The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
LIVE ISSUES DISCUSSED.

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GOVERNOR wAsHBURNE AT LA CROSSE
REF ORM HUMBUG FXPosED-THE CUES
TON OF RAILR 'AD CONTROL THE PEo-
Piles RIGHTS DEFENDED A SOUND CUR
RENCY wANTED-DEMOCRATs REsPON
slBLE F r. THE 8 UTHERN DIS RnERs-
REPUBLICAN PARTYs GnD WORKS.
DANGER of RESTORING THE DEMoC-
RACY
Ex-Gov. G. G. Washburn opened the
campaign at La Crosse on the evening of
Thursday, Oc'obel 9Th, at meeting presided
over by Hon. Angus Cameron. We are una
BILE to find room for the speech in full, but
give some of the most significant portions.
INTRODUCTORY.
TWAS not my intention, expectation or
desire to speak to the people this fail. Liv-
ing quietly and conten. eddy on my farm,
should have been entirely pleased to have
renamed there during the pending canvass,
could have lone SO in justice to the party
that has so greatly honored me in days past,
or 10 mys If. The request of the State Gen.
trai Cemmittee that should make some
speeches this fall could not refuse to COM
pl, with. Thankful now and always to my
{, low citizens tor the maly favors have
received at their hands, and especially at
the hands of the Republican party, could
not decline any reasonable request made by
that pa ~, 40 long as believe as I do now,
that the peace, hopes, prosperity. aud happi-
meas Of he country depend on the continued
ascendency Of 1t shall speak to you to-
night, as Railways speak, my sincere convic-
tons regardless of all personal considerations.
l nope hat my views viii meet with your
approval. but fl they do not, I cannot, like
q scurvy politician, seem to see the things
that ale not"
THE BOGUS REFORM PARTY.
| In speaking now on the only live issues
of the country, ia regard to which the people
are So much divided, can hardly hope to
meet he approval Of all my political friends.
In the last year the control OF the State
Government, after fifteen years of honorable
admins RATION. fassed into The hands of the
Democratic party under another name.
This party, which aow carries the banner OF
reform, was kicked out of Office by an indig-
nant people fifteen years ago. Clamorons
and hungry, "meagre, gaunt and GRIM" and
RENE nlberlng the jolly days of Monks Hall.
when they were allowed to sack the State
Treasury and plumber the hool fund, days
that they had so long sighed for the return
Of they raised hue and cry last fall of ex-
travagance and corruption, and told the
people + they could once get into Office and
get hold of the books they would develop
startling things. Their crimes against the
State had been partially forgottsu. and many
good people. hearing the constant clamor,
were, no doubt, led to believe that there
might be something wrong, and were indiffer
ent to he res ults. Well, they have now
been in office about nine months they have
had N control of the books all that time
and you have failed to hear the 81 ghtest
accusation against any department. OF the
State Government while in Republican rule
the strictest fidelity to the public interest.
/ The new State Treasurer will tell yor
that lie found every dollar in the treasury
that belonged there, and the Secretary Of
State will tell you the same thing. How
this contrasts with the condition of the diff
feren. departments when they passed into
/ Republican hands you ell know. VIII any
responsible party connected with the present
State government dare assert that there
has been no defalcation in any office in the
capitol since the Reformers had control Of
lit?
| Coming Into office with great flourish oil
trumpets and parade of honesty, the Re.
formers signalized their advent by q great
sound of retrenchment and economy. and
actually succeeded, by kicking out few
crippled and manned soldiers who had been
. employed around the Capitol, in saving few
hundred dollars.
Their next great achievement, for which
Reformers no doubt feel proud, was to dig
up and pay to the model Reformers of the
period. or place in way to be paid. divers
aad sundry old claims that had three times
been paid In full and to cap the climax
have placed Ia nomination In The great city
If Milwaukee" tne biggest Reformer of the
o, the great Reform engineer OF last fall.
VIII. now stands indicted in the Unit ed States
Court Of this District for defrauding the rev.
enue, and who, If convicted, wdl be wanted
TO serve the COVE nment IN different capac-
lily from that Of an M. G. This last great
croanlDg act was accomplished, according
to Judge Mallory. the opposing candidate
for the nomination, gent eman of high
character and untarnished name. by an ex.
pepdilu,e OF $50 600, in bribery and corrup-
ton. That the Reiormers ought to feel
proud when they hear these things. who can
| drnv That tl4eir new candidate for noliti