The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-10-28
TO THE VOTERS OF THE STATE.
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE ExEcU-

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ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE EXECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE.
To the People of Wisconsin,: One of
the most dishonest and hurtful schemes
ever gotten up by any body of men, to
deceive and mislead the people of the
state, is this so-called riot issue, about
which the Republican leaders are now so
loudly declaiming in all parts of the
state. If ever in the history of this state
party deserved and ought to receive
rebuke, the Republican party ought to
receive it because of the course the lead
ers of the party have followed in regard
to that Milwaukee trouble. They stoop
to select from the largest cities, few vi
cious characters who seek the disruption
of society and the overthrow of all gov
eminent, and hold them up to the world
as sample of Wisconsin'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 Republican party. Never was there
q greater SANDER circulated in reference
to any commonwealth than is now being
published to the world by the Republican
managers. And what is this all for?
Simply to crafty the ambition of certain
individuals who see in that method of
conducting political warfare their only
opportunity to get and hold Office. 1t
shows the poverty of that party in real,
genuine, honest principle; that the lead
ers are ready to drop everything else and
| raise this new cry. Two years ago it
| was the tariff issue and fear of a solid
South. Two years ago one would have
| thought from reading the Republican
papers and hearing Republican stump
speakers that if that party was defeated
the government would be overthrown and
all our industries destroyed. But the
past two years progress of the nation
| without a Republican administration
has taken all the magic out of that old
cry, and so the Republican managers
take hold of this soiled garment to cover
their own political nakedness. They di-
rectly and gratuitously insult the laoor-
| ing men of the state by CHASING them
with Anarchists, by warning them against
| doing that which no honest, Woodworking
man ever thinks of doing, aud by breath
+, ing out threateniDgs against them if they
violate the law. They unduly magnify a
performance of official duty, for the pur-
| pose of hiding real issues and manufac-
turing political hero out of their pres
ent gubernato rial candidate. They aim
to strike at what they claim to be a
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 make enemies
of those who ought to be, and who must
be, friends. The hypocrisy of this cry
too, is shown more particularly 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 denounce 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
their own political purposes, Gov. Rusk
| had not left Milwaukee after the May
troubles before there began a clamor for
third term, and he and his friends have
| kept mp his cry to the ''riot issue" ever
since. There IS not particle of honesty
in this issue. Republican leaders, cons
cious of their own barrenness in princi-
| pie, have taken hold of this so-called is
sue and have not hasitated to mislead the
people, and injure the fair fame of our
commonwealth for the sole purpose of
| keeping in Office. What would our Re
publican friends say if at the next NUM-
cipal election in Chicago, Mayor Harri
son and his followers were to brand all
men as Anarchists, and charge them with
| being IN sympathy with communism if
they failed to support him, simply be.
cause the Chicago policemen did their
duty In suppressing riot. And yet these
are parallel cases. Wisconsin to day
stands in 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 cry.
Capitalists ought to rebuke that party
because of the danger that false issues
raised by demagogues always brings to
the industries of a country. The pro
gressive manhood of the state ought to
rebuke that party for raising this false
cry, because of its tendency to hide real
issues and delay much needed reforms.
The poor men of the state ought to re
buke it, because of its Insulting lectures
to them, and its failures to even hint that
capitalists, corporation sand monopolista
should do justice to their employees. Ii
is an imperative duty now resting upon
| Wisconsin's voters to so effectualy dis
pose of the party and its false cry that
never again will political tricksters and
worn out politicians dare to attempt to
deceive the people.
WA. WALKER, Chairman.