Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-10-29
parental control great laughter and APP
plauSel, no screaming about parental
rights and paternaliSm. Laughter.

parental control [great laughter and APP
plausel, no screaming about parental
rights and paternalism. Laughter
Col. Villas, "whose rhetoric and elo-
quence gid and paint the blunt false
hoods of the enemies of the common
schools" was taken up and his argu-
ments chopped into little bits. Mr..
Felker mentioned the much-quoted
passage from Villas speech about getting
the conscientious hand" of the parochi-
al school supporter into the public treas
ury, and said:
You will feel, gentlemen. If Col. Villas
and his service allies ever get control OF
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 be the hand of Esau. Applause
They found 1T out at very OppOrtnne
time. They found it 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
they could stake their position in the Legis-
lature and give us not the interest upon
the general fund for the support of COM
mon schools-for the support of those
schools that you and [ used to attend-but
for the common schools and the German
Catholic parOchial schools.
He declared that Col. Villas was not
honest in his opposition to the Bennett
law, and that he must have had
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 tickled the audience when Mr..
Felker turned his attention to the Jer-
sey statesman. Proceeding to pay
his respects to those who have de-
nounced Bennett law Democrats, lie
said:
Who is entitled to call the Democratic
Bennett Law League reneoades? Is it
rOtten-egg DeuSter? Mr.. Deuster, when
ever his friend Mr.. Guenther has run for
Congress in the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict, and l think he ran there for three
terms, always as far as lay in his power
quietly assisted Mr.. Guenther, and in 1884,
when we nominated A. L. Smith, of APP
pleton, as excellent and scholarly a gen
tleman and clean a Democrat as ever stood
on Democratic platform, he peddled
through this state that he was PrOhibi-
ZIONIST in order to help his friend Guen-
Their.
Then Gen. Bragg was given scorch-
ing. Taking up the Fond du Lac states
vention, that he followed the flag
Democracy wherever he found it, Mr..
Felker called to mind the fact that in
1862, when Charles A. Eldridge was the
Democratic standard bearer in Bragg
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
n1rf,, ~ cfx1rrl fr0n " nf Nnr,
Bragg following 1.-The flag of Democracy"
carried by A. K. Delaney. On the contra
ry the political punditS declare that even
in the limestone rock of Fond du Lac COun-
ty are found footprints of Gen. Bragg fol-
lowing the flag Of Guenther.
With these chapters in his own political
history before him it was ''unwise, unnec
essary and undemocratic'' for Gen. Bragg,
in speech recently delivered by him in
Milwaukee, to open the floodgates of his
sarcasm Upon the Bennett law Democrats
of Wisconsin.
slowed a scorching notice. Coming
from a state" he said, "where 80 per
cent. of the people, excluding Indians
mot 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 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 by the footlights, saying, 81
will reverently kneel." The audience
cheered and laughed and laughed and
cheered. Then Mr. Felker read this la
ment by the "Apostle:"
81 cannot think of anything that would
make my flesh crawl on my bones, or
make me consumed with indignation more
than ii was in state and was compelled
to send my child to be taught by man
who was a blatant infidel. Suppose your
Board of Supervisors should employ the
learned IngerSOll: he is very talented and
accomplished gentleman. But Col. Inger-
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 in my power to
! have laws changed that would compel me
to send my child to a school where he
could be taught there was no God, no atom
ing sacrifice, no sufferer on Calvary, for the
redemption of the sins of the world and
there was no hell"
When he had finished reading he
paused moment and then said solemn
! fy 'sAmen" 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 a lie. He knew that
intidelity is not taught; that Immortality is
not sanctioned in the common schools OF
Wisconsin. He merely mOuthed the Opin-
J ions of the Katzers and K9rners, who are