Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-08
Campaign Notes.

o. I1lden was the man who. according
to The sworn testimony of Cakes Ames.
drew ZIP the notorious Credit Mobilier
scheme, which brought such disgrace
upon the nation.
WHILE the nation was struggling in
the throes OF civil war. and needed
every dollar that could be raised, Mr..
I1lden was defrauding it by swearing
to false returns, and publicly predicting
that the war was failure .-NeW York
Times.
The Beaufort IS. o. Standard says
''There is man on Pine Island, in this
county, who has not voted in forty-ive
years. He says he thinks, as it is the
centennial year, every man on ght to
vote, and, therefore, he will vo te for
Hayes and Wheeler, and Gov. Cha mber-
lain"
h1R. TiIDEN is constantly advertised
to be "the friend of the working man"
Let working men inquire of their fellow
workmen in Brady's Bend, Penn, or of
the poor miners in the iron mines of
Michigan, what sort of fir end lie has
been to them. They will learn how the
'sgreat reformer" ruined prosperous
manufacturing village and "shaved"
the scanty wages of the miners in his
employ by paying them in bogus cur
rency. The pretended advocate of hard
money is known to the Michigan miners
as the largest dealer in 'shinplasters"
on the Peninsula; and the few remain
ing Inhabitants of the Pennsylvania
village remember the great reformer
and advocate of sound government as
the man who enriched himself by bank
rupting the iron works which gave them
employment.-N Y. Times.
SINCE it was settled that New York is
Tilden's last hope, and an uncertain
one at that, the canals have been found
to be in a shocking condition. It is
discovered, moreover, that the neces-
sary force Of men to make the repairs
cannot be had in the State. They have
to be imported by thousands from ad-
joining States. Their engagement will
last until the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der. This is the last act in Sam Til
den's great drama Of canal REFORM
Cincinnati Gazette.
The American people are sleeping
upon a volcano, and do not seem to
know it. Precisely the elements that
prepared the way for the rebellion, be-
tween the first Monday in December,
1860, and the firing upon Sumter on the
18th and 18th of April, 1861, are again
preparing to seize the Government.
The same leaders are in the front in the
South; the same leaders are in the front
in the North; the same means are en-
ployed to day that were employed six
teen years ago. It is true, no rebel
armies are openly in the field, but the
trained veterans of the Confederacy
are, each with his own ballot in one
hand or bludgeon or pistol in the
other to deprive the Republican of his
vote. South Carolina is military
camp; and it may be said with equal
truth, that every Southern State is
citadel for the Confederates and a
prison for the Republicans Phliadez.
.o1eii0 Press.
The plan of the Tilden campaign is
very simple. It is to carry the South
solid, and to that vote add the Elector-
al vote of. New York and Indiana. This
will give more than enough votes to
elect. The extreme nervousness Of The
Democracy about carrying South Car
DINA shows how necessary the vote of
that state is to the success of their
plan. The way to checkmate this
is to break the solid phalanx
of Southern states, and wrest from
them one of the two large Northern
states upon whose vote their hopes de-
pend. For the Republicans to carry
either North or South Carolina, with
New York or Indiana, defeats the Tilden
plan and elects Hayes. Here, then, is
a hint to the Republicans to bend their
energies to carry each one of these four
states. Their electoral votes decide the
contest. -ErcH0n0e -s4ra