The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
An Old Dodge County Republicans
Opinion OF n. H. Dunnell.


An able review Of the ''ArttM Dodger's"
record in Mnnesoto.-Hoav he killed three
birds with one stone achile running State
Superintendent Business Violating the State
Constitution to get himself place-Op'n-
ions of educators, zooseness in accounts, &c.
EDITOR GRANGE ADVANCE:-As ant
old Dodge County Repub]ican-no less
a Republican because member of the
Order which your paper represents-l
wish to give my reasons for opposing
the election Of Mr.. Dunnell to Congress
from the First District. Still adhering
to the Republican party, as do, claim
that I cannot act consistently as u Re-
publican without opposing and voting
against Mr. Dunnell.
One Of the leading features in the
creed Of our party as announced Dy
our National and State Conventions, is
the most rigid economy, with view to
meeting the heavy national obligations
incurred by the war. To this end, pub
lie works of national Importance have
been set aside; shipping on our inland
waters and seaboards, with the lives of
our sailors, have been sacrificed for the
want Of needed river and harbor appro-
priations, and our army, so necessary
for the protection Of families on our ex-
tended frontier from the merciless saw
age, and the loyalists of the South from
the equally brutal remnants of the re-
bellion. has been reduced to such skele-
ton proportions as to become subject
of ridicule 1t is under these pledges
and under these circumstances that Mr..
Dunnell thrusts his hands deep into the
National Treasury to enrich his own
pockets, and when the party all owes the
country in unmistakable tones condemn
the transaction, and other representa-
tives Of our State unite in law for
covering back the money 50 obtained
into the almost bankrupt treasury, Mr..
Dunnell, with a sublime impudence
which even Judas Iscariot did not pos
sess, still clings to the "swag" thus OBJ
tanned.
Mr.. Dunnells course in this respect
was not only in direct violation Of the
pledges Of the party in favor Of strict
economy, but in point Of fact was en-
tirely without excuse. The salaries Of
Representatives had been raised to a
reasonable amount since the war, and at
a time when the legitimate cost Of living
was greater than it has been since. Mr..
D., as lawyer, cannot show in any one
year, from the practice Of his profession,
legitimate receipts amounting to any
thing near the amount he was to receive
and could save from his salary as Rep
resentative. In receiving that Office he
not only agreed to serve for the amount
stipulated, but for four years he "laid
the wires and prostituted the highest
educational Office in our State to secure
that privilege. With US common people,
who make up the body Of his constitu-
ents, we are very glad to receive for our
services the price stipulated, and when
there is difference between employer
and employee as to the real value Of GER
tain services we sometimes compromise
on less amount, and we are led to in
quire-" upon what meat doth this, our
Caesar feed" that he should be so high
above us common mortals in adjusting
the compensation for his services ? No,
Mr.. Dunnell, I think the " common peo-
pie" will be able to show you that two
salaries for one and the same Office is one
too many. When the Republican party
made its pledges Of rigid economy to the
people, brought the general appropria-
tions down to a starvation point and ex-
posed our frontier and southern loyal
lists in the interests of economy, it was
not for the purpose Of creating fund
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