Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-01
O, B. MOON. Editor and Proprietor.
OVERWHELMING DEFEAT.
The Only Result Hoped for by Honest
Democrats.

The only Result hOpeh AoT ny AOhcSl
Democrats.
The Chicago Herald pours another
broadsde into the rapidly demOraliZlng
ranks of misled Democrats in WlscOn-
sin. 1t says:
When the little ring of ''kiG Democrats"
so called in Milwaukee, took up the educa-
ton issue six months ago, the Herald
urged the party throughout the state 10
beware of them and Of 1t. The milwaukee,
demagogueS had everything to gam ana
nothing 10 lose. They had failed In all
legitimate attempts to secure the local
offices, but they hoped by a despicable sur
render of vital principles and by catering
to an offensive fOreigniSm to succeed at
last. They triumphed at the polls and
forthwith sought to faSten upon the De-
mOcracN at large responsibility for course
that is un-democratc and un-American.
The party had honest and living issues,
but under the spell Of Milwaukee foreign
ism and demagOgy it followed III the wake
of the absurd young ignOramuSeS who are
now in command. It was warned of the
consequences. 1t cannot now complain of
defeat and disgrace.
A political party is exactly what ITS
leaders make it. The party of Quay, Dud-
ley and ElkinS is not the party Of Lincoln,
Chase and Seward. The party in Wiscon-
SIN, bOssed and bullied and betrayed by
foreign ecclesiastical, journalistic and pOlit-
son. Jackson and Tilden. TO defeat that
party is not to defeat Democracy, 1t is to
defeat the foes of democracy. The Demo
cratic party in Wisconsin had an OppOr-
tunity to cOndnct Democratic campaign,
but it SubOrdinated democracy to offensive
fOrcigniSm. 1t drew from the Black
Mountains inspiration for campaign in
America. 1t gave heed to the frOWn OF
foreign pOtentateS rather than to the adj
.mOnltiOnS OF American patriotism and
Self-reSpect Democrats can Go themselves
no higher honor than to defeat by their
own votes tie characterlesS pretenders
who have assumed in their name to destroy
one of the attributes Of American sOver-
eighty.
All opposition to the Bennett law is dis
honest. On the part of the ecclesiastical
sOvereigns who have decreed its repeal
the opposition is dishonest because they
do not give the real reason why they op-
pose it. They are against it because 1t
asserts the proper and necessary principle
that the state is above everybody and
everything within the state. That they
deny. On the part of the depraycd journal
istic and political bosses who demand It's
repeal the opposition is dishonest because
they miSrcpresent the law. The Bennett
law does not interfere with parental
rights. Its vital principle is the provision
that the state itself shall determine
whether n pretended school IS school or
not. This is a function that the common
wealth cannot surrender into the keeping
of the bishop of Milwaukee, the puny
political bosses of Milwaukee, the pompouS
conductors Of foreign newspapers or the
pateTnaiStic pastor of a church.
There are race and religious dcmagOGucS
in every state in the Union who only seek
an opportunity to force upon the Amerl-
can people Just such issues as that which
now abstracts the people of Wisconsin.
They are not Americans. Their profit lies
in preventing their followers from beCOn.-
inc Americans. They manage churches,
schools. newspapers, and tribes OF voters
on the European plan. AS AmerlcanlSm
expands, as American nationality strength
ems. as foreign languages, customs and
ideas vanish, their Importance dlmlnlSheS.
Their interest lies in the direction of such
agitation as that now in progress III W is
cOnSin. The interest of true American
ism demands their defeat and discontinue.
If the Democratic party is to remain a
force for good it must not be involved with
such reactiOni3tS. 1t must be above them.
First Of all. an American political party
must be American. 1t 1t sacrifices that
distinguishing characteristic then all that
follows after it must be tainted. 1t is be-
cause the Wisconsin Democracy has made
this fatal mistake that it deserves to be
abandoned to its fate. 1t is on the wrong
track, and its prOtestationS of devotion to
this, that or the other purely American
policy are of no more avail than was the
sympathy of Russia during the war of the
rebellion. That sympathy would have
been dearly bought if the price had been
our accession to the Russian form of gov
rrnment.
AS now conducted the Wisconsin Demo
cratic campaign Subordinatcs all that is
diStlnCtively American to an issue that Is
wholly foreign. There may be time even
yet to plant the organization on a Eemo-
cratic platform, but such a change is I'M
likely. The only result to be looked for
the only outcome to be hoped for-is over
whelmng deteaC.
Kind Words for Senator Snoonar