Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-04-16
The Registry Law, and Changers.

Inc R6cine JOURNAL IN an arttcic
on tEe attempt BY the sham Reform
ers 10 repeal the registry law says:
These reflections have been forced
upon US, by witnessing the strife that
has been going on in our State legis-
iaturo for the repeal of the registry
law,--the only real safeguard TO the
parity Of the ballot.box, which is the
safoty 20 our republican institutions.
1t seems too much like foul SANDER,
10 say that tboy are any c0nsidera bic
number of men, claiming TO be re-
spectacle, that would oppose meas
ure go undeniably fair and equal in
it's operations upon all parties but
this unequal fairness is the very
foundation of the opposition which
the Democratic party have always
waged against the registry law; bal
io,-box stufting and repeating, has
always been strong point in their
game.
The registry law, like most of the
good enaetmeDts that place ali par
ties, scots aud individuals upon q fair
and equai footing, is bantling, Gf
not by birth, certainly by adoption
OF The Republican party and that
party has watched it and guarded il
with care. 1t brings no advantage
to the Republican party over al hon.
est enemy, but it possessed soma
hindrances TO u dishonest party !;
hence, we 500 determination on The
part Of this wonderful reform, or
WHAT'S it, party TO wipe it out. 1t
is what might be expected OF g pure
" democratic party; but IN consider
alton Of the abundant and loudly pro
claimed professions of the conglomer-
ati3n known as the reform party, in
our State, one would hardly DO look
ing for the repeal OF the registry and
Sabbath laws, as the great desidera-
tum Of their legislative efforts. Bat
the flesh il weak, and in its accident
nj possession Of power, it is natural
that the what-is-it party should COM
mence casting about for some means
of retaining their slippery hold upon
it. The party being composed OF
factions as widely separated in prln-
ciplcs "a those OF heaven and hi,
their only hope lies in strategy; and
that strategy lies IN the repeal Of
the registry law, and the law prohih-
lting the sale of Intoxicating drinks
on the Sabbath and on election days.
The one is as necessary 20 the future
success of the so-calIed reform party
as the other; for few men can be in
puoed to engage IN the damnable
transaction of illegal voting, when
perfectly sober. X
Now. this reform party has pro-
fessed TO BIO the especial champion of
the farmers cause but how are they
fulfilling their inflated promises 10
the farmers2 In the first place, the
great reform Governor has gone
down, the abject tool of Q great rail-
road monopoly; and the reform leg
isIature has repesied the registry law,
which Is direct blow aimed ct the
interests of the farmers, for il is done
for no other purpose than To over
come the strength of the rural dis
tricts by illegal voting in the cities
and villages. We know that the
registry law is of no particular adj
vantage to the country towns, for
thera could not be much illegal vot-
ing there anyhow but it ia OF some
| importance 50 the farmer TO know
that his vote ia not neutralized by
an illegal vote in the city, through
the hand Of some one, whose feet bad
not touched the American soil per
haps six months ago That's ,chat's
the matter rth the registry tao II
prevents Illegal voting and tina: ~
why the great reform party demands
its repeal