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I hereby certify that the foregoing statement is un abstrnet of the semi-an- nual reports made to this office by the state banks (as far as it was practicable to arrange the items under general heads), in pursuance of the provisions of the Alst section of the act entitled, " An act to authorize the business of bank- lug," approved April 19, 1852.
HI. B. HARSHAW, Slate Treasurer.
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CONDITION OF STATE BANKS.
Manston ..
Milton .
Bank of Milton ..
23, 520 00 210, 825 00 381,303 00 \87,381 00) 269, 756 00| 53,722 00
412,341 14 721,482 88
201, 628 98
1,302,003 74
200,000 00 200,000 00
220,888 67
5,882 801
322,419 93
663,617 14
25,000 00
35,000 00
593,617 14
10,000 00
3,832,203 67 663,617 14
178,037 00
1,056,753 77
6,015,112 65
500,000 00
5,148,581 85
366,530 80
6,015, 112 65 155, 862 46
Manufacturers' Bank.
2, 335 00}
25, 330 83|
135, 157 13
50,000.00
8,075 02
61,682 11
15,400 00
135, 157 13
Portage
Bank of River Falls.
4.000 00
23, 473 58
207,003 96
35,000 00
12,399 04
150,604 92
207,003 96
Show.mno
Bank of Sheboygan.
Sheboygan ..
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...
...
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Winst Superior ..
Bank of Commerce ..
9,932 00
25, 829 58
84, 677 21
40,000 00
1,909 50
42, 767 71
$1, 416, 114 96 $31, 557, 481 85
.
30, 856 46
318,493 05
2, 230, 320 15
60,510 36
2,525,800 51
100,000 00|
309,297 80 120, 899 11
970, 174 60 3,406,022 20
4,930 03
1,302, 003 74
380,741 02
3,832,293 67
Milwaukee
Second Ward Savings Bank South Side Savings Bank. .. Wisconsin Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Bank.
2,831, 600 05
3,213, 807 01
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Varshall & Isley Bank .. Merchants' Exchange Bank. Plankinton Bank ..
53,322 01 449,319 51 2,525.869 51 3,213,807 91
85,000 00
22, 523 65
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City Bank
161, 957 49
3 16
216, 802 22
139,578 79
201, 316 86
St. Croix Falls.
Bank of St. Croix Falls.
2,141 00
12, 517 14
Stevens Point.
Commercial Bank ..
Stomghton ...
Dane County Bank.
Stanghtoll .
Stoughton State Bank.
... .
Superer . ...
Bank of Superior.
5,928 00|
29,374 35
Watertown ..
Bank of Watertown.
10,314 15
17,500 00
112, 618 82
155, 148 82
9,083 00
M rehants' Union Bank
81,401 27
80 00 137,461 77
72,388 41
41,492 98
310, 115 59
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28, 602 74
89,087 86 191.612 98
160,421 66
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WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEES-1889.
WISCONSIN.
REPUBLICAN.
DEMOCRATIC.
Headquarters - MILWAUKEE.
Ch'n - ELLIS B. USHER La Crosse. Secretary -J. E. WRIGHT, Baraboo.
Members.
Address.
Members.
Address
1st ...
F. W. Starbuck
Racine
J. E. Dodge
Racine.
R. B. Kirkland
JetTerson.
2d ..
James T. Green
Fond du Lac .
H. W. Sawyer
Hartford.
3d .. .
C. H. Baxter
Lancaster
J. L. O'Connor
Madison.
4th ...
Ernst Demin
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Green Bay
Chilton
Theo. Kersten
Chilton.
6th ..
A. B. Whitman R. L. D. Potter.
Wautoma
W. S. Stroud.
Portage.
7th. ..
Nels R. Nelson
La Crosse.
Joseph Tuteur.
La Crosse.
W. C. Brawley
Mauston.
8th ...
T. B. Mills .
Millston ..
V. W. James
Eau Claire.
S. Richmond
Arcadia.
9th ...
Ole R. Olson
Waupaca
Wausau.
J. A. Taylor
Chippewa Falls.
PROHIBITION.
UNION LABOR.
Headquarters - MILWAUKEE. Chairman - ROBERT SCHILLING.
Secretary -F. W. BOCK.
Members.
Address.
Members.
Address.
1st.
