The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02
AN ARLE ADDRESS.

AN ADLE AUUhESSs
Governor Palmer in an able address to
the late Republican Convention in Spring
field Illinois gives the most sensible ad-
vice we have met with in long time, and
which would be well to be needed by
or Convention soon to meet at Madison
Gentlemen of the Convention we must
recur to first principles. You must allow
US old fogies to whisper to you that your
government will be best administered if
you return as nearly as possible to the
principles of those who organized it. IF
you get back to the old doctrines of econ
omy, if you get back to the time when
public offices were regarded not az
means OF enriching those who held them
but when the offices that we're created for
the people were filled for the people,
when they who were elected to office
were held to strict responsibility. and in
short to the time when your money was
regarded as your own; when the people
gave willingly for all public purposes, but
gave nothing unless required for public
purposes; when the money you gave
you insisted should be applied for the
purposes for which you gave it, in the
days when you were not afraid to look
into the accounts Of your servants to see
that there was no stealing; in the days
when it was expected that men who were
elected to Office should furnish reason
able character for integrity and honesty.
The quicker you get back to that the bet
ter it will be for us all. Cheers. On
these State issues last fail, when [ was a
candidate for Governor. | told the good
people of the State that | desired Gen
Grant should be elected, and that the
Republican policy should be established,
because | wished for a President Of safe
politics. This State of Illinois is equal
with its nearly three million of inhabi-
tants, with all its varied interests, agri-
culture, mechanics and education-wit
these, with respect to the consideration
and thought OF the intelligent people, it
is an empire in itself We have now put
down secession we have restored the
Union; we have elected Gen. Grant, and
we will have republican Congress. We
have got time now to do something for
Illinois LET Us DO IT. Let us elect
Convention which will take care of the
interets of the people of the State let
us restore. not by contest or controversy
bat by faithful discharge of our duties as
citizens of the State let Us restore the
States to their responsibility and useful
ness that they should be efficient for the
public good 1t devolves upon the Re
publican party Of the State to do this
Your 80, 900 majority was given last fall
for your candidates on the State ticket
The country, already so grateful to the
Republican party, expects still more from
1t. Let US direct our attention to these
issues to questions that concern the vel
fare of the people CT the State; and the
Republican assemble 1cy in the State will
endure, until all that can be accomplished
by political organization is secured.
The Democratic papers keep UP
their volleys on the Central Committee.
The Madison Democrat says:
"A considerable majority of the
Democratic papers of the State of Wis
consin have expressed themselves opposed
to the action of the Committee in calling
State Convention at Milwaukee, This
is not at all surprising. The only sur
prising thing is that any Democratic
papers at all should approve the action of
the Committee
The Kenosha Un,on presents some
original and unique suggestions
The Republican party is welded to
the African. Negro suffrage is an ac-
complished fact, and the Sixteenth
amendment is good as passed. IT is
folly, therefore, for the Democratic
party longer to fight the negro, or his
right to vote Oh the Sirfeeth amendment.
Let the Democratic party
cut loose from those old hacks that have
been carrying them to defeat and perdi-
ton in the past, and relInquish all idle
efforts In contending against inevitable,
plant itself squareiy mpon the laoing pres
eht and future Of success awaits its
efforts. Let the dead bury the dead. -
The Jefferson Banner, a Democratic
paper, says:
While we believe the committee have
exceeded their powers, in thus depart
ing from the established rule, and calling
the convention in Milwaukee instead of
Madison, yet we are not among those,
(if any there be, who for this act of the
committee, hooUeuer blame1roythy 1t mag
be, would countenance, for a moment,
the least division IN the ranks of the De
mOcracy."
This obedience to the decree of the
Milwaukee Regency, however blame
worthy it may be, y is Democratic char
acterlstic. 1t saves the rural Democrat
the trouble of thinking, which must be
a great relief No thought is now neces-
sary outside Of Milwaukee. The Regen,
cy furnishes brains, and simply asks
votes from the benighted region, lying
beyond the city limits. 1t is fair divis-
ion Of labor, and, ifthe Democratic party
is satisfied with the success, that has
hitherto attended the reign of the Reg
ency, we are.
THE WIDoWER' s WIFE.-Within the
year the widower found consolation. and
this time the wife was young and pretty
that is to say, she was generally so es-
teemed, being white, plump, hard and
crisp as q turnip just pulled from the
ground. She was selfish, INDECENT, pet
fish, with small intelligence and no rea-
son. To be married was to be married;
that was all she knew except it inyolv-
ed new dresses, white veil, and some
flowers. After that she entertained some
vague notion that generous living and all
sorts of holiday delights flowed perpetu-
ally in of themselves, and that she, at any |
rate, had only to stand and wait. Her |
ideas of marital falirity ppdaryropt IN !