The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-08-14
Writes an Interesting and Timely
Letter.
ADDRESSES IT TO THE PILOT.
Thinks This is a Democratic Year in
Wisconsin.
ARE IN CHOOSING CANDIDATES.
What the Party Should Stand for in the
Forthcoming State C0ntest-Giyes
His Views Clearly.

The following letter has been received
from A. J. Schmitz of Milwaukee deal
ing with the political situation
Milwaukee, Wis, Aug IL, 'O2.
EDITOR MANITowoC PILOT
The date of the meeting Of delegates
representing the Democratic voters OF
Wisconsin in state convention is near
at hand, and it can be truthfully said
that not for many years have the voters
of the state manifested so keen an in
terest as to who the nominees of such
convention shall be, or the kind OF
platform the convention will adopt,
especially 80 far as the same will relate
to state affairs.
This awakening and animated inter-
est, on the part of the voters, in my
Judgment means that the people OF the
state are looking to the Democratic
party for relief from unnecessary tax
burdens, largely due to the lavish and
extravagant expenditures in the various
departments of our state government.
The tax payers Of our state cannot
hope that the Republican party, which
they believe is controlled by the trusts
and monopolies, will ever enact law
which will bring about reform in taxa
tion, but they must look to the Demo
cratic party for the enactment of uni
form tax law which will result in the
just and equal assessment OF al pro-
perty and collection of all taxes,
whether the owner of srch property be
corporation or only IN ordinary per-
son born of woman, whether n man
man or God made man"
believe that the voters of Wisconsin
are also satisfied that, due to the bitter
factional strife which is being carried
on by the Republicans within their
party, not for principle. but simply for
the purpose of staying or getting at the
trough containing the flesh pots, and
due to the natural tendency of that
party not to redeem it's party pledges,
the people will never be given an op-
portunity TO test and try for them
selves the efficacy of primary election
law, and that they must look for such
a law TO the Democrats, that being the
party which first advocated the enact
ment of such law.
In my Judgment the next Democra-
tic state convention should not, in its
platform, confine itself solely to state
issues.
That in order to keep all the voters
believing in Democratic principles to-
gether and in line and working as a
unit in their support of the ticket and
platform, it will be necessary to make
them feel, that the state organization is
a part of the national organization. 4
Let the contents of the platform be
such that every Democrat will feel that,
in working for the success of the state
ticket and for the realization of the re-
forms promised in the state platform,
relating to state affairs, no will advance
the cause and the mission Of the ma
tional Democracy, which is engaged in
the bringing back and of reestablish-
ing the policy of our national govern
ment where it rightfully belongs, name
ly, within the spirit of the Declaration OF
Independence, and that our faith, as a
nation, be e.established in that immor-
tai proclamation of the inalienable
rights of man. and to reaffirm our al.
legiance to the constitution framed in
harmony with such proclamation.
Let the Democratic voters feel, that
the democracy of the state is II part of
the national democracy and, if success
full in the state, that the people will
have made great progress towards the
time when the trusts and combines
which have grown, hourished and
fattened under Republican rule and
are now fostered by 1t shall he no
more.
The people well know, that all the
trusts and combines in this country are
a part and parcel of the Republican
party organization, and that it cannot
be expected that it will undertake a
surgical operation, which would neces
state deep cut into its vitals, in order
to thoroughly and successfully remove
large and Objectionable part of itself.
The platform should declare, in no
uncertain language, that the Democrats