Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-03

landslide to Peck, whereupon Judge
Marchetti, of Marathon, moved to make
the nomination unanimous Gen.
Bragg protested on behalf of the Fond
du Lac delegation against the nomina-
ton of candidate for fun, and insisted
that the roll call proceed. The ballot
| resulted:
Peck .... 227
Knight. Al
IL
J. E. Dodge moved that the nomina-
ton be made unanimous, Gen. Bragg
objected, and was Kissed by the conven-
ton. DOdge's motion was carried, Dur
| there were few noes"
Geo. w. Peck appeared before the
convention in answer 70 calls tor nlm,
and spoke as follows:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE CONVENTION AND FRIENDS: Taken
as / am, by surprise, you will not expect a
prepared Grafton from me. / have been
watching the proceedings of your conven-
ton, and have anticipated that you might
gentlemen Of the state of Wisconsin, of
whom all the people Of this state and OF
the nation might be proud; that you have
selected me makes me the proudest man
in the world tonight. [Cheers.] | have
had little to do with politics, this
any stage The first time that [ ran,
ran against personal friend, and during
all of the campaign nothing occurred that
could mar the friendship between my OPP
ponent and myself. That as / go through
the campaign that is before US with another
personal friend on the other ticket, moth
ing may be done or said that would injure
| the friendly relations between him and his
family and myself and my family, is my
desire. If | am elected or he is electe
everything will be at peace, but
I will be elected. CONTINUED applause. ]
The whole ticket that you nominate will
be elected from top to bottom by great
majority. Milwaukee County will COM
mence it with 10000, and all we ask is for
you to make it an even 10000. The Re-
licans know it. Cries of 'GOod."l At
the time of the election Of Grover Cleveland
twas doomed. [Cheers.l TWAS doomed,
and but for the expenditure of some of the
millions of the mOnOpOllStS who made
their money by the taxation upon the peo-
ple-fraud in every way-that admlniStra-
ton would have continued, and the people
of this country and the world WOULD have
| been prOuder every year. Applause. !
The Republican party is doomed because
cyclones have been forming here and there.
The legislation of years that the Republic
an party has been responsible for has
caused little clouds to appear, and the
little clouds gather and make the
cyclones One of the little clouds
appeared in Milwaukee last spring.
Laughter Other clouds will be coming
together, and in November they will begin
to take the Republican party by the neck
and twist it out of shape, ana it never will
! appear upon the earth again. [Cheers. |
Wisconsin will set the ball rolling, and if
| Wisconsin can be Democratic so that there
Is no doubt about it in the mind of any man
on earth, every state in the Union may be
| the same way.
| We have got many things to contend
with. Some of the things are in regard to
education, which you know better than |,
as your platform expresses it perfectly. [
not do an injury to the public school. Ey-
! cry Democrat would prefer to have his
right hand cut off rather than do single
injury to the public schools of the State of
| Wisconsin. There is not Democrat that
believes in diverting dollar Of the public
school money for any other purpose than for
! the public school, but the Democratic party
does not believe in legislation that allows
/ the state to take charge Of a child, TO edu-
| cate 1t, to feed 1t, or to do anything of that
kind. The legislation of the Republican
party has made large number of people
| bad. IL has made friends and neighborS
| draw away from each other and frOWn in
stead of smile. This viii be stopped if the
Democratic party once gets in power in the
I OIaUc OF w lSCOUSln, because the law UnaG
has made all the trouble will be repealed
at once. Applause.
The money that has been taken by a
| process that you know OF very well, the
interest of the money in the treasury,
will be returned to the treasury, if there
is a law ON the statute books of WiScOn-
SIN that can bring that about. [CheerS.
No more money will be stolen IN that
way. 1t is wrong; everybody admits 1t is
wrong, and those who say, well, what
are you going to do about it ? and laugh
at YOU, will be driven away, and the
money will be returned.
Gentlemen, the campaign must COM
mence from now. This night the word
will go forth over the state of Wisconsin
that the Democrats are coming and those
| people Will go the other way. Laughter.
| The state must be carried and will be car
RED. | see it in the face of every Demo-
crat present. | see it in the faces of many
! Republicans: they believe it, and many of
them are willing that it shall be so.
| Laughter and applause]. There is dis.
trust and disgust on the part of many good
Republicans who believe that it will be a
benefit TO the state of Wisconsin for the
Democratic party to be in power two years,
and if they let us in for two years we will
stay ten.
Gentlemen, thank you for this nomina-
/ ton. [ will do all that is in my power to
secure the election of the whole ticket, and
that means county tickets in every county
in the state. For once. after this election.
almost every county in the state will have
county officers who can stand up and look
other people in the face and say, for the
first time in years, that every man on the
county ticket elected is Democrat. will
commence work now, and am instructed
| by the mayor of Milwaukee to say that the
city is yours as long as you stay here, from
this minute. daughter and applause
For the nomination for lieutenant
governor the lanes of Carl Jonas, of
Racine, and Thos. Lynch, of Amigo, were
! presented. Jonas was nominated on
| the first ballot, receiving 1856 votes
against 121 for Lynch.
The convention then adjourned unth
ga. NJ. Thursday.
The convention was called to order at
9:26 A. NJ, Thursday.
Edward Mclaughlin, of Fond du Lac,
DR.. W. A. Anderson, of La Crosse, and
| Thomas Cunningham, of Chippewa,
were presented as candidates for the
nomination for secretary of state. Cum
ningham was chosen.
John Hummer, mayor of Eau Claire,
and ThaO6ora arStap of Chiffon ware