Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
STATE CONVENTION

tion held for the purpose of adopting
a platform, selecting state central
committee, and choosing presidential
electors, was held in Milwaukee last
Tuesday. Everything was very har-
monious. John Cudahy, candidate for
Lieutenant-Governor, was the presid-
ing officer, and who made the keynote
speech, saying that the county had
never enjoyed greater prosperity than
under the Underwood tariff law. He
made strong plea on the tariff ques-
ton, urging that it be no longer
made the football of politics. He
praised the Wilson administration for
its humanitarian legislation, rural
credits, eight-hour day, Clayton law,
currency bill, etc, He lauded the
child labor law. The program is
progressive one from start to finish
and places Wisconsin solidly in the
progressive ranks. Here are some of
the salient points of the program:
Indorses very strongly the Wilson
administration and all that it has ac
complished.
Indorses specifically the acts of
President Wilson and congress on the
8-hour question for railway employees
and declares in this way a great in
dustrial strike was averted.
Indorses state control of insurance
rates.
1ndorses legislation for sick benefit
Insurance and indemnity against oc-
cupational diseases.
Pledges legislation increasing in
demnity under the wage compensation
act.
Pledges the continuance and extern |
sion of industrial and continuation |
school legislation.
The platform also contains a plank |
indorsing the work of the university |
and also the work of it's extension |
department, and pledging that it shall |
not be hampered as regards political |
control.
Probably the most important was
the plank on the railway commission.
This plank arraigned the present rail-
way commission as being subservient |
to the interests, and declared that with (
its increased powers it was robbing
the municipal governments of every
vestige of home rule so far as public
service corporations were concerned |
1t criticised the law which places upon
the municipalities part of the burden
for the cost of changing grades and |
pledged the repeal of this law if the
democrats were placed in power. 1t |
also, in the same clause, demands the
change in the waterpower law so that
no valuations can be placed upon the
permit to erect a dam for the control |
of waterpowers.
Gen. F. c. Winkler of Milwaukee,
was praised for his stand in the sup
port of Woodrow Wilson for re-elec-
ton. Speeches were also made by
Burt Williams and VIM. f. Wolfe.
o. A. LaPudde was reelected chair
man of the state central committee.
The members chosen for the demo-
cratic state central committee, with
their residences, were as follows:
First District-Dr. w. A. McCrack-
en-, Union Grove; Andrew Jensen, Ed
gerton.
Second District - J. S. Guidice,
Schleisingerville; H. w. Henry, JEFF
ferson.
Third District-William Ryan, Mad
ison; jeff Simpson, Darlington.
Fourth District-K. A. Wagner, Mil
waukee; William H. Timlin, Milwau-
kee.
Fifth District-Roland J. Schmitz, |
Milwaukee; ]. M. Callahan, Milwau-
kee.
Sixth District-H. c. Truesdell, Ber- |
lin; Christ Pickardt, Malone.
Seventh District-John C. Burns, La |
Crosse; Herman Karissk, Baraboo.
Eighth District-Henry Fitch, Ne
koosa; John F. Lamont, Wausau.
Ninth District-Thomas Delaney,
Green Bay; Albert Karel, Kewaunee.
Tenth District-Edward Horsman,
Rice Lake; F. w. Waltersdorf, Eau
Claire.
Eleventh District-C.P Crosby Rhine
lander, P. B. Cadigan, Superior.
Presidential Electors
The presidential electors chosen to
represent the democratic party on the
ticket were, as follows:
Electors at Large-Judge J. E. |
Dodge, Milwaukee, Judge John c.
Karel, Milwaukee.
First District, Henry A. Moehlenpah, |
Clinton; second, Charles Weisse, She |
boygan Falls; third, Judge Albert |
jerks, Mineral Point; fourth, w. ].
Kershaw, Milwaukee; fifth, Vincent
Schoenecker, Milwaukee; sixth, Edwin
S. Schmitz, Manitowoc; seventh, j. B.
Cornahan, La Crosse; eighth, L. ].
Pasternecki, Stevens Point; ninth, An
drew Mcdonald, Wittenberg; tenth,
John r. Matthews, Menomonie;