Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-11
(Communicated)
Congressional Nomlnation-The Man
for the Hour.

Who shall be our next Congress-
man lsa question Of great importance.
The past few years have demonstrat
ed the necessity of choosing men
whom neither fear, favor, or hope cf
reward can swerve from duty. It is
to our interest to send the man who
will serve us best and whom we will
have to watch the least.
La making our choice a variety Of
things should be taken into consider,
alton, and not the least is experience.
We are well aware that even in
our Legislature it takes years to quail
ify a man thoroughly for tie dis.
charge of the duties there devolving
upon him. SO it is in the work shop,
the school house, the store and in all
the walks Of life. We retain in our
service, as long as possible, our faiths
ful and experienced engineers, clerks,
and farm hands and even household
servants. They are never discharge
ed to crafty the whims and caprces
of friends, or merely to furnish en-
ployment to neighbors.
Government educates her military
men and then retains them for life.
The South, fully approaching this
principle in all it's length and breadth,
retained her representative men du>
ring long series Of years, and there
by exercised a controlling influence
in the national councils, while the
North with very few exceptions,
misled by selfish aspirants, for more
than half century bowed the knee
to Baal and walked in bondage
Many will remember, that on GER
tain occasion, when bill had just
passed Congress in the interest Of
slavery, in which it had been neces
sary to purchase a few Northern
votes, John Randolph tantalizing the
northern members and pointing his
long bony finger at them, character
lied them as dough faces" and said,
1--WE bought all the votes we needed,
aud ii we had required more we could
have had them" Is any man so
foolish as to believe that if the North
had retained in the national councils
her tried and experienced men, the
Moloch of slavery would have found
these plant dough faces ready to be
moulded TO their purposes.
We all remembe how anxiously
we ran over the telegraph news
when rumors came that Johnson was
about to turn traitor to humanity,
his friends, his country and his God !;
how our pulses throbed when the res
port came over the wire that even
Doolttle showed by unmistakable
signs that the Deilah of the Philis-
tines was entwining him in her mesh
es how our heads ached, how our
hearts ached, while the suspense
lasted, and how our wrath knew no
bounds when we realized that she
had sbofn him Of his power, and that
we had certainly been betrayed.
La view of ourintcrests; in view Of
the history of the legislation of the
country, State and national; in view Of
the fact that the party arrayed
against US is as corrupt as Satan
could wish. and is ever prepared to
employ gold or the assassin to ac-
eomplich It's nefarions ends !; in view
of the fact that Christ himself found
a traitor in his chosen band of welve;
in view of the general weakness OF
humanity, had we not better be eau
tious how we put new and untriGd
men on guard during these stormy
times, especially those acho Shrank from
duty a0hen their services acre needed?
Our present representative, Amasa
Cobb, has served us faithfully, ably
and honorably since the 4th Of March
1863. Great efforts are being made
to relieve him and cousign him to
private life and oblivion, if not dis
grace. These assaults have long been
premeditated, and the pretext has at
last been found in the proposition to
tax the interest on u. S. Bonds.
That proposition has run its race
and done its work and has brought
forth good fruit is now dead and
buried, and it would be suicidal for
the republican party even for mo-
ment to.galvanize it into life; to make
that living issue, upon which the
platform is silent. 1t was supported
by a naajerity Of The republican mem-
bers of Congress, and is question
upon which the wise and loyal may
differ and do differ.
The Chicago platform was not, as a
matter of fact, discussed in the Con~
,ention but was prepared by com
mittee and was passed as reported
without question. And it required
all Of Carl Schurz' eloquence and skill
TO tack on two general propositions.
1t was well understood at the time,
that there was difference of opinion
on financial questions and that these
were to be harmonized by general
resoluti0n-such as the one concern
ing the equalization of taxes.
The proposition in question, al
though in crude shape, was intro
duced as matter of pediency, be-
cause every effort TO tax about one
hundred billions that had so far es-
capped taxation, had failed. through
the exertions of lobbyists in the ser
vice of bankers as the greater in
cludes the less, this resolution was
introduced, knowing aceU that the
act could not pass the Senate, but
hoping that by threatening an ex-
treme measure, moderate relief of
some nature might be obtained. 1t
is thrown in our faces every day that
the statutes of the Uuited States only
protects bonds &c from taxation by or
under State and municipal authority,
that no law of Congress ever pro-
hibited their taxation by the nation
nj Governments This mower has heen