Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-06-30

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Jno. Hicks, Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Moritz Schoefier, Banner and Yolksfreund
3 Milwaukee.
> Z. y: Deuster, See Bote, Milwaukee
t Z. ". Sackett, Times, Weyauwega.
> =. o.. Waldron, do do
frank I1lton. Advocate, Green Bay.
H. ID. Bath, Democrat, Columbus
; j. A: Wells, Journal Tomah
B. W. Rice, Christian Worker, Milwaukee
A. j. High, Sentinel, Monroe.
A.J. Turner, Register, Portage.
8 3. Brannan, do do
kee.
j. 0. Culver, Journal, Madison.
A. Q. Sandford, Advocate, Racine.
=. b. Bolens, Democrat, GAINESVILLE.
frank Leland, Independent, Elkhcrn.
3. Hooker, Times, Waupun.
j. d. Eaton, Free Press, BeIoit
W.. d. Merrill, Courier, P. du CHEN.
A. nj. Thomson, Gszette GAINESVILLE.
i Otto Ir9mel Zeitung, Manitowoc.
s. W. Martin, Record, Madison.
M M. Marco, Oshkosh.
E. W: Kinley, Telegraph, Kenosha.
J. b. Norton, Journal, Madison
:, W. i. Abbott, Chronicle, Dodgeville
Il j. A. HoEie. Cresco Times, Iowa
J. M. May, Advance, Milwaukee
/ +. G. Everett, Independent, Baraboo.
/ L. l.. Terry, Courant, Berlin.
4 W.B. Tapley, Gazette, Green Bay.
j; NJ. Bracket, Union and Times, Chippe-
wa Falls.
i J. X. Proudft, Madison.
/ s. A. Pease, Express, Montello.
q. Veeder, Sun, GAINESVILLE.
! N. Smith, Freeman, Waukesha
/ n. ID. Wright, Republican, DeIavan.
j. A. Watrous, Badger State Banner, Black
River Falls.
Frank Cooper, Badger State Banner, Black
! River Falls.
H.sN. Ross, Times, Sheboygan.
On motion the following gentlemen were
| appointed committee on business:
| d. W. Ballou, Watertown Democrat
| DR.. S. A. Pease, Montelo Express.
David Atwood, Madison Journal
Al. High, Monroe Sentinel.
| D. B. Priest, Sparta Eagle.
With song by Mr.. Brand, entitled the
open and the Press" the convention ad-
journed to two o'clock D. m.
80 AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention reconvened at the ap-
pointed time, and the business committee
presented the following report of the
Treasurer of the Association.
The receipts for the year were:
For memberships. Observation-Disclosures 5000
Balance in treasury January, 1868. 49,. 81
Total Observation-Disclosures. s287
The disbursements were:
To Atwood & Rublee for publishing
five hundred copies of proceedings
of the Association. n.................$23 $234.50
Telegraph bill. ..-- ..............-.. 1912
Total. .....-................ $249.62
Balance in treasury y................ 5 81. SO
The report was adopted.
The committee reported the following for
officers for the ensuing year:
President-Charles Seymour, Of Lacrosse.
Vice Presidents-Geo. Hyer, of Oshkosh;
J. A. Watrous, of Black River Falls; A. j.
High, of Monroe.
Recording Secretary-James Ross, of Mad
ison.
Corresponding Secretary-W. D. Merrill of
Prairie du CHEN.
Treasurer David Atwood, of Madison.
Executive Committees. A. Peas, Of
Montello; D. B. Priest, of Sparta; A. @. San
ford, of Racine; Frank Leland, of E'khorn;
Lewis A. Proctor of Milwaukee.
The report of the committee was adopt
ed
Prairie du Chen was designated as the
place for the holding of the next conven-
ton, Mr. Brown of that place, assuring the
Convention, in well chosen words, that its
citizens would do all in their power to make
the occasion one of pleasure to the Asso-
citation.
EVENING SESSION.
At seven and half the Convention was
called to order by the President. Music
under the direction of Mr.. Chandler was
given with fine effect
ANNUAL ADDRESS.
Hon. Moritz Schoeff1er, editor OF the
Banner and Volksfreund Milwaukee, de-
livered the following address:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Ass0cid-
tion:-ASain the editorial fraternity of Wis
consin are assembled in their annual council
to consult about the mutual interests and
the interests of the profession generally; to
form new and renew old acquaintances, and
to become gradually more intimately acquain-
ted with the different parts and localities of
our beautiful state, and their particular adj
vantages, so that whenever an occasion
arises, the public press might know and un-
derstand the wants of such localities, and
further their interests n such way that the
BADGER State will and must become one of the
most prominent of the great Union of inde
pendent states.
This time we have met in the beautiful and
prosperous city of Oshkosh, on Lake Winnie
bagO and much age.nst my own wish and in
clination, your wol thy President has selected
me to deliver an address. Although, for sew
eral good reasons, | demonstrated against
| this appointment yet, being one Of the old
| est publishers in the state, aud the pioner of
| the German Press of Wisconsin, he insisted
upon bis selection, and / yielded 70. the pur
| pose of making, on this Occe sion, PROPOSE
| ton which [ believe will, if entertained and
properly cal rjed out, be for the benefit of the
| whole editorial fraternity. But if my Eng
| Iish should not be of that cast and so per-
! feet as such an occasion seems to demand,
| YOU must excuse me, having learned the IAN
| guage in rather advanced Years.
The subject of this address, as stated by
the programme, is the English ard the Ger
man Press, and as | only have agreed to be-
speak some Of my experience as a publisher
and printer, it is perhaps properly headed,
| although / do not intend to review the his
tory of the Press Of Wisconsin, which already
has been so ably done last year by my old
friend and colleague Geo. Hyer, Esq, OF the
Oshkosh Times.
When, in 1874, came from Missouri to Mil
| waukee to establish the Wisconsin Banner
there were only a few English papers pub
lished in the then territory of Wisconsin, the
largest part of it being still uncultivated, and
to some extent an unknown wilderness, but
OF such a fertile soil and such rich and un-
developed resources, that nothing but capita
and INNING ration was needed to transform
this wilderness into beautiful state. The
English press, faithful to its mission, pro-
claimed this throughout the Eastern and the
Middle States, and /, in connection with sew
eral German friends, Immediately went to
work to make known, also, throughout the
German states, the particular advantages
which, in connection With the fertile soil ano
it's rich resources. Wisconsin could offer, es-
pecially to the German immigrant. Iaccord-
ingIy pi inted thousands of pamphlets, set,
ting forth these facts, which were extensively
distributed in all the American ports, as vel
as Havre, Hamburg, Bremen, and Other
| prominent localities IN Germany, or sent by
those already satisfactorily settled here, il
private letters to their friends 4 Germany
where they went from hand to hand, were
eagerly read by all classes, and 4 some dis
tricts created quite an immigration mania il
iavor of Wisconsin.
The general result of this agitation wai
astonishing -immigrants from the o1del
states, and Germans and Irish landing b,
thousands upon our shores, and in 1916 thu
large emigration from Germany to Wisconsin
which is still in progress, began, and enabled
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