Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-09-28
COLONEL mccoy
HERE NEXT Week
TO SPEAK IN WAUSAU, Ed
GAR, ATHENS STRAIT
FORD AND MOSINEE

Colonel Robert Bruce Mccoy, the
Democratic candidate for governor,
will address six big meetings in Mar
athon county next Sunday and Mon
day. October and 4. On Sunday,
meetings are scheduled to be held at
Athens. Stratford, Marathon and Ed
gar and on Monday the Colonel will
spend the entire day in Wausau. Mon
day evening at GAS a reception will
take place in Eagles hall to which all
ex-service men in the city will be in
vited In the evening at 7:45 Colonel
Mccoy will deliver an address at the
Grand opera house. Everyone is in
vited to hear him speak.
War Record
Colonel Mccoy and three sons,
Lieut.. Bruce Mccoy, Lieut.. Malcolm
Mccoy, and one nephew, Lieut.. Alex
ander GibbOn, served in the World
war. The Colonel himself was cap
tain of Company l., 3rd Wisconsin
Infantry. He saw service in Porto
Rico during the Spanish-American
war The entire Mccoy family has a
war record which means much to an
American. His father. Captain Bruce
Company G., 43rd Wisconsin VOlun-
teers, in the Civil war. In the Mexi-
can and Indian wars the family was
represented by Elisha Mccoy as cap
tain of military company. Alexan-
der Mccoy, the first of the Mccoy
family to come to the United States
served in Washington's army as a
captain and later in the War of 1912
Colonel McCoy's campaign to date
has included many points to the north
such as Superior, Ashland, and Hur-
ley, and this week Tomahawk, Merrill
and other Wisconsin river valley CT
ties and towns are to have the priv
ilege of hearing him speak on pres
ent day issues.
Are Loyal
.'All we need to do is to tell the
TRUTH" Colonel Mccoy said on one oc-
casion when interviewed at his home
at Sparta. wisconsin is as loyal tC
the principles of true Democracy anG
Americanism as any other state in the
union. 1t makes me fighting mad tC
hear people say that our peoplt are
lacking in loyalty. | know they are
not"
I'm one town at the beginning OF
the war when / called for volunteers
fifteen foreign speaking youths offer
ed themselves and you should have
seen the look of disappointment or
their faces when l told them that
could not accept them because the,
had not taken out their first natural
i2ation papers. They immediatel,
rushed to the county eat, swore out
their first papers and were back be
fore | left their town.
This is but one incident of the
campaign. 1 could tell you others
and relate the numerous incidents o.
their bravery on the battlefields over
there"
Opposes .Militarism-
Colonel Mccoy. although veteran
of the Spanish-American war and the
World war. is sincerely opposed Il
militarism in the West Point form
He is in favor of state militia merely
as a training school in which ever,
youth may take the training with the
understanding that he will never bs
called out to draw hand againS
his ftllow citizen. The prepare
ton should only be to prepare him t
take up his gun in defense of hi:
country should necessity require it.
The Colonel is receiving ovation:
everywhere he goes. Republican after
Republican has come to him and as
Sured him support, support because
he opposes the NonpartiSan leagu,
which opposition he declares, lis s
task larger than party utilization. Il
comes to me as the identical call,
answered when l organized my regi
ment and sailed for the battlefield.
of France"
For sixteen years Colonel McCo,
was q judge in Republican county
At present he is mayor of Sparta. q
Republican city. He is an alumnus
of the University of Wisconsin and
while there was a roommate of the
brother of Ed. F. Dithmar. one of the
defeated candidates for governor in
the Republican primary.
In Wausau Colonel Mccoy should
receive his greatest reception tc
date. Seamen men. Wilcox NTH. Title.
more men. and every Democrat and
independent who realizes what con.
troll by the Nonpartisan league may
mean. to Wisconsin, may mean to the
industries of the commonwealth, to
say nothing about the further bligh,
OF Its name nationally, should turn