Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
The Closing Week of thesCanvass.

The last week OF the canvass was
a week of great gain to the Rspuli-
can party. 10 New York scores OF
the prominent business men issued a
call setting forth the danger of elect
ing Tilden to the Presidency and re-
questing William NJ. Evarts to ad-
dress the people. Mr.. Evarts re-
sponded aud his addresses had great
Influence with considerable men i'll
every Northern State. The leading
business mel of Chicago made $50 OF
a similar expedient. In Wisconsin
Ingersol spoke in Madison. In Grant
County the Democrats thought to
get the bulge on the vote by ba'ing
speeches at Boscobel, Lancaster and
Piatteville by Gel. Villas, the best
stun per and most polished orator
they have in the State. When he
represented in his witty and elc-
quent way that the officers employed
in the Government service now rum
bered $4,000 against $4,000 at the
close of the war and in the same
manner represented that at the GUS
toms district in Maine, known as
FrcnchmaG's Bay, Collector, four
Deputies and one or two Inspectors
were employed, at $4,000 in salaries,
to collect $l85 of customs, his Re-
pablican hearers felt ashamed and
cornered, and bis Democratic listen
ers reJoiced Justify. When he told
how $50 were paid as a board bill
for Babcock's dog, Rebulicans wished
they could hide themselves and Dem.
ocrats exploded with laughter But
the evening after he spoke in Lam
caster these points were thoroughly
disposed of by Col. Jno. G. Clark, in
the presence of larger audience
than the one addressed by Col. Villas.
Col. Clark showed from document
that had been delivered officially to
the United States Senate, that the
total list of persons employed in the
civil duty in the United States is less
than $4,000 and that lat includes
1000 postmasters and their clerks,
and livery mail contractor, the cler-
cal officers ard latoring men of the
army and navy, nnd all men en-
pl1yed on binding c0L;rlots and In
ternaI improvements. Turning to
the customs matter, Col Clark pro.
duced an official paper sent to the
United States Senate by Secretary
Bristow, which contained d list of all
the customs districts in the United
States in 1875, which did not furnish
revenue enough to pay expenses,
and Frenehman's Bay was not in
that list and the same document
contained list of all the nonpaying
districts existing IN 1860 when the
Democrats were in power, and
Frenchman's Bay was in this list.
The papers showed also that there
were % less nonpayingg a.: :-.r,,,t. ~
1875 than in 1860 and that the ex-
penacs wasted no them in 1860 was
more than 100000 greater than 10
1875. This turned the tables on Mr..
Villas and his rejoicing friends; and
when Col Clark, referring to Bah
cocks dogs board-bill. reminded bis
audience that the Democratic judges
of the Supreme Court in Indiana,
made the State pay for washing their
dirty shirts, thu Democrats were sud
denly chop-fallen. Next morning
Gen. Calls, who was Col. Villas best
hacker, was greeted at every public
place with, "Good morning, General +;
how is Frenchman's Bay this morn
ing?" Col. Clark spoke also at
Bloomington, Cassville and Fenni-
more, carrying with him the "bulge"
of success for the Republican ticket.
Hon. J. Allen Barber, W. E. Carter,
Esq. and Geo. Clementson, Esq, also
did great work the last week of the
canvass, keeping up the tide they had
started soon after the nominations
were made. The result is that our
success in Grant County is beyond all
anticipation. If the State of Wiscon-
sin has done as well, our majority is
10000. If the States of the Union
had covered themselves with equal
glory Hayes and Wheeler's success
would not be less victorious than
Grants in 1872.