Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

Fifth Ward-John Bentley.
Sixth Ward-C. S. Raesser.
Seventh Ward-W. s. Stanley.
Eighth Ward-C. F. Freeman.
Ninth Ward-Charles SarnoW
Tenth Ward-H. J. Baumgartner.
Eleventh Ward-H. P. Fischer.
Twelfth Ward-Thomas Corbett-
Thirteenth Ward-Charles Oldenburg.
Bay View-D. J. Price.
Lake-Thomas O'Neill
Oak Creek-P. Merrity.
Franklin-M. J. Eagan.
Wauwatosa-J. Schoonmaker.
Granville-W. Boorse.
Miwaukee-William Pierron.
Richard Burke then offered the follow
ing, which was adopted:
ResolUed, That this organization be known
as the Is CARPENTER Memorial Association" and
that each contributor to the monument fund
thereby become member thereof.
The committee on state organization
was authorized to adopt and secure such
forms of printed blanks, including the
address, as might be necessary, and said
address was then adopted as follows:
Believing in the existence of a general desire
on the part of the people of the state to erect g.
monument to the memory of Matthew II. Car
penter, some of his former neighbors in Mil
waukee applied to the State Bar Association,
recently convened at mdQ1SOD, TO D1G1dC6 the
organized action upon such application, because
Mr.. Carpenters fame rested as well upon his
reputation as lawyer as upon his labors and
achievements as patriot and and legislator
and because this association, being statewide
in its organization, seemed therefore to be the
appropriate existing body to inaugurate move
ment which is expected to be wholly popular in
its character and to meet with ready response
from every hamlet in the state. The action
taken by the Bar Association has been to ap-
point central committee at Milwaukee to So
licit and receive subscriptions, and to see that
they are speedily and faithfully devoted to the
purpose for which they are intended giving to
the central committee power to add to the num-
Der and to appoint local committees to aid IN
the work. This committee has without delay
effected it's organization, and now advises the
public of its origin and action. They did not
intend to, nor do they urge subscriptions They
regard themselves as guides in a movement SO
spontaneous In its character that it would rea-
Oily have formed another channel had not this
been afforded. The only action they have thus
far taken is to determine that the maximum of
the subscription received from single individ-
ual shall be one dollar, so that none may be de-
tered by comparison of offerings from sharing
in tribute which should be as general as is the
desire which prompts it.
By the proposed memorial the people of this
state viii aid in perpetuating that patriotic
spirit, which, though shared by thousands
made the eloquent voice of Mathew 81. Car
penter the first and most effective raised in
Wisconsin, urging her sons to rally in defense
of the national life III the great struggle pre-
cipitated by the assault On Fort Sumter. In
thus honoring their departed leader, the masses
will evince their undated interest in that great
movement by him forshadowed and powerfully
aided, which, without any real invasion Of in
dlvidual or corporate rights, is intended to
forever secure as national highways the count
less railroads traversing our continental repub-
hc The intended action is, moreover, but the
homage Justly due that legal accumen, legisla-
tive foresight and forensic power which made
our lamented senator 80 pre-em1nent among
those whose ceaseless efforts on the rostrum, III
congress, and before the courts, secured to the
constitutional amendments and reconstructive
enactments-the seques of the great rebellion
the cordial support of the people, and the
emphatic endorsement of all the departments
of the government; a result which has fixed the
principles underlying those amendments and
enactments; SO fercely and persistently resisted
AS granite blocks in the foundations of the
republic. In paying tribute so well mer1ted,
the people of this commonwealth can
not fail to recall the just pride with
which they, watched the brilliant career
of the youthful legislator, who, before the
laurels won in his contest for election had
withered brought Wisconsin by his matchless
powers to the first rank of the states in the ma
tional senate, and this when she had barely
passed the second decade of her existence.
AnO Ill IOuOI1lIS Ou0 oO 0SS6LOldlIy d HAL Oh LLS
people, and friend of the masses, the citizens
of his beloved state do but foster that spirit Of
sympathy with humanity, and recognition Of its
rights, which must be perpetuated in order to
maintain this government of the people; that
government to which in his life Matthew Fl.
Carpenter devoted his unwearied labors and
peerless abilities. AS an incentive to prompt
and concurrent action throughout the state IN
this laudable undertaking upon the plan sug-
gested,- of 81 subscriptions SO that all SO
inclined may be able to participate-we should
not be unmindful of the comment already made
by the leading newspapers in the east, which is
thus voiced by the Boston Post:
1t takes good many dollar subscriptions to build
a monument, and if one of any pretensions can be
erected in that way it will be emphatic proof
of the late senator's standing among the people than
all the honors he ever enjoyed at their hands while
living.
In determining upon the manner of raising
the proposed subscription, this committee but
anticipates the considerations expressed ID the
extract just quoted.
Contributions by mail should be addressed to
George G. Houghton, treasurer of the banking
firm of Houghton Bros. & Co.. bankers, Mil
waukee. All subscriptions, giving the names
and addresses of the donors, will be acknowl-
edged weekly in the daily and weekly editions
of the Milwaukee Sentinel, Republican. EVEN
ING WISCONSIN and Herold.
MADISON, July 20, 1881.
WILLIAM E. SMITH, President.
FRANK A. FLOWER, Secretary.
The committee then adjourned.