The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-12

DtUOCTAJtC party To u Certain QOuUlS-
headed snake that he had seen in his
travels These heads, he said, while look,
ing different ways he noticed had thel
same throat, the same capacious swallow,
the same scaly and disgusting body, and
terminated in the same tail.
At the state convention in 1865, he
spoke as follows:
"But, my fellow-citizens, it is my sol
emn dutyfo declare that, great as is our
danger from the power of the rebels /.
great as our injuries have been and may
still be from the navy set afOat by Brit.
ish subjects from British ports, under
rebel colors, to prey upon our commerce;
great as may be the dangers and compli-
cations to grow out of French interven
tion in Mex co, AMI threatened alliance
with the rebellion at the south, mare real
dancer to our cause and to our country is
| 70 be unprecedented from hostile political
organizations IN the free states, of which
such papers as the New York World. the
! DUBUQUE Herald aud the Milwaukee Net0s
are the organs, and of which such men as
Vallandigham and Fernando Wood are
true, frank, and outspoken representa-,
| tives
Now, never said that all the best
blood had run out of the Democratic par
ty, and that those that we're left
| were kept there by the cohesive power OF
public plundcr. [ never said We captur
ed the party with Lees army.
l never compared the party to snake.
| No, while have not been wild and de-
mandatory at one momen5, and yielding,
apologlzlng, and embracing in the next,
| | have kept he even tenor of my way,
treating the party with all the courtesy
it was entitled TO and o good deal more,
having constantly in view the sacred
cause of my country and the rights OF
mankind.
AS Judge Doolittle Is running as the
| Democratic candidate for Governor, |
have been expecting that he would offer
some reason why the people should elect
him Governor but AS yet have heard
none, and am bound TO presume that
there is no reason that he can give, else
he would not have remained SO long 81.
| lent. The truth is, there is no reason why
the people should change o government
That has ueen SO emnently satisfactory TO
them. The people are justly proud OF
| their state government, aad look, ana
rightly look upon their state as the model
state of the Union. No state is more
economically governed. In the fifteen
years the Republican party has been in
power, no dollar is truthtully charged to
have been misapproprlated. In that
time we have built up system OF charlta-
| bic and educational institutions that are
the Just pride OF all our people. We
have erected state capitol, beautiful in
its proportions, and adequate to the
| state Tor an hundred years. All these
beautiful structures have been erected at
rates so cheap as TO seem almost lncred-
| ible. Not dollar has been divided
among rings, and not a dollar has been
paid to contractors that has not been hon
estly earned. The ordinary current ex
penses of the state were $4,000 for
l870-a sum hardly sufficient to carpet
single room in the court house of the
Democratic city of New York. How
| we'll our expenses contrast with the ex-
penses of other states under Democratic
rule can readily be seen by comparing
with the Democratic states, and the pure
| ~ Democratic government OF New York
city. Our state has a total population
considerably larger than New York city,
yet we spend for all purposes, including
public buildings and charitable institu-
ton, less than 100000 year, while
the pure Democracy of New York city
spends $59,0G0,000 year, and in the last
two and one-half years has added over
| 1868, 100000 to the city debt. The Dem
ocratic state of Kentucky, but little larger
than ours, expends annually nearly three
times the amount In running it's state gov
eminent as the state of Wisconsin. But
cannot pause to dwell longer on state
matters, as my friend is evidently not
running for governor. He is clearly in
pursuit Of bigger game. Thus far he has
taken good care to make no general at
tack on the administration. He has at
no time asserted that so far as concerns
the immediate and present welfare of the
people, that the administration has not
been success What worries him is q
danger to the future Republic, of which
more presently. He does not deny that
General Grant has faithfully executed the
laws, for he has done SO with the greatest
fidelity, and if he has failed anywhere
it is because the Ku-klux Democracy
have been too strong in particular To-
callties. He does not deny that our for
eigh policy has been eminently wise and
successful, or that our standing with for
J eign governments is not higher than dur
| ing any former period of our history,
He does not deny that the revenues are
honestly collected and applied. If he
did I would point to him the last year of
Johnson's administration, when, with a
tax of two dollars per gallon on whisky,
but $18,000.000 of tax was collected,
whereas during the first year of president
Grants administration, under a tax of
fifty cents per gallon the tax reached
| REk 000 nm Ha hot the