Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-07
SAWYER is NAMED.
Nominee for Governor on Demo-
cratic Ticket-The
Platform.

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 2.-The state
| Democratic convention rejected the report
of the committee appointed to arrange for
fusion with the Populist party and NOM
mated the following ticket, the candidate
for commissioner of insurance being the
same as the Populist nominee:
GOvernor-HIRAM w. SAWYER, Hart
| ford
Lieutenant Governor-PETER V. DEUS
Secretary of State-PEER O. STROMME,
| Madison.
Treasurer-C. J. M. MALEK. Milwaukee.
| =. Attorney General-H. H GRACE, West
| Superior.
Insurance Commissioner - JOHN f.
| SCHNEIDER, Pop, Milwaukee.
Railroad Commissioners. G. WILCOX.
| Depern.
H. SCHULZ, Sank.
The platform is as follows:
We, the Democrats of the state Of Wis
consin, in state convention assembled, do
affirm our allegiance to the Democratic
| principles, justice, liberty and equality,
upon which our institutions are founded
and which the Democratic party has advo-
Gated from Jetfersons time to our own,
and we declare our firm devotion to the
! Democratic principles as enunciated in the
Chicago platform of 1896.
We congratulate the citizens Of the ma
! tion on their loyalty and ardent patriotism
displayed in the vigorous prosecution of
| the late war, and we especially honor
| the American army and navy for their
valor and intrepid bravery on land and
sea, and we condemn in unStinted meas
ure the war department for the blunders
and crimes committed against the brave
boys in blue in camp and on foreign bat
| tletelds by selfish contractors, incompe-
| tent surgeons, and vain, heartless army
officers, appointed for political purposes,
and we hereby pledge to our brave
soldiers and sailors who survive this war,
! our earnest and loyal support to secure
the punishment of the guilty parties.
-. the republican party of this state at
| its last convention, presented only one
| issue for this campaign, namely, Shall the
| Republican administration Of the last four
years be endorsed by the people? We ac-
cept that issue and challenge them to de-
! fend themselves against the following
| charges and specifications:
| FirSt-9Ou have recklcsSly and profit
| gately conducted the business of the state,
| thereby largely and unnecessarily increas-
! ing the state taxes and imposing unnec
| essary and unjust burdens upon the tax
| payers.
Second-You have carried upon the pay
roll employees and clerks who have drawn
| salaries without rendering service.
| Third-1Ou have Disseminated in favor
of corporations and against the people.
Fourth-The governor has been the sub
! servient tool of corporation instead of
| the servant of the people, attested by his
| vetoeS of legislation imposing restrictions
| or obligations upon corporations we'll as
| by other official acts familiar to the people
| and unnecessary TO enumerate.
| Fifth-IOu promised that you would
not remit the Judgments in the treasury
| cases. You violated that promise and
| thereby dissipated the property of the
state without receiving any consideration.
SlXth-1our management of the state
! salaries long before they were earned
! loaned mony from the treasury without
security and without authority of law.
| while the practices disclosed by the So
| called Doodle Book are only a sample
| of your incOmpetency and lack of integ-
rity, and shows an utter contempt Of eX-
! press law.
Seventh-You adopted a resolution in
| your state convention of 1896 opposing the
J giving by corporations or the taking by
| public officials Of passes and franks. Y:u
| defeated legislation calculated to carry out
| that resolution and your governor has fla
| GRAVITY violated that pledge; and his use
| riOus.
| Eighth-Your party has been nominated
| by Il machine composed of wire pullerS,
! tricksters, and corporation meniaIs who
| have used your party for the promotion OF
| their indiyidual and selfish interests and
for the advancement of the corporate in
! forests they represent
Ninth--More than 40 per cent. of the
| delegates who attended the convention
| that nominated your candidate for gov
! crnOr, recognizing the truth of the above
| charges, refused to endorse his administra-
| ton, and denounced him as being unworthy
| We make these further declarations:
! IT is the notorious and an unchallenged
! fact that large sums of money have been
!
| vor!tes 20 the great scandal of the state
! and in direct violation of law. We prom
! Use q rigid public investigation of these
| acts and the prosecution of all persons i'm
| plicated therein.
| We in favor Of a primary election
| law to replace the present method of NOM
| mating candidates for office. to the end
| that all nominations shall be made by di-
| rect vote of the people.
We believe in the referendum. the sub
mission of all laws to the vote Of the peo-
pie, as the best and only means of safe
! guarding both the interests and liberties
! of the common people and averting oil
We favor honest legislation, state and
national, to the end that capital and cor
| DOrate property shall bear its full share of
the burden of taxation.
We declare that it is a wrong against
public interests and morals for public
officer to receive a gift favor from a
person corporation. We therefore
pledge ourselves to the enactment, at the
first opportunity, of law prohibiting the
! issue of passes by any railroad, express,
! telephone. telegraph sleeping car. and
street railway companies to all public of
fciaIs and delegates to political conven-
penalties upon both gfver and receiver
thereof, and that as soon as possible it
be made & constitutional provision.
We are in favor of Il good road system
| and shall encourage the improvements Of
the public highways Of the state
ton of the business of the state and a re-
duction of the state taxes to the sIowest
| rate consistent Herewith.
| We most emphatically declare against
! the blightfng evil of the lobby in legiSla-
tive halls, and pledge ourselves to the en-
actment Of such legislation will make
| it penal Offense for corporations and in
dividuals, either to employ or engage in
improperly influencing legislation by meth
DDS Of the lobby.
To the full discharge of the pledges here
in made, in letter and in spirit, and to
! Il correction of the errors and abuses here
| in complained of. we pledge the candidates
| nominated by this convention.
Startled the Poor Woman.
She was a New Yorker, evidently; she
had evidently been on cable cars before
and she looked, too, like one not easily
taken back nor tlabbergasted at anything
Yet at the conductors first words she
flushed then paled, her eyes flashed and
both from her quick-caught breath and
the sudden twitching of the muscles about
| her Inns she was nlainlE much overcome