Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-11
POLITICAL NOTES.

consider his administration success as
they considered Lincons a success.
And they are right, for Grants ad-
ministration is collecting the revenue
and paying the debt. When General
Grant was inaugurated the national
debt was S2,738,oG3, 1913. At the
of his first year it was $3.50, sos, 795 ;
and since then it has been steadily re-
duced in ever Increasing ratio Yet tax
es have not been increased On the
contrary, special taxes have from time
to time been reduced imposts have
been removed the burden has been
more and more lifted from the produc-
tive industry, and at this very moment
in accordance with Gen. Grants earn
est desire, modified tax and tariff bill
IS before the the Senate, having alrea-
dy passed the house, which takes off at
single stroke S65 100000 more,
Yet the revenue increases. What un-
der Johnson went in;o the pockets of
the thieves, goes, under Grant, into
the Golfers of the Treasury, and its
amount is deducted from the annual
taxation.
The stockholders of the New York
Tribune are contemplating the substl-
tuition of some experienced and sensible
person for Whitelaw Reid, the present
inefficient managing editor of that pa
per.
A meeting of irish Americans was
held in Kansas city, Missouri, on Sat-
urday night, to give expression to their
feeling respecting the action of the re-
cent Democratic State Convention
Resolutions were adopted con veying the
idea that the Irish voters there had
been long enough without representa-
ton. One of the resolutions requests
Republican State Convention to be
held at St. Charles to nominate r. I.
Vanhorn for the Governorship, pledg-
ing him the majority of the Irish vote
of Jackson County.
Theodore Tilton, it is said, will soon
be inaugurated as managing editor OF
the New York Tribune
ARRANGEMENTS OF GRAFT Brown.
The Republicans of Missouri assem-
bled in State Convention Sept 5. adopt
ed platform, from which we take the
7th resolution. 1t is terrible indict-
ment of the tag end of Greeleyism, by
men who were his friends once and
know his treachery, ''ineffciency and
lack Of official integrity" The resolu
is as follows:
Resolued, That the Republicans Of
Missouri, in convention assembled-a
convention largely composed of those
who aided in the elevation to his pres
ent position the Governor of this state
do declare that as an executive he
has failed to discharge the solemn obi
cations devolved upon him by the con-
stitution. He has not enforced the
laws, but anarchy and confusion reign
in many parts of the State. Murders
and outlaws go unwhipped of justice,
and innocence stands defenceless and
powerless before it's enemies while he,
in neglect of his duties and 10 violation
of his solemn oath, plots and intrigues
for personal political perferment That
his continued exhibitions of inefhciency
and lack of official integrity have de
stroyed all the confidence ever reposed
in his administrative ability, and his
safety as an executive officer and we
emphatically condemn every effort
looking to bis elevation to a position
where, by the remotest possibility, the
enforcement Of the laws of the
nation may depend upon his will
and efforts.
A special from Washington says
mass meeting of the colored voters of
the District of Columbia was called for
Wednesday night to elect delegates
to the Liberal Convention of colored
men at indianapolis At the timesap-
pointed only one colored man assembled
and soon after an adjournment took
place by unanimous consent.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, Sept. A.
The Daily Eagle this afternoon pub
fishes letter from Samuel D. CLAW. an
able lawyer of this city, heretofore a
Democrat, and one of the most effect
i've stump speakers in Western Mchi-
gan, renouncing and denouncing the
Greeley Democracy.
The letter concludes as follows eff
the present cry for reforms means, as
| believe it does, simply to place tie
control of the government in the hand
OF few seedy politicians, | cannot sup
port 1T; and if to shake hands across
the "bloody chasm," means to reward
equally the rebel and Union soldier,
and honor alike the rebel and Union
dead. [ will not do it,"
New YORK Sept. 6.-General Dix
has written letter to w. A. Wheeler,
Chairman of the Republican Conven-
ton, accepting the nomination for
Governor, in which he said ''If the
Convention deemed it of SO much i'm
portance in the existing condition of
things in the State and the Union as
to make the nomination in opposition
to my expressed wishes, | am sure The
members must have been actuated by
public consideration too strong to be
dlsregarded on my part. | therefore
waive all objections and accept it.
Should it be ratified by the people, no
effort on may part will be spared to aid
them in the redress of the abuses which
dishonor the State, and which will H.
hict lrretrievable injury on its charact-
Ell, unless arrested by timely and effici-
ent rem edies"
The New York Times publishes
several earnest and affecting messives
recently written by Uncle Horace to
Secretary Delano, in which the good
old gentleman appearantly urges the
appointment of certain of his neighbors
and friends to sundry and divers lucra-
tive Federal Offices in New York. Just
when the spasm of civil service reform