You have previously had
the good fortune to have been hon.
ored by my acquaintance. You have
also had the extreme good fortune to
have profited from my discoveries. 1t
was l who discovered the iniquity of
the Wisconsin idea, / who first mar
shalled the forces of the Eleventh
Story League and with printing
presses and boiler plate battered the
enemy. Alone and single-handed- ---''
''Cut it out. l have heard all that
Tommy rot before. Tell me what
you want and be brief about It. /
remember you and your services and
the Eleventh Story League, l should
say for it tcost me enough. If recollect
rightly you were we'll paid for your
time, and as TO the value of your
services; | give it to you straight
right OFF the bat, that il you endeavor
to organize another league TO help me,
| will have you indicted before the
grand jury. Now, spit it out quick.
VT~r 4