Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-10-04
CHANGING THEIR TUNE.
REPUBLICANS NOT so CONFIDENT
AS THEY WERE.

by the Action of tho State Convention
Strong Ticket Nominated - People Rec
ognize he Good Work Done in the Past
Four Years-They Have No Desire for q
Change.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 1.-The Democrats
are beginning to play balp' in manner
that is simply disgusting to Republicans
A few months ago the latter were airily
confident and had the campaign finished
except the shouting 1t was with them
only a question of ma jorities some of which
reached the imaginative figure of 10000.
To-day they are anxiously studying the
chances Of having any majority at all.
Not few well posted Republicans are
willing to admit, Mt even this early stage
of the game, that it is very grave ques-
tion as to whether they get any majority
at ALL
This remarkable change has been brought
about by many causes, chief among
which is, as said before, the way Demo-
Gratis are playing ball" They are putting
up steady, well-balanced game, when
the Republicans looked for ragged one
marked with all the ch aracteristics of a
badly ratified team.
REPUBLICANS ARE RATIFIED.
If there is any one ratified just ut the
present time it is the Republicans. The
manner i'll which their hopes have taken
toboggan slide down from 100 GO ma
Jority to nothing shows how badly they
are scared.
They find that the "hard times" cryhas lost
Its rallying force in the face OF the hand
come record made by the present Demo-
cratic administration which is now
admitted, even by Republicans, to be I'M
paralleled in the history of the country
Now that the Dem ocratic state conven-
ton has renominated the honest and
faithful officials who made that record the
Republican leaders are in worse straits
than ever. They expected, and so far as
their intrigues would 20, tried to assist
In securing the overthrow of these Off
Gals. They saw very clearly that for the
Democratic party to make campaign Oh
issues made by these officials after they
had been retired would be like the play
Of Hamlet, with the melancholy Dane
eliminated. Unfortunately for them the
delegates to the state convention were as
clear sighted rs Mr. Sawyer's friends and
endorsed the brilliant record of the past
four years by renominatng once again
the men who made that record. 1t was an
unexpected cluck and causes the Repub-
hcan machine to wobble badly.
IS A STRONG TICKET.
In addition to renominatng the men
who made the record OH which the Demo-
Gratis will carry the state this year the con-
vention strengthened the ticket by the
infusion of some strong new blood. Mr.
A. j. Schuntz, who was nominated for
lieutenant governor, is a brilliant young
attorney from Manitowoc, man of
strength in the lake shore counties and
good campaigner Two years ago he was a
candidate for congress i'll the Sixth dis
trict, being defeated only after hard
struggle by Congressman Wells. w. H.
Schultz, the superintendent of public in
struction, is well-known educator in Sank
county, u gentleman of culture and one
who will honor the place for which he was
nominated. George G. Prescott who was
unanimously nominated for railroad COM
missioner, is one of the oldest conductors
u
man with hosts of friends both inside and
outside his profession. The nominee for
insurance commissioner, is Olaf r. Skaar
bright young Norwegian lawyer, we'll
fitted To manage the affairs of that office
i'll thoroughly satisfactory manner. In
addition to this Mr.. Skaar is good
speaker.
Taken as n whole the ticket is one of the
best balanced that has been nominated in
the state by either party for many years.
II is just this which is worrying the
friends of Mr.. Sawyer so sorely Back OF
the ticket stands the record of four years
past, II record which is us full of good
deeds for the people of the state rs a
Christmas pudding is of plms; II record
which the Republican leaders and press
has found n hard nut to crack and thus
far have succeeded only in dulling their
tools without making any impression on
the administration beyond giving the PEG.
pie of the state better idea of the good
work which the men they placed ut the
head of affairs have done
a GOOD PARTY TO TIE To.
For the first time III the history Of the
state the business of the commonwealth
has been conducted on business principles.