Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-12-17
THE SENATORSHIP.
An Able Review of the Course of
Senator Carpenter.
The Objections TO his Return to the
Senate Considered.
Reasons Plainly Stated Why He
Should be Returned.

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The following editorial we cop
from the Fond du Lac Reporter. II il
the fullest review of Senator Carpen
ter's distinguished services to tn
country that we have yet seen il
print. Because of this, a. d for th
purpose of correcting many erroneou
impressions which have grown out o
the Misrepresentation OF the Demo
cratic press, we publish the article il
full, and ask our readers to give it
careful perusal and their candid con
aideration:
Both the opposition and Republican
press not only of our State but through
ont the entire country, are discussing
the question of who shall be elected
United States Senator at the expira
ton of Senator Carpenters term Of
office to expire on the 4th day Of
| March next.
Our State having gone so over
whelmingly Democratic last fall, il
was generally believed impossible for
US to regain it in so short time, and
many believed that a Democrat would
be elected in his place.
But the battle has been fought
The Republican party has triumphed.
The Republicans have the Legislature,
and are to elect the United States
Senator. Who shall it be? We be-
.ieve the solution OF this question TO
be pregnant with great and import
ant results to the future of the Repub-
lican party in this State. Senator
Carpenter is on his first term. 1t is
the usual custom if man has filled
his first term of office well, with cred
it to himself and honor 20 his constit-
uents, that he should be re elected
We have given this subject a great
deal of thought and have come 10 the
conclusion that Senator Carpenter has
done nothing which viii Justify the
party in throwing him overheard and
eiecting any other man in his place
Although We have the Legislature by
a large majority, yet still the opposi-
ton have carried the State on the
popular vote, and to defeat Senator
Carpenter now, would in our Judge
ment, place the state in the future in
the hands of the Democratic party.
That Senator Carpenter has his
faults we admit. No man is wholly
free from them or exempt from mis-
takes. Faults there are in the bright
est characters and spots on the suns
surface. The question is not whether
Senator Carpenter has faults or has
made mistakes; but wheth II taken as
a whole his public life has been such
as to merit praise or censure. Mr.
Carpenter has led this campaign of
1874. For weeks before the election
he spoke every day and sometimes
twice day to large audiences, ad
dressing many thousands of our peo-
pie and always to his advantage and
their satisfaction. The Opposition
have pointed their poisoned arrows at
him and made him the central figure
OF the contest. The Opposition press
of the entire Union has declared the
issue to be whether or not he should
be re elected, aud the campaign led
by him, in which his friends through
out the State have worked with al
most superhuman energy, has resulted
in the election OF Republican Legis-
lature by large majority. Candid,
tair thinking men concede that he is
entitled to reap the fruits of this vic
tory In Milwaukee city, where Sen
ator Carpenter resides, SIX out of elev-
en- members were elected favorable to
his return to the senate. In Rock
| county where the contest was openly
made for OF against his re election, he
carried the county by almost full
majority In Menash, and we believe
in every locality where the issue was
openly made he was successful. 1t is
true that in many localities in the state
men have been asked TO pledge them
selves against him, but we believe
that in almost every instance the mem
t ers would have been elected the
same if they had not made the pledge.
We are informed that it was partly an
organized plan throughout the state to
get candidates TO pledge themselves
against him, thereby hoping to secure
his defeat. But as we have said this
cannot be done without working the
ruin of the Republican party in tins
state. His record in the state the
people have not forgotten and will moi
soon forget.
Previous to the firing upon Fort
Sumter lie was known not only as &
lawyer; though it is not too much t.
say that he had won conspicuous pc
sition before the people, not as a can
dldate for office he sought none
but as a patriotic orator.
We remember his first appearance
before the pub ic. II was the day at
ter the firing on Fort sumter, on al
occasion when the Chamber of Com
merce of Milwaukee resolve d to raise
the flag and pledge themselves TO ;
| new devotion TO the Government
Mr. Carpenter made the first address
on that occasion, and it was the frs
move in the West in support of thu
Government. Although at the tins
Democrat he took ground openly
against secession. In that speech h
said Secession is not remedy TO
evils, il is a heresy that must b,
drowned in blood; it cannot be rea
soned down; and much as We all d,
and must regret it there is but on
OF two things lett us We must crusI
it or it will crush us. Such Is tn
state of feeling in the South that moth
ing bu, the sword can remedy il; it i
our duty as good citizens and Christ
ian men to prosecute this war SO Ell
| fcien;ly and end it so speedily, tina
Secession shall know no resurrection
Again on the return OF the lst WI:
consin Regiment from ninety days SCI
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