Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
Democratic COUNTY Ticket.

democratic county ICket.
The Democratic county convention,
held at Jefferson Saturday, placed in
nomination the following for county
officers: Sheriff, F. Jaenke, Farming
ton; register of deeds, E. G. Hager,
Jefferson; county clerk, John Morgan,
Sullivan clerk Of courts, A Tanck ,Jr.,
Jefferson; treasurer, Frank Heitz, Mil
ford district attorney,C C. B. Rogers, Fort
Atkinson; coroner, W. Henry, Jeffer-
s on; surveyor, E. G. Jones, Fort At
kinson; superintendent of schools, j.
A. Hazelwood, Pennington.
Delegates to the state and congress
sional conventions were chosen as
follows: State-L Benson, d. Schwie-
ger, Thomas Shinnick, Fred Seeber,
0. j. Kerschensteiner, j. Maldeen, H.
G. Christians, Paul Hibbard, Charles
Hummel; compassionate. w. Moore,
A. Tanck, Jr., II. Kruger, A. Goertz,
j. Spangler, NJ. F. Parker, Alex Bu-
chanan, Fred Sydow, P O'BrieD
As usual Watertown, which has never
failed to cast big majorities for the
Dem ocracy. was treated shamefully in
the makeup of the county ticket, but
little softsoap was dispensed to our
Popocratic friends here by allowing
them the distinguished though rather
| empty honor of heading a convention
| delegation. Ofcourse, it is claimed by
some that Mr.. Tanck, the nominee for
| clerk of the courts, is in reality citizen
of Wat ertown, but the fact offers small
! consolation when we consider that the
| gentleman is now bonafide resident
of Jefferson, living there with his
family. Watertown had but two candi-
| dates before the convention-both of
| them for the same Office-and the
time-worn excuse cannot be given this
year that there were ''too many cooks,
etc." It seems that when so small
| pittance was sought the county Dem
ocracy could have treated our local
! brethren with more consideration.
But then, it was ever thus, only things
may be different the coming election
day than on previous occasions.
Republican Club.
A business meeting of the Mckinley
and Hobart club was held in the
assembly room of the city hall Satur-
day evening, which has been secured
as a meeting place for the campaign.
Regular sessions of the club will here
after be held every Friday evening.
Upon request Attorney e. F. Wieman
has consented to address the club at
its next meeting. The membership
continues to increase and the best
organization in the history of Water
town Republican politics is promised
ere election day. The following con-
stitutes the executive committee of
the club, there being two members
from each ward: A. E. Needham,
Jacob Jossi Henry Kuester, A. Donner,
| E. F. Wieman, Owen T. Hughes, F.
| M. Eaton, G. A. Judd, G.. W. Hill, II.
| WinkenWerder, Jr., w. F. Gruetz-
macher, E. Amborn, Edward Kehoe
and HI. A. Downing.
The mass convention of Wisconsin
gold d-standard Democrats held in Mil
waukee last Wednesday comprised
| many of the foremost members of the
! old Democratic party in the state
| those who have been the respected
| leaders of the past and those who are
recognized as factors in the business
and commercial circles of their several
communities. A formidable stand was
| taken against the un patriotic and radi~
cal movements now going forth in their
party, and the convention declared in
unmistakable terms against free silver.
| General Bragg was endorsed as the
candidate for the presidency of the
| National Democrats. Postmaster Rohr,
| ex-senator Voss, C. FL. Jacob, D.
| Blumenfeld, c. Wiggenhorn, Daniel
| Jones, William Buchheit, G.. S.
HawleY, Major Kempf, G. MANI, Fl.
Daub, E. j. Wiggenhorn, A. J. Weiss,
William Buchheit, Jr., G., Buchheit
and others from this city attended the
convention. ID. Blumenfeld was elected
district delelegate to the Indianapo-
lis convention and W. A, Beurhaus q
district alternate. G. FL. jacob was
named as an elector and Senator A.
Soliiday was placed on the State Gem
tral committee.