Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-05

Governor
Hiram W. Sawyer, Hartford.
Lieutenant Governor
Peter v Duester, Milwaukee.
Secretary OF State:
Peer O. Stromlne, Madison.
Treasurere:-
G. NJ. Malen, milwaukee,.
Attorney Generill:-
II. II. Grace, West Superior,
Insurance COMMISSIONER
john +. Sclindler, Pop, milwaukee,.
Railroad Commissioner
c, G. Wilcox, De Pere.
SUI erintendent OF Public Instruction.
w. II. Schulz, Sank.
Amid disorder and confusion, with lii
tie knowledge Of what it was doing or
whittier it was drifting, the Democratic
state convention last night completed
5ts work of nominating al state ticket,
after an all day wrangle.
1t is ticket ef sllreds and patches, a
itch rannOt command the support of the
rank and file of tie silver democrats,
which will not be supportt by the gold
democrats and which has already been
Spurned and cast aside by the pOpuIists-
Yesterdays session OF the democratic
convention was hippodrome. Itwas
circus without a ringmaster, alMinstrel
show without IN iRterlocutor. Chair
man O'COnnor had little conception OF
order and the delegates had none. They
acted like school boys at he recess hour
and they had less comprehension Of how
to properly transact the business for
which they We're gathered than heath
@n has of rosary beads. The bond be-
tween the democrats and the spopulists
slas been severed. Each party will go
it's spper:lte and lonely way this year.
The democrats refused the prOffSr OF
fusion yesterday after the proposition
had been discussed several hours aud HE
populists went back to- their convention
hall and nominated a complete ticketof
Their own.
democrats gave one place on the state
ticket to popuIist-John + SCHNEIDER
of Milwaukee beng selectedfor insurance
commissioners This was done after the
fusion proposition had been voted down
and before it was known that the popu-
lists had nominated "a ticket.
There have been conventions more re-
markable than that held yesterday, and
somewhere in the story books there is IA
record of one or two gatherings more
spectacular and kaleitlo ,copic than that
which assembled iH the rLvceum theater
yesterday to nominate stsrte ticket,
But there never has been and nowhere
Will there be found aparailel for the con-
vention in point of general inc0lnpetency
and inability to do what it was trying
to do.
An illustrations of the fntility OF HE
Democratic attempt to appease the pop
ulists by nominating Mr"Schindler after
having decided against fusion to please
the gold men. lies in this fact that the
popuiSt convention adopted strong
resolutions scoring the Democracy. 1t
declared it was in the hands OF the gold
men, and no longer to be trusted, TINS
fixing for this campaign atlenst, the dis
ruption of the non descript alliance vi
1896
WoEK OF THE CONVENTION.
fr,, a IL. hi
in the hope OF catching votes from gold
men was adopted, and former gold
democrat nominated for lieutenant
governor
\ fusion with the pupulSts was denied
and populist nominated for insurance
commissioner.
Az effort was made to make the ticket
representative OF the pntrr state. hy
having it well distributed &eDgraphica :
Nv, yet three Of theeight POSITIONS on the
ticket were given to the city vi Miwau-
kep-Miwankee Sentinel.
The Issue for the dresent campaign III
tnestatp OF wisconsin is DOW clearly set
forth The democratic state convention
endorsed the Chicago Platform, placing
the democratic party sqnarrly upon The
silver platform npOn which thor ticket
went down to defeat in wisconsin two
years ago 1t is The some FIRE silver
reputation principle for which the silver
democrats stood IN 1896 and no amount
Of talk or sopistry can obscure it. The
democratsin their platform adopted te-
day, have much to say Observation-Disclosures