The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-09-04
nlanitomo1 pilot.
HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1890.
CHEER ON THE PACK, THE
QUARRY STANDS AT BAY"

limitations have reached The Pilot
from various sources that it will be sub
jected to boycott unless it gives its adj
herence To the anti-Bennett law plank OF
the democratic platform and comes out
in favor of George Peck. As those who
talk this purpose permit it to reach the
ears of the person to be coetced through
third parties, direct and personal re-
ply is made impossible. This makes nee
essary public announcement that tho-e
Hno wish to boycott this paper will be
met half way. There is no power in Wis
consin great enough to compel The Pilot
to DO that which it does not choose to do.
Il has not begged for business nor for
subscribers and it will not sacrifice one
little OF its convictions to retain either.
The Pilot does not subsist on charity nor
assume the attitude of a suppliant for
patronage. Whatever comes to 1t comes
unsolicited. The editor of The Pilot can
make his living elsewhere than in Mani
towoc and has all the independence which
such soothing reflection is well calcu-
lated TO produce.
There would be qualification and in
fanny for any one connected with the pub
lie schools of this state, to follow the
leadership of Col. Krez who originated
this issue for the democratic party.
Fancy a superintendent of schools facing
BODY of teachers and admitting that
the schools they manage are breeders of
loafers, How would you like it, patrons
OF public schools? How would you like
it, teachers?
There is not fiber in the heart of the
editor of The Pilot which does not beat
time to democratic principles. But he
does not recognize opposition to the pub
lie schools, or to the English language as
democratic principle. If the election
of state officers in any way affected free
trade there might be some lingering
doubt as to the adviseability of repudiat-
ing the corrupt form of democracy which
the political tricksters of Milwaukee have
substituted for the genuine. But the
election of Peck has no more to do with
the tariff than the election of a town
clerk at town meetings. The only 9ues-
ton involved in the election of state Off
GERS this fall is the right OF the state to
| require instruction in English and this is
the foundation of the public school sys-
TEN. 1t obscures every other question
relative to administration of state affairs.
The republican backsliders on whom the
Milwaukee ringsters rely, are with the
democrats only on this issue. On ma
tIonal matters, they remain republicans.
The election of democrat to succeed
John G. Spooner in the Z. S. Senate is
the only possible good which might grow
| out of the detection in the republican
party. But the deserters refuse to aid
in electing legislature which might re-
tire Spooner. The Germania announces
publicly that Spooner must be sacred
What then do we gain by becoming serfs
of the Milwaukee ringsters? The cleo
ton of a man as governor who is SO little
of a democrat that not one vord has his
paper ever said in behalf of the democrat
tic party. The election of a man whose
bad Boy" articles. have done more harm
than all the trashy novels ever written.
Seriously do you want Spooner re-elect-
ed to the Q. S. Senate? with those who
want to elect man as governor who for
the last ten years was either afraid or
ashamed to admit he was a democrat?
The Pilot is not that kind of demo-
cratic paper. 1t values democratic prin-
ciples too highly to make them matter
of barter for the use of Milwaukee poll
ticlans. If Peck had been a consistent.
outspoken, aggressive democrat, there
might be propriety in asking support for
him as democrat. But all that can be
urged in his behalf is that he was the
choice of lot of disgruntled republicans
who have succeeded in capturing the
democratic party.