The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-07-28
AN ADDRESS TO WIS
CoNSIN DEMOCRATS
A National Ticket That Commands Con-
fidenCe A Platform With out Sur.
render OF Principle

AUltTlCHn history, lut DtlloCihIo "a 'ie
several states have nominated Alton B.
Parker, of New York, for the office OF
president, and have named Henry q.
Davis, of West Virginia, for the office
of vice president. Without surrender
Of principle the convention adopted a
platform that has brought harmony to
the patty platform to which every
Democrat can subscribe without reser-
walton and approve without qualifca-
ton.
The national Democracy enters the
campaign free from internal conflicts.
The representatives, Of the party met at
ST. Louis determined that upon their
shoulders should not rest responsibility
for continuation of Republican poll
cies. 1t was in the spirit that nones-
seniial- or personal preferences should
not be permitted to interfere with the
concord that is necessary to successful
issue that the platform was drawn and
the nomination made
There was "A strenuous conflict of
opinion. There were opposing policies
for recognition and candl-
dates whose supporters We're Jealous in
urging their nomination. But when
the convention had spoken when the
platform had been adopted and the
made, those that had con
tended the hardest departed for their
homes free from malice and with firm
determination that the labors of the
shall not have been in vain
The candidate for president, Judge
Alton b. Parker, of New York, is a man
that commands the confidence and re
spcct Of the conservative and thinking
men Of the country Not that he is
or in sympathy with vested
wrongs As chief justice of the highest
court Of New York, he has held to a
strict enforcement Of the laws against
combinations. He has
been free from any influence that would
interfere with the impartial admins
tration Of justice. He is IA man of I'M
impeachable integrity and superior
abilities With Alton b. Parker in the
executive office the laws will be faith
fully eyecuted There will be no dis.
elimination between classes no favor
itiSm 20 predatory wealth. Though he
commands the confidence of the busi-
ness interests Of the country, the his
tory Of his life affords sufficient guar
auty that he cannot be controlled to
selfish ends The country recognizes
that in the executive Office he will not
constitute menace to the nations
peace that he will not be swayed 10y
rash impulse or moved to sudden and
i'll advised action.
The Democratic nominee is u man
that will impress himself strongly up.
on the American people as the cam
pagn progresses His reluctance TO
enter into unseemly scramble for the
nomination and the quiet dignity with
which he has attended to the duties of
his office have favOrably impressed a
public surfeited with strenuous spec
tacularsm Now that he has been
called to lead his party, he will be
found to lack none of the attributes Of
-tatemanship. nor to be deficient in the
elements essential to the making Of n
determined leader.
Every Democrat must be conscious
of the absolute necessity for return
OF the government to Democratic poll
cics foi Il return to the vital and liv-
ing truths enumerated by jefferson in
the Declaration of independence that
the republic may not end ~ have the
democracies that have preceded it. 1t
II time that calls for united action.
With the Democrats of the nation
united the Democrats of Wisconsin
should find inspiration in the concord
that peryades the greater councils of
the party. Il shall vote for Parker and
Davis, the nominees of the Democratic
national convention, is the word that
comes ont of Nebraska from that dis
tingushed Democrat, William J. Bryan,
to those who dcvotedly followed him
in the hard fought campaigns Of 1896
and 1900 The ticket is not of Mr.
organs naming, the platform does no,
contain all that he desired, but upon
il i stamped the mark of his sincere
purpose But there rises greater
question than that Of II preference fol
men There is greater question than
that OF past differences or fractional
triumph It j. the question Of whether
Democrats by internal strife shall per
petnaie Republican policies whether
in luarrrliug among themselves oven
party doctrines that are not OF press
ing Importance they shall get none OF
the things they want or through unity
at least secure part Of that which il
good
In Wisconsin the political situation
| il encouraging TO Democratic success
Opportunity waits upon the party
Bat with opportunity come RESPONSE
bili,ics Responsibility requires tina
the party shall exercise care in the So
lection or the men that it offers for tn
voters suifragcs It demands that tn
party shall prove worthy the people
confidence. that in the event of its be
ing entrusted with power its represent
ntives may render to the state credita