Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-01
COUNTY CONVENTION.
REPUBLICANS PLACE IN NOr1INA=
TION A STRONG COUNTY
TICKET.
MessrS. II. Wipperman, Geo. Ii. Smith, E. s.
Renne, Nicholas Berg Nash Mitchell, P. A.
Williams, w. j. Shea, R A. Havenor,
B. R. Tarbox, and T. J. Cooper Our
Next County Officers.

The Republican County Convention
was called to order by Mr.. P. A. Will.
Jams, of Marshfeld, Tuesday afternoon
September 29th. He read an agree.
ment which provided that the Hou
Geo. E. Hoskinson of Centralia, act as
temporary chairman, and l.. L. Doud oi
Pittsville, as temporary secretary. In
taking the chair Mr.. Hoskinson made
the following address:
Gentlemen of the Convention: We
have assembled here, today, for the
| purpose of nominating a candidate for
Member Of Assembly and also candi-
dates for the several county offices.
! There will, also, come up for action the
appointment of Central County Com
! mittee.
| sincerely trust that a spirit of har-
mOny will prevail in your deliberations.
and that your selection of candidates
will be wise and judicious. Let all
rivalry and friendly contention end
with the session Of the convention.
We meet at a time when the best
energies Of the nation are called to re-
| press an attack upon its honor almost
equal in importance to the deadly as
sault Of armed rebellion 50 years ago
| upon It's life. Then. the two great poll
! tical parties were drawn up into armed
camps from one of which toated out
upon the breeze the Emblem of Liberty
and Equality-from the other the rag
Of Slavery and Secession
Then, as now one wing of that great
opposing host, placing the welfare of
the nation above that of Party, joined
with us in patriotic devotion to the
Union. The Douglas Democrat and
the Lincoln epublican-shoulder to
shOulder-kept step to the music Of the
Union; and, as these allied forces then
carried that flag to victory so shall they,
again in 1S96-victory Overwhelming
and decisive.
My friends, the Republican party has
the proud satisfaction of knowing that
IN war and in peace, i'll long continued
aScendancy, and in temporary defeat it
has been upon the right side of every
public question, and the people have
Vlndicated it and sustained it in the
end.
Four years ago when the country was
at the height of prosperity our Demo-
cratic friends said to the farmer and
the mechanic, and all the tOiling multi
tudes who earn the bread of life by
the labor OF hand or brain:
1ou are being robbed by High
Iantt-the rich are getting richer and
the poor poorer, and there is no help
for you unless you put lis in power and
establish "Revenue Reform!" The
great cities and the small, the factories
and the mines, and a large contingent
from the farms believed them and
handed over the government by an
immense majority. What was the
result?
From the very day after that election
black cloud Of adversely began to
settle down over the country. You all
remember it. Tie merchant and the
manufacturer met with a decreasing
business, and by the time President
Cleveland came to be inaugurated a
creeping distrust ran around amongst
the people that their money was not
safe III the hands OF the National Banks.
They began drawing out their funds,
and Bank after Bank-all over the United
States-suspended payment. This invol-
we'd the stoppage Of thousands of factor
les, and the throwing out of employment
OF hundreds of thousands of people
dependent upon them for work. Then
our Democratic friends passed their
Revenue Reform bill which was to
bring such prosperity to the country
and their President refused to sign it,
stlgmatlzing it as compact between
perhdy and dlshOnOr and it only be-
came law through sutferance. Now,
| II ever was the time for the Democratic
Party to redeem its pledges How did
| it do 1t?
1t was made so dismal and fiat a
| failure that the people as soon as they
could get a chance smashed that Con-
gress that passed that law into Smither-
eens. In the 53rd Congress which
went into power along with Cleveland
| there were SIX Democrats and four Re-
| publIcans representing Wisconsin in the
| dOuse-twO years later for the first time
III its history 10 Republicans answered
the roll call in the House, and that is
the situation today.
Well. the Democratic Party having
made such a fiasco on "Revenue Re-
| form cast about for new issue. One
was lying ready for their hands. That
which had been for some years a mere
speculative question in finance, having
! but local significance was suddenly
forced to the front as the party
Shibboleth which, it any Democrat
could not frame to pronounce Alright
he should be "Anathema," ;" and kicked
out of the party. The name of this
new party ShlbboIeth was "Free Silver"
Briefly stated and stripped Of all verb
lage and catch phrases of primary
Money" Redemption Money" J"
Money of final account" etc, etc,
this means that any one having SO cents
worth of silver may take it to the Z. S.
Mint and have it coined, free of cost,
into a dollar representing 100 cents,
which shall be a legal tender for all
debts, public and private.
Thus, having crippled the industries
of the country by vicious legislation
having robbed the laborer largely of
employment, it now proposes to rob
him OF half the fruit of the labor he
does get.
BUTT is knife which cuts in two wavs.
1t divides the savings Of a life time
in your Savings Banks and Building and
Loan SOcieties-the loans you have
made to less successful ighbors-the