The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-02-12
THE NEW WISCONSIN SENATOR.

Tie States compliment 90 Cameron
Will be better appreciated EIen il Is
known that lie has remained AT home,
quietly ugag,.i in his professional du-
ties, leayiiig he choice of Senator en-
tirely to the Legislature.
The Senator elect is a native of the
State of New York, born at Caledonia,
| Livingston County, on the 4th of July,
1896, and is now in his 49th year. He
embraced the profession of the law in
Buffalo, n. Y, and came TO Wisconsin
in 1857, selected La Crosse as his place
of businessman has since that time been
leading member of his profession. He
has represented La Crosse County sever
al times in the legislative Assembly, four
years in the Wisconsin Senate, and was
Speaker in 1867. In personal appearance
the Senator elect is strongly indebted TO
his Scotch origin; standing above medi-
um height, with an erect, well-knit frame;
clear, sharp eyes; hair and mustache of
silvergray color.
The platform adopted by the reform
ers and anti Carpenter Republicans, in
Joint caucus, and which formed the ba-
sis of the coalition which resulted in his
election, is comprehensive, national, and
conservative, and will in no way en-
croach upon the proper and legitimate
functions of legislator, and consequent
ly will in no respect prevent the new
Senator from giving full exeicise and eff
feet to his really liberal principles He
was an old Whig when that party existed,
and Joined the Republican party soon af-
ter its formation, and has voted with that
party ever since. He is an uncomprom-
ising hard-money advocate, and be-
lieves in no imitation of currency and a
return TO specie payments at the earliest
practical day. Credit Mobelier, salary
grab, and every species of iniquity of
that order will find him a determined
and alert enemy. He is fluent speaker,
cool and clear-headed, and one of the
best parliamentarians in the State, and
will undoubtedly fill the position with
honor to himself and credit to the
State.
The platform unanimously adopted
by the members of the Legislature, who
elected Senator Cameron, is as follows:
Preservation OF the public credit; hon
est payment of the national debt; rigid
economy, State and Federal; more and
cheaper facilities for transportation
within and without the State; compile
ton of the Fox and Wisconsin River i'm
provement; a sound currency in coin, or
its equivalent; tariff for revenue, levy
ing lighter duties on articles of necessity
than upon articles of luxury; sovereign
ty of the State over corporations of its
own formation; condemnation of those
who vote or apologize for Credit Mobe-
Iier corruptions in Congress or else
where, or who affiliate with men of cor
rupt practices in State or Federal legisla-
ton; sovereignty of the Federal Gov
ernment in the exercise of its delegated
powers; sovereignty of the States and
the people as to all powers not delega-
ted to the Federal Government, and not
prohibited to the States; supremacy of
the civil authority in time of peace; lib
erty, equality, and fraternity for all men
under the law; freedom of the press
from the Federal gag-law; freedom of re-
ligion, and opposition to all State or
Federal enactments which usurp juris-
diction over the private conscience, or
punish one man for the offense of an
other; the perpetual subordination of
the interests of party to principle, and
to the good of the whole party; and ell
ovation of labor, and its permanent and
positive protection in all its rights, with
out injustice to capitalize Crosse Dis
patch to Chicago Times.
A FIT SELECTION.
Hardly any filter selection could have