Robert Fargo
Lake Mills
William Paul ..
Racine.
C. M. Blackman.
Whitewater.
2d.
O. H. Crowe
Beaver Dam
Spencer Palmer
Fond du Lac
3d. ..
Warren Howard.
Albany
George E. Ward.
Lancaster.
4th ..
E. W. Drake.
Milwaukee.
Robert Schilling
Milwaukee.
5th ..
C. W Lomas
Fort Howard.
George W. Stickles
Wrightstown.
H. McDonald.
Fort Howard.
Poynette.
L. G. Arnold
Menasha
6th . .
L. M. Squire. W. W. Race
Omro.
Richland Center Baraboo
M. M. Haley.
La Crosse.
7th . .
G. Freeman. R. B. Griggs
8th ..
G. I. Constance.
Cumberland
George L. Lloyd.
Neillsville.
9th ..
Rev. W. P. Sutherland. R. H. Churchill.
Marinette.
Marinette
Alex. D. Colburn
Marinette.
Dis- trict.
Headquarters - MADISON. Chairman - T. C. RICHMOND. Secretary - J. B. SMITH.
Ed. Keogh
Milwaukee.
5th. ..
G. Kuestermann George D. Breed
Appleton
Rush Winslow
Appleton.
John Kellogg
Reedsburg.
West Superior.
L. Marchetti.
Wausau.
W. H. Mylrea
Oconomowoc.
F. B. Hoskins
Fond du Lac.
E. D. R. Thompson. W. S. Main
Madison
J. S. Gallagher
Gratiot.
G. W. Porth
Milwaukee.
John Toohey
H. B. Schwinn.
Port Washingt'n
Canfield Marsh
Rosendale
L. Abrams.
Bloomington
W. R. Nethercutt.
Milwaukee.
Eau Claire.
Charles Alexander ..
Headquarters - MILWAUKEE. Chairman - HENRY C. PAYNE. Secretary - W. A. NOWELL.
Dis- trict.
George Grimm
Jefferson
H. E. Tickner
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POLITICAL PLATFORMS.
NATIONAL AND STATE PLATFORMS-1888.
REPUBLICAN.
Adopted unanimously, by a standing vote, at Chicago June 21, 1858.
The republicans of the United States, assembled by their delegates in national conven- tion, pause on the threshold of their proceedings to honor the memory of their first great leader, the immortal champion of liberty and the rights of the people - Abraham Lincoln; and to cover also with wreaths of imperishable remembrance and gratitude the heroic names of our later leaders who have more recently been called away from our councils - Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Logan, Conklin. May their memories be faithfully cherished.
We also recall with our greetings, and with prayers for his recovery, the name of one of our living heroes, whose memory will be treasured in the history both of republicans and of the Republic - the name of that noble soldier and favorite child of victory, Philip H. Sheridan.
In the spirit of those great leaders, and of our own devotion to human liberty, and with that hostility to all forms of despotism and oppression which is the fundamental idea of the re publican party, we send fraternal congratulations to our fellow-Americans of Brazil on their great act of emancipation, which completes the abolition of slavery throughout the two American continents.
We earnestly hope that we may soon congratulate our fellow-citizens of Irish birth upon the peaceful recovery of home rule for Ireland.
We reaffirm our unswerving devotion to the National Constitution, and the indissoluble union of the states; to the autonomy reserved to the states under the Constitution. to the personal rights and liberties of citizens in all the states and territories in the Union, and especially to the supreme and sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign-born, white or black, to cast one free ballot in public elections, and to have that ballot duly counted. We hold the free and honest popular ballot, and the just and equal representation of all the people, to be the foundation of our republican government, and demand effective legislation to secure the integrity and purity of elections, which are the fountains of public authority. We charge that the present administration and the demo- cratic majority in congress owe their existence to the suppression of the ballot by a crim- inal nullification of the constitution and laws of the United States.
We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection; we protest against its destruction as proposed by the president and his party. They serve the inter- ests of Europe; we will support the interests of America. We accept the issue, and con- fidently appeal to the people for their judgment. The protective system must be main- tained. Its abandonment has always been followed by general disaster to all interests, except those of the usurer and the sheriff. We denounce the Mills bill as destructive to the general business, the labor and the farmning interests of the country, and we heartily indorse the consistent and patriotic action of the republican representatives in congress in opposing its passage.
