Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-24
POLITICAL.

....- POLITICAL. 5.,.
g- Thomas declares in his testimony
that his attempt to take the War Office
was all miss take. Undoubtedly. r
e A Democratic j. lrnal asserts that
"the ship of State is laundering" The
Detroit Post says: Never mind, we shall
Wade through easy enough" 4.5,.o -.
g A Georgia Conservative paper
heads its account of the murder of Hon.
G.. w. Ashburn, at Columbus, "One
Enemy Less" and virtually justifies the
act.
gY August Belmont, Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, is said
to collect regularly more gold interest
on bonds than any other man in the United
States. rss ~ f# gg. .asl
Us An extremely Radical journal says
Johnson will get his belly full before the
House Managers get through with him.
If he had waited for the House Managers
before getting his belly full they would
have had no casus 6ellj, and hence no trial.
Chicago Post.
gB " johnson is now being weighed in
the balance If found wanting, the new
President will also be Wade" Query, by
correspondent in Chicago Journal:
"What is the object in re-weighing a
good man that's been qceighed -(Ben.
| Valdez"
g A correspondent of one of the De-
| troit papers, writing from an interior
county in Michigan, says that q drunken
Democrat, as he. dropped into the ballot
box negative vote against the new Con-
stitutiop, hiccoughed :" You may work at
me ten years and you can't make me equal
to niger" s"4' ea
g- The statement published few days
since that all the railroads centering in
Chicago would pass delegates to the Re-
publican National Convention free of all
charge, is incorrect, SO far as the Chicago,
Pittsburgh Sc Fort Wayne Road is con-
cerned That company has for two years
declined to make any exceptions to the
usual rates in favor of political conventions
or other public meetings. 4j.e l-tss
CO A specimen of the Democratic
gains" of nowadays is shown ia the
case of Lostant, Ill, which town was
claimed to have gone Copperhead by 1874
majority. The Police Magistrate of the
town requets the Chicago TINES, which
| published the statement, to say that out of
205 votes there was a majority of 1877 for
Mr.. Foster, who "votes the straight Re.
publican ticket, and is in favor of impeach-
ment and Grant election" The Copper
heads can't stand a great many victories "
| of this sort. .F ~. a. I..,.. ........
as Copperhead papers raited the cry
that New Hampshire was carried by fraud,
basing their charge upon the fact that the
votes cast were in unusual disproportion to
| the number of inhabitants. The New
York Tribune prints carefully compiled
table of the vote and population, which
shows that the proportion of votes to
population was greaterin Democratic than
| in Republican towns, and therefore, if the
vote is beyond the total that such popula-
ton should give, the Democracy have more
than their share of the votes, and the re-
sponsibility therefor. aies 7>larass-
M- A. johnson may, after his disgrace.
full dismissal from the Presidency, hold
State offices. The Constitution of the
United States (article /, section 81 provides
that Judgment in CAGES Of impeachment
shall not extend beyond removal from of
| fee and disqualification to hold and enjoy
any office of honor, trust or profit 0nder
the United States" In case of Andrew
Johnson's conviction in the pending i'm
parchment trial, he will be disqualified for
| holding any office under the United States
Government. But he will not be deprived
| of citizenship, and if any State, county,
city or town wants him for local position,
he will still be eligible to an election. He
may even be an Alderman again, provided
ne can obtain votes enough to elect him.
| The Crawshay family, the wealthiest
in Wales, is said to have made it's colossal
fortune from very small beginnings. In
the last century the original Crawshay,
then farmers son, rode to London on his
pony (his sole property to seek his for
tune. He began by sweeping out the
warehouse of an ironmonger. The iron
monger had been successfully specializing
in sending out iron pots to America. and
his apprentice observed that if the Ameri-
cans used so many pots they must want
hooks to hang them or. Whereupon the
master not only took the hint, but kindly
determined that Crawshay should send
them out, and that he would lend him the
money for the purpose. Upon this ven
ture was realized $500, and from that time
the farmers son moved rapidly upward,
being first taken into partnership By his
master, and ultimately becoming an iron
king in South Wales, whose descendant,
lately deceased. has left, it is computed,
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