Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-11
The Wisconsin Senatorial Election.

allowing the Democracy to capture
q United States Senator. The De-
mocracy, of course, will not agree
with the Inter Ocean in the views
below expressed. The boilers, VIII
have cried the l)udest over politics.
contracts and political job3ery, and
who contracted" with Doolit,ls,
Mitchell and other Democratic mag
mates to sell out the Republican par
ty of the State, will sl,o disagree
with the Inter Ocean. As the artitl
reflects the sentiment of The great
body of the Republicans of the State,
We gladly copy it, and regret thai
we have not space in his issue to
publish other like expressions Of
leading Republican papers in and
out the State. The Inter Ocean says:
The purpose of the b. ing Re-
publicans OF Wisconsin has been ac-
complished. Senator Carpenter IL
defeated and Mr.. Angus Cameron
has been chosen as his successor in
the United States Senate. We know
nothing more of Mr.. Cameron than
that he was born in Livingston coun-
ty, New York, in 1926 that be he
came citizen of Wisconsin 10 1857 !;
that he has served in the State Leg
ielature six years, and that he was
Speaker of the lower house of the
Assembly 10 1867. We trust that be
will make creditable Senator. Bul
for the methods adopted by his sup.
porters to secure his Ell ,ction we
nave nothing but condemnation.
Boiling party nomination deliber-
otely made, is never jusli6abls /; for
if nomination sufficiently bad
to warrant the refusal of support on
the part of any member of The party
is coollg made. such reasons warrant
q withdrawal of the dissenting men,
bers from the party organization.
10 the case 10 question no reason of
any moment appear to have been
given By the boilers for their refusal
70 support Carpenter. They sought
TO secure the nomination of another
man and, if becoming apparent
that failure awaited them, they re-
fused TO take part in a party con
sulation. The course of Mr.. Car
penter throughout the long and
heated contest seems to have been
characterized by eminent fairness.
Early 10 the canvass he putl,cly
expressed q desire that the contest
should be conducted with "forbear-
ance, charity, and wisdom ; so that
whoever might be nominated or
elected Se0atcr, the party could
close up its ranks and present an
undivided front to the enemy" La
ter he authorized q representative of
bis interest to say to Mr.. Washburn
that in the event of his (Washburn'e)
nomination he (Carpenter) would
not only ceuns' his friends to sup-
port him, but would make a public
speech in the Assembly chamber in
his favor. For this manly course
Mr.. Carpenter is entitled to the
thanks not only of the Republicans
of Wisconsin but of Republicans
everywhere. The news that the Re-
publican party of Wisconsin has
been rent by division which can
not fail greatly to weaken, even If it
does not totally destroy it, and so
land the control of the State again
in the hands of the Democracy, will
be received every where by Republic
cans as a calamity. 1t is to be hoped
that Mr.. Washburn will be able TO
show that re did not countenance
the continuance of the bolt to the
point of a coalition with Democrats
For. although Republican has been
chosen, it must not be forgotten that
Mr. Cameron has been elected chic fly
by Democratic votes, and that to the
giving of these Democratic votes a
condition was attached. In f.ct, the
boiling Republicans brlbed the Dem
ocrats to vote for their candidate by
binding him to certain policy laid
down by Democratic party caucus.
This is the humiIiatlng feature OF
the result of the Senatorial contest
in Wisconsin. Mr.. Washburn ought
not to be responsible for such Goa
lition, and we trust he will show to
the great Republican party of the
State, which has loaded him with
honors in times past, that ne would,
If he couli, have averted it.