Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
BADGERS BOOM BRYAN.
Democratic C0D-ention mt MiIwau-
kee Tndorses Nebraskan.

kee Ind3rses Nebraskan.
Milwaukee correspondence:
Quietly the D>stocratlc State con-
yention called itself to order in the
ALEXANDRIA Theater in Milwaukee We'd
nesday afternoon and proceeded to for
get the recently passed primary law by
organizing itself, as of old, into the old
fashioned gathering which has been
wont to ruffie the feathers of the
American eagle so often in the past.
The State primary law did away with
conventions until the Democrats of Wis
consin rose up and said they could see
no reason for not joining together in
a friendly session" and offering sug-
gestions to the party to reflect upon.
This sentiment met with general IA
vor and therefore the convention was
not convention legally and was one
actually. For it is generally accepted
as true that the platform framed at
this meeting will be adopted next fall
by the nominees, who. according to the
new law, must meet gravely III Madison
and announce the party's principles.
AS Governors in the Badger State
hereafter are TO be named at the pri-
maries. the only thing this suggesting"
convention could do was to whoop it
up for some man for President and to
proclaim itself emphatically on the
burning questions of the day,
There seems to be only one man talk
ed of by Wisconsin Democrats for Pres
ident and he is William ]. Bryan The
Nebraskan received fiattering indorse
ment when the Resolutions Committee
reported Even former United States
Senator William F. Villas has come into
camp and there was presented the pic.
ture of one of Grover Cleveland's clos
est friends sitting in a gathering of So
called radical Democrats encouraging
and participating in the applause which
greeted the name of the leader whom
the Cleveland Democrats opposed both
in 1896 and 1900.
The convention met in the afternoon,
appointed the usual committees, heard
Daniel II. Grady of Portage, who was
elected temporary chairman. make an
address lauding Mr.. Bryan. and then
adjourned until night when Permanent
Chairman John A. Awkward of Madison
spoke and other voices were raised.
Meanwhile the Resolutions Committee,
headed by Louis +. Marehetti of Wau
sau was drafting the platform, some of
the principal features of which are as
follows:
Denunciation of the recent Republican
State administration under Robert NJ. La
ESllette; demand that the State books
be Investigated and a spicily worded &C.
cusatiOn that the Republicans have been
wasteful of State cash and have beeu
guilty of misdeeds suggesting graft or
something worse
Arraignment of the State board policy
and demand that most of these bodies be
abolished.
A Npronouncement in favor of legisla.
ton that will confer upon Wisconsin
cities of a certain size the power to regu-
late the rates charged by public utility
corporations. such as street railway. gas
electric light and water companies-in
other words, home rule.
sizzling provision attacking trusts
and combinations which exist in the
State, and which, the party claims, have
toe much power. In this connection a
demand that Wisconsin attack these
trusts in the courts will be voiced.
A demand that the tariff be revised.
A declaration in favor of an income tax
law.
Endorsement of pure food legislation,
national and State.
A protest against certain insurance
companies. whose deferred dividend poll
cies and administrative extravaganza will
be denounced and a demand for national
curb on these big corporations.
Advocacy of legislation that win pre-
serve to the national government coal and
oil lands.
Two cents a mile passenger fare on the
railroads in the State.