The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-13
THE STATE REPUBLICANS.
They Meet in Convention at Madison
A Short Session.
The Entire Old State Ticket Renominatet
by Acclamation.

| 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 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 III.
Fethers, of Janesville, as presiding
officer, there being no temporary or
ganization. On assuming the chair
Mr.. Fethers thanked the convention in
strong Republican speech.
Paul Bechtner, of Milwaukee, S. G..
| Leland, Fond du Lac, and II. II. Price, of
jackson County, were elected secreta-
| ries.
On motion of II. G. Fairchild, the
| chair appointed committee on resolu-
| tions, composed of one delegate from
each congressional district and one from
the state at large.
A motion prevailed that all resolu-
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 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 reaftirm
| the declaration of those principles as embodied
| in the platform of the national Republican con
| ventlon, recently held at the city of Chi
| csgo. We recognize IN Hon. James G.. Blaine
| and Hon. John A. Logan. the Republican NOM
| inees for president and vice-preslderIt, those
| commanding qualities of character and states
| manship which have brought about the estab-
| lshment of those principles and give the best
| assurance of their continued success. The hon
| est, careful and efficient administration of af
fairs of state by the present state officials. com
mend them to the admiration and confidence of
| the people of this commonwealth.
Judge Humphreys moved that pres
| ent state officers be nominated by ac
| clamation and the motion prevailed
without debate. The nominees are:
| Governor-Jeremiah NJ. Rusk. of Vlroqua
Lieutenant Goyernor-Sam. S.. Fifield, of
Ashland.
| Secretary of State-Ernst G. 1imme, of Ke-
| nosha.
State Treasurer-Edward C. McFetridge, of
| Beaver Dam.
Attorney General-Leander F. Frisby, of
| Milwaukee.
state superintendent of Public Instruc ton
| Robert Graham, of Oshkosh.
Railroad Commissiouer-N. z. Haugen, OF
| liver Falls.
Insurance Commissioner l.. Spooner.
JT., of Madison.
Following is the speech OF Ogden II.
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 years
| 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 campaign
| unusual in its MANY incidental features Will
have but begun. We are met by party that
makes the open confession that it is hungry
| unto death. Frank as this confession NAV be-
| the people will have III mind that political
! tramps do not differ from other tramps. When
one of that nomadic race approached a venera-
bic darkey with the statement, my friend, it is
| sixteen thousand years since l have
tasted bread" the astonished AT.
rican made reply, Then don't
| you come near no boardin' house of mine"
| This mendicant party, IN fine irony of Its 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 credullty to the full extent
| of its endurance to believe that the Democratic
party of to-day and of the past thirty wears can
| be reformed by any human agency or even by
| the grace of God; and while clamoring for re-
| folm 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
| a man for vce-president who is a living insult
| to every human soldier and every opponent of
! imitation in the nation. To make the savage
| Jest more pointed they created a 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. his now famous valentine, addressed
| to Mary, the housemaid. he came TO halt
| arising from the obscurlty of his penmanship
and the too plentiful presence of ink. There's
| n G, aud an [, aud D. said he. &C c l.
| circumvented, perhaps suggested bis father.
| mo, 'taiDt that" raid Sam, sits circum-
| scrbed." F" 4" Faint as good a word as circum-
| vented Sammy" said hlsfather. Father think
not" SAID Sam. Nothing ike it, said his
father. But don't you think 1t means more2"
| said Sam. Well said his father. "Per-
| haps it's more tender word" aud so with the
| more tsnderer tariff for revenue exclusively,
| instead Of a tariff for revenue ouly. Mr.. Hen
| ~ Wattersou, the Sam. Weller of the Demo
| cratic party, woos III the party platform, the
| 'sstar-eved, goddess OF reform For yeaTs the
| Democrats have been signing for moro rope to
| pull in the canvass. At last they will not only
| have all the rope they want, but also a hang
| man OF their own choosing; and if they are not
| happy when hung up on election day,
| upon the so-called intelligent and honest
| Democrats-they who still cling to
the name as typical Of something broad and no
BILE. but blissfuy unaware that the party pur-
poses are cant and mockery, they try to swal-
| low the uncleau political food served up to
| went into an Arkansas saloon and asked for
bottle of Piper Heidaick. The bar keeper, after
| looking steadily at them escaped under the
counter aud produced a cooked navy re-
| vgiver. ''You said Ieidsick hell, you
felIers are goin' ter dunk whisky and you're
| goin' ter drink 1t outen tin cup, and what's
| furdeT, by gosh, yer goin' ter say yer
like it," Pretend as much as it
| may, and however hard it may try, the
Democratic party can't take its ticket or its
| platform, save its soul. But whatever of dis
| cord may he found in the ranks of the enemy,
| let none of ii enter ours. Cast aside all per-
| sona feeling, all resentment, all memory OF
| disappointment, or hope deferred, and let eacn
man do that which best he can to
make us victors in the coming battle. In
the grand army. led by Richard, the Lion
| Hearted. to the Holy Land were two Knights
| who fell into dispute about some matter per-
| soual to themselves, while the army lay within
| sight of the white walled tents of Saladin. Hot
| in their rage, they were brought before
Richard. who, after chiding them for presum-
ing to quarrel upon the eve of battle, closed