The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-06-12

THE Milwaukee election had In it Won
derful potency of conversion. 1t fixed a
standard of democracy to which quasi
leaders and office seekers are anxious to
conform. The following extract from
The La Crosse Chronicle of January 81
1890 may be taken as measure of the
revolution caused by the Milwaukee cleo
ton Here is what the La Crosse
Chronicle then said:
To view it as political situation is
nonsense, and it will be demonstrated to
be nonsense, if the democrats should.go
racing after the German Lutherans on
any such so-called ISSUE" The Ger
man Lutherans by their votes keep Wis
consin in the Republican column. Any
OF these people vino would vote the Dem
ocratic ticket this year on account of the
Bennett law, will do so merely to beat
the law, not to beat the Republican party
| To be plain: These voters all agree with
! the protection tenets of the Republican
| party. They do not see that the Bennett
| law belongs to the same class of legisla-
ton. They agree with the centralizing
| tendencies of the republican party, and
| when the shoe pinches them they do not
| connect it with the ordinary Republican
tendencies. They only think Governor
| Hoard wants to hurt them and they want
| to kick Governor Hoard in return Does
! any sensible Democrat think the Mil
waukee Herold and Germania, for ex.
| amp1es, are going to become Democratic
newspapers? No indeed. They want to
| demonstrate their power and authority
in politics 10 the Republican party, and
! then return to it in 1892, with whip in
| hand. This IS the situation, stated plain
| ly and frankly, as The Chronicle views it.
| II this view Is correct, the Democrats
| need no bait to catch anti-Bennett law
| Republican votes. Any batting of that
kind will be demagogy pure and simple
and only the fruits of demagogy will be
| gathered. The Democratic party stands
| against all kinds of paternalism. l. OPP.
| poses the whole policy of Republican
| paternalism and Capitalization. If that
| doctrine will not win votes, Democrats
cannot afford to pick up Republican
| issues by the way side, for any mere
temporary advantage.
If Mr.. Usher would only stand by these
| utterances he might not be quite as popu.
lar to-day with those who have captured
| the democracy of the state but he would
at least have spared himself the humilia.
ton of beng "demagogue pure and
simple and self confessed at that
In striking contrast with the above ex.
tract in keen appreciation of the situa-
ton and scholarly expression is the fol-
lowing from the Oshkosh Times OF
March 8:
Yet under this (the Bennett) law some
Catholic religion has right to visit the
| Catholic schools and say whether they
are teaching readin, 'riten' and 'rlthmetic
in English according to his idea of Hin
glish. So too some member of school
board has the right, under the law, to visit
the Lutheran school and find out whether
the Bennett law is being enforced. He
hates Lutheranism, let it be supposed,
and of course makes 1t Undressing for the
parochiai school before he gets through
with his examination, The public school
is in danger, he pretends to think and he
says I'VE must bring these forein' Luth'-
rims and Cath'litks, to time, don't cher
KNOB"
This is choice selection of mingled
ignorance and illiteracy and iustifes the
claim of The Times that it was one of the
first papers of the state to oppose the
Bennett law. 1t is evident that its op-
position to antedated its perusal of IL g
law