The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-29
PROGRESSIvES meet
AND name TICKET At
conference HERE
DIR. A. H. Hartwig Presides At Pro-
gressiye Republican Conference
Which dominates Full
County Ticket.

John Mitchell OF Palmyra was nom
mated for member of the assembly fOI
the First district of Jefferson county
and full county ticket was named at
a conference of progressive republic
ans held in Watertown Sunday after
noon Resolutions were also adopted
The meeting was held in Union hall
and DIR. A. H. Hartwig was chosen
chairman and presided over its DELHI
erations A resolutions committee con-
sisting of w. F. Gruetzmacher, NJ ].
Gosa and John Wilden was named
and reported a set of resolutions. The
following ticket was then placed in
nomination:
Sheriff-M. J. Gosa, Palmyra.
District Attorney-Ray Twining,
Waterloo.
Register of Deeds-Don Fargo, Lake
Mills
Clerk-Arthur Rabenhorst, Water
town.
Clerk of Court-Roy B. HELEN, JET
ferson
Treasurer-Phillip Mueller, Jeffer-
SON.
Coroner - William H. Schallert
Johnson Creek
Surveyor-C A. Richards, Sullivan.
Member of Assembly-John Mitch
ell, Palmyra.
No candidate for senator was named
and the candidates on the regular re-
publican ticket named at Jefferson
several days ago were endorsed with
one or two exceptions, one being that
of county clerk, as Arthur Thauer has
declined to run. Although the resOlu-
tions did not carry any endorsement
of Congressman VOigt, it is stated
that his present course in congress
was approved by the delegates at the
conference.
The Resolutions.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
We, the Progressive Republicans of
Jefferson county, in conference as
sembled, adopt the following resolu-
tons:
First. We pledge our loyalty and fl
deity to this country and it's glorious
flag, and we pledge our labor, our
property and our lives, if need be, to
win this war and to bring success to
the American arms.
Second: We deprecate and de-
nounce mob law and mob rule. We
have confidence in the courts of this
country to supply a remedy for every
evil and penalty for every crime
While we are fighting abroad for the
rights of man, we must not forget to
make life and property safe at home
Third. We demand that the right
of free speech and the right to peac-
ably assemble shall not be abridged.
Fourth. We believe in a thorough
separation of church and state, as
provided by the Constitution of the
United States and the State of Wis
consin, and think it wrong for the
state to make any regulation as to the
use of any certain language in public
religious services.
Fifth. We endorse the last nation
al republican platform and the prin-
ciples therein contained.
Sixth. We demand that the profit
GERS of this war shall and must bear
their just share and burden of the war
In the beginning of the war the nation
that is now our strongest ally taxed
the profiteers 20 percent: that was ad
vanced to 40 percent, then to 60 per
cent and during all this year the pro.
fiteers of England have been taxed 81
percent of their incomes The profit
GERS Of this country are paying much
less. We demand that they bear the
same burdens as the prOfiteers OF
England.
Seventh. We denounce as enemies
of our country all persons who use
this war as an excuse for raising
prices on articles that are not anl
cannot be affected by the war and We
hereby pledge ourselves to prosecute
with vigor every man or group of meI
who without reason advance prices tt
the consumer and exacts an unreasOn
able profit, and we demand that oul
representatives in every capacity ust
their best efforts to correct abuse:
that exist and to equalize the bene
fits and burdens of society
Thauer Not Candidate.
Arthur Thauer of Watertown, nom
mated at the republican cOnferenc,
held in Jefferson, has declined to max,
the run. He declares that he canno
afford to leave his business at thi.
time for the meagre salary attached
to the office