Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-09-08
Speech Delivered by Hon. George w. Peck, in
Accepting the Democratic Nomination
for Governor.
POINTS THAT THE PEOPLE APPREC
The Rumors of Heart Failure in the Wisconsin
State Treasury in Fair Way to Be
Examined by Democratic
Experts.

to increase the number OF salaried
officers is we'll illustrated by a glance
at the hundreds who draw salaries
from the state today who were stran-
gers to a state payroll in 1894, when
the Democratic party retired from
control of state affairs. The game
warden industry is the most notable
and the best understood by the peo-
pie, because the voters are constantly
10 touch with those Industrious men,
who have no business in the game
protection line for nine months in the
year, but on account of being paid a
yearly salary they go about doing
good and sowing seed that by proper
cultivation will raise an enormous
crop Laughter 1t is said to be
necessary to have almost a hundred
game wardens to make it possible to
strike n balance on the $4,000 re-
ceived by the state for licenses to kill
fish and game. The idea of allowing
any OF that license money to escape
into the general fund of the treasury
never seems to have occurred to the
game warden. Ii Democratic admin
istration again becomes an accom-
plished fact, at least $4,000 of that
game warden license money can, it is
believed by most men, be conveyed
into the treasury, to be used for cur
rent expenses, or for such purposes
as the legislature may provide, and it
will be so used. Under Democratic
administration the voter shall not be
considered game Laughter
'Lf it is necessary for the people of
the state to sentence our political
opponents to a term of years under
Democratic administration for dis
orderly conduct my party and yours
will see that the sentence Is carried
out
"If the ticket you have nominated
shall receive the votes of the majority
of the electors it shall be the duty of
every official to attend to the business
of his Office and for time forget that
another election will ever come. The
pleasure men elected to state office
have always felt in moving to our
beautiful capital city, nestled among
the lakes, is not as great as was for
merly the case, as that magnificent
capital is in ruins practically, but the
duty of rebuilding on its present site
better than it was before will be
cheerfully performed in an honest
business-lilSe manner until the people
shall again be proud of their capital
and glad to visit it,
"Under n Democratic administra-
tion the anti-pass law will be respect
ed by all officials, and any office
holder who violates its provisions
will be relieved of his official duties
at once and prosecuted to the full
extent of the law, and If evidence can
be secured against former officials
that they have violated the plain
provisions Of law enacted for the
public good they may be called before
the courts in friendly suit to defend
themselves and test the val idity of the
law.
1.-The time has arrived when the
people demand that the public service
corporations shall be better CON
trolled by law, to the end that they
shall not place burdens upon the
state and its inhabitants. They must
pay taxes that shall be demonstrated
to be right and just and their carrying
service, both in freight and passen-
gers, must be supervised by II com
mission elected by the people, or
in such manner as the legislature
shall provide, u commission honest,
capable and just"