Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-16
TAYLOR'S TRIOKERY.
From the State Jonrnal.l

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lor is skilled in the tricks of the dem
agogue," as his intimate friends say
he is, could be presented than TO re-
fer to his meddleseme interference
with the Beform School management
His attempt to set aside rules estab-
lished and practices that have pre-
vailed since the foundation of the
School is simply to secure votes and
nothing else He does not care foi
the protests of the oldest and best
friends of the institution; it makes nc
difference to him that the Legislature
refused to pass a law allowing the
change now attempted. He wants
votes, and thinks is the best way tC
get them.
The Waukesha correspondent oil
the Erening Wisconsin, in speaking
of the Democratic Convention there
says:
"There is some feeling among Dem
ocrats, however, in regard to the Gov
ernor's action in meddling with the
religious status Of the State Industri
al School, and this feeling is not I'M
likely to crop out at the county con
vention, although it may be quieted
down by timely action. There is nc
doubt but that majority of Wauke-
sha county Democrats approve the
Governors mode of settling the dis
pute between Roman Catholics and
others, by taking measures so that
the Catholics should get all they de-
manded, but the minority which dis
approves amount to considerable in
numbers and is pretty outspoken III
sentiment"
The Chicago Times correspondent,
writing under date of Waukesha, Aug.
&c, says:
'The Sage of Muckwanago,' as
Wisconsin people are still pleased to
call Hon. Andrew K. Emore, of Ft
Howard, spent yesterday and to-day
among his especial proteges of the
State Industrial School for Boys.
Mr. Gilmore is best known now as q
railroad man, but quarter of cen
fury ago he was the most promising
young specimen of philanthropist in
the Northwest. He was one of tina,
exceedingly rare species, a philanthro-
pist in whom there was no guile and
no humbug. lie lived up to his opin
ions, and he thought mankind gener-
ally tried to do the same thing. He
was sent to the territorial legislature
Of Wisconsin when almost boy, and
distinguished himself by his honesty
and fearlessness, and straightforward
intelligence. BY and by he was nom
mated for Congress, and was beaten
by his pretended friends. This open,
ed his eyes a good deal, but in 1860,
when he was beaten in like manner
for the Legislature, he renounced po-
litical life, being still poor man, and
resolved to devote himself to the bet
tering of his OWE affairs.
Since then he has become wealthy,
and appears cynical. He doubts as
to the sterling worth of every man
whom he has not come to thoroughly
understand by years of intercourse,
and is looked upon by those who
have only superficial acquaintance
with him, as an unieeirg and hard
hearted man of the world. / happen
to have had opportunities for knowing
better than this. Only two or three
days ago | saw the tears trckling
down a face seventy-fve years old
as It's owner was telling of the devot-
ed attendance that Gilmore once gave
to a dog Can animal detested by him
on general principles) simply because
the proprietor of the sick canine low
ed it, and that proprietor was a ne
phew of the "sage"
Perhaps all this has no bearing on
the fact that the soft.side of Elmore' s
heart is now occupied chiefly by the
boys of the Reform School, of which
he has been one of the managers since
its beginning, fifteen years ago. A
dozen times a year he comes to the
school and talks to the boys, notes
their progress, encourages them, and
tries to make men of them. And they
reciprocate the interest which he
shows, regarding him as a sort of sec
ond father, as in fact he is, for the in
stitution has reached its present high
rank more from his exertions than
those of any other person, with the
possible exception of Dir. Hendrick.
son himself, the able superintendent.
But both of these gentlemen are al
present in a sorrowful state of mind.
One of their principal theories in re-
lation to the education of the boys
has been that the safest course of re-
ligious instruction for the school is
the complete ignoring of all dogmatic
differences between Christian sects
and consequently the PRONUNCIATION Of
no doctrine about which there is the
least difference of opinion among the
churches. This sort OF teaching has
been pursued up to this summer, and
no signs of dissatisfaction had ap
peared in any quarter before last year
Then the Catholics brought the mat
ter before Gov. Taylor, who intimat
ed in his message that there ought tc
be change in the religious conduct
of the school. A bill allowing dog
matte teaching was defeated in tht
legislature, and last spring, two va
cancies occurring in the board o
managers, they were filed by Gov
Taylor who appointed Charles Jonas
of Racine, and Edwin Hurlburt, o
Oconomowoc. These men, with Ed
ward O'Neill, of Milwaukee, Catho
lie, made a majority of the board, anC
Jonas was brought over by the per
sonal efforts of Gov. Taylor, to vot'
with the other two, to allow all regu
lar clergyman to teach their particu
lar doctrines in the school every Sun
day
The move was avowedly at the de
mand of the Catholics, and for thei
benefit, but the Protestant churche
indicate thier intention to take advan