We condemn the preposition of the democratic party to place wool on the free list, and we insist that the duties thereon shall be adjusted and maintained so as to furnish full and adequate protection to that industry throughout the United States.
The republican party would effect all needed reduction of the national revenue, by re- pealing the taxes upon tobacco, which are an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and the tax upon spirits used in the arts and for mechanical purposes: and by such revision of the tariff laws as will tend to check imports of such articles as are produced by our people, the production of which gives employment to our labor, and release from import duties those articles of foreign production (except luxuries), the like of which cannot be pro- duced at home. If there shall still remain a larger revenue than is requisite for the wants of the government, we favor the entire repeal of internal taxes rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system at the joint behest of the whiskey trusts and the agents of foreign manufacturers.
We declare our hostility to the introduction into this country of foreign contract labor and of Chinese labor, alien to our civilization and constitution, and we demand the rigid en- forcement of the existing laws against it, and favor such immediate legislation as will ex. clude such labor from our shores.
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We declare our opposition to all combinations of capital organized as trusts or otherwise to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens, and we recommend to con- gress and the state legislatures, in their respective jurisdictions, such legislation as will pre- vent the execution of all schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their supplies, or by unjust rates for the transportation of their products to market. We approve lezisla- tion by congress, to prevent alike unjust burdens and unfair discriminations between states.
We reaffirm the policy of appropriating the public lands of the United States to be home- steads for American citizens and settlers, not aliens, which the republican party established in 1862, against the persistent opposition of the democrats in congress.
The reservation of the unearned railroad land grants to the public domain for the use of actual settlers, which was begun under the administration of President Arthur. should be continued. We deny that the democratic party has ever restored one acre to the people, but declare that by the joint action of the republicans and democrats about 50, 000,000 acres of unearned lands, originally granted for the construction of railroads, have been restored to the public domain in pursuance of the conditions inserted by the republican party in the original grants.
We stigmatize the democratic administration with failure to execute laws securing to settlers the title to their homestead, and with using the appropriations made for that pur- pose to harass innocent settlers with spies and prosecutions, under the false pretense of exposing frauds and vindicating the law.
Government by congress of the territories is based upon necessity, only to the end that they may become states in the union; therefore, whenever the conditions of population. material resources, public intelligence and morality are such as to insure a stable local government therein, the people of such territories should be permitted as a right inherent, to form for themselves constitutions and state governments. and to be admitted into the union. Pending preparation for statehood all officers thereof should be selected from bona fide residents and citizens of the territory wherein they are to serve. South Dakota should of right be immediately admitted as a state in the union under the constitution framed and adopted by her people, and we heartily indorse the action of the republican senate in twice passing a bill for her admission. The refusal of the democratic house of representatives, for partisan purposes, to favorably consider these bills is a willful violation of the sacred American principle of local self-government, and merits the condemnation of all just men.
The pending bills in the senate for acts to enable the people of Washington. North Dakota and Montana territories to form constitutions and establish state governments should be passed without unnecessary delay. The republican party pledges itself to do all in its power to faciliate the admission of the territories of New Mexico. Wyoming, Idaho and Arizona to the enjoyment of self-government as states - such of them as are now qualified as soon as possible, and the others as soon as they may become qualified.
The political power of the Mormons in the territories as exercised in the past is a menace to free institutions, and too dangerous to be long suffered: therefore we pledge the repub- lican party to appropriate legislation asserting the sovereignty of the nation in all the territo- ries where the same is questioned, and in furtherance of that end to place upon the statute books legislation stringent enough to divorce the political from the ecclesiastical power, and thus stamp out the attendant wickedness of polygamy.
The republican party is in favor of the use of both gold and silver as money, and con- demns the policy of the democratic administration in its efforts to demonetize silver.
We demand a reduction of the letter postage to one cent per ounce.
In a republic like ours, where the citizen is sovereign and the official a servant, where no power is exerted except by the people, it is important that the sovereign, the people, should possess intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligence, which is to pre- serve us as a free nation; therefore, the state or nation, or both combined, should support free institutions of learning sufficient to afford to every child growing up in the land the op- portunity of a good common school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt action be taken by congress, in the enactment of such legislation as will best secure the rehabilitation of our American merchant marine and . we protest against the passage by congress of the free ship bill as calculated to work in- Justice to labor by lessening the wages of those engaged in preparing materials, as well as those directly employed in our ship yards.
