Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-22
THE RIOT ISSUE ASSAILED
An Address from the Democratic State
Central Committee to Voters.
The Republican Party Justly Scored for
Raising the False Alarm.
A WORD TO VOTERS.
An Exposition of Republican Hypocrisy.

MILWAUKEE, Cct. ID he OenOcrallC
state central committee to-day issued
an address to the people of Wisconsin, as
follows, which will probably make Gov.
Rusk wish he had not hired the Chicago
Times to boom his issue in its advertis-
ing column:
To THE PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN: One of
the most dishonest and hurtful schemes
ever gotten up by any body of men, to,de-
deceive and mislead the people of a state
is this so-called riot issue, about which
the republican leaders are row so LOUDLY
declaiming in all parts of the state. If
ever in the story of this state party
deserved and ought to receive rebuke,
the republican party ought to receive it
because of the course the leaders of the
party have followed in regard to that
Milwaukee trouble They stoop to select
f-om the largest cities, a few vicious
characters who seek the disruption of So
ciety and the overthrow of all govern
ment, and hold them up to the world as a
sample ofWisconsin's manhood as sample
of the men who.are trying to rule the state
as fair representation of all those
who are opposed politically to the repub
lican party. Never was there a greater
slander circulated in reference to any
ed to the world by the republican mana
gers. And what is this all for? Simply
to crafty the ambition of certain in
diyiduals who see in that method of con
Quoting political warfare their only op-
portunity to get and hold Office. 1t shows
the poverty of that party in real, genuine,
honest principle; that the leaders are
ready to drop everything else and raise
this new cry. Two years ago it was the
tariff issue and fear of solid south Two
years ago one would have thought
from reading the republican pa
pers and hearing republican
stump speakers that if that party
was defeated the government would be
overthrown and all our industries de-
stroyed. But the past two years pro
gress of the nation, without a re-
publican administration, has taken
all the magic out of that old cry,
and so the republican managers take
hold of this s0iled garment to cover their
own political lakedness. They directly
and gratuitously insult the laboring men
of the state by CHASING them with anarch-
lists, by warning them against doing that
which no honest, hard-working man ever
thinks of doing, and by threatenings
against them e they violate the law
They unduly magnify performance of
official duty, for the purpose of hiding
real issues, and manufacturing political
hero out of their present gubernatorial
candidate. They aim to strike at what
they claim to be wrong, but never once
think of reaching the cause of that wrong.
The tendency of such course as this is
only to array labor against capital, and
mako enemies of those who ought to be,
and who must be friends. The hypocrisy
of this cry, too, is shown more particu-
larry in the statement that the issue is
forced upon them. By whom? we ask.
There is no political party in this state
to-day that does not denouuce socialism,
anarchy and communism. There is no
political party in this state that gives now
or ever pretended to give encouragement
to any who attempt to overthrow law and
order. The issue is forced on the
republican party, but by whom? Truth
cOmpels US to say that the issue is forced
on them by thoir own political leaders,
solely for political purposes. Gov. Rusk
mad not left Milwaukee after the May
trouble before there began clamor for
a third term, and he and his friends have
kept up this cry OF the riot issue" ever
since. There is not particle of honesty
in this issue. Republican leaders, con
scious of their own barrennest in princi-
pie, have taken hold of this so-called
issue and have not hesitated to mis-
lead the people, and injure the fair
fame of our commonwealth for the
sole purpose of keeping in Office.
What would our republican friends say if
at the next municipal election in Chicago
Mayor Harrison and his followers were to
brand all men as anarchists, and charge
them with being in sympathy with cCm-
munism if they failed to support him,
simply because the Chicago policemen
did their duty in suppressing riot. And
yet these are parallel cases. Wisconsin
to-day stands Ill no more danger from
anarchy than it does from the falling of
Jupiter's moons. The laboring men of
the state should rebuke the party because
of the insults it heaps upon them by such
a cry. Capitalists ought to rebuke that
party because of the danger that false
issues raised by demagogues, always
bring to the industries of a
country. The progressive manhood
of the state ought to rebuke
that party for raising this false cry, be-
cause of its tendency to hide real issues
and delay much needed reforms. The
poor meH VI the Sldle ouSht 10 Teouhe IL,
because of its insulting lectures to them,
and its failure to even hint that capital
lists, corporations and monopolists should
do justice by their employees. 1t is an
imperative duty now resting upon Wis
cons1n's voters to so effectually dispose
of the party and its false cry that never
again will political tricksters and worn
out politicians dare to attempt to deceive
the people.
W. A. WALKER, Chairman.