The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-11-01

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that legislature that while the voice of
Col. Villas may sound To YOU from this
platform as the voice OF Jacob. yet the
hand Will he the hand of Esau. Applause. |
| Iney found It out at very Orportnne
time. They found ii out when they felt
they could dictate terms to the Democratic
party. They found it out when they felt
that with the aid of the Democratic party
, thay could stake their position III the LcgiS-
! laturc and give lis not the interest upon
the general fund for the support OF com
mon SchOolS-for the support OF those
schools that YOU and | used 10 attcnd-but
for the common schools and the German
Catholic parochial schools.
He declared that Col. NiaS was not
honest III his opposition TO the Bennett
law, and that he must have had
4 pointer from the little bird
that hovers over the bonnet where the
senatorial bee is buzzing.
Mr. McAdOo with all his cock-a-doo-
dle-doo' was an expression that great
lv ticked the audience when Mr..
Felker turned his attention to the Jer-
scv statesman. Proceeding to pay
his respects to those who have de-
nounced Bennett law Democrats, he
said;
Who is entitled to call the Democratic
Bennett Law League renegades? Is it
-
ever his friend Mr. Guenther has run for
Congress in the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict, and | think he ran there for three
terms. always as far as lay i'll his power
quietly assisted Mr.. Guenther. and in 1884,
when we nominated \. l.. Smith. of Ap-
pleton. as excellent and scholarly a gen
tleman and clean Democrat as ever stood
on a Democratic platform. he peddlnd
through this state that he was a Prohibit
zionist, in order to help his friend Guen-
thcr.
Then Gen. Bragg was given a scOrch
ing. Taking up the Fond du Lac states
mans assertion, made in the state con
vcntion, that he followed the flag 0
Democracy wherever he found it, Mr..
Felker called 10 mind the fact that in
1862. when Charles A. Eldridge was the
Democratic standard bearer in Bragg's
district, the General fatty bolted. Then
he said, referring to the campaign of
1886:
Did Gen. Bragg follow the flag of De-
mocracy found in the hands of A. X. De-
laney? The political antiquarian has
failed to find in the softest mud OF the
Second District a single track of Gen.
Bragg following the flag of Democracy"
carried by \. X. Delaney. On the contra
ry the political pundits declare that even
III the limestone rock of Fond du Lac COun-
ty are found footprints of Gen. Bragg fol
lowing the flag of Guenther.
With these chapters iii his own political
history before him it was ''unWisc, unnec
eSSary and undcmocratic" for Gen. Bragg,
in speech recently delivered by him in
Milwaukee,. to open the tioodgates of his
sarcasm upon the Bennett law Democrats
OF Wisconsin.
Upon opposite" Mills Mr.. Felker be
slowed a scorching notice. Coming
from a state" he said where 80 per
cent. of the people. excluding Indians
not taxed, are unable to read and write.
he is admirably fitted to teach the peo-
pie of Wisconsin how to educate their
children"
Mr. Felker had a newspaper clipping
from which he quoted an extract from
one of Mills speeches, but the light on
the stage was not very bright, so he
knelt down bv the footllghts, saying, Il
will reverently kneel.' The audience
cheered and laughed and laughed and
chccrcd. Then Mr.. Felkcr read this la
mcnt by the Apostle"
II cannot think of anything that would
make my flesh crawl on my bones, or
make me consumed with Indignation more
than il was i'll state and was compelled
to send my child to be taught by man
who was blatant iufidel. suppose your
Board of supervisors should employ the
accomplished gentleman. But Col. 1nger
soil would not be the man that | would
want to educate my child. And IN every
country where | am, as long as | am free
man. shall do everything III my power to
nave laws changed that would compel me
to send my child TO a school where he
could be taught there was nOGOd. no atom
inc sacrifice. no sufferer on Calvary. for the
redemption of the sins of the world: and
there was no he'll.
When he had finished reading he
paused moment and then said solemn
" amen This took the house by
storm. He then dissected Mills in the
following vigorous language:
But Mills knew that his premise was
false and his inuendo lie. He knew that
ntidelity is not taught: that Immortality Is
not sanctioned in the common schools Of
Wisconsin. He merely mouthed the opn-
ions of the katZerS and kTrnerS. who are
the deadly enemies OF the common
schools.
OF Mills reference to Ingersol he
said
According to the Mills plan Of education.
this cultured. bralny man, with heart "a
tender as woman 5. Is not mt to hear the
Mills family recite the multiplication
table.
Thank God, | live in a state where such
a spirit OF bigOtry and intolerance
does not prevail: where men and women
are not oStracized and outlawed because of
religious belief: where teachers are not
compelled to submit to examination IN the
Mills theory Of education.
The candidates for governor were TAX
en- up and Peck's political caliber meas
ured by the statement that twenty-four
hours before his nomination for mayor
OF Milwaukee be was an advocate ofthe
Bennett law. TO Gov. Hoard he re-
ferred as a bright example of what the
common school has done and can do,
and said he desired to pay tribute 10 his
truth. his manliness and his courage.
HeIf are two men. Mr. Peek who in a