The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-08-27

! If the experience of the past eight years has not
demonstrated to the inhabitants of thus State the
/ folly of re eiecting republican administrator,
then there is no fact and 40 argument beneath the
! skies which affect them. All have seen the
mischief which republicanism has accomplished
! 1t is as papabe as the light ct the at noon
1t is felt in Office, shop and field. No time, ei>
fort no age OF future prosperity can blot nut the
ugly record and restore the Country to that Cundi
ton of fraternity and prosperity which under the
democratic would have perpetualty endured
Mloaukee NewS.
This is the old game of bluff. We are will
ing to put the election this fall upon 'the ex-
perience of the past eight years." Or Of that
part Of the past eight years that the State has
been under Republican rule. Let the editor
Of the NepS go back to the eight years of
Democratic rule previous to the ousting Of that
rule that sat like nightmare on the energies
and vitality of the State paralyzing its every
effort and ask the people whether they. are
anxious to live over again the experience of
''Barstow and the balance" The treasury
branllrupt-every officer about the capital
from the lowest doorlleeper or fireman, either
speculating out of the State, or openly and
brazenly stealing out Of the treasury without
even the shallow covering of speculation bri-
berry and corruption ran riot throughout the
State, and not only the officers of the State
but their friends and their friends friends came
in for share Of the stealings. 1t is possible
there may have been school districts or town
ships even, that did not have its favored rep
resentative in some of the great steals, but
we have not yet heard Of either.
Has the editor of the Meas so soon forgot
ten these things, that he thus provokes the re-
hearsal? "All have seen the mischief which
Irepublicanism has accomplished" he says =
ut is as palpable as the light Of the sun at
noon. 1t is felt in office, shop and field
Why not particularize little and name some
of this mischief. RepubliCanism has paid off
some 5000, 900 of State debt left by Demo-
cratic administrations. 1t has reduced the
annual State tax from owe $175, 900 to $780,
600. 1t has completed and put in operation
all the State benevolent institutions which
had for years under Democratic rule, absorbed
more of the State funds annually without pro-
crossing at all, than it has taken under Re
publican rule to run them, and dispense their
blessings to hundreds of unfortunates 1t has
restored the State credit at home and abroad
and given us as state proud place among
the thriving and prosperous States of the North
west. 1t has carried our people through one
of the most fearful financial crises of the age
without bankruptcy and with comparatively
little loss or inconvenience. 1t has met eve
Government in its deadly struggle with reb-
els and traitors, both of men and money-and
it has taken such care of the soldiers who
have been sent into the field, that to-day Wis
consin stands first on the roll of loyal and pat
riotic States, and wherever our armies are
known, to be soldiers from Wisconsin is a
proud badge of distinction. And last though
not least, Republicanism has kept the state
officers filled by men whose palms We're so
clean that the public funds might pass through
them without sticklng-men above suspicion
IN whose honesty and probity the people have
trusted and felt perfectly secure. Speculation
and population in the peoples moneys has
been done away with almost entirely. These
are some OF the fruits Of Republicanism dur
ing the past years it has been in power in this
State, and these are so patent and apparent
that the people feel and appreciate them, and
will not be deceived by the lying charges and
wholesale fabrications that the editor of the
Nsl0s Is IN the habit Of getting off.