The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-08-12
KNOWNOTHINGISM.
Some Campaign ISLANDERS Exposed.
from the Milwaukee SENTINEL

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from the Milwaukee Sentinel
The most contemplate and ridiculous
of them is the charge that Hon. Harrl-
son Ludington is Knownothing. The
single fact that is brought forward in
support of this statement is that his
name was used on the Fillmore electoral
ticket in 1856. The facts concering this
proceeding are as follows: The Know
nothing party in this city consisted, for
the most part, of man named Kennedy
and his son. One day when Mr.. Harr1-
son Ludington was absent in the east,
Bob Kennedy went to FIR. James Lud-
names with which to make up an elector-
ton thinking it would be good joke on
his cousin, whom he knew to be zeal
Gus supporter of Fremont, said ''put
Harry on, and it was done. When
Mr.. Harrison Ludington returned and
learned what had been done in his alb
sence, he protested strongly against
making atse of his name IN that cO1t1lec-
ton, but the tickets were already printed
and distributed, and so the $40 support
ers of Fillmore in the State of Wiscon-
sin voted for an out-and-out Fremont
man. AS for MIR. Ludington himself,
he voted and worked all day for Fremont
and Dayton and the straight Republican
ticket.
We would be ashamed to make this
statement to the people of Milwaukee.
The preposterous charge that MIR. Lud-
ington is Il Know-nothing is not made
for them to believe, but to deceive vOt-
ers in distant parts of the State; and it
is to the latter that we address this PLAIN
statement of the facts. To these voters
we would further say that the men who
tell them this falsehood can have only a
very poor opinion of their intelligence.
They ask them to believe that the Ger
mans and Irish of Milwaukee have three
times elected Know-nothing to the
office of Mayor; that they assisted in
giving a Know-nothing two or three
thousand more than the Republican vote
for Representative to Congress last fall,
and that the Germans Of Ozaukee gave
Know nothing 500 majority over the
regular Democratic candidate.
IF anything were needed to make this
charge more absurd, it will be found in
MIR. Ludingtons Administration OF the
Office of Mayor. His distribution of the
patronage will serve as an illustration.
For Commissioners of the Public Debt,
he has made three appointments, one
Scotchman, one freshman, and one Ger
man; for Commissioners of Public
Works, four appointments, one Irish
man, one German, and two Americans
for Tax Commissioners, two appoint
meats, one German and one freshman
for Oil Inspector, one appointment, an
Ell glishman for Assessors, (approved
by the Mayor, nine foreigners and four
Americans; for Chief of the Fire De
partment, one Irishman and one Ger
man; for members of the Fire Depart
ment, approved by the Mayor fifty
seven foreigners and four Americans
for Chief of Police, one appointment, q
German for members of Police De
partment of 1876. (approved by the
| Mayor, six Americans, twenty-nine
Germans, eighteen Irishmen, one Welsh
man, two Hollanders, and two Bohem-
ians and finally for Health Officer, he
has four times appointed the present in
cumbent, an Irishman.
In view of these facts, we submit tC
the Judgment of candid men whether, il
| Mr.. Ludington is a member of a Know
nothing lodge, he ought not to be ex-
PEELED! Then perhaps the Say-nothings
(,Sdg Nichts), an opposition society
that was said to exist about the same
time, would initiate him. But of course
the fact is that Mr.. Ludington is not,
and never was, a Know-nothing. and
that his liberal ideas on all subjects, and
his lifelong association with citizens OF
other nationalities, render it quite i'm
possible that he should have any sympa-
thy with the narrow and bigoted notions
of that order.
Another charge, scarcely less absurd,
| is that Mr.. Ludington is seeking to pro-
mote his own election at the expense OF
| the rest OF the ticket. The mendacious
| scribbler who makes the charge can find
nothing to support it but the thin state
ment that Mr.. Ludington did not say
| anything about the other candidates in
his speech at the Academy of Music.
| Of course he neglected to mention that
when Mr.. Ludington was serenaded on
| the evening following his nomination,
| he said that she was highly gratified to
| see SO many citizens assembled on the
occasion, but he was not SO vain as to
take this demonstration all to himself
He believed it to be an expression toward
all the nominees of the Republican
State Convention. As to the candidates
from Lieutenant Governor down, he
could say that they are all honest and
capable men. With respect to the head
of the ticket, he would leave it to them
to Judge"
1t is quite probable that Mr.. Luding-
ton will run ahead of the ticket in this
city. So it IS quite probable that Mr..
Eaton viii run ahead in Richland coun-
ty and the ether nominees in their re-
| spect1ve counties. Some Democrats in
Milwaukee will vote for Mr.. Ludington
and not for the other Republican can
didates, because they know him better,
and entertain neighborly feeling for him.
No doubt Mr.. Ludington will be CRATE
| ful to these voters for their confidence
| and friendship. But so far as his efforts
are concerned, they are in behalf of the
whole ticket, and his expectation and
| desire are to sink or swim with his asso-
| ciates.