Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-21
POLITICAL ITEMS.

RY~ The New Orleans Deutscher ZeS-
t,taag, Democratic paper, has come out
in support of the Republican party.
C Since the beginning of President
Grants Administration, the public debt
has been reduced $1S0,500,000. Annual
saving in interest, $l0,830,000. And the
good work goes bravely on!
gg- Gen. Woodford says that the great
overshadowing question in, the present
! polilical canvass in New York is simply
| this: "Can we have legal vote and a
| fair count of the votes cast at an election
in the State of New York;"
E A New York dispatch OF a recent
date says: ga careful examination shows
the Republican vote of the city ranges
from thirty five TO forty-five thousand j;
the Democratic vote, honestly, from sixty
to seventy thousand. It has been count
ed by the Demo cratic inspectors any
where up to one hundred and twelve
thousand"
WY There was not one Democratic
vote cast at the recent election in Peach
am, Vt. There were two there last year,
but the old map who was deaf, dumb and
blind, has died, and the other has deserted
his party to accept an office under the
State government-the post Of shoe peg
ging in the prison. t.
G a gentlemanly and efficient Dem
ocratic citizen of Philadelphia, named
Thomas Hardy, was arrested there few
days ago, under the law of Congress rel
alive to false registration in Congressional
Districts He had registered, under ficti-
tiousnames in thirty-five different places,
and his arrest is a Democratic loss of
thirtyfve.
gy General Stewart L. Woodford, Re-
publican candidate for Governor of New
York, is a native of New York city, and
is only s. gears Of age. He graduated
from Columbia College, with high honors,
in 1864, and Trinity College (Hartford)
bestowed upon him the degree of LII. D..
at it's last commencement. AS 8 public
speaker he has few peers in the coun-
try. @'3
~ The Detroit Tribune thus pro-
pounds conundrum that will never be
answered: Mr. James Brooks, a Demo
cratic member of Congress, has made a
statement that if the Democrats had been
in power they would have reduced taxa
ton $30,000,000 more than the Repub-
licans reduced it. Then will Mr.. Brooks
explain why the Democrats voted against
the Republicans reducing the taxes $780,
100000, which reduction was secured in
spite of an almost unanimous Democratic
oppositionH
Eg The census returns of New York
city are properly regarded by the Democ-
racy as the end of their lease of power.
They annihiiate some 10000 voters who
never had an existence, except as re.
peaters. and thus close cut the source of
huge Democratic victories. The infor
nation has created a real panic; and the
attacks on Republican candidates were
never so venomous IS since the discovery
that the supply of bogus voters has
been cut off. It wipes the party majority
entirely of the slate; and as it has no
merits to stand on, it will necessarily 60
to the wall in fair contest.
e The Utica Herald wants to know
how and where Tweed, the dictator of
the New York Democracy, acquired his
wealth. 1t says: Ten years ago, Will
liam NJ Tweed was a chairmaker and
bankrupt in New York He left his hon
est trade, and devoted himself to politics.
He became a sachem of Tammsny, and
he held various Offices. Ten years have
elapsed, and he boasts that he is one of
the largest tax payers in New York city.
His wealth is reported at tace,os million
dollars. Where did it come from? Pol
itics has been his vocation. Taxes have
marvelously increased wherever his influ-
ence has been felt. The assessed valua-
ton of all the real estate in Oneida county
is about $i4,000,O00. That represents the
hard toll of many men for three genera.
tions. Tweed in ten years has, by Tam
many politics, acquired nearly as much.
That is the striking fact thrust upon the
electors"