Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

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ng improvements. have not
known who was Mr.. Dewoy's COM
petitor, but have learned that his AZ.
pirations for the place were contest.
cd inch by inch, and upon the direct
issue whether nothing shall be done
At the lowest outlay by nobody. or
whether a positive and wide awake
man should be chosen who would
work with efficiency and hatch out
whether the cost of the
shall be much or little,
Mr.. Dewey proved to be member
of great efficiency and honored him..
self, bis district, the county and State,
as his colleagues attest and as the
statutes show. "Mr. Dewey was our
leading member and . safer and
sounder member was not to be found
at the capitol said the member from
my district. Mr.. Desyey failed TO
build a railroad or canal, but he de-
signed and carried several i'm portant
measures, aud railroad may grow
out of his plans. I am not laboring
in the interest of Mr.. Dewey but in
the public interest, believing the pub
lie to have even dearer interest in
the man than he in the public, for his
worth as a legislator. | have but
slight acquaintance with him, and
never talked with him except once
upon an estate business.
But, Mr.. Cover, will the negative
men consent that such men as Dew
ey shall represent them, not only at
Lancaster but in other districts p
This is the issue to be tried next and
right along. 1t is true, last year the
districts were all ably represented /,
but Mr. Dewey was their leader in
the Assembly. / forbear the contrast
between the delegation of last winter
and previous delegations for many
years.
1t is conceded that Mr.. Robbins,
by his energies, othis negativeness,
begat for Platteville railroad and
Normal school, either of which
must prove an incalculable fortune at
whatever cost and tax to build it.
The passives undertook their defeat
by appealing to the prejudices
against taxation, which is the Lam
easter practice.
The active men who do all the
producing or Matching of wealth for
the negative men are not the COM
planners about the expensiveness of
building railroads and market facili-
ties. and of building Normal schools
and other schools of learning. 1t is
therefore none OF the business of the
negative or do-nothing fraternity.
Platteyille, as you have observed,
will grow rich in "geometrical pro-
gression" as q consequence of the
egg laid by Dir. Robbins and Matched
out by the positive producing classes
of that town.
| have named Mr.. Robbins as a
positive legislator, and he and Dew
ely have done more for our county than
has been done by all others for many
years. | could name one other rep
resentative from Grant Of great
promising usefulness, but as the men,
ton might invoke conspiracies to do.
feat his usefulness, l adjourn this
part of my subject.
My illusions to men Of known pos
tive character, and who are not to be
led by the negative junta reigning
at Lancaster, would be incomplete
were l not to notice at some length
the Herald editor, Nj. Cover. And
cannot do better here than to report
some information derived when at
Lancaster OH business some weeks
ago. Calling ut Ryland 4 Holloway's
Bank the negatives appeared to BIO
holding an informal meeting and the
subject of discussion was yourself.
Leading men of the class mentioned
were denouncing Cover in no meas.
ured terms, and among them was one
whom you had more than once sig>
nally favored for Office. This gave =
most disgusting turn. SO much so
that | hurried up my business to
leave. now lost the drift Of the
conversation, but it went on till /
left, resolving to inquire for the
cause of this unpleasantness. These
were leading men, which fact sug-
gests comments stronger than | can
afford to writA on papar.
AT the Court House | met a citi-
zen Of Lancaster, we'll posted and a
keen observer, but belonging to an OPP
posite school, being one who, as you
say, "would rather pay for bringing
markets to our doors than to haul
our grain twenty FIVE miles to mar
ket," and l said, what is the matter
that SO many leading men of your
town are abusing Cover? "Oh, that
is easy enough to explain" he an
swered, and then went on to give
an explanation, which give in sub
stance:
"Cover is not their man, they cam
not manage him. Independent man,
very. Thinks for himself, like old
Luther, and these mems bulls are his
letters of credit among the people
who are off at work. Cover is a
great fool for having personal diff
culties with them, as this is what
weakens him. Too apt to take and
give Offense. His sense of right and
wrong is extreme, which causes him
to judge men too nicely. His indie
pendence causes him to express his
opinisns too freely and with q sharp
moss that cuts too keenly to be soon
But he is known to the
working business men and people to
be right in head and heart. Deep
snnken eyes, pretending great per-
ception and sagacity, and the ability
therefore to shape means to ends,
with the heartlessness to put through
what he undertakes, makes him a
master manager. Formerly he
worked with these men, now his en-.
smies, but he has become disguised |
with their supineness and narrowness
and left them. But their enmity will |
be his harvest of strength"
This explanation helped me to UNI
ierstand the Bank pow WOW, and |
he public now has tho explanation. |
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