Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-08-16
Congressional-A Shot across the Bor'
der-The Action of the Platte
vile Soreheads receives
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| M. 4. RINDIAUD.
r, H. GTant Go. Witness
| oih:-How can you talk Of old
steadfast republicans, wheelhorses.
&C., &c, when you very well know
that this whole movement in onnos-
ition to Mr.. Hazelton and the bring
ing out of Mr.. Barber was brought
about by the old wheelhorses who
have been acting the part Of bauky
horses the last three or four years !;
the very men who started and organ
lied the bolt in favor of Seaton in
this county; the very men who
started and organized the bolt in ia
! vor of Nelson Dewey, and who were
most active in breaking away from
their allegiance to the party during
the last judicial campaign when they
supported in the field and at the polls
Orton instead of Mills. Look at
home and see how you stand claim
ing to be republican and working
with wheel-horses, &c, &c. See the
company you keep. Who are bolt
ers? Who are disorganizers if your
supporters in your own precinct are
not You know the actors that
compose this movement against Mr..
Ii. have been doing everything they
could for the last four years to dis
organize, demoralize and break down
the party in this county. You know
that the fight was commenced in the
Assembly district in which you and
reside that the soreheads Cor as
you call them, wheel-horseR) while
in a minority acted in such an inso-
lent, vindictiye and overbearing man
ner that they caused radical divis-
ion in that district at that time, and
carried that style out to its logical
results when they supposed they had
q large majority in the last fall cleo
ton.
You know that this same class or
clique of politicians when they found
a few years ago that they could not
run the county entirely, when they
could not nominate for county OFF,
GERS, civilians over soldiers, although
civilians had had two terms of office
served out (and had made great pro-
testation of gratitude to soldiers dur
ing the war; when they could not
nominate another Of their townsmen
and old resident, but q republican
of q few years standing-over a re-
publican from his birth up, then they
set up howl Of mingled wrath and
complaint and began instantly to
organize, incite and carry out divis-
ion, disorganization and civil strife
with deplorable results not deplor-
able results to the ones aimed at but
to the party of which they now claim
to have been ever ardent supporters.
| Who are responsible for tho cleo
ton Of democrats to both county and
town offices the last few years but
the soreheads, the most loud mouth
ed and virulent of whom are stirring
up the present strife against Mr.
Hazleton? Who are pursuing @
course which will make the division
in this county increase tenfold in bit
terness and depth, and Cor what p
, Not to nominate Mr. Barber. Your
f old wheel-horses know better thar
: that. They know that he canno
be nominated they know that hC
cannot get a vote outside of thi:
county; they know that he is run
expressly to break down Mr.. Hazel.
ton and to enable them to manipu.
late the opposition to him in a shape
to carry out their design to make an
ineradicable division among the
members of the party in this county
and play into the hands of some out
side candidate, be he Wilkinson OF
Cobb (Wilkinson we presume on ac
count of the close affinity between
, him and some of the most active
workers in that wing.)
1t seems to me that this spirit OF
division and Generalization has gone
T far enough-too far indeed that il
is suicidal that it is political crime
for republican journalist or repub.
lican wheel-horse, even if they have
CALLED shoulders, to carry the strife
up to this time and to its present
length in this county, when the past
shows that large majority of the
republican party are we'll satisfied
with Mr.. Hazelton and have elected
him by handsome majorities, when
you take into consideration the vio-
lent, INSCRIPTIONS opposition to him
in the last two contests in the re-
publican as we'll as democratic ranks.
You ought to know that it is wrong
for republicans and especially repub-
lican editors to endorse, aid or assist
in carrying out the spite, hatred and
vindictiveness ougepdered in the
minds of few sore and disappoint.
ed politicians by the losses and the
strifes of the last four years. And
think, Mr.. Editor, you will find that
the republican masses see it in that
light. That they are determined at
this time to have peace and not to
be fooled or cajoled into supporting
you in your pet but reprehenSibie
scheme of 0rraying the father against
the son the old against the yoNnq.-
You will find them solid against dis
union and decentralization and against
any further prolongation of the strife
Cotton up by disappointed and dis
satisfied politicians who are trying
to act the part of the "dog in the
manger." Yours trnly,
REPUBLICAN.
Pisttevile, Wis, Aug. 10th, 1870.
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