The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-21
THE CHAMPION OF reform"

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The sworn statement of Fl. III. Brere-
ton, Dane County farmer, published in
another column, and showing up Gov.
Taylor in his true light, is enough
to call blush of shame to
the countenance of an honest
man, be he a Republican OF Democrat.
Not satisfied with swindling the ''sol-
der boys and their families out of
their just dues by system Of bounty
brokerage, which for dirty meanness can
hardly DE equaled not ashamed to offer
a member of his town board $1O-bill
in hopes of bribing him to give his vote
on a subject in which Taylor was per-
sonally interested not scrupling to
knowingly defraud the State out of So
which he owed as interest on State mon
ey borrowed by him willing to swindle
the state Agricultural Society ont of
several hundred dollars to line his own
the acma of dishonesty and shows the
most disgusting cowardice in his attempt
to purchase statement from Mr.. Brere-
ton to the effect that he did not offer
him the SO mentioned, promising him,
for such a denial, first to give his son
a position worth from 5000 to 5000
year, failing in which, he then offers
him any sum of money which he (Brere-
tom might name. Can anything more
disgusting be imagined Is such a man
fit representative of the great State OF
Wisconsin ? Does reform mean the re-
election of such men to the highest Of
flee in the State IF it does, then we
blush for Wisconsin.
That the above charges are true is a
conviction which has forced itself upon
the mind of every man who has read the
sworn statements of Mr.. Brereton, III.
l.. Farr, Dexter Harris and others, and
who is willing to be convinced. Not
olly did large number of leading Dem
ocrats show their belief in the charges
az the Plankinton House meeting, but
the seven members of the Democratic
State Central Committee, at the meeting
of that body in Milwaukee two weeks
since, who voted to remove the name of
VIM. r. Taylor from the Reform ticket,
the statements and knew that Taylor,
with his villainous record, was too much
of a load for the party to carry And
then came the editor of the Milwaukee
Her0lG German newspaper than which
none in the State has worked harder for
the Reform cause. and says Col Fairs
second statement published in another
column) convinces him that the charges
are too grave to be longer passed over
in silence, and that unless Gov. Taylor
denies them over his own signature, or
sues FAIR for libel and forgery (,te Far.
has dared him to dO) he cannot support
him ! Taylor, perceiving that unless he
periures himself by denial and thus
secures the continued support of the
Herold, rushes post haste to Milwaukee
and affirms that the statements in let
ter written by him some days previously
to a gentleman of that city, in which he
denied Col. Fairs first charge, is true,
| but says not word in relation to the
direct charge of bribery entered by and
SO strongly backed by FL. HI Brereton,
to the effect that he offered him $40
bill to secure his vote OH the Cottage
Grove bridge business,-by far the most
serious of the two indictments against
him. Gov. Taylor DARE NOT deny that
charge, for if he should the veritable
letter, in his own hand writing, would
be produced, and there are Thousand
men who would swear to its genuineness.
| But what are the people of Wisconsin
to think of this great Reform cham
pion who must kneel in the most abiect
manner before the editor of ''reform"
newspaper and swear that he is not a
thief Are they going to elect man to
Office who must swear out a character
for himself before he can gain the sup
port of his fo1mer friends Surely,
it cannot be.