The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-10-25
OVERWHELMING DEFEAT.
The Only Result Hoped for by Hones
Democrats.

Democrats.
The Chicago Herald pours another
broadside into the rapidly demOrallzng
ranks of misIed Democrats in Wiscon
sin. 1t says:
When the little ring of kid Democrats"
SO called III Milwaukee, took up the educd-
tIon issue SIX months ago. the Herald
urged the party throughout the state 10
beware Oi them and Of 1t. The Milwaukee
demagOgGeS had everything to gain and
nothing TO lose. They had failed i'll all
legitimate attempts to secure the local
/ Offices. but they hoped by a Gespicable sur
render of vital principles and by catering
TO an offensive fOrelgnlSm to succeed at
, last. They triumphcd at the polls. and
forthwith sought to faSten upon the De
mOcracS az large responsibility for course
that is un-dcmocratle and n-AHerIcan.
| l he party had honest and LIVING issues,
hut under the spell of Milwaukee foreign
ism and demagoGy II followed IN the wake
of the absurd NoIln9 ignoramUScS who are
now in command. ii was warned OF tle
consequences. 1t cannot now complain of
defeat and disgrace.
\ political party is exactly what It's
leaders make it. The party Of QUAY. pud-
ley and Elkins is not the party Of Lincoln,
Chase and Seward. The party III Nlscon-
SIN. boSsed and bullied and betrayed by
foreign ecclesiastical. journalistic and pollt-
ical magnateS. Is not the party OF Jc1ter-
son. jackson and Iildcn. 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 c0ndnct a Democratic campaign.
but It Subordinatcd democracy 10 offensive
fOreignism. 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
monItions of American patriotism and
} -s,l frnc No tS 70 4! a ha
no higher honor than to defeat by their
own votes TIE characterleSS prctenderS
who have assumed in their name to destroy
one of the attributes of American soEer-
eighty.
All opposition to the Bennett law is dis
| honest. On the part of the ecclesiastical
soyereignS who have drcrced its repeal
the opposition is dishonest because they
do not give the real reason Why they op-
pose it. They are against ii because 1t
asserts the proper and necessary principle
that the state is above every body and
everything within the state. That they
deny. On the part Of the dcprayed journal
iStic and political bosses who demand its
repeal the opposition is dishonest because
they misreprcsent the law. The Bennett
law does not interfere with parental
rights. Its vital principle is the provision
that the stale itself shall determine
whether pretended school IS school or
not. This is a function that the common
wealth cannot surrender INFO the keeping
of the bishop of Milwaukee. the puny
political bosses of Milwaukee,, the pompouS
! conductors. Of foreign newspapers or the
patcTnaliSliC pastor of a church.
There are race and religious demagogueS
in every state in the Union who only seek
an opportunity to force upon the AmerI-
can people Just such issues as that which
now distTacts the people Of Wisconsin.
/ They are not Americans. Their proHt lies
ing Americans. They manage churches.
schools. newspapers. ana tTlbas OF voters
ON the European plan. As AmerlcanlSm
expands, as American nationality strength
ems. as foreign languages. customs and
ideas vanish their Importance dlnlnShcS.
Their interest lies III the direction OF such
agitation as that now in progress III Wis
conSin. The interest Of true American
ism demands their defeat and discontinue.
If the Democratic party IS to remain a
force for good il must not he involved with
such TcactiOnistS 1t must be above them.
First of all. an American political party
must be American. If II sacrifices that
distinguishing characteristic then all that
follows after il must be tainted. It is he
cause the Wisconsin Democracy has made
this fatal mistake that it deserves to b"
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 tn"
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
, eTnment.
As now conducted the Wisconsin Demo
cratic campaign subordinates all that Is
diStlnctiyeIy American to an issue that Is
wholly foreign. There may Ee tine even
vet 10 plant the organization on Iemo-
cratic platform. but such change is un-
H. 70 If, l-.If
the only outcome to be hoped foT-is over
WheImIDT defeat