Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-03-31
MADISON LETTER-ADJOURNM
TAX-DiviDiNG CONVERSATIONAL
ELECTION.


MADISON LETTER-ADJ0URNME
TAX-DivEDiNG COUNTIES --JuDicIAL
ELECTION.
| Mr.. EDIroR The Legislature Is still
taking it easy. Under the operation 81
the free pass system-wiich costs the state
more in hindering legislation and prolong-
ling the sessions than anything elsa large
share of the members continue to 60 home
on Saturday and So about two days Of ev-
+ rv week are lost. Matters OF importance
are from day to day crowded back by bills
of only local or triding interest, and 50 the
time to which the session should-be limited
+ is past and the great work Of the session
is not done. A day having been fixed fol
adicnrnment the minority are practiclng
The same tactics that they have for two q
three years past Of wasting time on frivo-
lous matters with he intent Of causing all
the mischief possible, and then Of course
holding the Republicans responsible. 1t is
wonderful to what an extent they succeed
in bamboozling our folks.
Quite grist Of bills were ground out to-
dav. About the only ones Of importance
were those disseminating the Swamp Land
Survey and requiring the paying for a Ii
cense Of all keepers Of dogs.
Those who hoped for the passage Of an
act looking toward a division OF Grant Co.
and are disappointed, may console them
selves by the reflection that in spite Of large,
inf. ttial and persevering lobbies every
proposition to divide counties or remove
county seats has been scooped out.
Bills have passed the Senate exempting
railroads ffon taxation, to meet the recent
decision Of the Supreme Court, not requi-
ring them to pay one per cent Of their gross
earning fora license.
a bill to submit The question ola eonsti-
.tutional convention to the people was killed
Friday evening in The assembly. 1t was
feared The assumption project was covered up
under that Of making new constitution.
But, this letter was not begun with the
idea Of posting you is to the doings Of the
Legislature but to express the hope that in
the coming election Grant County would
do her whole duty by giving an emphatic
majority for Judge Sloan, and hastily to
note some reasons therefor. For one do
not think any man or set Of men had a
right to demand an expression from Judge
Sloan Of his opinion as to the action Of our
Supreme Court in The Booth case, and
should have been perfectly satisfied to vote
for him on the general testimony OF those
who know him as to his honorable charac-
ter as a man, his ability as lawyer, his
Isoundness as a Judge, and because he was
nominated with great unanimity in very
respectable Convention Of the party Of which
am an humble member. But since his
views have been made public and coincide
with those Of that portion of the Repubh-
can party who were unwilling to support
him if there was a possibility that he held
the same opinion with Judge Dixon, 1t be-
comes their duty to rally earnestly to his
support. That il will be necessary to his
election that they should do SO is manifest
when it is remembered that Judge Dixon
viii get the votes Of nearly all Democrats,
simply because he is ready to bend the knee
to the Federal Courts of high and low de-
gree, also that as judge and as man he has
made many warm friends in this Judicial
Circuit, that be still claims to be Republ Ii
can and viii have the votes Of some who
agree with-him in opinion, and respect the
courage and honesty which led him to ayow
ut when unpopular.
Judge S!oan deserves the vote of every
Republican, because he is a man of pure
character, lawyer Of much longer expert
ence and larger and more varied practice
than Judge Dixon, because be is in favor
Of protecting the rights and liberty Of the
citizens ofthis State against Federal usur-
patton, is an earnest Republican and has
proved himself good Judge. Judge Dixon
has forfeited all claim on any lover Of free
dom because he is The candidate Of the De-
mocracy and his election will be hailed as
pro-slavery triumph because while claiming
to be Republican he has refused to acqui-
esce in the decision Of its conventions, but
has made himself the tool Of faction, an ele-
ment Of discord, is giving aid and comfort
to the enemy, is the favorte candidate of all
that class Of men described in your article Of
last week who live and move and have
their being in Judge Miller's court and last
but not least, because he is absenting him
self from the bench 10 engage in electioneer-
ing: thereby, as well as by some other late
moves, lowering himself IN the esteem of
his best friends.
Let him he rebuked and let a worthy
man be placed in his seat.
Yours,