Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-12-15
Communicated
Senatorial Issue Carpenter.

Mr. Cover The most liberal ap.
plcation of the adage that everything
is fair in war will scarcely Justify the
tactics of the clique of professional
politicians, who are seeking to defeat
the election of Matt. *. Carpenter
for the United States Senate. Here
is one of their methods of attack !:
Some democratic paper in discussing
the candidates for the Senate will
say, what every one knows to be
true, that Mr.. Carpenter is the most
able man who has been named in that
connection. Straightway some one
Of the journals that are run in the in.
forests of the opposing candidates
will assert that, "The Milwaukee
NeWS, or whatever the paper may
be. supports Matt H Carpenter for
tho Senate" Now this is disingenu
Gus, unfair, and in short, utterly con
temptible. The purpose is paIpobly
TO iujure Mr.. Carpenter by creating
the impression that he is the choice
of the democratic party. Now it
would not be surprising if sensible
members OF that party, being also
good citizens, should wish to have
the State represented by a man OF
brilliant capacity, who would at
once secure position aud an intiu-
ence in the Senate which would do SO
much toward advancing the interests
of the State. aud if, in view of this
fact and the fac. that the next Sena
Tor will inevitably be republican,
they should prefer Mr.. Carpenter to
the other gentlemen named, still
nothing that has been said so far by
the democratic papers admits OF the
construction that thoy support him
and we repeat that the effort To make
it appear 50 is disreputable trick
But we do not bolieve that Matt
II. Carpenter is tho cho;ce Of the
democratic party of the State. We
! believe that we heard their ora
opinion expressed by a prominent
copperhead recently when he SAID
that 8 he didn't care q - who the re
pulicans scot to the Senate - long as il
wasn't Matt Carpenter, for he was the
meanest radical Of the lot They
cannot forgive him for having aban
doned them at the very first of th,
war and for having fought them per,
sistently and effectively ever since
They cannot forgive him for having
been steadily in advance of tho re-
publican party in advising the sue
cessive measures which it adapted tt
secure the triumph of our arms am
to carry out our victory TO its legti-
mate resulLs-for having urged il
turn coercion, enfrar chisement anC
impeachment, and when they were
in turn adopted by the party in th'
van Of which he stood, for having
brought to the defense of these
measures his splenpid oratory, biz
profound knowledge Of the law anC
his thorough acquaintance and sym
pathy with the nature and true OBJ
iects of our government For al
this be shares their hate with Edwin
NJ. Stanton, John A. Dix, and Others
of that class, whom they choose e
call renegade.
Another ingenious and certainly
not niger ms artifice of tho other as
pirants and their friends is to say
that it is not advisable to send Mr.
Carpenter to the Senate IS be will b'
appointed Attorney General il
Grants Cabinet; and they seek tt
use in support of this the fact tina
Mr. Carpenter is now at Washington
to defend the constitutionality
Reconstruction acts before of th,
the Supreme Court. Thi'
proves nothing of the kind the fac
being that Mr.. Carpenter was EN-
ployed by Mr.. Stanton to represent
him in the McCardle case, when Mr.
Stansbury was Attorney General
who was VIGOROUSLY opposed to The
Reconstruction policy Of Congress
and therefore not regarded as safe
counsel There is no probability
that Mr. Carpenter will be invited tc
q place in the Cabinet, and if there
was, it affords no reason that he
should be slaughtered in bis owl
State for position which be desire;
and for which he is known to be 4
candidate. The true place for Mr.
Carpenter IS the Senate of the
United States, and il is there that he
can be of the most service in support
ing tho administration of Gen. Grant
and securing the enduring triumph
OF the great principles of the repub-
Iican party, of which he is the most
Jealous as he is the most eloquent
champion. b.