Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-10-23
Capt Riley for the Assembly--Cyrus
Sergeant for Supervisor BENEFITS
Case. Assembly Service.

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vention, held at Tafton, O.t. 18th,
Capt d. L. Riley, Of PatcE Grove,
vas nomna ted as the unioM candi-
date for the Assembly, ana Cyrus
Sergeant, Of Tatton, for Supervisor.
Capt. Riley served faithfully three
years in the second Cavalry.
Hon. \. 4. Bennett, submitted his
name and claims to the convention
for nomination and re election, but
he failed by few votes. lie Was
elected last year under difficulties,
this thing and that having bhcn fab
ricated and urged against him. But
he served faithfully in the Assembly,
his acts and public and private con
duet proving uneXceptionnbla. Why
he WAS not therefore comp@imentcd
by the convention with nomination
for election. we cannot say, unless
1T be that 1aitntulness OF service
avalleth a man nought. SILL, Mr..
Bennett 5 ease is no worse than that
OF hundred others. The practice
everywhere is, to hold of1i$ial SER
wants to strict account for tlseir acts,
pay them below common hireling
wages and when their time expires
hire new anu inexperienced servants
in their places. SO Mr.. BeIsnett has
no cause Of complaint, knowing as
he must that men and parties are
utterly ungratcfal, except Chen The
leaders are better hammered than
they Of our day and gcneration.
Bennett has certainly, by BIS faith
tulness in the Assembly, SECURED for
himself IA good name, and hanceforth
there will be none to dispute his fl
deity and department. The dan
ger therefore is, not that his services
may not be wanted in the future by
people, but that he may Build too
high upon his new and very strong
foundation, and t9pple hmscifover-
4 process of which we have an eX-
ample in the case Of Mr.. Harmon
in the Third District. One success,
ful in Office becomes the property
and pride Of his friends IA position
which & man like Bennett citunot at
ford to sacrifice by any bad move
on his part, whatever may b. The
prcteXt.
AS to Capt. Riley, being a soldier
and gentleman, he is neitlie, to be
proited nor complimontcd5 by the
unSought for pQsition-sincc The
very last way to fame and wealth
lies in the direction Of u seat in the
Assembly. There is not ali honest
man in Grant County that scan say
he ever made either a good name or
a just dollar by lcgslating3 but on
the contrary, the Legislature has
proved a sort of character destroy
ing insurance company to three
fourlhs Of those who have taken tick
ets-withal, an everlasting isundrancc
to promotion in the official Icivil ser
vice, like that Of Adjutait in the
military.
The position Of legislato. is well
adapted, and profitable alik4 to ser
want and people, for oletor and well
behaved young lawyers, or alien who
possess a legal and literary' turn, in
whom the morals are OF, average
soundncss. AS 70 these bluntcd old
edge tools, such rs we usually elect, |
they see and do nothing ans are nc
tnalIy hindrances rather than useful
legislators.
We know Of one hundred school
teachers and lawyers in Grant co.
that would make their mai.k as Ieg
islators, and who would vastly an
prove the Iegislat ion-improve it es-
pecially for the Grant County local
benefit. There ere also another hun
drcd farmers and mechanics, well ed
ucated men, but who have looked
upon legislating as third or fourth
class business, fit only for small men
and politicians.
We abide the action Of convcn-
tons this year, and shall advise and
aid the election Of evers regular
union candidate. But next year we
wish to see such break away from
the old school As shall change things
in a general way.
NorE.-Since writing the above
we learn from a paper scnsup from
Cassville for publication in the Her.
AID signed BY Sneclodc ard others,
that Bennett, sure enough IS we OK
pectcd and feared, is to be' an indo-
pendent candidate for tie Assembly
against Capt Riley. We nave also
information by rumor that he has one
or two hobbies, as independents nsu
ally have, the chief of which is
railroad issue Of his own getting up.
An, Bennett You know there is
nothing in that issue-noa a thing
One man Harmon is Tiding the
same shadow. But as tn. electors
are n rather better advised and
more intelligent and more numerous
body of people than are ne Assem-
bly, candidates, there will be nobody
hobby horse ridden nor wood horse
humbugged by these railroad issue
candidates, with whom there is
screw loose about now.
Wemeant to say some thing about
that demagoguc resolutioa adopted
by.the Fifth Assembly Di~i. conven-
ton, in which said Capt Riley is cx-
pcuted to "hoid labor aalttc inter
cStS Of ,eorking mea high a5ore capj-
tai and purse proud corporations =
which resolve seems out otsplacc Just
ut this time lien capital End ccrpo