Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-11-27
The Wisconsin Farmers and Cover
nor Washburn.


The defeat of Governor Washburr
of Wisconsin, for recollection, on tn
4th instant, is announced as q "far
mers' victory" We do not see how
1t can be. His defeat may have beef
caused by farmers votes, but instea,
of being victory for their cause
we ca not imagine q worse defeat
No public man especially no Cover
nor OF State, ever has been, or ever
could be, more devoted to the rea
iuterest of the people as against tn,
monopolists than Governor Wash
burn has been. The farmers of the
State found in him the truest friend
they ever bad. He protected their
interests against the railroad grab
bers who sought to fitch their lands
from them under the railroad and
bond mortgage outrage, and has in
every emergency stood between the
people and the would be Cypress,
ers and plunderers. Surely the far.
mers of Wisconsin cannot be- igno-
rant OF this fact, and it does not
seem possible that they could have
been such ingrates, or so short
sighte as deliberately to have join
ed the ranks of his enemies and help
ed TO slaughter him. This would
have been more atrocious than was
the stabbing of Caesar by Brutus.
There must, therefore be some mis-.
take about this matter.
We have therefore taken frequent
occasions to warm the farmers and
granger 9" of the danger there is of
their organized movement against
the monopoIists being betrayed by
the politicians into the hands of their
enemies. While in Iowa and Illinois
this warning had been generally
needed, yet we apprehended that 10
Wisconsin the farmers have uncon.
clously allowed themselves 10 be
used as oats paws. The reform
party" which has elected Governor
Washburn's opponent, was really
gotten up and managed by the old
Democratic leaders OF the State. To
ali intents and purposes, it was the
old Democratic party in The disguise
of farmer. Its successful candidate
for Governor is "a Democrat of the
old school" and the Demo cratic pa
pers of the State, and of the whole
G >untry, are claiming his election as
Ga victory"
The facts as regards the so.called
"Reform movement in Wisconsin are
these: The liquor interest of the
State and the railroad interest com
blned, under the leadership of the
Democrats, and deliberately planned
TO seduco the "grangers" by making
loud pretentions of"anti-monopoly."
Some of the "grangors" were thus
enuapped. They din't see the
wheel within the wheel" which
managed the movement-didn't sus-
pect that the Milwaukee and ST
Paul Railroad men and other rail.
road men were really at the bottom
of the "Reform" party, and that the
whisky people, who are anxious to
have the new State Temperance law
repealed, were its chief workers
The farmers are the tail of the kite
and they didn't know it. They will
fiud it out in due time-will find ouI
that they have been bamboozlec
most outrageously. at
The farmers of Wisconsin could
not have been guilty of greater act
of ingratitude than that of opposing
Governor Washburn, their tried anC
true champion--tbeir best friend
And We warn the farmers movemen
OF the West that by torsaking theiI
known friends at the wrong. time
at the beck of professional politician
and whisky heads, as they have don,
IN this instance, they will utterly fai
of attaining their object-will b
sold out to the monopolists-anC
their Granger organization will b
destined to an early and an inglori
Gus failure.