Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-07-26
Henry Wilson,
Presidential Electors
The Campaign.

The title when each taan will be tried
DIS with fire, is at hand. Each and every
one of us has something to do. and when
we have done what eeemeth to as good,
may we have the assurance that we have
done right. Another Presidential cam
paign has been inaugdrated. 1t will IN
doubtealy be an exciting contest, and in
It's results it viii be as Important to the
hation as tas second and sharp contest
that placed Lincoln in the Presidential
chair.
The same parties arrayed against each
other at that time, have met in battle ar
fay snce more. There are two, and only
two political parties-the Republican and
the Democratic, ind there is no middle
ground. There are two candidates for
the Presidency in the field. U. S. Grant
heads the Republican cause, Horace Gree
ley shat of the Democracy. The idea of
liberal Republicans or liberal Democrats is
all bosh; fer there is no such candidate
III the field.
The contest then will be as usual be-
tween the present Republican party and
The old Democratic party. Changes will
be made as in every Presidential campaign.
There are men in both parties that have
become tired, and for reasons best known
10 themselves, wish to change their poll
tics, but from the observations we have
made we have seen ro reason for beliet-
ing that more changes will be made during
che present contest than any previous one.
or course, those wishing to leave the
Republican party and join that of the De-
mocracy, are at liberty so to do, but be-
fore taking such o step it would be well
70 weigh a,Izthe chances and see where
they will stand when the excitement is
over, and they should fully understand
that If they give their support and votes
to Horace Greeley they give that support
to the Democratic party, and by so doing
they of course become Democrats; there
is no way out Of it however irksome it
may be. :
In looking at the thing from Repub-
fican standpoint, 1t seems absurd to>see
Che bitterest enemy the Democrats ever
had, one who has always been a deadly
Antagonist; and said and printed meaner
things tof the party than any man in
America ever did, craving the support of
that party. It looks eqaally absurd to
see the Democrats taking such an old
goose as their standard bearer. 1t is evil
dent to every thinking man that both par
ty and candidate have become desperate
dcmoralized und altogether unptincplea.
We are nUt speaking row Of individual
men, of our neighbors and friehds, for we
have as close personal friends in The Dem
ocratic party as In the Republican men
chat vie catf tie to every day. Our friends
may have the same political creed and
faith rs we have, OF they may not, but
our friendship may be none the less
though we be political opponents. 1t is
When seen through the past that the party
Is Objectionable. We have every reason
for believing, judging from the past, that
If the Democratic party came again into
power, no matter what person may repre-
sent it, the work the Republican party
has done will be undone if possible. The
negro will be outraged and insulted, and
In many instances re- ehslased. The ma
tional debt repudiated, or probably the
confederate debt, including all the slave
loss of the south, will be assumed, and the
thousands of valuable lives and the five
thousand million dollars expended in put
ting down the most terrible rebellion that
ever existed, will all have been spent in
tain.
What IS there In the past history Of this
party that we should join them and help
them to elect their President? Does not
their late history justify our conclusions
chat there is danger in losing at stroke
what we have been ten years III gaining?
Not so with the Republican party. 1t
has been reform party from the first,
and is SO acknowledged all over the civil
lied world. When It came into being it found
the nation almost overwhelmed with that
accursed thing, slavery, it found our
finances, army, navy, &C., in most de-
plorable condition. 1t Immediately went
Go work and broke down slavery, giving
freedom to all regardless of nationalities,
color or station. It filed our treasury
with money that these same Democrats
declared worthless, and did all in their
power to shake the confidence that patri-
otto and good men might have in our gov
ernment by a cry Of failure. 1t raised a
mighty army in shorter space of time
than was ever known in the history Of the |
world 1t established national credit, in
tegrity and good faith wherever its infu-
ence was felt. 1t carried us through a |
war of such magnitude and so rapidly as
70 astonish the whole world and to-day,