The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-10-08
ABOUT NOMINATIONS.


| Iron the Two Rivers Chronicle.
We don't want to dictate to the reformers
as to who shall nc nominated, at the forth
coming convention, for county officers
Its 10 mere our bushes than that of any
other man in the county. And yet, it is,
perhaps, true that one who publishes paper
takes more pains to ascertain the drift O
public sentiment than one wLo does not.
In our judgment, the journalist who is not
a candidate for Office himself, and who is
up to the times in ascertaining tire current
news Of the day IN the locality in which he
publishes paper, has peculiar oEportunit; es
fer sclectiog from number Of aspiring
candidates, aud is less likely to determine
his choice through the influence of bias or
pre- udice than one Of most any other pro-
! fession.
Now, MI, Candidate, don't ges ready to
send your paper back, thinking that We
airs going to name SOMA one else for the
office you 50 much covet. We are going to
| 10 no such thing, and unless your claims
are silcnced by tie ador ton OF the following
general tests, your chances are as good AS
any otner mans. We shall call no lanes
but the Chronicle is in favor of nomina
ting for Legislative Office (ltt) no man who
in the past has souSl,t to make the Office a
step stone for his own Individual alvaoce-
msnt without regard to the general wei.
fare, or who promises 10 the future so to d., !;
/ t2d) no man who in the present emergency
does not pass for an honest, rs well as q
capable, man; (3l( no man for shis or
running on ticket With others, does not
solicit for the ~hole ticket, If composed of
good, capable and honest men, the same
support that he does for himself. This
last test we erred little two years ago,
and the fact that some of the present re-
form incumbents were elected by large ma
jorities, while othcgs receiving roninat,ons
for office having the b.stowal of printing
jobs were siSnally deseas.d, and the patron
age bestowed accordingly, :. at least zig
uihcant, and shows that our third and last
test is OF some Importance, and Il proper
one to apply by the press of the dominant
party. Tie retormers who help refo, m
candidate to Office, have right to dennnd
his assistance in return for other off :es.
Hreformers are elected by large majorities
to every of6cs that has no printing patron
age to besscw, and radicals to every one
! that has, and this is done year after year,
I les the reform majority be ever SO great,
tire conviction will force itself upon the
newspaper mind thst shenanisan has been
resort-d to. Though as an outsider, We
have 20 pecnlilry interest in the matter,
We feel that this practise Of running for
Office on one side while fgurng to bestow
the emoumcnt, Of other Offices to profess
ed political enernes, ought to be stopped if
/ it has ever beer heretofore INDUCED. We
will not Assert that MS practice has ever
obtained 10 this colntfy, but we have dis
! tinct recollection that the Tribune has bern
very wrathy ~h.n, on a former o.casion,
that paper charged that an officer, elected
as a republican, bad bestowed the printin.
patronage of his Office to opposition papers.
L he only country Offices filled by republi-
cans two years ago happened to be those
having this kind Of patronage, and We have
! grave reason to fear that this result WAS
not entirely distastefui to some of the other
/ successful candidates on the democratic
ticket. Be this as Il may, we think the re-
form party owea it 70 itself to see that
none but firm and perfectly reliable men
are nominated, and then see to it that they
work together for the general good Of the
whole ticket.
( Whether the Chronicles Suggestion in
This behhf is acted upoa or not, we have
10 hesiration 10 making it, and also sfoph-
tecyir. that if certain changes are made in
the ticket Of tHo years ago, there will be
no difficulty ia electing the uholc reform
(, ticket this fail. Neither do sc hesitate to
declare that It would be bad policy to place
on the ticket this fall the names of those
who were defeated two Year, ago.