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Milwaukee on March is. The platfort: 



-I devotion to the doctrine i.l pro- 

 -ing belief in tin- adju-tini : 

 tariff duties for the twofold purpose of pn.\ 

 sufficient : the requirements of the 



riiiiH-nt and to furnish reasonable and 

 qua!' n to American ind'. ,-iriff 



both for revenue and protection." 

 renewed allegiance to the doctrine of recipr 

 and favor _.,-al and lienelieial result of the 



protective tariff laws, mutual arra with 



foreign count rie* that will p; manufac- 



turers and producers a market for their surplus 

 product, and at the same time enai>le us to buy 

 from them." The closi 1 | the plat- 



form read: "The Republicans 

 unyielding in their demand for honest money. \\ , 

 are unalterably opposed to any M-heme that will 

 give this country a depreciated or debased cur- 

 rency. We favor th ver as currency, but 

 only under such restrictions that its parity with 

 gold can be maintained." 



The Democratic State Convention for sending del- 

 egates to the national convention was held in Mil- 

 waukee June 23. The Committee on Resolutions 

 first submitted a minority report, as follow-: 



" J> ittrm the platform of the 



late National Democratic Convention, and particu- 

 larly upon the subject of coinage, believing that a 

 fair interpretation of the same favors free and un- 

 limited coinage of both gold and silver as legal-ten- 

 der money of this country." 



This was rejected by a "vote of 128 to 217. and by 

 a vote of 217 to 128 the majority report was adopted. 

 The platform, after commending " the wise and pa- 

 triotic administration of President Cleveland." con- 

 tained the following : 



" We believe a tariff for revenue only would ex- 

 tend American commerce to the utmost parts of 

 the earth, and that untrammeled industry would 

 advance our country to the foremost place among 

 other nations. We are therefore firm in our ad- 

 herence to the doctrine enunciated by the last Na- 

 tional Democratic Convention, that this Govern- 

 ment should impose no tariff taxes except for rev- 

 enue. We believe the demands of commerce built 

 upon the broad and enlightened doc-trine of free 

 trade require a currency that can not be discred- 

 ited in any civilized country. Realizing this logical 

 demand for the best money for international trade, 

 and realizing also the dangers of a currency for 

 domestic use. and aware that the present condition 

 of commercial distress calls for patriotic and sturdy 

 maintenance of national honor and financial integ- 

 rity, we declare ourselves opposed to free and un- 

 limited coinage of silver, and in favor of gold as 

 the highest monetary standard of the world." 



Among the Wisconsin Democrats who went as 

 delegates to the Chicago convention and then re- 

 frained from taking part in the proceedings were 

 some who soon afterward issued a public protest 

 against the action of that convention, in behalf of 

 themselves and other Gold-standard Democrats. 

 The protest declared, among other things, that the 

 State Democratic platform unequivocally spoke for 

 " honest money " : that upon the assembling of the 

 Chicago convention it immediately became mani- 

 fest that a new force and undemocratic element 

 had seized upon and was in control of that conven- 

 tion ; that the platform adopted by the national 

 convention was "directly at variance with I 

 doctrines which, since its creation, have been a part 

 of the creed of the Democratic party: that while 

 Democracy has for nearly a century been the advo- 

 cate of honest money and at all times opposed to 

 its debasement, the Chicago convention declared in 

 favor of compelling the citizens of the United 



than t IIOM- in favor of t I,. 

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in t),' \inericaii ; 



lief in a republican form of yovernm- 

 and n<> set of men 

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McKinley's plura. 

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 H7 on joint ballot in the Keu'i.-lature. 



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-. ineorpi : 

 State, was Kim! 



male University in :- Klmira in 



and rechartered as Klmira Female ' 



next. It was founded in 1*61 and opened in 

 and ranks as the fir-t amply endowed and adeqi. 

 organized college for women. Both these colleges 

 were founded by men. others have followed in 

 rapi<; ue founded by men and some 



by women, but all established to give young women 

 opportunities for a collegiate education equal to 

 those provided for young men. 



The total number of institutions for the education 

 of women that are nominally colleges in the United 

 States is 16o : but the admission requirements, 

 standards of instruction, and general organization 

 of only 14 accord with those that have long 

 been characteristic of colleges of liberal ar:- 

 men. They are : Radcliffe, Smith, Mount Holyoke, 

 and Wellesley. in Massachusetts: Wells. Elmira, 

 Barnard, and Vassar. in New York: Bryn Mawr. in 

 Pennsylvania : Woman's College of Baltimore, in 

 Maryland : Randolph-Macon Woman's College, in 

 Virginia : Cleveland College for Women, in Ohio ; 

 Rockford College, in Illinois; and Mills College, in 

 California. 



The work of these institutions is essentially col- 

 legiate, in which respect they differ from the older 

 seminaries for women, which, while making some 

 provision for the distinctive studies of the college 

 curriculum, are schools for general instruction. 

 Little preparatory work is done, and most of the 

 students are candidates for the degree of bachelor 

 of arts. The two general methods of admission to 

 the freshman class of colleges are by examination 

 and by certificate. Nearly all these colleges a- 

 the certificates of accredited schools, but Bryn 

 Mawr. to which belongs the distinction of having 

 organized its work with special reference to the 

 needs of graduate students, recognizes no school 

 certificate, only that of tie Harvard examinations 

 for women being taken. The standard of require- 

 ments in English has been raised, and a uniform 

 examination, in place of which no certificate 

 - adopted by nearly all the col 



This examination consists in part of paragraphs 

 written by the candidate on topics chosen from 

 certain prescribed books, in the preparing of which 

 the ability to write English is considered more im- 

 portant than knowledge of the books. In the sec- 

 ond part of the examination a certain number of 

 books are prescribed for careful study, upon the 

 subject-matter, literary form, and logical structure 

 of which the candidate's knowledge is tested. A 

 remarkable increase in sociological instruction has 



