Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-10-05

income matter is total failure, as is
she effort to foster upon Mr.. Hayes
any shadow of fraud in the payment of
his indebtedness to the government.
The matter has been thoroughly can
vassed, and the people are ready to
render their vsrdict.
THE MADISON Patriot attempts to
convince the people that there is no
fear to be unprecedented from the pre-
sentation of rebel war claims for pa,~
ment, by publishing Gee. 4 Art. XIV
of the constitution declaring positively
that call such debts and obligations
shall be held illegal and void" Now,
we know, and the Patriot knows, and
so does the Tribune which published
the article from the Patriot last week,
knows that there are upwards of 5000
900 Of rebel war claims on file, ready
for presentation when the South shall
attain the ascendency, which every
southern paper is continually, boasting
that rebel losses will be paid in due
time. We know further, and it is a
matter Of public record, written in the
blood of the nations heroes that tie
South don't do things in a constitu-
tional manner. The bonn bardmeot
of Fort Sumpter was not Exactly con-
aitutional neither is the killing Of Re-
publican "niggers yet the South
did, and are doing just this thing,
besides there are a thousand and one
ways to secure the allowance of these
claims, by evasion and chicanery, and
the fact that the initiatory effort has
been made in their presentation, is an
earnest of what may be expected if
Tilden shall lie elected with a Demo
cratic Congress to back the great Re
former in his vote of Reform! To
preclude all possibility Of so wicked
and disgraceful an act by southern
rebels is to elect Hayes and Wheel,r
and republican congress, and this the
people propose to do.
The Tribune attempts to bellttIe the
speech Of iIr. Haddock by discourte
Gus filings and abuse. Because Mr.
Haddock is a Rev., the Tri6m thinks
he should be silent on political matters
and not .sdegrade', himeAlf by "wal-
lowing in the muddy pool of politics. -
Mr.. Haddock did not degrade himself
in the leact by speaking at political
meeting. He would make politics
what they ought to be, clearly sys-
tenn of discussion disroJcd of it's filthy
garments, and as pure as morality it
self. The fact that politics is unclean-
y proves the need Of such men as Rev.
Mr.. Haddock, and she further fact
that nine hundred and ninety-nine of
every one Thousand ministers in the
North are in sympathy with the Re-
publican party. is conclusive evidence
that there is something woefully rotten
in Democratic politics. All the better
elements of society are identified with
the Republican party. When the
Democratic bugle would summon it's
hosts, it is sounded in the precincts
where brothels and bells abound;
where whiskey makes demons of men,
where murder and rapine and violence,
and blasphemy, and illiteracy abound,
The devil always dances a hornpipe
when democratic victory is announc,
ed, and He'll inaugurates a grander il
Elimination. Tweed is a boss demo-
crat. The Younger and James boys
are "git up and git" democrats. No
Mr.. Tribune. you don't find any min
listers in the North, democrats. When
the Devil went into the real estate b u.s.
mess ON the mounts ain and tried to in
veigle Christ, it was only another i'll
stance of democrat trying to seduce.
a republican We presume the T'rib-
ane thinks that Christ stepped out of
his sphere when he mingled with the
filth of this selfish world. The Trib-
une would probably have had him re-
manned away, and the consequence.
would have been all the world would
have been most dan2nibly democratic,
in the vilest meaning of that grand
term. Mr.. Tribune, you can't hurt
5he Republicans by berating such speak
ers az Rev. Mr.. Haddock. Your
gibes and taunts only betray your foot
prints among those of the democratic
throng In the democratic mud.