Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-18
LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1875

thought, aided BY the suggestions Of tie Be
I counselor have on earth, the wife Of my DO
son. prevailed. l forebore to speak. 4 a.
glad did tfor6ear.
Inasmuch as Doolittlo has brough
his wife's name into public discus
sion, am bound to say that | under
stand her to be woman OF grea
good sense, q good mother, and
true wife. / have no doubt be dic
well to consult her upon the subjeo
of attacking my private character
and wisely followed her advice no
to make the attack.
| The only specification in thi
gloomy and ambiguous paragraph i
that | was admitted TO the bar o
| New York end this is not true.
never studied nor practiced law il
New York, nor was | admitted Il
the bar in that state. How unfortu
nate it is that he bad not consulted
"the wife of his bosom before enter
ing into the Connatty partnership
in cotton speculations. No doubt
1
horrence which every true woman
entertains for fraud and hypocrisy,
| would have saved him the humilla-
tion and disgrace of that shameful
partnership. | commend him when,
hereafter, his evil genius shall tempt
him to hishonor, to the counsel OF
that 'best counselor he has on earth
the wife OF his bosom"
| DooLITTLE's POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY.
Mr.. Doolittle in this speech, which
is mainly designed to glorify him
self, gives some touches of his politi-
cal career. He omits however some
things necessary to life-size por-
trait.
He speaks of bis boiling the nation
al Democratic nomination OF 1913,
while he was residing in Now York.
He forgot, however, to say that be
afterward moved to Wisconsin and
rejoined the Democratic party, he
had in vain attempted to overture ";
he says nothing of the speeches be
made here to insinuate himself into
the graces of the old line Democracy
of Wisconsin,; nothing of the speeches
10 which he described his support
of Van Buren, and Adams 10 1913 as
the mistake of his life, aud the joy
he felt in finding himself once more
in the Democratic fold, where he
was certain he should live and die.
He says nothing OF the unjustified
confidence which induced the Dem
ocrats of the then First Judicial
Circuit to extend to him the right
hand of political fellowship and els>
vate him to the bench.
| He denies that he was a candidate
for Congress in the Democratic Con
vention Immediately before be de
serted the Democratic party and be-
came a Republican. This denial
| should pc c0nSIuereu IN cUnueCtlou
with the fact be also denies having
been candidate for the Senate at
the time he was elected. Some light
may also be thrown upon this sub
ject by referring to the letter of G.
c.. Washburn, in which he insulted
the intelligence of the people of VIE
consin, by the falsehood that he was
not contesting for the senatorship !;
while his emissarles were at work
for him in every county of the sta o
| and he was buttoD-holng, begging
| and beseeching members elect to The
Logic lature to vote for him. Bet
Doolitlle in his speech does not deny,
what understand the fact to be-,
that he sat in his buggy within few
rods of the place where the Congro@-
sional Convention was held, that he
knew he was being voted for by his
friends in that convention that he
did not request his friends to with
draw his name or cease voting for
him, although the results of the sew
eral balotings were, one after az
other, conveyed to him in his buggy !;
nor does he deny that on the second
day after he was defeated in that
convention he came out flaming
Republican over his own signature
in the Milwaukee Sentinel. Nor
does he pretend that had ne been
nominated in that convention he
would not have accepted the Demo,
cratic nomination and canvassad the
district for an election.
He does not deny, what | undere
stand the fact to be, that he met one
of the Democratic delegates on his
way TO the Cincinnati convention, in
this city, and lAbored with him to
support Guthrie of Kentucky for
President and Horatio Seymour of
New York, for Vice President, at
that time two of the most pronounce
ed and extreme Democrats in The
United States; nor does he deny
that he met the same delegate on
his return from Cincinnati, after
| Bu, banan had been nominated and
his platform had been published, and
greeted him, in scriptural quotation,
SWELL done, good and faithful servant. "
Nor does he deny that afterw ard
and Immediately previous to the con-
gressional nominating convention
before referred to, he entered into an
arrangement with &c prge B. Smith
at Madison to stump the state with
him, for Buchanan's election going
so far as to agree upon the places at
which they would speak together ;
and he altogether fails to give other
or better reason for deserving the
Democratic party than his defeat in
that congressional convention.
How he was taken up by the R.
publicans and elected to the Senate,
with what sycophantic devotion be
stood by the administration of Mr.
Lincoln as President, and Mr.. Sew
ard as Secretary of State; how ar
IDENTIFY be defended the most dubiou:
measures of that administration, iL-
GLIDING the thinking" of Mr.. Sew
ards silver bell which consigned
many Democrats to the dungeon
YOU all know. You also know how