, 1873-09-19
NOTES AND OPINION.

olovon, and the Democrats ono. Tho aggregate
/ md average for tho fourteen namoB on oaoh
ticket IL: Anti-Monopoly, III, PIT; average,
| 10,087. Democratic, 122,445; average, 8,740
| Republican, 05,837; average. 0,845.
| -of tho situation In 1oua, tho Davenport
Democrat says:
| =, Tho Anti Monopoly Conventions Throughout tho
looking bluer end, growing aicker eyory day.. Thoy
positively begin to smell mice. and do not fcel In
ware County heM lis convention on tho iai', Which
w VA, unusually large and enthusiastic, md not auglo
sappost t'aem and thoy WIN break up tho rathole of
| tito Oourt-uolso nnd cloan out tho vormLn.
| -Of tho intonded candidates Of tito OppoBition
In Wisconsin, for Governor aud State Troasuror,
tho Milwaukee Sentinel sayA.
aosa1nr William H. Taylor Of Dano, wi1l be tho man (for
of o s.e u sis nins g.
caety ana is tho aushor Of tho Dog law, which is sup
Of tho stnto and o il an cminent,y worfay ind re-
ete9iG et n Eenemsn It ~ also pretty well aettlod
Of ha ey viii 10 nominated tx for isH stao rSoas
feF 1,1 ~am,4, 4y tGroaK th Financial training ana
ake LIN oaaoe y, all In no w u
nominated, WILL mako It l!voly Tor our candidate on
| olse Is unsettled.
| Tho ca Il for this Convention is extondod to
all "elcotora Of Wikconsin, friendly to genuine
REFORM" Under this call, tho Convention Ia Co.
topped from attempting to throw "aop" to
either Of tho old political organizations now bog
ging furthor continuance Of public conndonco
aud favor. g.. The motto should DO ::
Brain ovory corrupt hoad, without stopping to ask
whether you nro hitting Democrat or d Iscpub-
uoan.-Nadison (1Yis.) Democrat
The time for the reorganization Of political
parties ia ut hand. Tho Democratic party as o
political agent is dead. Tho Republican, party is
nlivo only because it In fed fat with tho uoils Of
Office o.-Col1moms Nis.) Democrat.
q national party, THO Republicans of tasnlo
County rosolyo against monopoly. While up
it; wh,lo stealing in all directions thoy resolve
to bo honest; while practiotng Halary- grabbing,
ther rosolvo against all Balary-grabbers except
@ Gen. ars9nt, the greatest sslary-grabbor Of
-hlr John Q. Gault, QUO Of tho officers OF tho
| hlilWaukee Il st. Paul Railroad, treats the sud-
don inoroaso in freight ratios as a very slight
matter. With q calmness that ia not at I'LL Toot-
consequence. We cnn assure Mr. Gault
that lle Ia mistaken that ho and tho Directors
of tho Company will yet learn that the people Of
hllnnosqta and Wisconsin consider tho arbitrary
OF very much consequence, whothor tho sum
taken from wheat groWors' rockots bu large or
small. We consider Mr.. Qault's dofenBo
OF tho advance In ratoa As putting tho action Of
ia plain confession Of discrimination Of the
most uni Just kind. Unloss the farming pooplo OF
minnesota are vory caroloas Of their own inter-
eats, they will SEQ that the next Legislature
takes stops to prevent similar e1tortion in tho
futuro.-H. Paul Dispatch.
-Just lloro wo should like to ask by what a,-
| tlority tho managers Of the Milwaukee l. st,
Paul and Chicago Il Northwestern undertake to
IN inf
all wheat shipped from Minnesota and Wisconsin
over their linos destined for st. Lonis or down
tho river? . =. lilo people Of Minnesota
s 81 oo1 a2 19s sean. 5 tho .a M
n channel of wj,oat export by tho arbitrary do.
croo of jnnta Of railroad nabobs in Now York
| and thoy will not submit to this outrageous at
tempt to dictate to them to what markets and
| duce.-Sf. Paul Press
This increaso affects tho rates by river also
tho railroad companies having campollod a
uniform advance Of two centH Dor hundred
pounds on all wheat seeking On o.,tlot through
| tho ports Of Lake Michigan. Tho rate from
Winonn, by river and rail, ID now, therefore,
sixteen cents por bushel, instead Of fourteen
ee case from lis lis
stnto a1ono, OIL tho basis Of the increase lust
noted. will amount to tho gum of 1920, ,000.-
Wnona (Minn.) Republican.
| Tho milwaukee, Netps says tho only incroaso
has boon on whont shipped west from Now Lis
bon and Mazomanio, and that ''thc change in
crop oyor tho Wisconsin, roads to
tio niiasisvippi riysr ports to lind a nsarEot 1t 1t
| St. Louis. 1t is Il good way to forco tho crop
| over tho Wisconsin roadB by increasing tho ratio
| lG per cent from Lacrosse to milwaukee,. Wo
| pronounce this move an outrage OIL tho farmers
hero, aud it mill not BE- quietly submitted to.-La-
| Crosse Republican.
III mon arc not elected to tho Legislature
this year that havo sand enough In thoir gizzards
to attack tho railroads in front, funk, and rear,
tho no1t thing the railroads will do will be to
take all tho grain to pay taking it to markot aud
take mortgage OIL the farms to mako up the
balanoo.-La Crosse Democrat.
| -Thero is q rllmor atloat TINT tho Eastern
Directors Of noarly all tic Western railroads
hayo resolved to ra;so tho price Of carrying grain
this fall OIL account of tho abundant oropa. We
don't boLloyeit. but II the report proves true,
thcso Directors will find it about the dearest
extortion won't bo submitted to just now, aud
| would prodnco music by tho ontiro band. There
is decidedly unhealthy feyer prevailing I'll over
tho country, IL regard to railroads, and IN act Of
| this kind would bring OIL sconos OF lawlessnoss
| in which no ono could forosoo the end.-Ohip-
peoa (1Fis.) Herald.
-MonopolieH that will perastently tako ad-
| vantage OF the pooples nocoaBitics, will soon
| ablea the1n to mako euch unhoy and unjust do
mantH. tH.-Trempeeau .Yis.) Jon,na!.
Tho GroatoAt objection les III tho thaory
| that to meet tho nocessitcR Of the Company,
any advance Of MI is necessary, Tho bost policy
| undor tho circumstances would have boon to
have equalizcd down inatoaa OF up. It would 10
difficult to mako tho pooplo beliave that larger
dividends arc nocoBsary'to limo tho pockets Of
Wall strcot brokors.-0shkosh (}Pis,) North
| soesfern
They may rest assured TINT tho noxt Logls-
laturo will appIy ron.ody. III they
pursue All aggressive policy toward tho producers,
II n nft}
ton III will force tho Legislature into adopting
system Of tariff that will react upon thon,. and
moro than conntorbalauco the temporary gain by
tho proposed increase ?-St. OroiI (IFis.) Re
publican,
There il no earthly necessity for an incroaBo
Of freight ratos, and no Justification therefor.
It Ia tono because tho immouHo crop to 10
handled enabloH tLem to tuke advantage OF tile
public; aud that in this view it IL downright
robbery, aud nothing oao.-lteeds1n'y (lYts.)