Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The organ of the Reform party
1T Madison is either very carr ,ss of
truth in it's statements in regard 10
state affairs, or else il is very i'll in
formed. or it has sources Of informa-
ton that ordinary mortas do no,
possess IL says that "the single
"item of stationery for com mittees
"cost the Legislature of 1873 1908
"35 !; for the same purpose the Il"ei.-
"ia'ure of 1874 expended only S292.-
"98" According to the report of the
Secretary of State the whole expendi-
ture for stationery for the Legislature
of 1873 was but 1885. not onf-half
the sum which the Democrat says
was the coat for stationery for CON-
mittees alone. If all the Democrats
figures of Reform savings are "a wide
of the truth as this statement is it is
welcome to all the capital that will
result theretrom tn it's party - MI
,caukee Wisconsin.
The Legislature OF Wisconsin ad-
iourned on Wednesday of this week.
1t was the frat L Culture elected
Under the Farmers or Reform mocp-
| men'. Hence it. has been watched
with much attention and interest BIZ
men OF parties. Knowing the haste
in which the combination was form
ed, that resulted in success last fall,
he Age cautioned its readers not to
expect to much for the new Admin
,stration. The honesG Reformers
have been out generated by the
| mopopt ly tools who were elected to
the Legislature As Reform members.
But little has been done for the pee
pie at this session, and considerable
for the monopoIies We have no
'ime to deal with the subject az it
deserves this week, nut shall have
occasion to ailude to it hereafter 49,
Industrial Age. [Grange paper
i Attorney Generals decision I
This we consider altogether the most
outrageous and audacious opinion Of
the age The gentleman, on the spur
OF the moment, puts forth the above
az an official decision of the chief IL W
officer OF the state, and in go doing
places himself squarely in opposition
TO the decision of the Supreme Court
OF Illinois given after year Of patient
hearing and investigation by Judge
Breeze, one OF the foremost, il not
The foremost, judicial light Of the
West among the state judiciariee.
The only presumption that can ac--
count for such an extraordinary state
Of facts, 10 that there was q stipnla-
ton on the part of the Attorney-Gen-
eraI to earn his ELECTION in this way
- Viroquo Censor
There is one thing we wish oul
readers to make note of. That ia
the Governor OF Wisconsin committed
a greater outrage upon the peol h OF
large portion of this state, by Ger
litying away a million Of acres OF
good land TO the Central Wisconsin
Railroad Company, while the qnes'
tion was pending in The Supreme
Court OF the State, than the Barst ow
administration with the forty thieves
committed in taking The La Crosse
Roilroad hnpds, The aoron rsr's' !
responSit Il for both acts aud the r.
sult will be the same. lhe people
will hurl tie so-called Reform party
from power, as il did The Democracy
years ago, at the next state election
-M0nroe Sentinel.
The Tribune under the J la OF
"homsge TO Mr. Sumner" suggests
that Congress pass his resolution, OF
Iiterating everything that keeTe
alive the memories Of the rebellion
and lay it IS s. graceful tribute upon
bis grave. We suggest, "a an amend
ment, that number OF wounded
Union soldiers be shot, and also laid
with it, as living sacrafce, and that
Atrychnine ne administered 10 The re
maindcr 1t is passing strange that
some people connot honor the mem j.
ry of The dead without an endeavor
to make virtues of heir + Il IS and
their f,ibles : Chicago Journal,
Tho great question before che
people Of Wisconsin to-day il, "How
long was the session Of the Legislu-
!. tnre ?" Ia the Madison Democrat il
is Insisted that it was but forty mine
days in The News it is gwen at fl
ty seven days; while, under certIf.
Gates from the Speaker and Clerk
of the Assembly, the employees Of
that body drew sixty days pay. We
suggest that the Reform Governor
issue q proclamation to settle this
question among his own househt IT,
and that he write it so plainly that
he who reads il can tel on which
side he stands whether with the
sixty day men or with the forty
miners. La Crosse Republican.
The Madison Democrat says tina:
if it had not been for the Republican
Senate that stood in the way, the
amount Of the state tax voted could
have been reduced $500, 900, leaving
only about 5000 20 be raised. Ths
is exceedingly cheap kind of Reform
literature. So far as truth is concern
cd it might as well claim that had it
Lot been Tor the X put lican Senate
there would not have been any state
lax necessary, but the state treasury
would have been abls to distribute o
FIVE per cent. dividend to ax-oayers
at the end of the year --MiI, VlScon-
Sln.
The Ret rm Legislatures idea of
reform may be learned from the fact
that the Lrgi l.iure adjaurOed after
q short session Of forty -nine days, but
not until they bad passed resolutions
all wing officers and employees to
draw pay for sixty days Instead of
back pay, Reformers 'leve in for
ward pay, for work they never in
tend to perform. Berlin C0urant
Fernando Wood has turned Re-
former, as was natural y to be expect