Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-23
AND AGREED

their fav0rite reRominated, the friends
and henchmen of Governor Taylor now
claim that he is the special friend Of
the railroad corporations, as well as
the very embodiment Of agriculture
and labor. and. like the magic bottle.
can furnish any variety of spirits need
ed by the customer, aad of a flavor
suited to his 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 where his
former friends have taken ofense, for
not receiving an appointment to office,
the complaint is not that the applicant
has lost the office, but that Governor
Taylor was guilty of treachery and
falsehood in ncs doing as be had prom
ised and agreed. II II, Gray Philo
A Ortoa. PbiIo Dmnjnq, Waiter s.
Greene, John d. Gamcc
TAYLOR NOT COMPETENT WITHOUT
PIE ARE TO BE FOOLED AND
CHEATED. "
His most enthusiastic friends dc not
claim that he is competent to discharge
the duties of the Executive Office with
out assistance from some one who IS
competent; but they say he is the
"card to pIay" in the game, in which
the people are to be fooled and cheat
ed, and that he can especially secure
the votes Of laborers and farmers, on
the pretense that he is some of them"
or, as his admirers say, chat he is q
rough, uncouth. unmannerly and hard
handed farmer himself, and by the ad
captandm9 and cant that he is the
honest ''Old Bill, " and Farmer Tay-
lor, - and other meaningless and fool
ish catch. words. The farmers of this
State, as class, viii not be fattered
by such a carlcature, and will not re-
gard as their representative in the Ex-
ecutive Office one who has no other
claim to their suffrages than his want
Of manners. H FL Gray, Phil0 4.
Orton, PhiIo Dunning, Walter s.
Greene, John ID. GWnee.
''THOUSANDS OF FARMERS HIS SUPE-
RIORS" -'HE HAS PERSONALLY
SAVED NOTHING TO THE STATE"
ABOUT ''ENHANCING" HIS
GOWN ALLOWANCE"
There is not a school district In this
State that conld not furnish as fit a
candidate, and thousands Of farmers
could be found who are his superors
in education, character, and in all the
qualifications 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 in office, and quite. all the
time persistent and professional office
seeker, and is skilled in all the tricks
Of the caucus politician and the dema-
gogue. His friends pirate of his econ
omy, but the claim is not founded in
truth, for he has personally saved moth
ing to the State, when the saving was
either just or honorable, and be has
never retrenched any expenditures of
the public moneys except in the EN-
ployment and compensation of COM
mon laborers about the capitol when
his retrenchment has been the most
petty meanness, and his ostentatious
economy starvation wages to the poor
He has never foregone any possible
chance Of enhancing and drawing the
full amount Of his own allowances
II. II. Gray. PhiJo 4. Orion, Philo
Dunnjng, Halter s. Greene, Johu d.
Gurlee.
TAYLOR complaining AND BRAG-
GING IN THE SAME BREATH
HE'S suspicious. "soUR"
AND "AFRAID.
His personal qualities and character
istics, as well as his want Of ability,
disqualify him for so exalted a position.
He goes about complaining aud brag-
ging in the same breath that certain
ones are ''trying to run him. but they
can't do it," When a man without
the qualifications necessary holds so
high an Office 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 friendship and kind
ly treatment as prompted by self-intcr-
est, and as covering a design to obtain
his favor or control, and he carries
about his office face of sour and Sc
we're expression, and is stiff and rigid
as indicative of official dignity.
These are some Of the reasons why
the undersigned have dared and pre-
sumed to question the availability and
fitness Of VIM. r. Taylor to be again
a candidate for Governor, and they
deny the right of hlmselfor his friends
to meet an honest inquiry or opinion
upon the subject of who ought to be
the candidate, with detraction and
abuse.--H. II. Gray, Phito 4. O,too.
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