We demand appropriations for the early rebuilding of our navy; for the construction of coast fortifications and modern ordnance and other approved modern defense for the pro- toction of our defenseless harbors and cities; for the payment of just pensions to our soldiers; for necessary works of national Importance in the improvement of our harbors
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POLITICAL PLATFORMS.
and the channels of internal waterways; for the encouragement of the shipping interests of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific states, as well as for the payment of the maturing public debt. This policy will give employment to our labor, activity to our various industries, in- crease the security of our country, promote trade, open new and direct markets for our produce and cheapen the cost of transportation. We affirm this to be far better for our country than the democratic policy of loaning the government's money without interest to "pet banks."
The conduct of our foreign affairs by the present administration has been distinguished by inefficiency and cowardice. Having withdrawn from the senate all pending treaties effected by the republican administration for the removal of foreign burdens and restric- tions upon our commerce and for its extension into better markets, it has neither effected nor proposed any others in their stead.
Professing adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it has seen with idle complacency the exten- sion of foreign influence in Central America and of foreign trade everywhere among our neighbors. It has re used to charter, sanction or encourage any American organization for constructing the Nicaraugua canal. a work of vital importance to the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and of our national influence in Central and South America, and nec- essary for the development of trade with our Pacific territory, with South America and with the islands and further coasts of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present democratic administration for its weak and unpatriotic treatment of the fisheries question and its pusillanimous surrender of the essential privileges to which our fishing vessels are entitled in Canadian ports, under the treaty of 1818, the reciprocal maritime legislation of 1830, and the courtesy of nations which the Canadian fishing ves- sels receive in the ports of the United States. We condemn the policy of the present ad- ministration and the democratic majority in congress toward our fisheries as unfriendly and conspicuously unpatriotic and as tending to destroy a valuable national industry and indis- pensable resource of defense against a foreign enemy.
The name "American " applies alike to all citizens of the republic, and imposes upon all alike the same obligation of obedience to the laws; at the same time citizenship is and must be the panoply and the safeguard of him who wears it, and protect him, whether high or low, rich or poor, in all his civil rights. It should and must afford him protection at honie, and follow and protect him abroad in whatever land he may be on lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the republican party in 1884, and continue to adhere to the dem- ocratic party, have deserted, not only the cause of honest government, of sound finance, of the freedom and purity of the ballot, but especially have they deserted the cause of reform in the civil service. We will not fail to keep our pledges because they have broken theirs, or because their candidate has broken his. We, therefore. repeat our declaration of 1884, to wit: The reform of the civil service so auspiciously begun under a republican adminis- tration should be completed by the further extension of the reform system already estab- lished by law, to all grades of the service to which it is applicable. The spirit and purpose of reform should be observed in all executive appointments, and all laws at variance with the object of the existing reform legislation should be repealed, to the end that the dangers to free institutions, which lurk in the power of official patronage, may be wisely and effect- ively avoided.
The gratitude of the nation to the defenders of the union cannot be measured by laws. The legislation of congress should conform to the pledges made by the loyal people and be so large and extended as to provide against the possibility that any man who honorably wore the federal uniforin shall become an inmare of an alms house, or dependent upon. private charity. In the presence of an overflowing treasury, it would be a public scandal to do less for those whose valorous service preserved the government.
We denounce the hostile spirit shown by President Cleveland in his numerous vetoes of the measures for pension relief, and the action of the democratic house of representatives in refusing even the consideration of general pension legislation.
In support of the principles herewith enumerated, we Invite the co-operation of the patri- otic men of all parties and especially of all working men, whose prosperity is seriously threatened by the free trade policy of the present administration.
SUPPLEMENTARY RESOLUTION.
The following was adopted just before the convention adjourned:
The first concern of all good governments is the virtue and sobriety of the people and the purity of their homes. The republican party cordially sympathizes with all wise and well directed efforts for the promotion of temperance and morality.
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WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK.
REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM,
Adopted at Madison, May 9, 1888.
The republicans of Wisconsin, by their representatives in this convention, reaffirm their adherence to the principles set forth in the platforms adopted by the national convention of the republican party .
