The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-10-09
Manitowoc Tribune.
SUFFICIENT.
THE CAMPAIGN!
Brilliant Opening
PRESENT ISSUES DISCUSSED
An Able Review Of the
Situation.
Speech of Gov. C. C. Washburn
At Fond du Lac, October s, 1873.
Brilliant Opening
PRESENT ISSUES DISCUSSED
An Able Review of the
Situation.
Speech of Gov. C. C. Washburn
At Fond du Lac, October s, 1878.

When | accepted the other day, nom.
ination for Governor, l stated that | should
feel it to be my duty to address the PEG.
pie, to some extent, between that time and
the day of election.
Though to me there is no duty more
unpleasant than that of speaking in pub
lie, and though there is scarcely any voice
that l would not rather hear than my own,
| still regard it as the right of the people
to hear from their public servants, and
the duty of the servant to respond, how
ever unpleasant that duty may be.
PEOPLES MONEY HONESTLY EXPENDED,
Having been Governor for nearly two
years, the people who pay the bills have
the right to ask if the State has been
wisely governed, and their money hon.
estly expended. l think I may safely as
sure them that the administration of the
State Government in the past two years,
has, in all its branches, been entirely in
accordance with their wishes. Perfect
peace has prevailed throughout our entire
borders. There have been no attractions
of law, that the local authorities have not
been entirely competent to deal with. The
State was never more free from crime,
and there was never a higher moral tone
pervading it than now. A kind Provi-
dence has blessed the husbandman with
such a harvest as has not been known for
many years, and good prices are pretty
well assured until the next harvest. Our
manufacturing industry is progressing
rapidly, and gives promise of bright fu-
ture for US as a great manufacturing State,
and. our railway development has been
unabated.
COST Of STATE GOVERNMENT.
The ordinary expenses for the support
of the State Government for the last year
were 1887 ,594.S3, or about 80 cents per
capita.
The extraordinary expenses were $73S,-
S49.13. These extraordinary expenses
are: for interest on our State debt, $780,
O3215; for our charitable and penal in
situations, $45S, 7O7.S9; for special appro-
priations, $3.50, 10S.09.
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The management OF all our public in
situations appears to have been economic
al and humane.
Our charitable institutions are excelled
by no other state, and it is source of just
pride to our people that it is SO. Nothing
can reflect greater credit upon the state,
than the fact that here, all that human
kindness can do for the relief of those,
who, in the Providence of God, have been
deprived of reason, speech, hearing and
sight, rs done. All this, olI people have
done in the most loving and generous
manner, and l have never yet found a
man within the state mean enough to
complain that it was so. 1t is a sad
thought that so many require our aid.
The Northern Hospital for the Insane,
at Oshkosh noble structure-but only
about two-thirds completed, was opened
about ninety days ago, and l INDUCED the
hope that it would afford accommoda-
lions for most of the insane in the state
who could not be cared for at Madison
but it was filled to its utmost capacity
almost Immediately, and yet we know of
many who, from necessity, are deprived
of hospital treatment, and who, in jails
and poor houses, are dragging out life
more intolerabie than death itself. /
shall ask your representatives next win
ter, should be Governor, to provide for
the completion of this hospital on the
original plan, when it is hoped that all
may be taken in and properly cared for.
| do not know that I need say more in
regard to the affairs of our state, except
to remind the people that this prosperous
and happy condition of state affairs exists
and has existed for many years under a
Republican state administration. The
public, | believe, are satisfied; at least the
administration has not and cannot be sue
cessfully assaulted, and the people will
keep it in power so long as it fairly and
honestly represents their wishes. When
it fails to do that, it must give place to a
party that will. That the Republican
party will continue to meet the Just ex-
pectations of the public, 1 cannot doubt.
TO IL, o,,21oc - l,o.r
platform in this and other states, the PEG.
pie must be satisfied. But 1 do not dis
guise from myself the fact that platforms
are often made only TO be broken; or for
get that HindoO adage, which says, that
words are the daughters of earth, but
deeds are the sons of heaven" The peo
pie are not going to be satisfied with fair
words, well said, but will require deeds to
accord with them.
CALAMTTIEs OF TWO YEARS AGO.
1t is now lacking but three days of be
ing two years, since 1 addressed the PEG
pie of this city jointly with Judge Doc
little, my opponent for Governor. Or
the morning that was leaving this city
and while waiting at the railway station
the news was received that the great city
of Chicago was in ashes. / shall never
forget the emotions of that hour, or the
looks of anguish and despair of the as
sembled multitude, some of whom were res
idents of that unfortunate city, while many
others had near and dear friends there
But we live to see new and better Chi
cago. The despair of that day soon CAV,
way before the in1 Cmitable will of ON
people. A few hours later, and the tale
of Peshtigo and other fated towns smot,
the ear. But while the memory of thos'
dread calamities has almost passed away
the remembrance of the noble charitie
of the world which they called forth, i
still fresh to remind US of that touch o
nature which makes the whole world kin.
FINANCIAL REVULSION.
Great and tragic as was the calamity o