The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-03-13
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NEWTON, March 10th, Is


NEWTON. March 10th, 1873.
Mr.. EDITOR "A few days more and
the Conventions for the purpose of NOM
mating candidate for County Judge
viii have assembled and placed in the
field their respective nominees and be-
fore that all important work is perform
ed, we should like to say a word to the
delegates that will compose those Con-
ventions.
It is much to be lamented custom
with party conventions, to nominate men
for the various County offices who viii
draw the largest party vote On the dayof
election and everything else has to sue
cumb to this all absorbing point. Now
we cry out against this grevious fault for
the reason that often those men placed
in the field in this manner are dishonest,
corrupt, Incorporate and somewhat ex-
travagent so far as handling public funds
are concerned. The county, to her sor-
in this manner OF performing business,
and can dance to the tune OF deficit of
two or three Thousand dollars in the
counties funds.
1t seems that at last the people of the
county are awakening to the realization
of those facts, all are bound to keep up
that reformation which was so nobly be-
gun or 4 years ago, and so faithfully
sustained to the present day and now
it becomes the duty of those conventions
that meet on the 18th to support this for
ward step in the politics of our county.
The county has to-day model set of
officers, men who never had any connec-
ton with that CLIQUE, who a few years
ago, modelled and shaped the politics OF
the county, carrying dishonesty and cor
ruption, the most open and shameful, into
every Office, turning everything into pc
cuniary profit and gain and then, when
discovered, make their exit from the
county and are allowed to depart in peace
and quietness from the theater of their
crimes, as if they were law-abiding hon
est citizens who performed acts of self
denial and uprightness, while servants OF
the public.
Then We would ask the delegates from
every town not to be led by the nose into
supporting any candidate, be he Demo-
GRAFT Oh Republican, who has to gain the
nomination by lavishly spending money,
who continually slaps you on the back
and Familiarity calls you Tom and Dick,
as will best answer his ends and purpos-
es, is man that should not receive one
vote in the convention in short, he is
such man as Cooper describes
s.TLe man that halls you Tom Jack,
And proves by humping on your back,
How he esteeriIs your merit,
Is such q friend, chat ne had need
lie very much his friend, indeed
To parton or to bear It,.
Let the nomination be given on the
merits of the applicants past career and
do not revive that old defunct custom of
placing nominee in the field for. the
simple reason that he has been q Demo
GRAFT or Republican all his life place an
honest, just, upright and capable man in
nomination, and the county will respond
by polling one of the largest votes ever
cast and if the candidate is elected,
each delegate can conscientiously feel,
that he has discharged his duty towards
himself, his colleagues and the county.
More anon, COLE.
Friend Cole is right and can do no bet
ter that impress these principles on his
fellow citizens in Newton who have late
" fallen from grace considerably.-ED