Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

many bondsmen called upon to make
/ good their bonds for defaulters as un-
der the administration of President
!; Grant. What need of reform under
such management of public affairs
The absurdity of Republican admin
lstratlon inauguratiEg a policy to place
their enemies in Office after the exhibit
ton made by the Southern Democrats
IN the organization OF the House of
Representatives is very strikingly Illus
trated. The readiness with which the
Southern Democracy repeal any law
which prevents the accomplishment of
their purposes is well remembered in
the repeal Of the Missouri Compro-
mise. a measure which was considered,
by all, without regard to party, at the
time OF its adoption in It's binding
force upon the country second only to
the Constitution itself.
Every lover of his country should
be proud of the present administration
for the good it has accomplished as
we'll as for the earnest endeavor to
punish wrong doors. True there have
been some bad appointments but in
the multitude Of so many strangers to
the President to be appointed is it to
be wondered at that he should be mis-
informed and mistaken in few of
them? Should his administration be
censured for it and the men who have
sustained him cast aside as unworthy
of public confidence especially when it
is well known that in every instance
where men have proved dishonest they
have been removed from Office and
prosecuted and punished to the ex-
treme extent of law? If party is
to be condemned and cast one side
because Of a few bad appointments,
then the Southern Democracy should
cease casting this as a reproach at the
Republican party as since last Deem
Der they have been obliged to remove
six officers under the House of Repre-
sentatives for good and sufficient rea-
sons, which is by far greater number
in proportion to the number employed
by them. than have proved unworthy
under President Grant.
In the coming presidential contest
there can be but the two great parties
the Republican and Democratic, and a
choice must be made between them
The question with the voter should be
which is entitled to my confidence and
support? The party that sustained
the Nation when the Southern Dcmoc-
racy were eudeavoring to destroy it
and is gradually paying off tie public
debt contracted that the country might
exist or the party that, now as then,
is under complete control of the
Southern Democrats and that brings
prominently to the front such men as
Hon. B. Fl. Hill and the eighty other
members of Congress whom the South
ern Confederacy loved to honor?
Is it not time that such men as OK
Senators Doollttle, Schurz and others
who made a noble record for them
selves in sustaining their country dur
ing the rebellion should pause when
they see the eff ect Of their efforts is to
place the control Of this government
entirely under the direction Of the
Southern Democracy, which, Judging
from the present action of the House
Of Representatives, is the same dom
ineering spirit which led to the rebel
lion. Look at the action of one Of
these persons sustained by the indie
pendent Press Of the state OF New
York, who left the Republican party
because he was not satisfied in his am
bition to be continued Minister to
France. Hon. John Biglow, who was
elect Secretary Of State, last fall in
New York upon Democratic Reform
platform. of the most prominent plank
Of which was opposition to the unbal-
anced bids for Canal Contracts. Be
hold the consistency of this model re-
former. One of his first official acts
was the letting of Printing Contract
that was so manipulated by unbalanced |
items ''that the printing which cost
that state in 1874, SIS, 188.0J would
if done in precisely the same manner
under the new contract cost the state |
1886. 15S.05." The robbery Of the
State was so apparent that the Repub-
lican legislature promptly interfered