Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-07-19
CAMPAIGN ITEMS.

CAMPAIGN ITEMS.
aE Says the Nashville (Tenn.) BdDner:
80 There are Democrats in Nashville, we
regret TO say, who openly announce that
they will vote for Hayes in preference to
Tildcn, and leave nothing undonc to Sc
cure the defeat Of the latter
tY- Shall the Government be ruled in
time OF peace by men who tried 10 destroy
il in time of war; This is the question to
he settled in the Presidential canvass.
All other issues are side ones and amount
to nothing compared with this one i'm
portant question .-Rpubttc Nogoztne.
cF- The Executive Committee of the
Union Veteran National Committee have
decided to call National Mass Conven
ton of soldiers and sailors who served in
the Union army during the late war, TO be
held in indianapolis on Wednesday, Sept
20, 10 ratiiy the nomination Of Hayes and
Wheeler.
sE~ Democratic unity means the union
of Democrats and nothing more The
manner in which it has been brought
about, the outrage it has wrought upon
The public sense of political decency and
consistency, must have the effect of drv.
ing of all Independent voters and Of drag.
ging Mr. Tildcn down TO his true level AS
an INSCRIPTIONS partisan.-N. J. Times,
az Out Of a total vote of 30012 east at
the special election for Mayor of Chicago,
held on the 18th, Monroe Heath, the Re
publican candidate, received ma jority of
1878 over Jim McGraw Independent
DcmocraD, and / ,6i3 over Mark Kim
ball Irregular Democratic candidatc). Mr.
ticath's majority over the combined vote
of his opponents was y ,25O.
u Gov Hayes admirable letter of ne
ccptance is everywhere received with nm.
usual favor His opponents find it i'm
possible to make any capital out of it, and
his supporters, with one accord and great
hcartiness, commend ii rs an able dgni
fled and appropriate expression Of his pc.
stion as the Republican candidate for the
Presidency Chicago JoarHai.
AZ Who stuck TO Tweed through thick
and thinY
Who counted John Y Hoffman inY
Who thought the Union war sinY
Sam Tilden.
Who, when our Tiden said the war
To save the Union went too far,
Received IN night patriots scnrY
Why Hayes
". y Mail
~ There was one omission in Mr..
called now the ST Louis Democratic Plat.
form, Ii omitted To state how the debt
came to he increased So largely between
1860 and 1864 Mr. Marble perhaps knew
THAI there were persons present, South
rrs friends of ours, who would have been
distressed in their feelings by any eXpla-
nation in detail --OAio State JoarHdi
sB A private letter to the editor of the
Albany J0urRai from u Democrat at Phila
dcfphia--a prominent business man of
that city--says Here is my sponge;
throw il up. II YOU could only peep in
on the Centennial city YOU would see the
sickest lot of Democracy YOU ever 5chcld.
have to-day seen hundred Democrats
like myself perfectly independent of the
party lash~-who will no more vote for
Uncle Sammy than they would for
Fred Douglass. -"
"a a correspondent of the Notion,
writing of Gov HAYES, says; IL never
knew a man who listened with a franker
willingness 10 learn, and | have known
very few men who were so sure 10 end
with m opinion of their own which moth
ing could shake | observe that the little
people of the Herdid and World speak of
him as a 'colorlcSs' candidate. Wen, his
color is not loud hut what they actually
iltHh II UtilStnNt. HtN NdAl htNlti tU"
counter him some time when he has a
duty to perform, and try 20 turn him aside,
and then tell Us whether he has color
have seen him tried, and noticed that his
color WAS a good deal like steel
~ Democratic Reform.-A recent
Washington dispatch says The House
passed a resolution calling upon The Sec
rcary Of the Interior % communicate all
information relative 10 the investments hy
Former Secretaries OF the Interior of the
Indian trust flud> See Chandler has al
ready prepared tabular statement which
shows that Tor a number OF years his Dem
ocratiC predecessors were accustomed in
ther discretion to invest this fund in proC
tically worthless securities in southern
States The amount ut such securities
now held by the Interior Department az
yregates nearly si,5o0,000, the greater
portion of which arc worthless The sc.
curtics, which include turnpike stock,
old canal stock, repudiated bonds, and Sc.
curtieS of like character, had ouly "a ny.
pothctical value even before the War.
s% The Utica Herald says: "rildcp'>
whole early record will now return topper
pick and destroy him, In every branch
of business and political life il i, with
out exception, the worst that attaches Ia
ANY public man i'm America, His i'm
ptHp.,t k,p4lth has iagn accumulated ont