Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-06-21
Who We're the q Ambitious but Dail and Careless
Mullets!n

The Argus Of last evening begins an article
on the State Printing rs follows:
"a few ambitions but dull and careless null
lets III the last Legislature were fooled by Pump
Carpenter INTO becoming the tools bv which he
was to be enriched out Of the State Printing
They passed bill giving him Is magnificent
steal. That was vetoed. and he got the same
thing up in the shape of joiut resolution
Perhaps the public would like to see the
names OF these "duli and careless mulets" in
priat. We deny tie authority as far as il re-
iateS to republicans; political paper Is liable
to be preJudiced against its opponents; bat are
willing 10 recognize 1T reliable when it speaks
IN censure of lis own partizans. since it is sup
posed /" be familiar with their characters and
when 1t brands them as mullets. we are bound
to believe 1t is actuated by the force of is con-
viciion of the truth of the allegation.
lhe oil giving Pump a magnificent steal "
was promptly vetoed / Y onr Republican Gov
erpor On lis return to the Senate. the question
was: shall the bill pass notwithstanding the
OBJECTIONS OF the Governor p The vote stood
Democrats In itdlic:
Ayes- Senators ChappcU. Cur,s, Frat Hitch
Aiss. Martin Masters, Maron. Ncars. Rooalf Sil-
ucr"ae"- Smith. Taylor, Tucker, Walsh, WASH
buru-I5
hoes-Senators Bennett. Boyd Burdck Com
stock. Davis. Hanchett. McCIellan, Pier, Proud
ut. Virgin. Warren, Worthington-I2
Every Democrat In the Senate voted for the
"sleai but one The exception is Proudft
ana, though 1t may seem ungenerous, must
say thit We think Proudtii's vote was inhuen ced
more by his personal interest in the 4dre,ls and
his person | antipathy to Carpenter, than by
any more elevated motives
Eleven Democrats and four Republicans voted
Tor the bill: eleven Republicans and one DEM
ocrat voted against it.
The foremost, leading nsan in the Senate in
advocating the bill. and subsequently in ad-
v"cafin8 the resolution, was Senator Martin, n
prominent Democratic aspIrant for Governor
He Is therefore entitled, under the 14iqus' clas-
sIhcatIon, to rank at the star mullet" of the
Senate.
the following vote:
Ayss-Senators Bennett Chappc, Comstock
Curtis. Davis. Frat, Hotctsiss. Arr!:1s Masters,
Naron. Kcdrs. Pier, t.od1it. SHERMAN, Smith,
Taylor, Walsh. Worrhington-lS
Noes Senators Boyd, Burdick. Virgin, War
ren. Washburn-5
Every Democrat present in .he Senate voted
for the " steal" Every vote recorded against
II Is Republican. Even the acute, the honest.
the able, the many -virtued Taylor, whose cleo
tion was to reduce the freight on wheat on the
railroad, and lead TO the repeal Of law which
permits the burdens of taxation In rest only
lightly on railroad corporations. is found voting
invariably for 1.-The steal" The unavoidable
conclusion from the premises laid down by the
Argus Is, that while there many noble ex-
ceptIons on the Republican side. the Democr n: ic
Senators, without exception. are set of " dull
and carces mullcts, and Senator MARTIN the
great est nlulet Of the lot. This admission COM
ing ii does from leading and influential
Democratic paper. is not calculated to advance
the prospects of Mr.. Martin.-Ndd State Journal