| Show THE BENI BIT LAW The Wisconsin Democrats Denounce De-nounce and Condemn it THE NATIONAL GREENBACK IE They Want Their Patent Medicine Money Policy Adopted Declaring It a Panacea 1 for All Financial Ills ji j i MILWAUKEE Aug 27The D3mocratic state convention met at noon J M Morrow of Sparta was made temporary chairman The mention of the name of Givvor Cleveland in his opening speech was iccived with the greatst enthusiasm I His denunciation of the Bernett compul sory school law was also vociferously up I ilaudcc The convention wi without doubt demand de-mand its repeal The usual committees vere appointed with Honorable W F Vi las ehairmam of the committee on resolu tons Recess till 3 p m Upon reassembling the platform was presented by oxSecretary Vilas I denounce de-nounce the McKinley bill and declares hattho force bill is an attempt to perpetuate per-petuate t e policy and power of the Repub ican party denounces Speaker Reed for the acbtrary assumption of authority in his attempt to disfranchise political oppon ents demands thai the present tariff be reduced and that taxation should be low as also public expenses The following are the planks bearing on the Bennett school law ot Wisconsin Wo oppose any diversion of the public school funds to sectarian uses The Democratic party created the public school system of this state and will always zealously guard and maintain it The Bennett law is a local manifestation of the settled Republican policy of paternalism favoring laws providing viding for the compulsory attendance at hpol of all children We believe the lawn law-n force prior to to the passage of the Bennett Ben-nett law guaranteed to all the children of state an opportunity for education and in this essential feature was stronger that the Bennett law The underlying principle of the Bennett law is a needless interference with parental rights and liberty of conscience The provisions pro-visions for its enforcement place the accused ac-cused at the mercy of school directors and i deny his right to trial by jury according to the law of the land UTo mask this tyrannical invasion of individual in-dividual and constitutional rights the shallow shal-low plea of a defense of the English language lan-guage is advanced The history of this state is largely peopled with foreign citizens citi-zens I is a demonstrated fact that the < nature of the case and the necessities of the situation are advancing the growth of the English language to the greatest possible pos-sible extent Wo therefore denounce thai law as unnecessary unwise unconstitutional unconstitu-tional unAmerican and undemocratic and demand its repeal The platform was unanimously adopted No opposition whatever was offeacd to the plank demanding the repeal of the Bennett Ben-nett law and the speakers in their addresses ad-dresses nominating the various candidates for governor all denounced the law as an unnecessacipieco oLpatQrnalism While declaring they oJPlt favor of teaching Ehglish in all the schools they said thoy wero opposed to compulsion The nominating speech was not finished till 0 oclock The ballots did not show aay great change untilthe sixth when a stampede stam-pede set in and when it became certain he I would be nominated some one moved to make it unanimous General Bragg immediately im-mediately protested and insisted on a roll call The vote showed George W Peck 227 Gabriel Bouckdl9 John Knight 47 Winans 1 It was moved to make the t nomination unanimous and again Bragg objected and then the motion was put he and a law friends voted nay and were loudly hissed by the convention Pack was sent for and soon appeared and thauked tte delegates for the honor conferred con-ferred upon him ar Jones of Racine m was nominated for lieutenantgovernor and the convention adjourned until tomorrow |
