Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-02

1t is not to be for a moment sup
| posed that the people of this state are
not informed of this disgraceful fail
ure, surrender or retreat of this pre-
tended leader in the very crisis of
their struggle with railroad monopo-
ly. They have but to ask their rep
resentatives in the last Legislature TO
become fully informed on the subject
In the unseemly eagerness to have
| their favorite renominated, the friends
and henchmen of Gov. Taylor now
claim that he is the special friend of
the railroad corporations, as we'll as
the very embodiment of agriculture
and labor, and, like the magic bottle,
can furnish any variety of spirits need
ed by the customer and of a flavor
suited to the taste. 1t is claimed that
he is SO universally popular that he
has no opposition except from disap-
pointed applicants or men who have
grievance, but even in this there is
good reason why he is an unfit candi-
date, for in every instance when his
former friends have taken offense for
not receiving an appointment to Office
the complaint is, not that the appli-
cant has lost the office, but that Gov.
Taylor was guilty of
TREACnERY AND FALsEHooD
in not doing as he had promised and
agreed. His most enthusiastic friends
do not claim that he is competent to
discharge the duties of the executive
| office without assistance from some
one who is competent, but they say
he is the "card to play" in the game
in which the people are to be fooled
and cheated, and that he can especi
ally secure the votes of the laborers
and the farmers on the pretense that
he is zone of them," or as his admir-
ers say he is rough, uncouth, I'M
mannerly, and hard-handed farmer
himself, and by the ad captandum and
cant that he is the honest cold Bilf'
and GARNER Taylor" and other mean
ingless and
FOOLISH CATCHwORDs.
The farmers of this state as a class
will not be fattered by such carica-
ture, and will not regard as their rep
resentative in the executive Office one
who has no other claim to their suffra.
ges than his want of manners. There
| is not a school district j. this state
that could not furnish as it candi-
date, and thousands of farmers could
be found who are his superiors in ed
ucation, character, and in all the quail
ifcations necessary for the office. 1t
} is true that he owns farm and for
merly lived upon it, but ever since he
came to the state he has been nearly
all the time persistent and profes
sional office seeker, and is skilled in
in all the tricks of the caucus polite.
,, ian and thc demagogue. His friends
pirate Of his economy, but the claim is
{ not founded in truth, for he has per-
sonaly saved nothing to the state,
!, when the saving was either just or
honorable, and he has never retrench-
ed any expenditure of the public
moneys except in tie employment and
compensation of common laborers
about the capitol, when his retrench,
ness, and his ostentatious economy,
7 STARVATION WAGES
, to the poor.
He has never foregone any posi-
BILE chance of enhancing and draw
ing the full amount of his own allow
ances.
HIS PERSONAL QUALITIES
and characteristics, as well as his
want of ability, disqualify him for so
exalted position. He goes about
complaining and Dragging in the same
breath, that certain ones are "trying
to run him, but they can't do it."
When man without the qualifica-
tons necessary, holds SO high an of
fee as governor, and is all the time
suspicious and afraid that some one
will run him, he will be sure to be run
by somebody. He suspects all friend
ship and kindly treatment as prompt
ed by selt-interest, and as covering a
design to obtain his favor or control,
and be carries about his Office a face
of sour and severe expression, and is
stiff and rigid as indicative of official
dignity. These are some of the reas-
ons why the undersigned have dared
and presumed to question the availa-
bility and fitness of VIM. r. Taylor to
be again a candidate for governor,
they deny the right of himself or
friends to meet an honest inquiry or
opinion upon the subject Of who ought
to be the candidate with
DETRACTIoN AND PERSONAL ABUSE.
The present state officers, with the
exception of the governor, are emf
nently capable and honest, and have
discharged the duties most faithfully
and to the entire satisfaction of the
people of the state, and they ought to
be renominated, and their chances of
a reelection should not be hazarded
by putting at the head of the ticket
candidate so unworthy and unfit. The
undersigned have no personal grew
ance to complain of, and Gov. Tay.
lor's election or defeat would not in
any way affect their personal fortunes
and what they have said or done, or
hereafter shall say or do in respect to
the selection of suitable candidate
for governor on their party ticket,
has been and will be impartial and
independent They believe that a
great party of reform should not be
confined and limited in its high mis-
sion to the mere personal success and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of any one man or
set Of men, or to schemes OF merely
private advantage, but should COM
mend itself to public confidence and
support by the high character and
eminent fitness of its candidates and
by its principles and measures.
FL. II. GRAY,
PnILo A. ORION,
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