Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-10

The Republican state convention was
called to order at noon on the 3D.
inst. by Chairman Taylor of the
State Central Committee, who urged
that the business be conducted with
dispatch, owing to the mass meeting to
be addressed by Gen. Logan at 3.
He thought the proceedings could be
finished early, because of a unanimous
desire that the present state officers be
renominated.
Secretary Payne, of the Central Com
mittee, read the list of delegates whose
credentials had been approved.
A permanent organization was per-
fected by the nomination of Ogden H.
FeGhers, of GAINESVILLE, as presiding
officer, there being no temporary or
ganization. On assuming the chair
Mr.. Fethers thanked the convention in
a strong Republican speech.
Paul Bechtner, of Milwaukee, S. G..
Leland, Fond du Lac, and H.H. Price, of
Jackson County, were elected secreta-
ries.
On motion of Ell. @. Fairchild, the
chair appointed committee on resolu-
tons, composed of one delegate from
each congressional district and one from
the state at large.
A motion prevailed that all resoIu-
tions presented to the convention be
referred TO the committee on resolutions,
without debate. While the committee
on resolutions was out the convention
gave it's attention to the nomination of
state officers.
At. l 10 the committee on resolutions
reported the following platform, which
was adopted without discussion:
The Republicans of Wisconsin. believing that
the best interests of the whole people require
the continued supremacy Of Republican princi-
pies IN state and national affairs, do reaffirm
the declaration of those principles as embodied
in the platform of the national Republican con-
vention, recently held at the city of Chi
cago. We recognize in Hon. James G.. Blaine
and Hon. John A. Logan, the Republican NOM
lnees for president and vce-presldent, those
commanding qualities of character and states
manship which have brought about the estab-
lishment of those principles and give the best
assurance OF their continued success. The hon
est, careful and efficient administration of af-
fairs of state blythe present state officials,
mend them to the admiration and confidence of
the people of this commonwealth.
Judge Humphreys moved that pres
ent state officers be nominated by &C
clamation and the motion prevailed
without debate. The nominees are:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT NJ Rusk, of Viroaua,
Lieutenant Governor-Sam. s. F1ield, of
Ashland.
Secretary of state-Ernst G. Iimme, of Ke-
nosha.
State Treasurer-Edward c. McFetridge, of
Beaver Dam.
Attorney General-Leander F. Frisby, of
Milwaukee.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Robert Graham, of Oshkosh.
Railroad Commissioner-N. P. Haugen, Of
River Falls.
Insurance Commissioner-Phil. L. Spooner.
Jr.. of Madison.
Following is the speech of Ogden FL.
Fethers, of GAINESVILLE, chairman of the
Republican state convention:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION Sensible
of the fact that you are generous
beyond my deserts, return my most grateful
thanks for the high honor you confer upon me.
The work of this convention viii be quickly
dispatched. The strong, earnest and thor.
oughly capable men who commanded the suf-
frages of the voters of Wisconsin three wears
ago. by their rugged honesty and fidelity to
duty, have won, and grandly wear, the peoples
patent of nobility. But while the work of this
body Of chosen delegates will soon be re-
corded, the activities of q campaign
unusual in its many incidental features will
have but begun. We are met by a party that
makes the open confession that it is hungry
unto death Frank as this confession may be-
the people will have in mind that political
tramps do not differ from other tramps. When
one of that nomadic race approached venera-
BILE darkey with the statement, ''my friend, it is
sixteen thousand years since I have
tasted Bread" the astonished At
rican made reply, ''Then don't
you come near no boardiu' house of mine"
This mendicant party in fine irony of It's whole
history, shouts for reform. We most desire
that of which We have the least Let no man
say that anything is impossible in this age of
progress. We can only watch and await re-
suits. But it taxes credulity to the full extent
of its endurance to believe that the Democratic
party of to-day and of the past thirty years can
be reformed by any human agency or even by
the grace of God: and while clamoring for re-
form they emphasize the true inwardness
of their Interpretation Of its meaning by the
biting sarcasm of the nomination of Grover
Cleveland. Two thousand years ago Greek
wrote over the entrance to his dwelling, ''Let
Nothing Evil Enter. Diogenes, on seeing it.
asked. ''HoW, then, does the master get in ?''
They carried the satire further by nominating
q mau IOf 1C0-pr6SluouG VINO Is q living INSULT
to every human soldier and every opponent of
imitation in the nation. To make the savage
jest more pointed they created platform
which denies to the poor man all aid
in gaining an education for his
children on the one hand and strikes down our
industries and consigns him to a bondage
worse than slavery on the other. And this is
reform. When Mr.. Sam Weller was reading to
his father. bis now famous valentine, addressed
to Mary, the housemaid, he came to halt
arising from the obscurity of his penmanship
and the too plentiful presence of ink. There's
G, and an I. and a D." said he. sc 1,
circumvented, perhaps" suggested his father
mo, faint that" said Sam, sits circun-
scribed." "'Taint as good word as circum-
vented, Sammy" said hisfather. ''Father think
not" said Sam. Nothing like it, said his
father. ''But don't you think If means more?'
said Sam. ''Well," said his father 'sPer-
haps it's more tender word," and so with the
more tenderer tariff for revenue exclusively.
instead Of tariff for revenue only. Mr.. Hen
ry Wattersop, the Sam. Weller of the Demo-
cratic party. woos in the party platform, the
''star-eyed, goddess of reform For years the
Democrats have been signing for more rope to
pull in the canvass. At last they will not only
have all the rope they want, but also hang
man of their own choosing; and if they are not
happy when hung up on election day,
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