Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-20
conc REXAiONAL CANDIDATES.

Al ile l'IcctIt iAlidr EoaAcAaaaHs
the people generally, and the Gran
gers are talking freely and thinking
earnestly over the question. who
shah he our next Congressman, aud
each newspaper in the several local
titles rejecting TO some extent the
sentiment of that place. In one
place we see that the Improvement
Of the Wisconsin River is the all
absorbing idea-cheap Transports
tion-and that no Inan, not even a
Granger, can as fully appreciate the
benefits growing out OF this i'm
proyement as he who lives La the
valley Of this grand old river, and
daily iHhales its fogs and exhala-
tions that there Is something both
heroic and eloquent attending the
flow of that stream to the father OF
waters that does not generally dis
selninate itself throughout the Dis
iIic,. But the improvement still
goes on, and appropriations are yet
being expended, and DO one has
heretofore claimed it as specially.
Other. claim that the locality OF the
Congressman residence is para
mount; that the Office is sort OF a
floating honor TO be shifted from
one county to another ia the Dis
trict for the honor Of that county, as
If man elected from Iowa or Grant
county would not as faithfully rep
resent the other counties in the Dis
trict as if be lived there; that If a
man should be SO unfortunate as TO
live at any time In his life III
county where Congressman lived,
he is therefore forever thereafter
disqualified until every other county
has been equally honored. We be-
lieye in a reasonable rotation IN
office, but have yet to learn that the
embodiment Of wisdom, or party ia
office, or the qualifications OF
Representative ia Congress, neces-
saiiiy shifts from county to county
as the everlasting years roll on.
Others claim that he must be
Granger. There are some things
which this order claim as a spec
ialty, with which we sympathize
cheap transportation; bring the
producer and consumer as near to-
gether as possible build up the
factory and farm side by side, and
SO far as is consistent do away with
middiemen. All the candidates in
the field, no doubt, will indorse this
sentiment and all strive faithfully
and honestly to bring about such
results But we do not belong to
that class that would build up the
farm to the destruction OF the fac
tory; that would drive the plow
and stop the forge; that would raise
produce and abandon the mines.
We believe there is wealth beneath
as well as in the surface OF the earth
that needs encouragement and pro-
lection. Agriculture Is noble en-
ployment and adds wonderfully to
the wealth of the country, but 1t Is
not all +: the mineral resources OF the
country are great; and we think
also that the man who carries the
produce, the coal and the metal to
the consumer adds wealth alike to
the world as he who first produced
it, and his calling is equally noble
and useful. The ''honest farmer
sounds we'll, but does not the ''honest
mechanic, the "honest doctor and
the.'honest lawyer" sound as well Is
there anything inherent in the rais-
ing Of corn and beans that make men
wiser, better or happier, than IN
other pursuits /! But, says another,
we have always had in this district
professional interchangeable rep
resent US, and the spirit of the age"
now demands man from the indus
trial classes; as if lawyers or pro-
fessional men generally, were not
industrious. We venture the pre-
diction that there is not lawyer of
respectable reputation u the state,
but that spends as many hours per
day in his office in hard study, pre-
pairing his cases for trial, or in the
court room attending to business, as
tue average of Changers spend in
labor upon their farms. And We
do not insist that a lawyers standard
of morality ought to be higher and
more exclusive than that of provi-
dence, which sends the rain alike
upon the just and upon the unjust,
and if he gets bad man clear,