The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-02-16
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we want in Manitowoc County is more
light" let US spread it among our fellow
citizens, whose vote, though they may
not be able to read, counts as much as
that Of the most enlightened among US.
IF we are ALL faithful in discharging our
expect a glorious victory at our next
Presidential election even in this County.
Let us all work to our best ability in
obtaining this grand object, and the con-
sciousr ess of having exerted ourselves
and having gained complete success.
will be our best reward in the cause of
human progress and prosperity.
GA year hence. or soon thereafter. our
country will be stirred by the first throes
Of Presidential canvass. Thrncefnrth
there will be riding and running. gather
ing and speaking. covering stumps with
orators and filling bread trays with docu-
ments. preparatory to the great struggle.
We shall have the most equal contest that
the country has known since 1914. At
each election since 1856. the Democrats
have thrown away any chance of success
they may have had-frst, by splitting
their party and running two tickets in
1860; next, by ruino us platform and
most inconcrunus ticket in "a; lastly.
by nearly as bed platform and a rather
worse ticket in 1868. We assume the
essential imrroba hilty of their repeating
this suicidal folly in 1872 They will not
: undertake to upset the Reconstruction
policy, they will not proclaim their in
tention to airfranchise the Blacks; they
will not propose to pay tire National
Debt in greenbacks, thus arbitrarily sub
stituting promise that bears no interest
and IS payable at no particular time, for
one that hears six per cent interest and
is payable within twenty years. In short.
We assume that they will fight to win
next time, and not insist on running their
heads against wall to demonstrate their
destitution of brains. Had they done
this IN 60, they must have triumphed
had they done it in GA or '6S, they would
have given US very close and doubtful
contest. We assume that they are hun
cry enough. chastened enough by the
lessons of adversely, as not to attempt to
drive their WEI ge big end foremost again.
And, if they are only wise as serpcnts.
they need not be harmless as doves, to
give us all we can do in 1872.
We urge. then, upon active earnest
Republicans in every State and neighbor-
hood to prepare for the struggle just be-
fore us, by getting a Republican newspa-
per into every family where it will be re-
ceived and read, Push your County or
Village paper In case it is cheap and we'll
conducted, but some good Republican
paper al any rate IF the head o. that
family will subscribe and pay for it, so
much the better; but if not, and he will
accept and read it, send it to him, any
how. A million dollars spent in thus
letting light into households that would
otherwise be dark, will never be felt hy
those who in small sums give it, while il
will probably make the difference between
success ond defeat in the great impending
struggle
Political intelligence is disseminated
and political basis given through two
main channels-the Newspaper and the
Grogshop. The latter is against us and
cannot be changed. Ninetv-nine of every
hundred barrooms and drinking saloons
are intensely, efficiently Democratic-or,
as Nike Walsh proclaimed them. 1.-THE
nurseries of Democracy A township
or village which is without one OF these
nurseries, either within its bounds or
conviently near them, is morally certain
to be Republican; while one which is
cursed with an overplus of tippling-
houses Is almost uniformly against U.S.
We cannot change this; we can only
eounteract it. LEI us spend one dollar
n circulating good newspapers where our
adversaries squander ten in their drunk
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and we cannot be
beaten.
But it viii! not do to wait till the eve
OF the Presidential Election. The enemy
Is sowing tares at this hour. Every youth
who is learning to sip and soak in the
grogshops is being fashioned to the uses
of Sham Democracy His virtuous pa
rents may think othcrwiSe--may be igno-
rant of MS haunts and his habits but,
1t he is learning 20 love liquor and loose
company. he is being fashioned to the
ends of the adversary Hence the De-
mocratic managers and oracles almost
uniformly hate and revile the Temper
ance Reform, even when personally tenn
perate. They know that Its triumph is
their damage and probable defeat There
IS not u State in the Union whereof the
Democratic party is not conspcuously
hostile to whatever legislation tends to
diminish the number or the power of its
grogshops.
In almost any township out of New
England, fully one third of the families
will be found, on inquiry, to take no gen.
cral newspaper. Some of them may
have STORY paper" or cheap picture
sheet; but the majority have no periodi-
cal at all. Most of these obtain what lit
tie they know of politics from grogshop,
where 1t is twisted and colored By Cop
perhead malignity and hate OF course,
the votes cast from, bauSohol]S 20 49,
formed and misinformed are mainly cast
against US.
II need not BE- 80 ....: G