Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-25


ance Union and other temperance Organizations
as powerful cllies ia the suppression of the
liquor traffic ana bid them God speed.
The platform was taken up by sections,
all of which We're unanimously adopted
until section FIVE was reached. This en-
dorsed the Bennett law. This clause, how
ever, immediately called forth the hottest
kind of discussion.
Rev. Mr.. Blake said that he did not
favor the methods of enforcement provided
for by that law, although he favored the
liberal education which it provided for.
s, d. Halves moved that the words in
substance" be inserted aftes the word
embodied"
DIR. Evans, of GAINESVILLE, then rose and
spoke against mentioning the Bennett law.
He could not see why they should declare
in favor of the law, and not support its
champion.
Rev. John Fayille, of Appleton. was in
favor of striking out the words relating to
the Bennett law, lie said he knew of no
one that completely endorsed the law. He.
as liberal minded man, was not willing
to slap the 25O,OOO Catholics and $50. 900
Lutherans of this state directly in the face.
This brought Mr.. Z. w. Chaplin. the
would-be funny man of the convention, to
his feet, and he made howling speech in
favor of the law as it stands, words. let
terS, punctuation and all.
I, {. Richmond answered him, saying
that If the proposed stand be taken on tn.
law, their hands would be tied from acting
on the main issue. He was willin., to let
the churches and parochjal schools have
their rights, and he WAS not in
favor of fathering republican children.
The discussion was continued pro and
con for nearly two hours. some thinking
that neither of the other two parties
would take stand for the law,
others favoring the law because
they thought it was right although
1t would be poor policy. and others be-
cause they thought that it was large
Sttp toWuu pEOulplIlon.
In the final vote. however. the
conservatives and shrewdcr element
won and succeeded in having all reference
to the law stricken out.
The next plank about which trouble
seemed imminent was the eighth, treating
of woman suffrage. A vote was taken by
ballot which resulted in = vote Of l6l to -
in favor of retaining the plank. The
older and better politicians voting against
it.
The last plank also called forth consider
able warm discussion. f. w. Chafn and
t. c. Richmond speaking against it, while
NJ. IL. Smith aud others favored it. The
former maintaining that if the w. c. I.
U. organization allied itself with the party
it would lose great deal of It's usefulness,
and such action would tend to
keep women from the demo-
cratic and republican parties from
joining. The plank was finally adopted
amid much applause.
The platform was then adopted us a
whole by unanimous vote.
Alexander to Lead
The report of the committee ON nomina-
tions was then read by Rev. John Faville,
of Appleton. The following nominations
were recommended:
For Governor-Dr. Chas Alexander Esu
Claire county.
Lieutenant Governor-w r. Ncthcrcut, Mil
waukee county.
Secretary of statc-Williarl johnson, St Croix
county.
Treasurer Robert Fargo, jefferson county.
Attorney Generll-B B. Il. Van Keuran, winueba-
go county
supt. of Public Instruction Henry Lummis,
Outagamie county
Railroad COMMISSIONER, @. Black, Rlchland
county.
Insurance Commissioner Andrew Peterson
Green county.
Although all of the Adore nominees
withdrew ostensibly, the only one that
really did so was William Johnson, can
didate for secretary of state, whose place
was filled by the placing of Geo. McCul.
lum, of Waukesha, in nomination.
The report of the committee as Thus
was unanimously adopted
The Bible Case.
At this stage of the game it occurred to
the La Crosse delegation that the platform
would be incomplete without some action
on the decision of the supreme court in the
Bible case; consequently Rev.
W. d. Schlong made motion that another
section be added to the platform, emoody-
ing the views of the convention on the
Bible question
d. r. Holbrook, of Lake Geneva, then
offered the following plank to be added to
the platform:
We prot st against the exclusion of the Bible
from the public schools and request its restora-
tion.
This was adopted after some opposi-
ton.
Campaign Work.
Prof. c. F. Cronk offered system for
work, the principal feature of
which was to gather campaign funds and
avoid the Objectionable method Of taking
up collections at public meetings. An
otner feature was the distribution of cam
paign literature and official newspapers.
A qua rrel Immediately arose among the
of the various prohibition
papers in the state, as to which was the
best paper, and which deserved the most
support.
Richmond withdraws
The surprise TO the convention was yet
to come, and, when it came, it acted as
though bomb had been thrown in among
the delegates. r. c. Richmond, the vet
eran prohibitionist, came 10 the front,
and in slow and plain words stated that he
felt obliged to withdraw as IN active mem
ber from the prohibition party The dele.
gates sat in their seats thunderstruck when
he made the announcement Mr. Rich
mond stated that he might vote the ticket
next fall, but active work he could not do
as long as the bulk of the party continued
10 crowd in issues that were entirely foreign
10 the liquor Ill.
Mr.. Rich mond, when asked by a DEMO
Graf reporter TO state more specifically