Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-08-24
URGES DEMOCRATS
TO VOTE RIGHT
LA TOILETTE ONLY FORTY
PER CENT DEMOCRAT
SAYS MATHIE

Urging democrats TO vote IN the
Democratic primary on September 5th
and declaring that it is the Democrat
who votes in the Republican primary
that has helped keep LaFollette in Of
flee, Karl Mathie, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor,
answers letter he recently received
from w. B. Ackerman, of Gays Mills,
in which Mr.. Alderman tells Of a
farmer, always a Democrat, who is
thinking Of leaving his party in the
primary. His letter is also a refuta-
tion of the charge of some that his
candidacy was instigated by the
"44ites".
Thank you for your letter or Au-
gust 18th, 1922" says Mr.. Mathie.
Your farmer friend is joining that
kind of a Democrat that has kept La
Toilette in office and broken up the
Democratic party Of Wisconsin. His
reason for voting for him is camoufiage.
If he really wants a Democrat in the
Senate he would work for real
Democrat. 1t is true LaFollette has
often voted with the Democrats, but
in the most crucial moments he de-
serted us. He did not vote with the
Democrats for the Federal Reserve
Banking System, the greatest finan-
cial measure ever adopted by any par
ty in our whole history. Without that
the most destructive panic of all his
tory would have bankrupted us. He
deserted us in our effort to establish
world peace on the only foundation
that can endure, call it League or AS
sociation or what you may. What we
need is a REAL Democrat.
''It is men like your friend, who
calls himself democrat, that prevent
Democratic doctrine from becoming
the law of the land. Why did Wis
consin not send that brilliant Demo-
crat, Ex-Ambassador Paul S. Reinsch.
to the Senate when it had a chance /?
The country needed just such world
famous student OF international prob
lens in the Senate during the recon-
struction period, instead of 40 per
cent Democrat like LaFollette or a
10 per cent Democrat like Lenroot
To-day Paul S. Reinsch is financial
advisor of the great republic of China
Truly prophet is not without honor,
save in his own country.
paul S. Reinsch did not lose in the
1920 campaign. No, it was Wiscon-
sin that lost! 1t was America that
lost!
'Let us be clear in this matter. 1t
is Mrs. Hooper that is running on our
ticket Tor the u. S. Senate, as good
a Democrat as ever breathed the air
of Wisconsin. She deserves the sup
port of every man and woman that be-
lieves in government by the people
instead of by commission, and in gov
ernment for the people instead of for
special privilege.
81 regret very much that your friend
has been lead to believe the fantastic
tale that l am running at the instiga-
ton of any one but the element in
the Democratic party which believes
l could serve our state acceptably, If
elected. l was not a candidate and I
told the Wausau delegation that | did
not want to be candidate, but the
honor was conferred upon me and I
felt l could not refuse. If he hon
estly believes the canard that the
44ites got me to run he should certainly
not vote for me. What puzzles me is
how my candidacy can help Morgan
or Garfield.
Il dld not intend to mention LaFOl-
lette's name in the campaign, but
when he deliberately dragged a new
style of bloody shirt into the campaign
it was time he was challenged That
transcends all other issues. We
ceased to be Democrats or Republi-
cans and are now either Americans or
traitors to America. In Mayville he
to that small part of our
German element that was pro-Ger-
man. In Chippewa Falls, he appealed
to that small part of the Irish element
that was against America in the war.
Who knows what racial prejudices he
will stir up tomorrow?
Let me ask your. friend one ques-
ton. Is Is good thing for Wiscon-
sin to have racial hatre6s cultivated
and stirred up every time we have
an election? The victory of the Senior
Senator this fall would encourage
every disreputable politician to fol-
low his example, and henceforth we
should see the steady, lamentable sep
aration of our people into groups, sus-
picious il not hostile, with relations
strained instead of harmonious.
mo, let us scotch the snake of ra-
cial intolerance once and forever!"