The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-08-27
The Es,ues Of our State Election.

The ISSUES Of our State Election.
The Gubernatorial Campaign in our State,
may be said to be- now, fairly opened. The
two parties have held their Conventions made
their nominations, and mounted their plat
forms. The position of the two parties may
be sufficiently clear without further comments
but there cannot be too full and clear I'm
Outstanding of the position objects and intents
of those parties. The designations-the I'm
ion and the Democratic parties-may be suf-
ficiently clear to some, as to the object of the
parties-the one devoted to the cause of the
Union and the country-their preservation
and protection-the other to the preservation
of the Democratic party. This distinction is
plain enough to every one, but we are apt to
overlook the full meaning Of general terms.
We can hardly think that our neighbors who
have apparently the same interests that we
have, are going to prove entirely recreant to
our common country, even if they should sue
coed in the State election. But let us not de.
ceive ourselves If we take their own words
as guide to their apprehensions Of the issues
at stake, we need be at no loss. The Milwau-
kee Meas, the leading and authoritative ex-
ponent of the views of the Democratic party
of this State, in an article entitled ''lhe com.
ing State election" says:
.'It is for the people to say whether then
substance shall be fruitlessly squandered
whether their lawful rights shall be annihila-
ted and the State be made mere instrument
in the hands of party for perpetuating sec
tiOnal strife and national dissolution"
Here is foreshadowing of what Wisconsin
Democracy proposes to do if it can manage tc
get into power. The Meanings plain enough
though purposely obscured. cit is for the
people to say whether their substance shall be
fruitlessly squandered," that is whether the
soldiers in the field fighting for the Union
shall be paid or not-whether they shall be
REINFORCED or not-whethor the State shall
continue loyal to the Union and the Fedora
Government, Or whether it shall be placed il
the position of South Carolina and the Other
rebel States. This is the real issue plainly
set forth
If the Democratic State ticket is elected
the power of the Federal Government is to be
crippled in every possible way and the adj
ministration forced if possible, to abandon the
war for the Union, and acknowledge the in
dependence of the rebel States, and thus tc
recognize the Democratic doctrine of seces-
sion-the right of any State at will, with OF
without cause, to dissolve the Union, and to
set up an independent Government Or unite
with some foreign Government. Of course
the first step in this programme is to with
hold all support to the army already in the
field. Wisconsin Democracy argues that, il
in no other way, the Union army can be de
stroyed, it can be starved out. No more o.
the substance Of the people is to be ''squan-
dered" in preserving the Union, if the Demo
Gratis can get into power. Fortunately, fo1
Wisconsin soldiers, they have a voice inthis cleo
ton themselves, and they can say whether
they will be abandoned to the tender mercies
Of rebel sympathizers Or not. And it is for
tunate too, that the leaders of the Democracy
have so early in the campaign revealed their
intentions and disclosed the use to which they
intend to put their power-when acquired.
''Forewarned is to be forearmed" The loyal,
Union loving citizens of Wisconsin, and her
citizen soldiery can work together for the
honor of the State-for the once glorious, and
once honored Union, and for her free, Repub-
lican Institutions-and more than ALL for the
pay and support of that army now fighting
the battles of the Union. which the Demo-
cratic politicians style ''fruitlessIy squander-
ing the substance of the people,"
We call upon the friends Of the Union, the
friends of Free Institutions of whatever polit
ical antecedents, and of whatever party pre-
objections and wherever they may be, wheth-
er at home or in the army, to rally to the
polls in November next and defeat this dem
ocratic plot to rob the soldiers of their hard
earned pay.