Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-20

able thai nine-tenths of the people VI
the United States who know anything
about the case at all believe implicit
Iy that Roosevelt, when he was presi-
dent, made his personal friend, Cap
tain-Doctor Leonard Wood. a brigadier
general of the line in the American
army. Captain-Doctor Wood of the
regular army, who also at the time
was a colonel of volunteers, was pro-
noted from his captaincy to a briga-
der generalship of the regulars by
William Mckinley, in February, 1901.
Theodore Roosevelt, when he was
president. did take two captains of
the army and make brigadier generals
out of them. One of them was the
present Maj. Gen. John ]. Pershing.
who commanded the expedition into
Mexico, and who has just beer or
dered back into the United States.
There was something of an uproar
when the then president promoted
Pershing because of the fact that the
cavalry captain was jumped over the
heads of some hundreds of superior
officers. There was a reason, however.
for Persh.ng's promotion.
Speculation About 1920.
President Wilson has not yet
taken the oath of office for his
second term us president Of the
United States and yet already busy
speculations are circling round, like
the busy whisper in the schoolroom OF
the 1.-THE Deserted Village" concern
ing who's to be who in the next presl-
Dental campaign.
Perhaps it seems incredible that
tongues already are wagging concern
ing the prospects of this man or that
man for high preferment at the con-
ventiOns which will meet three years
from next June but such is the fact,
and there is a reason for it. In nor
NAL circumstances, of course, it is not
to be expected that Woodrow Wilson
will be a candidate to succeed him
self and therefore and thus early it is
that the busy whisper" concern itself
with the candidate or the candidates
for the next Democratic nomination.
So far as the Republicans are con-
cerned, they feel an interest already,
and talking one, in the possible can
didate who, three years from next
summer may be expected to lead the
assault against Democracy ell
trenched for eight years. The new
Congressional Dictionary has just been
issued. 1t will be the last directory
to contain all the names of the 3em-
bers of the present senate and house.
With the coming of March 4 there will
be new directory carrying the bur
den of good many names.
Are They in the Directory?
Now the Congressional Directory is
logged into the presidential gossip
matter because history shows that in
most cases this book has carried the
names of the two candidates to be
pitted against each other in the presi-
Dental race.
Some may say that Woodrow Will
sons name was not in the Congress
sional Directory at the time that he
was talked of for the presidency more
than four years ago. 1t was. The
names of the governors of the states
appear in the Congressional Directory,
and it does not take much of a mem
DRY to retain the fact that Mr.. Wilson
was once governor of New Jersey.
The name of Charles E. Hughes was
in the Congressional Directory during
all the time that he was being named
as q probable Republican candidate
and during all the time that he re-
fused to break silence on the subject
of his desire or lack Of desire to enter
the contest. The Congressional Direc-
tory carries the names of the chief
justice and the as ciate justices of
the Supreme court.
Some studious person who has
looked over the new directory just as
it has come from the press has discoV-
cred that only two men have seen fit
to put in their autobiographies fur
nshed for the book the fact that they
were candidates for the nomination of
their parties for the presidency of the
United States-Speaker Champ Clark
Oem.) and John w. Weeks (Rep.).
Some OF the Possibilities.
In the new Congressional Directory
however, are to be found the names of
O good many men who have received
votes in either the Democratic or the
Doo,,bI;ooO national conventions for
the nomination for the presidency.
Thomas r. Marshall, vice president of
the United States, was a favorite son
of Hoosierdom in the days of the con-
tinuance of the Baltimore convention
of 1912. Oscar w. Underwood, Dem
ocrat, of Alabama. not only was his
states favorite son, but he received
a large number of votes in the cOnven-
ton. There are other Democrats in
the book who likewise received sup
port for the nomination for the highest
office in the land.
Now we turn to the Republicans and
we find Senator Lawrence Y. Sher-
man, who received the great majority
of the votes of Illinois on the first bal
lot at the Chicago convention last
summer. And there is Senator Rob
ert NJ. La Toilette of Wisconsin, who
has figured In national conventions as
a candidate several times. With them
are Senator Borah of Idaho and Cum
Minis of Iowa and some others.
A member of congress the other day
called the congressional directory
the "Book of Fate" He said that
somewhere within 1t, in all human
probability, was the name of the next
president of the United States. This
may not be, of course, because some
man may spring into prominence and
power In the next three years and car
ry away the banner But the chances
are, perhaps. that the name of the
president of the United States who