On the suject of protection their views are expressed in the platform which Abraham Lincoln approved, and on which he was elected, viz .: That while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties on imports, sound policy requires such adjust- . ment of these imports as to encourage the industrial interests of the whole country; and we commend the policy of national exchanges which secures to the workingmen liberal wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, mechanics and manufacturers an adequate re- ward for their skill, labor and enterprise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and independence.
*While in favor of such a revision of the tariff and reduction of the revenue as will avoid accumulating a surplus in the treasury, after meeting the current expenses of the govern- ment and paying the national debt as rapidly as it matures, they demand that the revision shall be made by those friendly to the principle of protection and not by its enemies.
They denounce the last annual message of President Cleveland as an attack upon Ameri- can industries in the interest of free trade. They oppose the tariff bill now pending in con- gress, reported by a majority of the committee on ways and means, as an unjust, dishonest and sectional measure, shaped to meet the exigencies of a party instead of being designed to promote the general interests and unfairly aiming a blow at the industries of one section of the country, while shielding those of the other.
They protest against the methods by which, in several states of the Union, large bodies of voters are practically disfranchised in order to promote the election of the democratic presidents, congressmen and other officials. These practices pervert and poison the very sources of the nation's political life, and make a mockery of a republican form of govern- ment. Every friend of free institutions should sternly oppose the party which practices, tolerates or consents to profit by these crimes that outrage the rights of the citizens of the whole republic. The evil complained of is an evil of the present time. To protest against it and to demand that it be corrected, is not an appeal to sectional prejudices or by- gone issues, as is falsely alleged by those who profit by it. The republicans of Wisconsin desire the prosperity of all sections of the country, and friendly relations with all.
They further condemn, as tending to bring a salutary and eeded refornm into disrpuete and contempt, the sweeping changes in the subordinate officials of the government made by the present national adminstration, to reward and encourage partisan services, in flag- rant disregard of the pledges which the president voluntarily gave when a candidate for election, and of the professions which, fron time to time, he has since submitted to the credulity of the public.
Justice and precedent alike demand, and have for years demanded, the admission of Da- kota, with its population of more than 600,000 intelligent, industrious, and prosperous people, as a state of the union. Its exclusion. on partisan grounds solely by the demo- cratic majority of the house of representatives, deserves the condemnation of all good citi- zens, and is an extreme example of a narrow, violent and unpatriotic party spirit.
It is the duty of congress to pass, and of the president to approve a wise, just and com- prehensive pension bill, giving relief to disabled veteran soldiers and subsistence to the helpless widows and orphans of deceased soldiers, without regard to the time when disa- bility was incurred or the cause of death. Our great and prosperous country can well af- ford to show our grateful appreciation by making liberal provisions for these purposes.
The republicans of Wisconsin, represented in this convention, present the name of Gor. Jeremiah M. Rusk to the national republican convention which meets in Chicago on the 19th of June next, as a candidate in every respect worthy to receive its nomination for the presi- dency. Governor Rusk's character and capacity have been proved by long and varied ser- vice in public life, both military and civil. He was one of the most gallant soldiers who fought in the war to preserve the Union. In the various positions he bas occupied in civil life, as a representative in congress for many years, aud as governor of this state for three successive terms, he has shown a fidelity to republican principles, an honesty, courage and wise judgment, such as eminently fit him for the duties of chief magistrate of the republic.
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POLITICAL PLATFORMIS.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Adopted unanimously at St. Louis, June 7, 1888.
The democratic party of the United States in national convention assembled, renew the pledge of its fidelity to the democratic faith. and reaffirms the platform adopted by it representatives in the convention of 1884, and indorses the views expressed by President Cleveland in his last earnest message to congress as the correct interpretation of that plat- form upon the question of tariff reduction: and also indorses the efforts of our democratic representatives in congress to secure a reduction of excessive taxation.
Chief among its principles of party faith are the maintenance of an indissoluble union of free and indestructible states, now about to enter upon its second century of unexamplec progress and renown, devotion to a plan of government regulated by a written constitution strictly specifying every granted power and expressly reserving to the states or people the entire ungranted residue of power; the encouragement of a jealous popular vigilance directed to all who have been chosen for brief terms to enact and execute the laws, and an charged with the duty of preserving peace, ensuring equality and establishing justice.
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