Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-10-24
CONGRESSMAN JOHN ]. LENTZ

Mr.. Lentz was due to arrive here on
the $3.50 st. Paul train, but he was
met at Rothschild by the committee
on reception with automobiles and he
was taken directly to the opera house,
reaching there at 8:15. He was ac-
companied by his wife, who occupied
a seat upon the stage.
The opera house was filled to its
capacity and hundreds had to take
seats upon the stage in order that
they might be present to hear the
speaker. Others did not care to be so
conspicuous and had to forego the
pleasure of listening to the great
speech.
Hon John Ringle presided, and in
his preliminary remarks gave those
present much food for thought con-
corning the questions bearing upon the
approaching election. Safety First,
he said, was the warning which every
voter should heed; that it was not
safe to make a change at this critical
| period in the affairs of our country.
Mr.. Ringle introduced the speaker of
the evening, who was given warm
and enthusiastic greeting.
| Mr.. Lentz had travelled from Mis-
souri, to keep the engagement made in
Wausau. After few opening remarks
Mr.. Lentz entered upon the discussion
of the prominent questions of the
| campaign and he talked eloquently
| for two hours holding the attention of
his audience throughout. The speaker
| reviewed the history of Theodore
| Roosevelt commencing when he be-
came a growing menace to the re-
publican party and was finally laid
upon the shelf, as the leaders of that
party had hoped, by placing him on
the ticket with Mckinley for vice
president of the United States. Nc
Kinley was the victim of an assassin's s
| bullet and Theodore became president
and was reelected. VIM. Taft was
| taken into his cabinet and Theodore
| trained him for the presidency and
| secured the nomination for him tell
ing the national republican conven-
tion that he must be the nominee, and
he was. After four years of Taft, dur
| ing which time the affairs of the nation
went wrong in many instances, Theo-
dore told President Taft at the end
of his term he must step down and
out as 81 am the only one who can
run the affairs of government, and do
| it right" Taft refused, and Theodore
showed his teeth for fight; organized
a party of his own and defeated Mr..
| Taft. During Roosevelt's campaign
he maligned every man of note who
was against him. He again called on
the progressive party to nominate him
a second time and there was gathered
together a great body of sincere men
and women, who had spent their own
| money to further their progressive
ideas at Chicago, at the same time
the republican national convention was
| in progress. 1t was the Roosevelt
program to use the progressive con-
vention as club to make the regular
republican convention nominate him
| for president. He waited patiently
at Oyster Bay to be called upon to ad-
dress the republican convention, but
the invitation never came. When he
knew that there was no hope for him
to be chosen as the candidate, he wrote
letter naming as his choice, Henry
Cabot Lodge, a man who was pro-
English to the very core, man who
would go so far as to apologize to
England for the unpleasantness of
1776. He refused the nomination for
president rendered him by the progress
sive party, as he had intended to do
| from the start. Now he is the head
and front OF the Hughes campaign.
His cry is for. War! War!! War!!!
Hughes heard this cry from his mas
| ter until he felt that he must go
about the country crying, War! But
he has found out that the American
people do not want war and he is
| now trying to create the impression
| that he is man of peace, but if Hughes
| is elected and with Theodore Roose-
welt as secretary of state, is there any
one who believes that war can be avoid
ed? Theodore wants war; he wants
to wear the shoulder straps; that was
| his aim when he entered the Spanish
American war; he was leading a col
ored regiment at San Juan hill, when
he reached the bottom he did not pro-
ceed up the hill, but he ordered the
| negroes, using plenty OF profanity, to
| go up, showing unnistakable cow
ardice.
Mr.. Lentz turned the strong light
of truth on the record of Candidate
| Hughes, and demonstrated to the sat
| isfaction of his large audience that
Hughes was far from being in sym
pathy with any but the excessively
rich, but rather he vetoed the bill
passed by the legislature of New
York for two-cent mile rate for
travel over railroads of that state,
when the same law was in effect in
many states of the union. He was
against the income tax law. He vetoed
the law passed TO equalize the SAL
aries of men and women teachers, do
| ing the same work in the state of New
York. Mr.. Lentz told how there were
just now, a train load of women, of
the upper crust, representing the ex-
/ treme wealth of the east. not what