Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-02-22
REAPING THE REWARD OF POLIT-
ICAL TINIE-SERVING

Several papers. and particularly the
Milwaukee Journal, are seeing things
as the result of two recent elections.
Walter Whitman is a German and
Democrat He was elected to the
assembly in ManitowOc district. Her
man Marth Socialist, defeated Dunn.
n Republican in Marathon county.
Wausau supported him. Both are pro-
German victories. They both present
a lesson The bludgeon method OF IN
culcating loyalty is failure. The
feeding of honey and molasses TO alien
enemies. i'll years past. is reaplng It's
reward. The vicious doctrines of
demagogues and time-servers come
home i'll rags and dirt to take place
by the family hearth.
For months the Milwaukee Journal
has fought the governor OF the state
and others on the question of a success
SOr to Husting. 1t has thrown vio-
lence into its castigation of every per-
son, big or little. who has dared to say
that Wisconsin would show wisdom,
if. by legislative act, it followed the
example of 81 other states. and gave
its Chief Executive power to appoint
the L. S. Senator. The probability is
that the appointee would be a Repub-
Iican 1t is also most probable he
he would not be follower in the foot
steps of that other person who votes III
the senate for Wisconsin now. But
there was only one way to get a Demo
cratic senator and that was by pOl1t-
zeal chicanery, clever masquerade, and
deception in the assumption that all
LOYALTY was Democratic. The jour
nails idea was that of the National
administration Republicans should
efface themselves and let the Demo
Gratis run the state, the nation. and the
war. The Journal and its followers
have not even built up Il Frankenstein
The only cohesion is the cohesion of
the elements of dislOyalty, real. inn
piled, active. or passive. masked or in
the open. 1t is led to confess it. Poor
old Wisconsin," walls the milwaukee,
Journal as it sees the results of the
two assembly elections. 1t asks for
real Republican leadership" Then
the state would be made to see Alright.
Then it would get back of him.
What has the Milwaukee Journal or
any other member of the self-righteous
clan that has purveyed the doctrine
that all good was born in Democratic
households and only Republicans in
Wisconsin were vile, got to say about
real Republican leadership?'
But the plea may he the first agon-
lied confession of the futility of
methods pursued in the past four
months TO elect a Democratic success
sor to Mr.. Husting.
We welcome the Journal back into
realms of sanity. Let it help pass
some of the measures now confronting
the special session of the legislature
Il session that ought to have been held
two months ago Let it help pass the
act giving the governor power to APP
point the L. 5. senator to hold office
until a successor is elected next fall.
And if the governor will say to the
legislature that the name of that sen
ator shall be Irving l.. LenrOOt, the
measure will undoubtedly become law
with ease.
We resent the apellation Poor old
Wisconsin" It's confession of i'm
potence and failure. It's IL lie. The
Tuscania, at the bottom of the sea.
with it's Wisconsin dead, disproyes it !:
the roster of men at the front, and III
camp and cantOnment, declares its
falsity It's time for intrOspectiOn
for taking toll of stupid political
errors, and to count the chickens COM
ing home to rOOSt.
Remove some of these political cur
tains that have hidden real purposes
and face the people squarely; then the
Milwaukee Journal will find that it is
Grand Old Wisconsin in fact.