The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-08-16

dominsnt and the tariff policy Of the
Government seemed to be definitely
settled. In the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress Wisconsin had . Republican
Senator and two Gifts three Represe en-
ta:ives were in favor of .'free men"
in the Territorys. 10 1855 the Demo
cratic msjnrity for Governor was re-
duced to 15S, while the majority for
the Republican candidate for supreme
court judge was 7.14S. The result
was tina, the Office was given to the
Rapub leans on contest
The party sffi,ia,ion of the North
wrst were about to be revolutiOn;zed.
Tn. majority for Fremont in Wiscon-
sin wa. 2,66S and for Lisc,ln 21,-
900 The war came and Wisconsin
remained tie ,daa.t to The fai b that she
hal embraced in 1860.
The corruption OF the republican
maj,rities in congress was te in Wis
cousin as elsewhere. The Fund du
Lac district had chosen a democratic
representative in congress in 1868.
In 1871 the Milwaukee cis,ri,t fol-
lowed the example. and in the tidal
wave Of 1874 the Winnenago district
gave a third democrat to tne states
delegation.
la 1892 the republican plurality
vas 1851; in 1876 it wa. 6. $50. In
1880, the unfortunate year which
broke the democratic alva"c', the
republican plurality was 49, 1853. In
1874. the first tidal wave year, when
the republicans lost control OF the
house of representatives, tie aggre-
gate democratic majority in the dis
tricts was 357.
in 1854 the democrats Of the state
were hopeful. Ia the slate election
Of 1882 they had beaten the republi-
cans by IN jority of 5000 and had
elected six Of The nine cDngressmen.
They made the campaign on the tariff
issue. appealing especially TO the
Swedish aud German farmers, and
while Blaine carried the state the re-
publican plurality was reduced FROM
%, 763 to IA SOS.
Thereafter in no state of the Union
was the campaign of education on the
tariff question more diligently and
intelli gently carried on than in Wis
cousin. This eff Irt in behalf of the
democrats was aided by the sumptu-
ary laws passed by the republicans
out more especially by the Bennett
Iaw, in which the republican party
commits itself to the theory that it Is
he right of the state to interfere with
the education Of the children not only
u the public but in the private
schools.
In 1888 the democrats again lost,
the siate, although their vote had in
creased in sixteen years from Sc. All
to l55, 232 In 1890 they carried the
state for governor by plurality of
2S,230. In the same year in the con-
gressional districts, where the cam
paign was fought strictly on the tariff
Issue, the democratic plurality was
nearly 81 900. and Of the nine menu
bers chosen all but ore were demo-
crate, while . democratic majority of
35 on joint ballot in the legislature
elected William F. Villas as the first
democratic United States senator from
the state since the ante. bellum period.
On the tariff issue Wisconsin il Q
democratic state, and with this and
the state issues already mentioned
there is every reason to hope for . vic
tory in the coming election.
1t would be most grievous mistake
if the democrats should fail to put
forth their strongest efforts to carry
this most promising commonwealth.
The clouds of prejudice engendered
by the war and by appeals to sectional
passion and prejudice have been dis
sipated.
The issue on which Wisconsin was
democratic in 1848 and until the slav-
cry struggle is at the front again, and
if the voters of the state are made to
recognize this fact the twelve votes Of
Wisconsin will be cast for Cleveland
and Stevenson 10 November.
The next president must be a DEM
Ocrat.