Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-10-16
State rioke,s-we Dlsseot Them.

The several state tickets in the field for
the suffrages of such of our citizens as are
not absent in the war viii be found under
the news head Of our paper accompanied
with brief notice Of the composition of
each.
Like Dutch market, the array Of tick
cts and candidates is adapted TO all tastes
and extremes, from pheasant to rat, OF
Observation-Disclosures to impediment-
airy secessionism. The friends Of mixed
company or dishes may dip their ladies in
to the bowl labelled republican," and
draw therefrom HARVEY, the companion
Of Spooner and Mills; then dip into the
bowl labelled "union," and spoon out HAIR
vEY in company with Nose Strong and
Pump Carpenter! HARVEY in the soup
bowl labelled "union," made to feed peace
party concessionists and conditional union
men, in which are all manner Of unclean
beasts; then HARVEY in the blood-and-
thunder bowl, composed to suit non-con-
cessionists and save-the-union-if-it-co
ry-dollar-and-eyeiy-nigge republicans
These tickets afford all sorts Of company
administration company, halfway-between-
Lincoln-a nd-purgatory- abolition
company, pro-slavery or negro-god worship
pegs--all having the satisfactory pledges Of
Mr.. HARVEY for Governor. How under
heaven lie managed to suit all these, God
only knows. He out Randalls Randall,
who appoints secession O'Connors as well
as loyaists to lead opr armies-changes
the of-scouring Of the streets into excel
lent dry nurses, and appoints the very men
to Office whom he was elected by the peo-
pie to annihate for their robbing the
school fund and bribing legislature after
legislature!
Then there is the ticket in the field Of
what is left of the old democratic party,
representing those who have not learned or
forgotten a thing for twenty years. It's
platform Of resolutions scarcely recognizes
the existence Of war, only for the sake
Of finding fault and deprecating the agita-
ton OF the slavery question, north and
south-just as though to arrest the ire
sistible motion Of an irresistible body were
possible! One-third of the resolutions Of
this venerable body are devoted to S. NJ
Booth, another third to fault finding. and
the other third to saving the Union, but
without indorsing any of the means being
applied, and sympathizing with the breth-
rem of the border states, who are supposed
to be offended at said Booth and the n eth
cd long ago adopted to protect the citizens
Of Wisconsin from the benefits and penal
tses of the fugitive slave law.
The pledges of principles of faith of any
party are its convention resolutions. The
late Republican State Convention adopted
no resolutions of faith, therefore the party
is supposed to have no principles or faith.
The convention had not even the smartness
of Democtatic convention, which always
roaol.ee thot Il osorteSe fstst s0Aere a. always
stood, DC. Had this been done, there
would be something to offer as reason
why our ticket ought to win. But in the
absence Of any foundation we are unable
to give our readers any reasons why Mr..
HARVEY ought to be elected Governor, on
ly that be has made good Secretary of
State-that two conventions have endorsed
him--that he once worked in the republi-
can harness, but is now working in double
gear-being the candidate Of the so-called
union party, Of which Moses M. Strong
was chief engineer and Pump Carpenter
the builder. as well as the Republican par
ty, which made HARyFY all he is.
We expect to support HARVEY for Gov
ernoF, although acknowledging our total
inability to give any reasons. His adultery
with men and parties 10 every way foreign
to himself has this apology: 1t is open
and bold, yet the more shameful because
open and hold. His very late compact
with his constant enemy, Gov. Randall, the
acquiesence in his nomination by factions
Of every extreme, especially the worst and
most sensual and selfish, must have their
cause somewhere, which only the sequel Of
his future acts as Governor can reveal
He will be elected to his bed of thorns,
| for. as it rms in Hawthorne's Scarlet Let
ter, PROMISES which lead to glory breed
thorny roses" DC.
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County Conyentlon.