The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-10-03

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The state Ticket.
We place at the head of our columns TINS
week the ticket nominated at Madison last
week by the Republican State Convention ana
we do il with no small degree of pride. They
are men who have been tried in the balance ana
not found wanting. But there are other reasons
for qualification at the result Of the State Con
Yention.
The Republican majority in Wisconsin is Ger
tain and overwhelming. If party triumph
had been thought of any moment; If the Repuo-
licam party. had been actuated by any o'nef
than the most patriotic motives 1t had only u
make an ultra partizan nomination for she state
officers and they would have been elected by
majority of tens of thousands. We say this III
no spirit of Boosting or party pride, but simply
make statement of existing facts for the pnr-
pose of showing that in the present crisis OF the
country Che Republican party is willing and anx-
ious to 9Rlln its power to avert party STRIFE
and rancor incur State politics. From the first
the olive branch has been held out to the De
nocracy, and they have been invited to join US ID
Tue llOIuludJlOu VI oLdkC OAliSCi9i Wv ny
persistently rejected all overtures TO runion and
corporation. In nearly every County Conven-
ton, they have been invited and urged TO forget
their party hate and join with all friends oil the
Union in making Union nominations. These
overtures of the people have also been met with
tie cold shoulder open insult. No Democrat
eau honestly question the motives OF Republicans
in these repeated and continued offers of union
forthe sake of the Union. We had the strength
in our own hands in the State,and in almost ev-
cry county in the State, to elect the strictes
party ticket, had we so wished, SO that We were
not constrained, by any such feeling as fear or
doubt of our own strength, to offer to abandon
party lines in the coming election.
And yet, after out profiers of union have been
rejected and scoffed at by the impotent leaders
of the Democracy we have shown the genuine
ness of our patriotism, and the good faith of our
professions, by giving to the Democracy sever
al honorable and responsible places upon our
ticket. Our candidates for Secretary of State,
Lieut.. Governor and Bank Comptroller, though
true and acknowledged Union men have here
said these are concessions made to strengthen
our State Ticket, or to curry favor with any
clique or faction 1t was simply to show
willingness to obliterate party lines, and to unite
the people of our Safe in one great party for
the Union and the Constitution, If the State
continues to be rent, cad its efficiency impaired
in this hour of our Nations peril, by party feudS
and contentious Of factions the Republicans can
not be held responsible. And this is the feeling
of the Republican party in all the loyal states,
and it is felt and acknowledged by all loyal and
unpreiudiced men everywhere. The Washing
ton National nte!Iigenccr, one of the most can
did, truthful and conservative papers in the
Union but which never could be charged with
any prejudice in favor of the Republican party,
thus bears its testimony to the fact which we
have stated. Speaking of this subject it says;
at cannot be denied that that party in the
loyal states of the Union has shown a greater
willingness to sink mere questions of political
discrimination, in the presence of the graycr
issues which now engage the public mind, than
has been manifested by some, though We ale
glad to add, a small portion of their Democratic
adversareS. And even in states where cor
at the first Instance OF the Republcana, there
are few Democrats who still find it hard TO
purge out the old leaven.'
But to return to the State ticket and its com
ponent parts:
LOUIS P. HARVEY, the candidate for Cover
nor, is one of the most popular men of the State
No mau could have been selected whose name
it would have given US greater satisfaction to
place at the head Of our columns. We are GER
tain that the interests of the State will be safe
in his hands, as far as strict integrity, sound
Judgment. and large experience united in one
man can make them So The Madison Journal
truly says: "a member of the constitutional
convention, for several terms leading member
of the State senate, and for two years past hold
ing the Office of Secretary of State, his name is
familiar to the people, and has never been as
ISOLATED with any dlshonorable transaction. IL
the discharge of the important trusts that be
long to the Office which he now holds, he has
given the highest proof of his fitness for any
position within the gift OF our people. The Of
fee of Secretary of State was never admins
iered with anything like the efficiency, order
and promptitude which have characterized MIR.
Harvey's term"
As we have not personal acquaintance with
some of the other candidates, we take the fol-
lowing sketches from the State Journal, which
we most heartily endorse:
EDWARD SALoMoN, the candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor, is new man politically speak
ing, He resides in Milwaukee, is a German by
BIRTH aud lawyer by profess ion. OF Demo
cratic anteceGents, he has devoted himself to
his profession, keeping entirely aloof from &c
tive participation in politics. The movement
to place him before the people as eandidate
for State office was without his soliclta ton,
being the spontaneous result of a conviction of
his superior qualifications and of the justice of
giving the large German element in the State |
a representative on the ticket. Mr.. Solomon is
agentleman of remarkably fine personal appear
ance, and speaks thu English language with as
much ease and accuracy as il 1t were his native |
tongue. We have frequently heard his argn.
ments before the Supreme Court where they
weae universally admired BY the members Of the
bar, for his cearness of statement, force of log
c and for the chaste and appropriate language d
in which they were expressed. As gentle
man of scholarly requirements and tastes, Mr..
Solomon was last winter elected one of the re- k
gents of the State University. He is a brother G.