Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-19
STATE POLITICS.

cN"f'NS %
| Those who raise the cry Of Knownothingism
for the purpose of making votes for the Demo
cratic ticket, ought to remember that where
| they now lin the Southern States) have the
strongest Democratic vote, they IN former
days, when Fillmore ran for President, had
the strongest Knownothing element; that the
| State of Kentucky, now about the strongest
| Democratic State in the Union, was in former
times the very hot-bed of KnownothingiSm
and that the State of Maryland, now a strong
| Democratic State, even cast her vote in 1866
for Willard Fillmore, the Knownothing candi
date for the Presidency But, perhaps, we
should excuse their weakness and folly, IN
| thus attempting to make votes for their party
when we know how desperately they VIII need
votes this fall; and when we also know that
even with any votes they may be able to make
in this way they viii fall desperately short Of
electing Bill Taylor Governor on the I'd day
of November.
The Watertown Republican thus
shows what poor success the Reform
ers have in making their false accu-
sations against the Republican nom
inees stick:
announcing that Mr. Ludihgton, Republican
candidate for Governor, had been engaged in
some school land transactions, whereby, while
the State lost money, Mr.. Ludington waxed
wealthy These same papers are just now
looking for some infnitesmal pin hole to
crawl through in consequence of the discovery
that the Ludngton they wer9 after was not
the Guberatorial candidate, but another man
who is not in politics"
The Portage Register:
There is not a dollar in the hands of Mr..
Batz belonging to the State; neither has the
Insane Hospital lost any thing by Betz or Mr.
Mills, the treasurer of the board of trustees
If your charge is true that Mr.. b. has not
fully paid over the last dime of State money,
what in the name of common sense is the rea-
son your Reform Administration does not
demand the money and prosecute for it? If
loss falls on either Mr.. Batz or Mr. Mills, by
reason of the failure Of the bank of Madison,
il is a matter wholly between themselves as
individuals, and the State is not interested to
the amount of cent. Criticise Mr. B3tz's
action of State treasurer if you see fit, in de
posting moneys in banks but do that with the
full knowledge that in doing so you condemn
at the same time Your Reform State treasurer,
Ferdinand Kuehn, who has made it rule to
keep State money not only in Madison and
Chicago banks, but in his own bank at Mil
waukee as well; and he is daily loaning the
funds of the State to the people and pocketing
the interest. Will any one deny this charge?
The Darlington Republican has this
to say:
We have alluded to the move going on in the
Reform ranks to supplant Taylor by nominal
ing Hon. Harlow S. Orion or Nelson Dewey.
The Chicago Times speaking of the same says:
"And if in spasm of good sense the conven>
ton should nominate him (0rton) the Reyes
Carpenter party would find it no laughing
matter" This coming from Democratic pa
per there are three points worth considera-
ton. First, the indirect admission of the
hopelessness of the canvass with Cincinnatus
Taylor leading the ticket. Second, even
should he be supplanted by Orion, the doubt
of success entertained by such move; and
third, that good sense, with Reform conven~
tons is spasmodical, which very few will
doubt under any circumstances.
The Whitewater Register says:
Two weeks ago Lt.>Gov. Spooner, the
leading representative in this section of the
Liberal Republican element, proposed in the
Elkhorn Liberal that A. Scott Sloan be made
the Democratic candidate for Governor.
But the proposition meets with but little favor
among the Democrats. The reason is two
fold-frst the Democrats don't propose to
give the Liberals any such prominent recogni.
ton as that, and, secondly, the denomination
of Gov. Taylor is necessity, for the old fellow
saws he will run independent if not nominated.
1t is Taylor or nothing with them.
The Manitowoc County Chronicle
is Democratic paper, but it does
not like the bushwhacking style of the
Milwaukee Ne,0s in its attacks on
Major B@tz. 1t says:
The Milwaukee Neoos will not add to the
strength of the Reform party along the lake
shore by its efforts to prove Maj. Betz a de-
fauter He is well known in this section, and
his integrity is unquestioned by all. II the
record the party has won the past two years
will not guarantee its success in the coming
election, it had far better suffer defeat than to
win by such means as the News employs
This from the Fond du Lac Com
m0nWeatth:
The New Nork Trtjuae says Gov. TAYLOR will
be renominated by 'the Peoples Convention "
that meets next month. Well, really And
who will the Democrats and Reformors nomi
nate? We didn't know that Taylor was a
candidate of any pa ty but the old Bourbons,
who have been sailing under the name OF Re-
formers for couple of years past. The 'Pe0
Plies" party must be new organization, for
we can't b. lieve that the Democrats have worn
out the name they had last year 1t makes no
earthly difference, however, by whom VIM. Il.
TAYLOR is nominated; he will not be Governor
of Wisconsin another term
The Elkhorn Liberal is, as its name
implies, Democratic paper. 1t aptly
states:
Old Noonan wants to know why the Repub~
lican State Convention did not ask the banks
to reduce their rate of interest to seven per
cont. lie might also have asked why that puts
SAINT body did not regulate the hay, and
huckleberry crops, or why it did not intefere
to compel unwilling subscribers to the Indus
trial Age to renew their subscriptions.
The Dunn County Ne,os INDUCES in
the following pithy paragraph:
Two years ago the people of Wisconsin put
the control of the State into the hands OF a
party that made loud pretensiOnS OF "Reform. p"
They have run the machine ever since and the
reforms they have accomplished are still invisi-
BILE to the naked eye. But with an impudence
unequaled, they again appear on deck with
the same old cry of reform" Pray tell US
what there is to reform now? If there is
anything going wrong in the State, who is to
blame for it? 1t is fair to suppose that the
great State of Wisconsin is reformed; other
wise the State Capitol has been filled with a
horde of mere pretenders and inposters for
nearly two years These so-called Reformers
were elected once on that issue. If they have
done :heir duty there is nothing to reform, and
it would be more modest to adopt another war
cry. But if reform is to be the "watchword
and reply" in the present campaign, then it
certainly follows that something is going wrong
and TO make the reform work thorough and
effective change of State administration is
the imperative necessity of the hour. It's a
mighty poor rule that won't work both ways
For the Democracy to cry "reform" now, in
the flood tide of power, is simply a confession
of judgment Turn 'em out.
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