Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-11
The Senatorial Result-Doolittle and
tire Dead-Lock-Cameron and Car
penter.

tire ead-LOck-CamerOn6 anu Gar
penter.
IF the State OF Wisconsin had been
INDUCING in roaring drunk, AID
then gone to bed and dreamed of al
possible and impossible events, nc
body's brain could have imagined sc
strange and impossible q denoue
ment to the dead lock in the Legis.
lature as took place in the joint con-
vention or the 3 inst, and the Dem.
ocratic caucus that cooked the mat.
ter up.
James r. DDolit,ls has been poliii
caly dead and buried for years. He
comes forth in his grave clothes. His
bones rattle. The Connatty letters
diffased perfume that alone neu'
tralrzed the effiuvia of the charnel
house. It was fitting that 8 dead
man should pick the dead lock. Doo-
little got into the Democratic-coali-
ton boiling conspirators. His solemn
sepuIcral voice invested him with q
power that no living weight could
have copjured up. He commanded
his Democratic brethren to steal
from the Republican party the sens.
torial honor. He fiattered the boil
tiers by off ,ring them the choice Of
the candidate 80 that he should be
plant in Democratic hands. He had
been United States Senator him-
self. He showed the motley caucus
what an easy thing it was to make q
Senator. He gathered up a few
pl.nks that both parties used, and
put them together for a Platform. II
had no nails 10 il. no rough or ragged
edges that would cause remorse,
anxiety or despair. Both Bsechf
and Tilton could have stood on thst
rlltform. Next, he said to the bel
ters, bring on your man, 1T him
swear by it, and then you swear by
him Judge Cole would not do. BE
coul not be handled as a lump OF
dough. The platform flashed along
the wires and it struck Hon. Angu.
Cameron of Lacrosse. The boilers
and the Bnurbons buried all theiI
political differences at bis feet, and
nov neither party knows who has
got the Senator. Has the Democra.
tic party surrendered to the Repnb.
licans or have they made raid into
our camp and captared Senator
blanche He can act with what party
i pleases or form party of bis own
II is Republican, it is said, bu
Democrats have made him Senator
Both the Boilers and Democrat
have proven false to their pledge anc
betrayed their respective cOnstitu'
ents, and each party hesitates tc
sanction the doubtful choice.
Bat this process of gobbling or
unknown men, by sudden and acct
dental coalition is weakening th'
mower of the Northern states il
Congress. Next session, the lowe
House of Congress will be as fully
under the sway of pardoned and i'm
penitent rebels from the South anc
their sympathisers from the Nortf
IA it was in the last days of Presi
dent Buchanan. To face such {
crowd we will need even such rough
and ready representatives. as Benz
f. Butler. We may pronounce bit
Ter anathemas against those who
bottled the nomination of Senator
Carpenter. The defeat of a Repub,
lican so radical as Carpenter will
eabolden the South to believe tina
We have abandoned the reconstruc
ton policy. We shall have to meet
propositions to repeal tho who'll
body of The reconstruction laws, anC
tho constitutional amendments will
become a dead letter if the Senate
should fail into Democratic hands
We shalI long for Carpenter back IL
bis place again. Mr.. Doolittle already
proposes to qualify suffrage. We
shall be called upon to compensate
the South tor Ill the losses suffered
by tue war, including the value o
slave property, or abolish our pen
sion laws, cease to pay our sollierI
BY whose agency these losses wers
oooasloned. The whole future o
the country is unsettled. The fnan
ciaI thermometer already marks {
rise 10 gold, and though provision ii
made for the prospective redemption
OF the national currency, yet CAPT
tai. ever sensitive, indicates thu
coming storm. But the probabilty
is that the conduct of she mex
House of Representatives will 81
shock the people of the NortherI
States, that such a man as Matt. Il
Carpenter may be elected Wee Pres
ident of the United States 10 1876.
The Railroads.