The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-27
THE WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC
STATE CONVENTION.
An Able Platform Adopted that viii
Command the Respect of All Cit
ICES

FOND DU LAC, Sept 26.--The Demo
cratic State Convention met to day, James
q. jenkins presiding.
The resolutions pledge anew democratic
devotion to the constitution with all amend
ments; declare belief that the will of the
people was defeated at the last PresiGen-
tlal election, by fraud and under the pro-
lection OF federal soldiers: declare for the
liberty of the ballot without bayonets;
dennunce military In elections; oppose
railroads; favor the preservation of public
lands for actual settlers: declare hostility
to the Republican financial policy of the
withdrawal of capital from taxation, de-
clarlng currency bonds payable in coin,
demonetizing silver, and attempting to
force resumption. when it will bring ruin
upon the general business interests of the
country; demand instead that the property
protected by the government pay its Just
proportion of the expenses of the govern.
ment; that silver be remonetized and the
present resumption act be repealed and
resumption be postponed until the fnan-
clal condition of the country will permit it;
it declares opposition to longer continu.
ance of the National bank currency, and
demanding that government furnish its
own notes in place thereof; it declares its
unyielding opposition to high protective
tariffs, as vicious in principle, advancing
the interests of few at the expense of
many; it declares its opposition to the
fostering OF monopolies, and favors such
legislation, regulating Interstate as we'll
as State commerce, as will prevent pooling
mbinations OF railways, express. tele
graph and freight companies from extort-
ing exorbitant rates to make watered stock
| yield productive interest; it declares in
favor of such laws as will equalize the
pay of the soldiers in the late
war, and its hostility to the system
of technicalities used by the gov
ernment officials to prevent the payment
to them of their honest dues; it declares
| for a reduction of national and state ex-
penses, and to that end demands the re-
| formation of, and an honest administration of
the revenue law, the abolition of sinecure
| offices, the reduction of large ard unearned
salaries to officers, and the discharge of all
supernumeraIy Office holders; it declares
its opposition to high and exorbitant rates
OF interest, and demands the reduction OF
legal rates to seven per cent and no more
it declares for the repeal of all laws ex.
empting railroad lands and corporate
stock and property other than that held
for religious and school purposes from tax
alton; it declares for the maintenance oi
our free school system, free to all, without
taint Of sectarianism: it declares itsoppo
sition to extraordinary and sumptuary
laws. but insists that the minority mus
acquiesce in the lawfully expressed will o
the majority; it demands that due regard
be paid by our government to the labo
question, and to all just claims of tn,
woTkingmen; it demands the enactment o
stringent laws for the protection of labor
and the savings of labor, and the collection
of wages due workingmen; it demands thu
J proper regulation of prison labor laws ant
for the protection of the health and live
of the operatives in manufacturing estab
, lishments. With this declaration of ou
! principles, we recommend the ticket thi
; day put in nomination, to the favorabl
: consideration and support of the citizen
' of the state.
The following ticket was nominated
Governor, james A. Mallory, of MilWau
{ kee; lieutenant-govsrnor r, Z. Davis, c
Dane; secretary of state, John B. Hayes
r of Dodge; state treasurer, John Ringle, {
2 Marathan; attorney general. Joseph n
g Morrison, of Monroe county; superinteI
G dent of public instruction, Edward Sea
ing, the present incumbent.