The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-08-25
MAKES AN APPEAL
To the Farmers of Wisconsin,:
Sentemher 6 falls in Nour husie

September Is falls in your busiest
season.
1t is certain that on that day good
many duties will be pressing them
selves upon you. The corn and to-
! bacco will need attention, perhaps, and
we hope there will be plenty of it to
need attention. The fall weeds viii
be working overtime, and it will seem
too that the quicker you and the men
get after them the better. Some
thing wrong may have broken out in
the barn, or in the dairy, or in the
poultry yard. Many are the cares
and responsibilities of modern farming
even in this great state of successful
agriculture-W Wisconsin.
But among all the duties of that
day there is one that is paramount.
September 6 brings the primary cleo
tion. 1t brings a duty that does not
call for action very often. 1t is a duty
to yourselves, to your neighbors, to all
the people of the great republic, and
even to the millions of alien peoples
who look upon you as free men who
are working out for yourselves and for
them the great experiment of self
government.
1t brings, moreover, a duty to the
democratic party. You, who have
stood steadfastly by the principles in
which you believe, who have faced de-
feat in election after election, are
again called upon to evidence your
loyalty to democracy. The situation
is critical one, perhaps more critical
than any which has ever faced the
democratic party in this state.
Briefly the facts are these: A re-
publican Legislature has passed law
requiring us to poll in each county at
the primary September +, 20 per cent
of the democratic vote cast for the
candidate for governor in 1908. Fail
ing in this the democratic party loses
its column on the ballot in the Novem-
ber election.
The seriousness of the situation can
be realized only when we recall that
in previous primary elections, the
democratic vote has averaged only
about five per cent of the party
strength
Scatter these facts broadcast. Tell
your neighbors what an unfair law the
republican party in the state has en-
acted, designed to destroy the demo
cratic party. Let us arouse the fight
ing spirit in every democrat which
will send him to the polls both on
September Is and on November 8, and
which will result in sending such
group of honest democratic legislators
to Madison that the iniquitous twenty
per cent. clause of the primary law
will be repealed.
No greater duty, no palmer, more
unacceptable duty, no more inspiring
duty rests upon any shoulders than up
on yours. 1t is often said, and said
truthfully, that upon the farmers de-
pends the prosperity Of the nation.
And this is not only Of its material
prosperity, but also of its political and
social prosperity.
Therefore, let the material duties
wait upon the performance of the
higher duty on this day of the Wiscon-
sin primaries. Let the corn and to-
bacco wait your care a few hours.
Let the complications in the dairy or
the stable 90 for a time. Hitch up
the young colt you are proud of or the
old bay mare. Take the hired man
with you and 90 to the polling place
to do your duty by voting as a true
dcmocart.
DO not wait for election day. Sep
tember is the critical day in NViscon-
sin this year, Mark it on the calend-
ar and act when that day comes.
Jos. +. Davies, Chair
mani Democratic State Central Com.