Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-01
DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.


kee on Monday, and the delegates
departed on Sunday evening in order
to be present to see and hear our
president.
at the appointed hour, +. P. O'Con-
nor called the meeting to order and
John F. Lamont of this city, was
chosen chairman and Frank Lueschen,
of Marathon, secretary.
On motion the following committees
were appointed:
Resolutions Thomas Fl. Ryan Of
Wausau, Carl Kronenwetter of the
town of Kronenwetter and Fred Bor-
chardt of tue town of Texas.
To Recommend Delegates-W. w.
Albers, A. 2. Woodson and Frank P.
O'Connor of Wausau, J. H. Kennedy
of the town of Wausau, A. W. Puch-
ner of Edgar,
The committee on resolutions pre-
sented the following which were
adopted:
1.-THE representatives of the Demo
cratic party of Marathon county, in
convention assembled, hereby renew
their allegiance to those cardinal prin-
ciples that have made it the party
of the people through more than a
century of national life, and placed
upon the pages of history the names
of Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland and
Wilson,
The past three years have been
the most trying in the history of the
republic and the patriotic citizens of
the nation are to be congratulated
that the government has been in the
hands of officials whose actions have
not been directed by selfish greed,
but by the highest sense Of patriotic
endeavor known to true Americans,
grounded in an answering desire to
maintain our national dignity, keep
the country at peace with all the
world, preserve a perfect poiSe of
neutrality and relieve in the name of
humanity, insofar as possible, the dire
distress of countries overwhelmed by
the terrors of war.
SIN the nation itself the Democrat
&c party stands today with a record
of pledges fulfilled. The promises
made in 1912 have been redeemed.
pouring out of the factory chimney
and the dinner pail is full.
"We go before the people with a
clean record and have every right to
expect that they will return vote of
confidence.
SIN the state we find a return to the
corporate rule of twenty years ago.
"The day of the hand picked con-
ventiOn, ruled by those who seek not
to conserve the interests of the people
of the state at large, but to put in
control of state government those
who seek business profit through the
control Of office, seems to have return
ed. Republican promises of lower
taxes, fewer commissions, and repeal
Of laws that embarraSS and limit bust
ness, have not been fulfilled, and as
long as the party that enacted and
enforced these OBJ oxious laws remains
in power, cannot - fulfilled.
''Be it resolved.
''1st. We pledge our support to the
president Of the United States in his
endeavors to preserve peace and main
tain the prosperity that has come to
the nation through the wisdom of his
economic policies.
''2nd. That we recommend that the
Wisconsin delegates to the national
convention at st. Louis go pledged to
support the denomination of Wood
row Wilson.
Sd. That we condemn the manip-
uIation and mble-rigging of state
finances by the present state admin
iStra..On. Laws should be passed
that are in the interests of the whole
people of the state, and not those en-
acted solely in the interests of COM
binations in control of property that
waS~taken from the people without
adequate compensation.
4th. This conference recognizes
that there is primary law in this
state which governs the method of
nominating candidates for office, and
while we claim the right of getting
together for conference, we protest
that nothing shall be done here, nor
at the state conference at Milwaukee.
which shall in any way be construed
as setting aside any of the rights con-
served to the people by that law, and
our representatives at the state con-
ference are hereby instructed to act
accordingly.
18th. That the delegates elected
at this conference carry TO the state
conference our assurance that we
stand a united Democracy ready to
do battle for those Democratic prin-
ciples that will redeem this state as
the nation has been redeemed"
The committee on delegates re-
ported the following which was un-
animously adopted
Robert Freeman, town of Emmett.
X. A Beyreis, Wausau.
John P. Ford, Wausau.
Thomas H. Ryan, Wausau.
John Kaiser, village Of Stratford.
Patrick T. Stone, Wausau.
A. w. Puchner, village of Edgar.
Mike O'Connor, Kronenwetter.
John f. Lamont, Wausau.
J. H. Kennedy, town of Wausau.
c. B. Mayer, Wausau.
+. P. O'Connor, Wausau.
r. f. Puchner, Wausau.
John L. Sell, Wausau.
W. W. AlOerS, NauSau.
c. Kronenwetter, of Kronenwetter.
H. J. Abraham, Wausau.
F. Langsdorf, village of Athens.
Otto Muenchow, Wausau.
c. NJ Fleming, Wausau.
A. A. Pagel, village of Schofield.
F. z. Regner, Wausau.
T. B. Thayer, Wausau.
John Ringle, Sr., WauSau.
Robert Schmidt, Wausau.
". f. LaDu, village of Mosinee.
john Kiefer, Wausau.
A. II. Zimmerman, WauSau.
Frank P. Chase, Wausau.
John Berard, town of Wausau.
Henry Miller, WausAl.