The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-03-03
Senator Lyman Walker.

SoA iHNNAS@siht oaStN.A "a SSS~'S' ~ HSN
OF kewaunee County:
The second district consists of Brown,
Door and kewaunce COUNTIES, and the SEN
ator is Lyman Walker. (1em of Ahns pee,
kewaunee county. He came from the old
empire state, whose sons have pcopled
portion OF the great west. and represented
ia legislative ha Is our finest and ablest
statesmen. He was borc in Tully, Onon-
dago county, New York, in March 5lst,
1899, being the Oldest member Of the pres
ent senate. Bravely he has journeyed life's
pathway for three score years and ten, and
wears his armor with the benign majesty Of
youth. Ills smooth face, it is true, bears
the marks and scars oft!.ne and experience,
but his sllvered nair is unwoven with the
, darker threads which l.ngcr among the vet
Grams, as if 10th to join the mighty throng,
and smile at the folcible Of art. His educa-
| ton was but that OF common school Of
/ facilities wore limited IN comparison 10 the
present, and he attained his profession un-
aided by the classes.
! Under the administration Of James X.
/ Polk he was app, inted postmaster in Coch
/ ranton, Ohio. Again in Milan, Ohio, when
Franklin Pierce was president, he WAS post
| master.
| In 1855 he first came to Wisconsin and
settled in Ahnepee and soon after was
| elected district attorney, which office he
held for ten years, during which time he
| possessed the untOunded esteem OF his peo-
| pie
| In 1866 lie was elected memb Der of the
assembly and lahored most asslduoasiy 10
study the wants and wishes of his constl,u-
ents La 1865 he WAS elected county super
| lptendent of schools, and in 1869 he was
elected senator from his district. He has
ever been consistent democra', and SIM
cere and faithful in his political views Not
even the opposing party can question his
earnesiHess Of purpose and determination to
do right. He fully believes if there ever
was political organization Of which pat
riot might fee Justly proud, 1t is the great
| national democratic party, party devoted
to the wants and wishes of American peo-
! pie. " neither its past history or present
position be considered. it alone will be
! found to possess the primer plies requisite to
MAINTAIN III all its purity the free constitu-
tlonal government bcqueathed US by our
! fathers
lie member Of this present legislature
! have always found senator Walker, una.-
sumlng, gcntleman|y and earnest, welding
an influence without osten.ation or Gisp lay
and in the words Of one OF. ..our ATTEST writer's,
he has simply done mans duty unhinch-
insly, grappled with mans fate with
nothing bat a man arm and woman :
| love TO support him, and never groaneG if
the iron entered his soul bat preserved his
honor untaruishcd and his heart bright aud
young through it all There are such vic
! tors in The w0rlas strife but their names
| boya k,a- Jio,pp y b-O,l t,,
trumpet
Senator Walker, from the 2nd is one of
! the most devoted members in the senate to
the wants and expectations of the counties
which he represents.
IJ Sensible republicans are now as
much afflicted oy Grants talking as they
were by his reti cence before be was nomin-
ated for the presidency When Senator
Wade complained that Grant would talk
2::33..hhing but horse, it was not positively
known that he exhausted all topics of con
versation with which he was familiar when
he had discoursel Of dogs and horses.
Now he talk, of shaving treasury notes,
aud reaching specie payments By diminish
ing the revenue of the government, and ac
knowledges that he knows nothing about
any OF the departments Of the government
but the war department, and that the ex
penses of the latter ought to be sixty mil
lions of dollars year. He declares that he
has no policy in opposition to the will Of
congress, but is constantly making foolish
II
them
His weakness, and vacilation, and in
competency have made HIN cipher in
cabinet meetings, and left bin without in
fuencs in congress. These facts are dimly
hlnted at BY the republican press now, and
will soon be plainly spoken by leaders Of
the party in AMI out Of congress.
Whlttemore, the Carpet-Bagger
Just st this time when there is impend-
ing over the Hon. Benjamin Franklin
Whittemore. of South Carolina, a resolu>
tion of disgraceful expulsion from the Uni
ted States house Of representatives for
selling appointments, it may be interesting
TO pcruse the following:
: Whittemore is a short, rtly-looking man.
about FIVE feet six inches high with a bold.
clear face, very long black beard and hair,
oveireaching eyebrows. and stentorian voice
cultivated by preaching in the wilderness. He
was horn in Maiden, Mass, is forty-six years
Of age and entered the army AZ chapl.in Of
the Fitty-third Massachusetts regimen. and
afterwards OF the Thirty-sixth. lie settl- ID in
1865, IN South Carolina. manipulated tn, ne
groes and turned the state into tLeir hands.
IN return fer which he was sent TO the F.,rti.
eth and TO this congr,ss by 1000 negro ma
lority. lie will be returned to the bosom of
his constituents from whence he came by
majority not quite solarge but equally unani-
nous, and Will prob ably soon pack up his
carpet-bag and return to his home in Massa-
chuSetts.
sS Logan pursuit of Nhittemore can
have no other motive than professional
pfqne. Logan has done an immense amount
n Oh L..