Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
Candidates. for Governor and state oaoors.

Nes1AA~Aos1~~
The key note Of the self-moyiug raiders
and tlimrlers, who seem to control the
State Central Union Republican Commit
tee, if indeed that body from head 10 tail
Le not the soul Of these political guer)las,
was.soanded last spring by the Madison cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune, IN
which it was urged that, to secure triumph
next fail, a highly conservative state ticket
must be nominated, with Charley Robinson
OF his like for Governor, &c, aud that Sal
onion or Potter and such well tried ones
couldn't be elected because the conservative
or neutral.on-the-war men wouldn't vote
for candidates Of emphatic principles, III
dorsets and supporters Of the administration
and for the union without bit or an II.
The correspondent meant that fraud must
be practiced to warrant success; that if We
could only find some Jig two.faeed politi-
clan, secretly union all over but outside so
plastered with mosaic as TO represent all
the shells and fossils and trap and horn
blende to be found in the Uranium Of cap
rock geologist, then enough could be fooled
to support the union ticket to carry the state
against the CoppeFheads. AT first and for
time these trimmers didn't know who to
fix upon, as being sufficiently all sided to
draw the Conservative vote for Governor;
but at last for reasons unknown they drew
on Secretary Lewis. Why he should merit
the consumes implied by the protested
friendship of these trimmers We don't
know.
1t is certain that Rublee, Hopkins, Keys,
q Co., and the State Central Committee,
have been hard az work foy Secretary
Lewis, and with considerable effect. Gov.
Salomon, called universally by the people
in all parts of the State, "the best Govern
on Wisconsin, has eOer had, = and preferred
| by nine-tenths of all union men for re-elee-
ton, has as matter OF course failed h
satisfy these trimmers; he has probably
neglected to make them first IN all his con-
siderations and all others second, nothiug
more. AS to Secretary Lewis, be has
probably not committed fornication with
/ these honeIy weeds of an hour; they are
only at his heels suspecting he may pos
sess loose virtues, that's all. They have
| tried Solomon and found him true to peo-
pie and country, consequently Of no use
to them. Probably the real design is to
make break somewhere in the line of
State officers, for the denomination of the
present State officers has long been so
fixed in the public mind as TO amount to
a foregoneconcluaion. If they can make
break in the Secretary of Stale and Gov
ernor, then they can breed enough disaf-
fiction to open the way for all to 60 out
and some OF the hungry trimmers to 90 in.
The practice and usage Of the country is,
when man does good job, hire him
again; when another fills an office well,
elect him again. and again aud again if be
keeps on doing well. Well, in Gods
name, Solomon and Lewis haze both done
well in their respective offices, and served
bat one term-why not re-elect them
Why turn one out entirely and promote
the other-both being equal? Can any
body answer? No, and there is not the
shade of apology for the proposed change;
the small office guerllas and squirts are at
the head of the movement.