Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-09-06
Daily State Journal, LIST inst.
The Rovudv rsopvop<;op

Tne Howdy Convention.
| Our columns are again filled with the proceed
ings of this gathering of political desperadoes,
! wire-pullers, and reckless demagogues. We
speak of course of, the majority vino control and
give character to the convention. No political
body has ever before convened in this State that
bears any more than remote resemblance to it.
1t was thought, two years ago, that corruption
and trickery had attained the eliminating point,
but the present gathering is, when compared
/ with its predecessor, like
another morn risen on mid-noon,"
the matured products of the seed then sown-
That it represents, to any considerable degree
the sentiment of any class of the people of the
State, outside of brood of trading politicians, it
| is hardly possible to suppose. Its true constitu-
ents, the only class that it really represents, are
/ the school and swamp land spectators, the
friends and apologists Tor such schmes as the Luz
matte Asylum swinde, and the dens of debauch-
cry and vice that more especially nourish and
! tester in our cities and larger vila~es.
We only wish that the people o. this State
the great army of voters lat dwell in the rural
districts and arc not interested in any ofthe plum
dering schemes of politicians the intelligent and
the honest everywhere, could have looked in up
on this convention, could have had an insight in
to the secret machinery by which it was moved,
and have seen disclosed the pit of darkness it but
thinly yelled. 1t requires further comment
TO reveal the true character of this convention,
than merely to say that, with his administration
! for the past two years before it, and the lone.
catalogue of its unjust and corrupt acts, it re-
nominated WILLIAM A. BARS1OW for Gov
erner!
/ We have barely time to notice in the briefest
manner the other candidates. With the exccp-
ton, possibly, of Mr.. Kuehn, they are all of the
same stripe politicians and are in the interests
of "the Forty"
! ARTHUR MACARTHUR the candidate for Lit
Governor, is youngerly man, Scotchman by
biith, and an attorney by profession. He is a
long and tried friend oftle present administration,
and has favored all their schemes from the Val
ley road steal to the Lunatic Asylum swinde.-
He resides i'll Milwaukee; possesses good ex-
terror, pleasing address, very fair abilities and is
an average technical lawyer.
i ID. w. JONES, the candidate for Secretary of
State, is gentleman with whom we are unac-
quainted. Some idea of the influence which
were brought to bear upon the Conve ntion in
order TO secure his nomination, may be gathered
from the statements of Mr.. Beriah Brown, which
will be found in another column. He belongs to
the Dunn and Dewey clique who train with and
use the Darstow Clique.
CHARLES .KUEHN, the candidate for
Treasurer resides at Mani:, woe land is German.
He has resided in the State some years, and was
member OF the Legislature in 1856. He bears
a fair character, SO far as we know. That he is
not very popular, howeverat home may be infer
red from the fact that when candidate for State
Senator last fail, his own county gave a very
large majority for David Taylor, of Sheboygal.
Ihis result was owing to the fact that he is a
bunker, Nebraska Democrat, we believe and not
to personal unpopu, arity
WILLIAM Il. SMITH, the candidate for At
torney General, is well known all over the State.
tie Is an old man-75 at least, we should Judge
and is known as the author of the Documents
Ery History for which the State paid $l3,SOG last
winter, and which was devoted in part to an c!ab-
l.Arnf A.
klibourn his old Rock River canal claim, con-
demned and rejected by SO many successive leg
islatures. We can only say that we believe him
utterly unfit for the station for which he has been
nominated. and drop the subject.
WIN. NJ. DENNIS, the present Bank Comp
troller and candidate for reelection has so IA.
as we have learned discharged the duties of his
office crcditaby and faithfully. We have none
but political objections to him, aside from the
fact that he sympathiZes warmly with the Bar
stow clique and figures for them Oh all possb bic
occasions. With such associations, we cannot
but feel that however fai. hful he has been in the
past there is always Danger that he nay sweIvc
from the pa.h of duty. Men are judged by tie
company they keep. If it be bad, we approve
all their good acts, but are never free from appre
tensions for the future.
Rev. A. C.. BARRY, the candidate for Super
intendent of Public Instruction. the Office he now
holds as the successor OF the late Superintendent
Hght undcf me appointment OF BarStoW, Is
Universalist Clergyman, and man of consider
able ability. He does not Claim, we believe, to
be Democrat, while his anxiety for the office,
entertained for number of years and unqualified,
until his recent appointment, has led him to pur
sue whiting, tcmporizing course as a politician,
and to trim his sails to breezes from the most OPP
posite directions He has been very prominent
temperance man, and in the fall of SO, is said to
have used his influence, while stamping the State
for the prohibitory law among temperance men
III favor of Gov. Barstow, when he must have
known that Barstow would veto such law
He is now receiving his reward
EDWARD MCGARRY the candidate for State
Prison Commissioner, was member of the State
Senate from Milwaukee last winter, and an Irish
man by birth He is naturally a very good-na-
tured, laxative, long winded individual, with a
sufficiently enlarged conception of his own i'm
portance in 'the great dimocratlc pal y" He is
in the interest, and follows to the letter. the in
struction of "Barstow and the balance"
If ticket composed of such men and nomna-
ted in such a manner, is not defeated by at least
from $3.50 to 10000 majority, the people of Wis
consin have less respect for themselves, and less
regard to their good name abroad, than we think
they have.