Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-09-06
RIGHT TO SHOW PRIDE.
DEMOCRATS HAVE GOOD REASON
TO THROW UP THEIR HATS.

Cannot he Done without Hurting
Themsrlves-The Eusk So-Tax Cry Dies
Hard-Shows the Extremity to Which
Republicans Have Eeen Driven-County
Tax Rolls Explode the Story.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. At is almost anus.
ing TO witness the gradual but steady
awakening of Wisconsin Democrats to the
ia It that they have reason to feel par
ticular pride in the record of the state
administration for the past four years.
They have been so accustomed to accept
the dictum of the Republican press in
| political matters that it is with a feeling
OF the keenest surprise that they now dis
cover that the Democratic party in Wis
consin during the past four years has been
making history in a way that will cause
it to be remembered with gratitude for
years to come.
Democrats as we'll as other citizens have
been so accustomed to being gulled by
| political tricks concocted by the Republic
cans to catch votes that they can now
hardly receive statements backed by Off
cial proof without suspicion. Even the
recent announcement that the state tax,
levied for educational purposes, has been
reduced three-fourths can hardly be ac-
cepted as true, a state of affairs which the
Republican leaders are endeavoring indus
triously 10 continue.
WILL FIND THE STATEMENT TRUE.
The people of the state have had the
mo taxi dodge played on them so often
under Republican rule only when they
came to pay taxes that they were as much
as ever, that the recent good news is
doubtingly accepted. Probably in many
cases the Democratic administration will
not he given its full measure of due until
taxpaying time next winter. Then the
taxpayer will find that every statement
made now is true.
1t is one of the curiosties of politics that
the mo taxi statements which were peren-
NAL during Governor Rusk's term still
find so many believers. This in the face
of the fact that the falsity of the state
ment can be SO easily shown to any one by
the examination OF the tax rolls in the
offices at any county seat.
Yet every few days leading Democrats
receive letters from members of the party
in different parts of the state asking if it
was true that there was no state tax in
Governor Rusk's regime. OF course they
are informed there is not and told to ex-
anime the tax rolls of their own county
for the years Governor Rusk was in office
which will etfectually settle the question.
Yet in spite of all queries continue to pour
in even after it seems rs though the Rusk
mo tax" assertion had been knocked into
a cooked hat
Every Democrat can throw up his hat
and assert without fear of successful con-
tradiction that this year is the first time in
the history of the state when all state
taxes have been nearly wiped out. Had it
not been for the extraordinary expendi-
lures made necessary the past four years
1t would have been wiped out altogether.
This is something to be proud of. Repub-
licans know it, none BETTER and are di-
recting their best efforts towards nullify-
ing its effects as much as possible and the
assertions of the Rusk administration era
are one part of their scheme 1t may con-
fuse a few people for time but in the end
they will pay tribute to the magnificent
record which the Democratic party has
made in the past four years.
ONLY ONE OF MANY.
II this one act of the administration
stood alone it would be enough to enable
the party to go before the country with
confidence. But it does not stand alone.
1t is only one of many things which will
inspire enthusiasm in Democratic hearts
the more they are known. The adminis-
tration has been going on quietly attend
ing to business, redeeming promises and
keeping faith as one man redeems a prom
Use made to another. 1t has not paraded
it's acts and it was this very silence, so
vhnf In,
Republican times that led many Demo-
Gratis to accept as truth the oft-repeated
assertion of Republican papers that the
administration was nothing out of COM
mon.
The fact of the matter is, and Democrats
are awakening to it, that the administra-
tion is very much ont of common. 1t is
not only record breaker so far as the his
tory of this state is concerned but 1t is I'M
excelled in any other state in the union.
1t is this fact that has led to determine
ton on the part of the Republican leaders
to try and fight the campaign this fall
solely on national issues. AS the cam
paign progresses this becomes more and
more apparent Leading Republicans
openly admit that if the fight is made on
state issues they will be beaten, as there is
no chance to get i'll n blow there. What
they will depend on to carry them through
is the cry of hard times. OF course they
will studously ignore the fact that the
hard times are of their own producing,
like the various trusts which, by their aid,
have managed to keep a precarious grip
on the people, in spite of the utmost efforts
Of honest Democrats to dislodge them.
But this is entirely foreign to state mat
tiers. 1t is worthy of note that there The
Republicans confess they are beaten al
ready and incidentally that they now base
their hopes of carrying the state, which
few months ago were high, on their
ability to eliminate state affairs entirely
from the campaign.
REPUBLICANS GIVE Up.
1t is also worth noticing rs something
which Democrats are paying more atten-
ton to every day that not single attack
has been made on the party record for the
past four years that has not proved a
boomerang. The Republican papers have
not made u single assertion in regard to
state affairs that has rot been refuted and
the exact contrary proven. Now they
have about given up attacks of this kind
as they find that instead OF hurting the