Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-07-07
Gen. Cobb for Congress.

NOUOTtSSlOHdl
tilt at the question, "shall Gen. Cobb
be honored with another election p
It has always appeared to US vi
olation Of fair and square politica
propriety for the press to announce
favorite candidates in advance OF
conventions. 1t is conceded that ed
itorS may do much toward the man
uiacture of public opinion, very often
to the injury Of the public interests
as well as of the party represented,
or rather misrepresented. We might
mention the existence OF suspicion
among the people that editors are
sometimes hired with money to en-
gage in the unholy work Of heralding
the praises or Overestimatlng the
merits of candidates in advance of
conventions, and thus virtually doing
the work of conventions. We enter
tain no such suspicious at all, but
charge the like editorial lmproprie-
ties alone whore they belong-to
over zealousness and anxiety to lead
rather than follow the public mind.
The on y apology we have to offer
in this case for violating our uniform
rule and speaking favorably Of Gen.
Cobb's recollection in advance of the
convention soon TO be held, is this !:
almost every newspaper has spoken
and as usual the people are discuss
ing and making up their opinions in
advance Of the convention. The
Bond taxation issue has also been
opened before the people in a man
ner to make Gen. Cobb conspicuous ;
and it may be he will be misunder-
stood as standing among those con =
spring to injdre the national credit.
We but feel that, in this our indorse-
ment of Gen. Cobb at this time, in
Jew Of his recollection, we are among
the latest to speak a word for one
whom we have so long known for
these marked properties: his tried
honesty and frmness and, to use
the words of a distinguished western
statesman, CHS remarkably well ball
anced head, for in his life of civil,
professional and military service be
appears to have made no mistakes"
And though it may appear to the
minds of some that Gen. Cobb mas
made even one mistake during his
long and varied service, he cannot
fail upon re-survoy to correct his
lines and thcnccforth make 4 record
quite free from errors The man tor
the people is he who is as swift TO
retrace and correct as he is slow to
err.
The reader probably rightly APP
prehends that in our remarks next
above we allude to Gen. Cobb's posi-
ton upon the Bond coupon taxation
question, upon which there may be
honest differences among republicans.
Indeed we have been asked this ques-
ton, sis Cobb sound upon the fnan-
ces, especially rs to paying the public
debt ?"
That Gen. Cobb is sound upon
these issues as now presented, or to
be next presented, there is not
doubt. His life, character and inter
ests pledge him thus and SO the
dark and hopeless future Of any man
unsound upon the matter OF paying
his own or his country's debts, and
without discount or detalcation, is q
warning to all such men of fore
thought to steer mighty clear of the
sandy coast Of reputation. And
that coast stands in full view of Gen.
Cobb. We could only wish it stood
in equally plain view Of all our best
men
BY the resolutions offered in the
House by Gen. Cobb, as instructions
to the committee Of ways and means,
the same adopted by a very large
majority as will be seen he meant to
bring this whole matter Of Bond tax
alton to a head in view Of its final
decapitlation. That is the whole of
it +; and we may be glad over the fl,
nality. A dangerous issue should be
treated as Prot. Espey once proposed
TO treat storms bring the like TO a
head at once and il possible prema>
turely, and no violence can follow
As to any unsounGness of Gen.
Cobb in the matter Of paying off the
National Debt in any manner that
would depreciate the Bonds, he
stands square upon the National re-
publican platform of fidelity to coun-
try and its creditors, which is all we
can ask.
We add that no county upon earth
ever resorted to taxing its own pa
per, and the like would be so inta-
nous as to create combination
against US in all parts Of the world
wherever U. S. Bondholder lives :;
not only so but every civilized gov
ernment in the world, Gts subjects
owning American Bonds, would go
into u grand alliance for protecting
its holders Of our Bonds. And in the
due course of such alliance, our com,
meree would be seized upon the seas,
and our seaport cities be attacked by
blockading squadrons from the four
quarters of earth 10 enforce collec-
tons. We should be disgraced and
humbled to the dust rs we ought to
be, and Just rs all men are who, be-
ing able to pay their debts, sneaking
~ and cowardly, shirk from doing
SO beneath rotten canopy fpower
and meanness.
knowing that such must follow
any attempt at reputation, every
Bondholder in America would at
once, upon the approach Of any crisis,
transfer every dollar of his Bonds TO
European capitalsts-the same to
be sent home for collection in the
hands of some great Admiral of the
naval powers-to resist which the
American navy could hardly amount
10 moro than pop-gun battery.
We believe it was Holland that
once undertook to pay its bohdhold>
ers IN metallic coin containing hard.
~ any silver or gold-the same no
doubt designed as swindle Of the
foreign Bondholders. The resnlt
was an alliance of the neighboring
powers whose citizens held the bondo