Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
wAsHBURN AND DOOLITTLE.
Tho Joint Discussion ut Lacrosse-The old
Democratic stagers and MIR DooIIuIe
Face 10 Face-H0w the Battle
ofthe tate IL Going.


Correspondence Of tho Milwaukee Wisconsin,
LA CROSSE, Get. 19.-I had a little
special interest TO be ia at the La
Crosse discussion. Here ID the home
OF General Washburn here was nv
home for dozen years, / know the
boys here-all the old party stagers
on both sides. ! wanted to see how
Doolittle would walk into the aflec
tions of the old breckenridge men,"
l wanted to SEQ the General face to
face with Milton Barlow aud the
rest of the old Sons of Liberty
, And they were out, his friends,
neighbors and townsmen, with their
wives and children, nearly two hum
dred strong.
OLD LADY OF SEVENTY
noticed one old lady of seventy,
sitting close TO the speakers under
the pavilion. She was evidently
from the country, with the stamp of
wisdom and practical sense wrought
out in the lines OF her strong brow
and intellectual features. She was
evidently too Of the Republican faith.
She was close listener from first to
last. IL was fine study to watch
the face of the old lady, now lit up
by the clear points and manly state
ments OF General Washburn, and
now drawn down by the sonorous
platitudes and shameless apostacy Of
Senator Doolittle. IL was plain, she
could see through all that life of
weak will, want of back bone and
pretentious sincerity. She could see
him twisting and shifting on every
question of principle that has come
before the country for the last thirty
years she could see him the loud
friend OF the negro in the Republican
lines, and then going back upon him
in the very pinch of his necessity,
wheh some good could be done for
hia. 1t is no wonder the old lady,
at last, turned her eyes from that
breathing mockery of sanctlness
and hide her face in her hands.
THE OLD sTAGERs.
1t was interesting also TO note the
effect Of Dooiittle upon the old Dem
ocratlc stagers about the stand
Doollttle was spinning it fine, but
still they were not happy. Col. Ro.
doll, naturally so wakeful and good
natured, sat back dubious and GUM
Judge Lord, always 40 attentive and
appreciative, showed his sang iroid,
disclaiming all Investment in his
party champion. Judge Lyndes
was uneasy, and glad Capt. Roose-
welt was grabbed. Bill Hull" kept
away Col. Benton, true-bIue all
ways, SAID it was his last "put in"
for this governor campaign. The
cheering fellows outside heard him
through. 1t was balm to their old
sores and stiff-joints, to hear him be-
rate the party in power. The Re-
publican boss stood it quite and un-
concerned. They new he was like
an old hollow reed, and could give
forth any tune, just as the wind blew
through him.
D( OLITTLE.
Mr.. DOOlittle opened the discussion.
1t Is idle TO follow him in any direc-
ton. He lodged all the hard salts
factions OF our present State and
national policy, and gently waited
himself into the great empyrion of
Federal usurpation, when he tapped
and poised and circumlocuted tlll-he
came down again. Mr.. Doolittle
was nailed to-day on his government
railroad charge. He owned that be
voted for the land grant OF the Pa
cifc Charter from Springfield, Mis-
souri,, through Kansas and California,
to the ocean. He was quiet as a
lamb, also, over the railroad swim
dies of the South. He had the cour.
age to denounce Lieut.. Govern or
Gleason, of Florida, as a carpet-bag-
ger, but he didn't deny fact of his
statement. Mr. Gleason has "squelch
ed Doolittle's great campaign tbun
der at a breath. He had stated ev-
erywhere that the South had been
swindled out of 1920, 100000 of
bonds, and bad not a mile of rail
road TO show for them Mr.. Gleason
has it that the laws in all the gulf
States require the roads to be built
before the bonds can be issued. We,
of Wisconsin, are bound To believe
Mr.. Gleason, unless proof is given
to the contrary
During his last half hour, Mr.. Doc
little sung all the charges again on
central depotism and federal usurpa-
ton. When be had gone through
all he put his arm around friendly
pillar of the stand, and in the most
honied flow of words told them how
Mr.. Doolittle had shown forth as the
great beacon light of parties in the
past, and what labor of love he
was doing tor the Democracy of
Wisconsin
wAsHBURN.
1t is the statement of Mr.. Wash
burns friends here, that he did bet
ter than they had expected, and that
he made all the real points of the
discussion. He has silenced the last
of Mr.. Doolittle's battons except his
Klu-klux horror, and Federal usur-
patton paIaver. The KIu-K bill
expires by its own limitation in a
month or two. Mr.. Doolittle will
stick to the Magma Chartar" and
'Habeas Corpns' till the breath leave
his body. What are cheap telcgraphs
and new railroads, and river improve
ments, and honest home industry.
aud honest state government, com
pared with the danger of central usur-
patton
Mr. Washburn will make clean
sweep Of the republican vote in ev.
cry county in the state. Mr.. Doc
little may get two or three hundred
straggIers, but he will lose ten times
that number from tho democratic
side.