WISCONSIN. 



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Secretary of State ; John Ringle, for State 

 Treasurer ; Joseph M. Morrison, for Attorney- 

 General; and Edward Searing, for Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction. The following 

 platform was adopted: 



The Democratic and Eeform party of Wisconsin, 

 in State Convention assembled, renews its pledges 

 of devotion to the Union and the Constitution with 

 all the amendments. It declares its firm belief that 

 the will of the people was defeated in the late Presi- 

 dential election by fraud and chicanery under the 

 protection of the Federal military, and through the 

 ballot box will express its condemnation of the act 

 and the actors. 



It declares for the freedom of the ballot unawed by 

 the bayonet, and insists thai military interference in 

 regulating and controlling elections is subversive of 

 the first principles of a free government. 



It declares its opposition to subsidies, and is in 

 favor of the preservation of the public lands for the 

 use of actual settlers. 



It declares its hostility to the financial policy of the 

 Kepublican party withdrawing capital from taxation, 

 increasing the burden of the public debt by declaring 

 currency bonds payable in gold, demonetizing silver 

 in the interest of the creditor and at the expense of 

 the debtor, and attempting to force resumption when 

 it will bring ruin upon the general business interests 

 of the country, and demands instead that the proper- 

 ty protected by the government pay its just propor- 

 tion of the expenses of the government ; that silver 

 be remonetized, and the present resumption act be 

 repealed and resumption be postponed until the finan- 

 cial condition of the country will permit it. 



It declares its opposition to a longer continuance 

 of the national bank currency, and demands that 

 the government furnish its own notes in the place 

 thereof. 



It declares its unyielding opposition to high pro- 

 tective tariffs as vicious in principle, advancing the 

 interests of a few at the expense of the many. 



It declares in opposition to the fostering of monop- 

 olies, and favors such legislative regulation of inter- 

 State as well as State commerce as will prevent a 

 combination of railway, express, telegraph, and 

 freight companies from extorting exorbitant rates 

 to make watered stock yield a productive interest. 



It declares in favor of such legislation as will equal- 

 ize the pay of the soldiers in the late war, and its 

 hostility to the system of technicalities used by gov- 

 ernment officials to prevent the payment to them of 

 their honest dues. 



It declares for a reduction of National and State 

 expenses, and to that end demands the reformation 

 of and an honest administration of the revenue laws: 

 the abolition of sinecure offices' the reduction of 

 large and unearned salaries to officers, and the dis- 

 charge of all supernumerary office-holders. 



It declares its opposition to high and exorbitant 

 rates of interest, ana demands the reduction of legal 

 rates to 7 per cent, and no more. 



It declares for the repeal of all laws exempting 

 railroad land and corporate stock and property, 

 other than that held for religious and school pur- 

 poses, from taxntion. 



It declares for the maintenance of our free-school 

 system, free to all, without taint of sectarianism. 



It declares its opposition to extraordinary and un- 

 usual sumptuary laws, but insists that the minority 

 must acquiesce in the lawfully-expressed will of the 

 majority. 



It demands that due regard be paid by our provern- 

 ment to the labor question, and to all just claims of 

 the workingmen, and demands the enactment of 

 Btringent laws for the protection of labor, and the 

 savings of labor, and the collection of wages due 

 workingmen. 



It demands the proper regulation of prison-labor 



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laws, and for the protection of the health and lives 

 of the operatives in manufacturing establishments. 



With this declaration of our principles, we recom- 

 mend the ticket this day put in nomination to the 

 favorable consideration and support of the State. 



The details of the election were as follows, 

 the three leading candidates, for each office, 

 being Republican, Democrat, and Greenback: 



GOVERNOR. Vcta. flanlltj. 



Win. E. Smith. 78,759 8,278 



J. A. Mallury 70,486 



E. P. Allis. 26,21 6 



J. C. Hall 899 



C.M. Campbell. 2,178 



Scattering. 66 



Total Tote 178,262 



LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



J. M. Blngham 77,926 6,270 



R.E. Davis 71,666 



E. H. Benton 26,745 



E.W. Arndt 895 



B. H. Brown 2,163 



Scattering 120 



Total vote 178,007 



SECRETARY OF STATE. 



H.B.Warner 78,506 6,847 



J.B. Hayes 71,669 



J. H.Osborn 26,077 



J.E.Weber 417 



Julius Gugler. 2,225 



Scattering 115 



Total vote 177,922 



STATE TREASCRER. 



Richard Guenther 81,087 12,682 



JohnKingle 66,405 



Wm. Schwartz. 26,887 



M. J. Althouse 420 



Geo.Kisbert 2,177 



Scattering 1ST 



Total vote 177,618 



ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 



Alex.Wtluon 77,804 0,004 



J.M. Morrow 72,800 



Henry Hayden 25,090 



EH Hooker 894 



E. A. Peteraelia. 2,219 



Scattering <>15 



Total vote.... 177,922 



STATE SUPERINTENDENT. 



W. C.Wbltford. 75,788 8,180 



Edward Searing JMg 



G. M. Steele 26,911 



J.W. Carhart 826 



Henry Eggers 2,208 



Scattering 



Total vote. 177,846 



At the same election two amendments to 

 the Constitution were ratified. One provided 

 for an increase of the Judges of the Supreme 

 Court from three to five; the other was as 

 follows : 



Resolved by the Snate. tht Auembly eoneurrinff, 

 That Section 2 of Article VIII. of the Constitution 

 of this State be amended so as to read as follows : 

 "Section 2. No money shall be paid out c 

 Treasury, except in pursuance of an appropriat 

 by law. [No appropriation shall be made for tht 

 payment of any claim against the State, except claims 

 of the United States, and judgments, unless fl] 

 within six years after the claim accrued. J 

 The amendment consists of the addition of 



