Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-10-18

before us, in the account of the legislature of "a,
in which the democracy had unlimited sway COM
pared with that of '55, when republican infiucn-
ces were in the ascendant AS follows:
Incidental printing, SIC, ass 81 1922 90
Newspapers ,53S % 10000
| Postage, 5,S9S 81 2,647 AZ
! Extra TO Clerks, 1000 90 |, loo 90
81, 1872 Is $500 "a
Here we have in these few items saving of
very nearly $4,000, or serenty5fre per cent of
the whole amount. And the fact that the last
legislature got along with its businass just as
well and better without mourning this expense
than with it, proves that it was useless and
lrecklesswastc of the public money, on the part
of the democratic body. This is but small item
TO be sure, comparatively nevertheless it shows
the current through which the large amounts
have run. Where is the remedy?
In our opinion it is to be found in a change Of
the men and influences who have thus far had
control of state affairs. Indeed we think such
changes should be frequently made, for errors
abuses and corruptions, will grow mp and tester
about long-seated power, and change alone will
drag them TO the light and eradicate them. The
legitimate duties Of government officials are east
ly understood and easy to be performed. 1t
needs no long apprenticeship norlong experience
to qualify a man to do it; and change of men
and Influences both at the end of every official
term would be productive of no harm. Last year
the Assembly was composed of new men ard a
new party was in the ascendant. The result is
before the people in the items alluded to. Now
we submit whether it would not be good policy
to introduce these new men into AL the depart
ments of government When they exhibit signs
of faith,essness to their duties, as they will be
exceedingly apt to if kept long at the public crib
turn them out at once and put new men in their
places. Change is the great thing now wanted
mot only change in our pockets to pay the tax
es already incurred, but change at Madison to
prevent the yearly recurrence of such enormous
taxes.
Beyond question there arc great abuses exist
ing in our state government, and equally, beyond
question, these abuses will never be fcretted out
and corrected by those who have made them.
New men and new influences are required.
EgsOur ncighbor sets himself up in his last
will fail in both capacities. Because the Repub-
tican party don't spring up complete, armed, and
in full panoply in a brief year, lie predicts Re
publicansm TO be complete failure the end of
which is close at hand. Parties do not grow nor
die in an hour, day. or year. A man of the
most ordinary sense can see the people Of this
great nation, under the influence of that "higher
nd md
all things, gradually but surely arraying them
selves in opposing parties on the questions per-
tanning to slavery; and can see also that the
rious splits and factions in all old parties are sig
nifcant only of that dissolution which neccssari-
ly preccdes this aggregation into new parties
The old democratic party is unit no where out
of the slave states; it is split up as much as its
opponents. In Wisconsin some of its old men,
bers arc on the Republican ticket while hundreds
of them are laboring for the success of that tick
ct. In New York the Republican ticket is head
cd by such distinguished and lifelong democrats
as Preston King and Abijah Mann, while B. F.
Butler, w C. Bryant, James ". Nyc. and 9th
ers are lending it helping hand to success Our
neie bbor is blind as n bat. He has memories of
mocratic. and in united lha|anx moved forward
! to the Accomplishment: of democratic ends, and
/ he lives and dreams and dreams ard lives his old
days over again, and now ard then warming up
with his ancient fire shoulders his crutch and
shows how fields were won. Parties are tumh-
! ling in ruin about his ears but he heeds not the
cogfasion--they are forming and reforming about,
! !. l,,,t bc IL tbo
are organizing for struggle compared with which
in It's results Waterloo was child's play, but ne
/ like Rip Van Wrinkle, in the enchanted mountain
sleeps soundly; and we presume like that great
prototype, years hence when the battle of Free
dom has been won, he will be found with his rus
ted frelock, harrahing for Pierce. We assure
our friend that the world does move notwithstan-
ding he sticks in the mud, and the life of Fusion
instead of being near its end has but actively
commenced, and he, himself, if not already, soon
viii be, fused into the Pierce-Atchison-D Douglas
slavery party.
''But what evidence is there that the state De-
mocratic Convention did not approve entirely
the course of the national administration We
answer, they voted down by nearly unanimous
rote, resolution approving the Nebraska meas
urcs. - Democrat.
/ See here neighbour Did they not at the same
time vote down by nearly unanimous vote re-
solution eoademning the Nebraska measures.
Pray tell US, after the convention passed reso-
luton approving generally of the Administration,
what the necessity was for any further resolu-
tions. And tell us, after approving generally of
the Administration, what right You or any per-
son else has to ASSUME exceptions which the con-
vention not only did rot make but absolutely re