The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-08-12
The Wisconsin Democracy.


a platform should issue from the Con
ntion to be held in Milwaukee, on the 8th
Sept. next. These are questions, which
cry thinking voter in the State, will ask,
lether be be former adherent Of the
.mocratic or Republican party.
The time now is. when the arbitrary par
lines which have held both parties to
cir nominal ticket, are broken. The
ne is coming, and now is, when rabid
rty fire is quenche1, and the reasoning,
aiding, thinking IN of the State, are
ling to unite with that party, under what
er name it may be known, which puts
Nomination the best men, governed and
ssed upon those principles which it car
ed out, will tend to bring the greatest
BOD to the Country the State In which
live. If the Democratic Convention OF
e 9Th of Sept. place honest and capable
en- in nomination for State officers, upon
pIa forIn, of principles which man Of
nse cannot help but approve, then those
en-. Will DC tISClEu W LII ltO0I OLAOCS.
tut if that Convention, when organized,
eeds itself, without reserve, to three or
,ur old political wheel horses of the par
~ the names of whom it is not necessary
give, and those "old wheel horse"
roceed 10 slate up, aud dish out, to the
people of the State, an 'unterlfed true
lue," tried 'stand to the rack, fodder or
% fodder batch of Candidates, men who
ave been weighed in the balance dozen
imes and found wanting" more votes and
lace them upon an "unterifed, true
,lue" platform, then these men, and
hat platform, and the Democratic party,
, II the great State of Wisconsin, are going
o receive another defeat from the people
7 ,f the State, ard it will be nertted de-
eat. But If again, that Convention, made
Ip, as we hope it will be, Of delegates from
every assembly district in the State, who
know, and dare to speak therein, the views
| and wishes of their neighbors and those
| Who sent them there, if that Convention
coming thus directly from the people, will
but echo the throsbings Of the great public
heart, and ignore the old fights, the old
dead and buried carcasSes Of the past, ana
hook, in their resolution only to the great
good OF the people of this state for the future,
la I'd represent those resolutions by candi~
dates unexceptional to the people, and
whom the people would feel safe Ii sup
r.-.inr, fLon .hoao CandiAates will be elcc
tel Why? Because, there are more DEM
ocrats than Republicans in Wisconsin, and
when the Democratic party Of the State,
speaking through its press, and through
the mouths and pens Of its leading spirits,
shall once more become true to itself, and
to the time honorcd principles which,
having been carried out by the party while
in powr, a1d made the coun ry SO great and
happy, then, it will again be in power,
and in a position 70 save our now disrupt
I'd country.
1t is not necessary that we should aban>
don a single principle, which the party has
heretofore claimed exc!u.ively as its own.
We still believe in free trade-in equal
rights to all-in tie right of each State Of
the Union, to regulate its own affairs ac
cording to its own wishes, subject oniy to
the Constitution of the United States.
That the military should be subordinate to
the civil law. That the rich man should
be TAXED as well as the poor man. In
these views, and many others, we have a
great majority of the people with US, as
against the Republican party. A major
ity of the people of this country do not
believe as does the Radical Republicans, in
high tariff or class legislation for the ben
eft of the few.
In a centralized government working
toward the destruction of the reserved
rights Of the States In the supremacy of
the military to the civil power. In the
taxation of the poor man to pay the rich
mans bonds, or in making,capital the own
er OF labor, and all men, diSapproving of
these things, who have for reasons well
known to ALL voted with the Repub-
lican party, will under proper action of the
Democratic Conventions of the country,
once more unite with us, in our efforts to
govern the country, in such a way that
peace and prosperity will once more reign
all over the land, from Maine to Mexico.
And we hope, that the Democratic Con-
vention of Wisconsin, at its meeting, will
shake off some of the old scabs, that cling
to the party. Pare off the old bark that
has for the last decade of years, been
binding Gown, and killing the tree Trim
the old party up, lop off the old dead
branches, that yet cucumber her. give
her new harness, and tighter load.
Discharge the old plots who have for so
many times run the craft upoa the beach.
Then, and not till then, will the Demo
cratic party receive the support, its history
and its principles merit.
PERSONAL We had call day OF two
since from Mr.. Jere Crowley, an old Wis
consin editor, and lately of the Manitowoc