Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-27
The Close of the Campaign APP
preaching.
from the Milwaukee Wisconsin

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin,
There are many published predic-
tions, and they are well grounded, to
the effect that the average Republican
plurality in Wisconsin week after next
will be very large-equaling if not ex-
ceeding $4,000.
These confident and encouraging
predictions, however, presuppose g.
full Republican vote. Unless an ag-
gregate ballot such as Wisconsin gives
in a presidential year is brought out,
the counted-on generous Republican
pluralities will not only be disastrous
ly cut down, bat In many districts
may be quite blotted out.
The sole business of the campaign
from this time forth until election day,
which should be personally participant
ed in by loyal and working Republic
ans everywhere throughout the state,
should be to see to it that no Repub.
lican fails to vote.
First of all and at once, each man
should constitute himself a committee
of one to learn whether his Republican
neighbors are registered. If they have
not registered he. owes it as g. party
duty to be personally sure that their
omission to do SO is rectified as soon
as the registry boards meet for their
final sitting.
It is no longer question of the zeal
of candidates, or the devotion of par
ty leaders, or the earnestnees of the
newspapers-lt is from this time mere
ly question of personal detail work t.
Ii you, who are now reading these lines,
do the trihe of political service above
indicated, and which lies right at your
own door, then the votes OF your Re-
publican neighbors will be secured.
But if you fail, all the combined effort
of candidates, party leaders, newspa-
pers and district committees may
prove Intellectual; and the work you
ought to have done may remain un-
done.
There is no demand for any unusual
or strenuous effort, do you say {?
There is every demand. The obliga-
ton now devolved upon Wisconsin
Republicans is not merely to elect the
Republican ticket; possibly that might
be done without special effort. But
it isn't enough to elect Gov. Rusk and
his associates by a safe plurality
The real significance of this pending
Wisconsin election, will lie far less in
the fact of Republican success, than in
the size of the Republican success.
1t is not in the least an exaggeration
to say that the gaze of almost the en-
tire country is being focused upon
this state. The political comments
Of scores of newspapers East and
West prove this to be true. Voters
and politicians and especially patri-
otto workingmen and business
men everywhere, are waiting to
learn how the people of our COM
monwealth propose to deal with g.
public officer who by his official acts
has bluntly said ANARCHY and dlsre-
gard of established law must be
throttIed the instant they show their
ugly fronts, and must not be given
even momentary foot-hold upon the
soil of this free land"
Thus, any failure to give Gov. Rusk
an overwhelming plurality, will be-
strued by the whole country and es
pecially by the lawless elements of the
country as a rebuke to that brave
man and q virtual premium upon
the lawlessness he condemned and
stamped out.
That is why a bare Republican tri-
umph in Wisconsin will not do at all.
That is why an overwhelming Repub
lican plurality is demanded.
The Republican tickets, general and
local, that have been nominated
throughout the state are we'll chosen
and strong. The eight strongest Re-
publican candidates in Wisconsin to-
day compose the state ticket. The
Republican congressional nominees
are almost without exception tried
and experienced men. The county
tickets are uniformly wisely made up
Especially is this true of the Repub-