Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-15

intention of voting for Gov Washburn.
Geo. w. Bird, the Governors private
; secretary, wrote and published column
article in the Jefferson Banner, DEM
: ocratic paper of the adamantine school,
in favor ofthe policy ofaccepting Gov.
Washurn as the choice of al. the peo-
; pie of the state of Wisconsin. In no
quarter was there loud word spoken
in objection to him everybody was
satisfied with his administration.
+! Everybody, did we say? Not quite
so. The railroad companies were not
satisfied with Gov. Washburn. because
he had recommended commission to
investigate their matters with the view
of regulating and restricting their
freights he had vetoed the La Crosse
bridge bill; he had put himself into
hostility with large number of lead
ing men in northwestern Wisconsin.
who were engineering humbug rail-
road scheme /; he had offended the Gen.
trail company by refusing to certify to
it the land grant before it had earned
it by building the road from Portage;
the Germans were displeased with him
because he had approved the obnoxious
Graham law These dissatisfied ele-
ments. although representa- ~ large
minority of the people, organized and
m ,de common cause with each other to
defeat Gov. Washburn's re election
They held few OF no public meetings !;
we do not recollect of a single one
Nevertheless, the voting force under
their control was organized more thor
oughly than any body of men was ever
before organized in this state AL
though the campaign was remarkably
quiet one, more money was spent in
certain quarters than had previously
been spsnt sn dozen campaigns, and
the. electors we're brought out to the
polls in greater numbers than had ever
before come out to a state election
Gov. Taylor was farmer and some
Republican farmers were hoodwinked
into voting for him on that ground, and
at the same time the whole railroad
vote was cast for him. While the llq-
uor interest had been thoroughly or
ganized for Gov Taylor at the same
time many very honest and very simple
!, Good Templars were persuaded to vote
for him. also, for no better reason than
forsooth, Mrs. VIM. Taylor was
Good Templar - We refrain from
commenting or the estimation in which
Mr.. Taylor himself held Good Temp
lar, any further than to say that he was
something like one Of the colonies in
our late war, who excused himself for
not giving certain order to his men
on the ground that he was not or speak
ing terms with them. A number of
other little agencies. manipulated by a
skillful and at the same time perfect
ly INSCRIPTIONS opposition, were made
to contribute to the general disaster. .
The day after the election. the Re-
publicans were confronted by the news
of their own defeat. produced in a great
part by their own over-weening conf
dence, which occasioned lethargy and
inactivity, and in another degree by
their own direct agency. Graham law
men had voted with the liquor interest
and Changers had voted with the rail-
road operators. No wonder the disap-
pointment and chagrin were universal.
If the election could have been held
anew one week after, We verify believe
that Gov. Taylor would have lost 5, 600
of the votes he had received week
before, while 1000 Republicans who
had not gone to the polls before, would
have been there very early in the MORN
ing to give expression to their opin
ions.
Gov Taylor will be ronominated. al
though the men who engineered his
election before have got through with
him and are heartily ashs med of their
own acts. They would gladly drop
him, but they will not have the cour-
age to do it. The question now is,
will Republicans allow themselves to be
deceived and defeated in 1875 as they
were in 1873, when they can certainly
. prevent it? We know they will not.
State Regis CT.
Twenty-Tlird Annual Session of
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