The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-07-26

81. If ont on any line that seems to him the best
We clip the above from the Green bay
a. Gazette, the only ostensible Republican paper
in the state that supports the President and
. s.5. his policy in opposition to the peoples poll
~' CIV. as declared through their immediate
representatives in Congress. And we quote
it to enter our protest against the spirit dis
played in its closing lines We don't think
it any recommendation to ex-Gov. Randall
to say that he has 'pluck enough to fight
=, it out on any line that seems to him best
ID. 1t is simply saying that he will disregard
80. the will and the wishes of the people, when
ever his personal schemes of ambition or
ACKNOWLEDGMENT seem to make it advisable,
Now as we said before, do not consider
this trait in Ex-Gov Randall or any other
servant of the people, as praiseworthy We
used to boast of this government-that the
sovereign power was vested in the people,
- but how long will that be the case if men
are to be lionized and beslavered with praise
and held up as worthy of commentator,
simply because they have 'the pluck, " to
& disregard the wishes of the people, who have
clothed them with temporary power? Elk
t5a<l Gov. Randall is indebted to the people Of
Wisconsin for his present position, and for
all the position he ever had, outside ola sec
ond or third rate lawyers office, and it
- strikes u.s. it would be a much bigger feath.
as er in his cap to say that he has the ''pluck
to fight it out on any line" that seems best
to the people. This attempt of the democ
1acy and those who affiliate with that party
# to raise the agent above bis principal Qor
the officers in republican government are
only the agents of the people, will sooner
or later react upon them. Man clothed
with little power, even though it be tenn
porary is only too apt to imagine his selfish
s@'~ ends and aims of paramount Importance
and when to this natural inclination is adj
ded the fulsome praise of fawning syco-
80 plants and time servers, there seems to be
few able 10 withstand the temptation to be-
tray the trusts confded to them. And Wis
consin seems to be especially afflicted with
that kind of unreliable public nen, who SO
soon imagine themselves qualified to die
tate to the people what they want and what
they shall have, and how they must accom-
- modate their will and wishes to the whim
or caprice of the agents they have appointed
to do their will
The people of this country everywhere
should insist on a change of programme
Every Senator and representative in Con-
gress should be elected with the express un-
Outstanding that when he can no longer
represent the will and wishes of his constit-
uents-the men who elected him to serve
them, and not hmseIf-ho shall resign and
allow the people to select another who can
represent them. When Ex-Goy. Randall
49, and Senator Doolittle were elevated to their
present positions, they were representative
men-representatiyes Of the Union Republic
a.. can principles recognized aud supported by
~ the great majority Of the people of this
State Now they repudiate those principles
and the majority of the people who still adj
here to them. Thus they are no longer the
ss. representatives of the people of Wisconsin,
and they are only nominay sustainedby
minority.
We should really be happy to see the edi
-.4s tors of this State, especially all those who
ever professed to be the advocates of Union
Republican principles rise to the true digni-
ty Of manhood, and demand that the will
of the people shall be respected by the SER
wants of the people.