The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-03-03
MORE MCADOODLING.


We had though that the gallery
west swat which the Democratic
party received something more than
three months ago would be sufficient
to satisfy for some time its taste
for thumps and thwacks, without it's
kicking up any intestine shindy. But
we were over-optimistic.
Lord Randolph Churchill in ex-
planning how he came to make the
one catastrophe blunder of his
career said, 81 forgot Goschenw We
did not forget McAdoo. Nobody
could do that. But somehow we
failed to take into account the pos
sibility of his jumping in with pull
motor and hypodermic, to McAdoodle
the all-but-cosatose remains of the
great party which eight years be-
fore he had conspicuously helped to
guide to victory.
But he has done it. Or at least
his reputed friends are doing it. If
Mr.. McAdoo's friends administer the
coup de grace to the leadership of
the Hon. James Middleton Cox, it
will be as vain for him as it was for
Macbeth to protests: ''Thou canst
not say l did it; never shake thy
CORY locks at me-" And such a
stroke its plausibly assumed to be
the object of the activity which is
now going on in respect to the Demo-
cratic National Committee. The
Forty-Niners (by actual COUNT are
on the Trails End trail. They are
saying in effect to its Chairman,
"Git.!'
Of course they do not put it so
crudely. They say to him, cart thou
in health, our brother?" the while
that the lethal snickersnee is feeling
for the lower edge of that fifth rib.
Of course, they congratulate Mr..
White upon his valiant and patrio-
tic efforts" to accomplish the I'M
possible, and they wish for him
many, oh, very many years of hap
piness, oh, such happiness!-when?
Why, when he has got out, ske-
daddled, vamoosed the ranch, flown
the coop; in other words, "upon the
retirement which he annunced, short
" after November 2, that his private
interests will make it necessary for
him to seek
Never did milder-mamered man
scuttle ship than he who penned
those words. Never did the "struck
eagle, sketched upon the plain" see
his own feather winging the fatal
dart with more certainty and with
more anguish than Mr.. White per-
ceives his own words emphasizing his
writ of eviction.
But, it is not Mr.. White who is the
Forty-Niners' real quarry. 1t is
Mr.. James Middleton Cox, erstwhile
Jimmy" at whom they ultimately
aim. A splendid Democrat" they
call him. But while they can do no
more than colorlessly refer to "the
recent campaign" under his leader
ship, how glow the lustrous word and
leap the mighty thoughts when they
dwell upon the "matchless record of
achievement under the leadership of
our great President" And so they
want Mr.. White to get out in order
that another Chairman, who knows
not Jimmy" may be chosen, and in
order that ''the forces of progress
may be organized for continued, con-
structive, patriotic action" leading
to a righteous and richly earned
victory in 1924" Obviously, the
forces of PROCESS were not thus or
Nostrils infiamed
which Mr.. White directed for Mr..
Cox; which of course explains why
there was not a righteous and
richly-earned victory" in November
last.
1t looks to the man in the street
for all the world as though an effort
were being made to have the next
campaign McAdoodled into an at
tempt renaissance of Wisconsin; by
running Mr.. McAddo on the plat
form of President Wilson's ac-
Movements; and it may be that there
are those who really think that such
course would be the acme and
quintessence Of political shrewdness
So they say, "Let us kick out the
candidate who got beaten, and put
into his place for the next try the
chief representative of that odious
handicap which caused his defeat.
That surely is Napoleonic strategy
headed straight for Waterloo. 1t is
a pity; or would be, to have such