Show I William BY Allen Alen SAVOYARD Cooper Fifty years ago Wisconsin carried the doctrine of state sovereignty to th the tho pass of successful nullification and when the big war came Wisconsin was wa under the rule to appear in the su supreme supreme supreme preme court at Washington to purge herself herel of ot her contempt of the orders order of that tribunal tribuna but law is silent in inthe Inthe inthe the clash cash of armband arm and Wisconsin went of her treason treaon Perhaps that is an unfortunate term in light of the fact that nullification is a local treason in South Carolina and patriotism in and so sowe s swe sowe we will wil Just let it I go at that for since hypocrisy was first born lor in 1 the Ue world worl It I is given to the elect to work Iniquity In Jn behalf beal of virtue or as Sir John Falstaff put It I Why thou baseness it itis ItIs itis is as much as I 1 can do to keep keeI the terms of mine honor precise I I 11 I myself sometimes leaving the fear of heaven on the left lef hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity am fain to shuffle to hedge and to lurch And ond so with wih Wisconsin and the fugi fugitive fugitive tive slave shave law the Dred Scott decision and the orders of the supreme bench Leaving loyalty on the left let hand and hiding her duty in her fanaticism Wis Wisconsin WIsconsIn WIsconsin nullified the law of ot the fand land and violated the constitution of the United States treason was j But since treaon wa made effulgent patriotism by b the for fortunes fortunes fortunes tunes of ot war Wisconsin has been a thoroughly loyal state and for the old 01 flag fing and a a pension She has hag always held up her end of the log In congress both houses and in Carpenter Spooner and Vilas Vias she was in the first rank in the senate In Bragg she had the and man in inthe Inthe Inthe the house of representatives There was an election in the tine Wiscon Wisconsin Wisconsin sin legislature some time ago to choose a man to supply the vacancy in the United States senate occasioned by the resignation Unie of John C Spooner and we have Inave the story that this paper was presented to one of or the candidates for tor hi his signature I r hereby promise and declare that I Iwi will wi in case of my election to the United States seriate se ate from Wisconsin most heartily support and uphold Sen Senator Senator Senator ator LaFollette LaFolette in his work endeavor and ad political effort both in Washington and within the state as Q well wel He emphatically and Indignantly spurned the offer ofer and besought some somebody somebody somebody body to tell tel hint hin the answer to this question Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing He was vas as not elected and perhaps he would not have been had he accepted ac the propos proposal al at to sell himself himsel for the Henry Allen AUen Cooper was wa the man who was Invited to become a senator with wih a vote in pawn if tradition Is to tobe tobe be taken for truth as It I sometimes is Nobody who knows Cooper would credit him with any such baseness He Be Heis HeIs Beis is conspicuous for his Independence of thought and independence of ot charac character character ter He leads his friends and enemies alike alke to believe beleve he is 15 the stuff of which are made m de He has been ben known to break the shackles of party not only in debates but on the roll rol call cal and if 1 all al the swash swashbucklers swashbucklers swashbucklers bucklers had had his determination the i congressional cat uld likely have been ben belled belied long ago Not even to Tom Reed himself did Cooper tremble in fear or bend In sycophancy He is IJ I that public character a aman man with opinions which he will wi not surrender Henry Allen Alen v oper was born in Wisconsin in 18 1890 0 and after a 8 col collegiate collegiate course in the Northwestern university he studied law and was graduated from a law school in Chicago Chi Chicago Chicago cago after whIch he lie entered upon the practice at Racine his present home He three times elected district was at attorney attorney attorney torney after ater which he was state sen seli senator senator ator and in 1892 he was returned to the congress as a Republican R can and has been seven times reelect reele reelected t ted ed He was wa the first and only chair chairman chairman chairman man of ot the committee on insular af at affairs affairs fairs a council counci made necessary when we bought some millions of Orientals to civilize and fetch feth up in the way wa that they should go Cooper distinguished himself his first session Though a minority member a Republican R In a Democratic con congress congress congress gress it i is scarce too much to say sa that Coopers speech against the funding bill bi asked by b the Pacific railroads was more for the tho defeat of oC that measure than any an other He was a 8 pioneer of the noble guild guid of octopus chasers chaer After the government t had voted v ted empires of land and ad millions of at cash loans loas to the Pacific railroads that were constructed on the credit plan Jay ay Gould got possession of them and made money out of oC them but when Thurman and Edmunds chased the octopus Gould withdrew and the roads roas were acquired by b that Boston oston set who caused Wall Wal street to stand aghast in admiration and envy em With Wih the earnings they constructed parallel lines and diverted traffic to these lat latter latter ter Now they the were before congress to extend the government loan for eighty years at 2 per cent That was wa the tiling thing Cooper did so much to defeat Since then the government has haa col coi collected collected the entire debt But the roads roas swore It was ruin ruination ruination aton Yet they paid all those millions Into the treasury without financial em and their properties are among the most valuable of Mr Harri mans entire entre holdings In 1896 the Republican national con convention convention venton was guilty gUity of the stupendous folly foly of ot preferring William McKinley to Thomas B Reed Red as the candidate for president and we had as sequence the far Car from Crom glorious war W r with wih Spain Span and the sequence of oC that was our ac acquisition of the tine Philippine archipelago another superlative folly fol that the Re Republican Republican publican party part has the impudence to tolay tola tolay lay la on Almighty God Cooper CooP r added Immeasurably to his reputation as a z forensic debater by his speech on the Philippine question queston Hoar of Massachusetts Massachusetts sets and Carmack of ot Tennessee had opposed the governments policy In speeches speech s In the Senate that rank with the finest specimens of ot parliamentary eloquence in our history and Cooper gave us ua the tIne other oter side Nobody in congress con ress has ever eyer pretend pretended ed to give the one tenable reason reson for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the presence of the American flag fag in inthe Inthe inthe the orient the British alliance and the federation of the peo peoples peoples ples pIes That would insure the peace and security scurf of all aU who speak our tongue and make for the tranquillity of the world But here is the Republican pirty that was born to free the aigro I O I going half Vay yay vay around the world to I enslave millions of ot orientals It I claims to find in the Constitution of oC Ute tile United States authority to go up and down the earth eath to civilize folks when the fact fac is there is not a community in our own country countr half haI civilized as yet We Ve left Poland to writhe in agony under the accursed despotisms of Germany Aus Austria Austria Austria tria and Russia and shed a bushel of tears over the comparatively mild mUd rule of Spain in Cuba and in the Philip Philippines Philippines pines Our conduct is as absurd as was that of the Duchess of Somerset when Dean Swift accused her of having haYing red redhair redhair redhair hair and of murdering her first hun hus husband huband band As s for the tine murder charge charge which everybody knew to be false her grace deigned no answer but as to the car carroty carrot carroty roty rot hair a charge visibly true the lady lad made indignant and denial denial Cooper made the Philippine speech in 1902 and it has served as the tte Republican Re Republican publican case its Is deliver and the country appears ap ars tax It Itself t tel self to the quick q an odious and el unconstitutional un L satrapy gatra miles away awa ti without out the security s a mies British alliance alance would afford and that that too when the policy poll Is likely any day Jay dayto to breed br ed a war that will wi grind the tue American people under a debt of bil bli billions billions lions and billions The speech of Cooper was very vers elo eloquent eloquent eloquent quent and full ful of sentiment sentiment He ap appeared appeared appeared to argue that because beca ea a fellow felo named Rizal wrote a poem was executed for insurrection It nur i ur duty dut to civilize his If we do that for all al poets pots and rebels we I will be kept pretty busy bus the rest of oC wi our natural life and possibly neglect some important domestic jobs |