Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-21
MR.. BUsHNELL's DEMOCRACY.

hepuDIcans why tney dlu not noni-
nate him for Congress: In a succeed
ing issue it proclaimed him as Til
denite. The Herald then put togeth-
er the two publications of the AdUo-
cate, that the public might laugh at 1t.
Mr.. Bushnell did not take offence at
the use Of his name by the Advocate,
and we quite regret that he has turn
ed the joke of the stupid position
given him by that paper, upon him.
self. Mr.. Bushnell seizes an opportu-
nifty for issuing Democratic tract. |
He was Republican before the war;
Republican in the war; Republic
can office holder since the war an
active Republican when Greeley, the
builder of the Republican party, was
candidate against his party, at
time when, to use Mr.. Bushnell's own
words, Mr.. Greeley's opponent was
nominated by "the most yenal and
corrupt set of politicians this country
has ever seem" Mr.. Bushnell having
been so tenacious a Republican one
would think that when he jumps out
of the Republican frying pan into the
Democratic fire he would give Re-
publican and not Democratic reasons
therefor. He thinks Republican
electioneering stock in trade is "solld
lying" That is solid Democratic
cant. The Democrats have cried it
for twenty years. Mr.. Bushnell pro-
verbally moves slow but no one
would have charged him with wanting
twenty years to learn the Democratic
gnomon. Republicans char ged more
than twenty years ago that citizens OF
the United States were driven oat OF
the South, were tarred and feathered,
were whipped and were murdered tor
jopinions' sake. Democrats said 1t
was "solid lying" Republicans pub
lished accounts of "bleeding Kansas. +"
democrats said they were "solid ly-
ing" Prison atrocities, Golden Cir
Gle, Kuklux and White League afro
cities were all "solid lying" 1t is
very Democratic to cry solid lying
upon Republicans, but they fail when
it comes to the test, to prove the
stock in trade of Republicans to be
falsehoods. Like other Democrats
Mr.. Bushnell, while charging solid
lying and the propagation of false
hood upon the Republican party,
fails Indeed he does not undertake
to name a single falsehood which
they have circulated.
Mr.. Bushnell has grown weary in
we'll doing. With his proverbial per-
tinacity one would think him the
last to cry, Hold, enough Plumber
ers manipulate caucusses and conven-
tions, he thinks He says:
Honest men, busy with their own affairs, at
length tire of continually fighting them (: the
people become unwary, forget that eternal
vigilance which is the price of good govern
ment many are deceived, and finally the
plundererS get control.
And thus compl aiming Mr.. Bushnell
takes to his heels and leaves all TO
supposed plunderers. If the eleven
apostles had all fed over to the COM
pany of soldiers who went TO take
| Christ when they found one OF their
Town number was venal and corrupt,
they would have been in the posi-
ton Nj. Bushnell now places him.
self. If our Revolutionary fathers
had gone over to the British when
Arnold proved to be q traitor they
would have beeu like Mr.. Bushnell.
If our soldiers of the Union, when
they found Mcclellan a failure had
all gone over to Jeff Davis's party
they would have been acting the pol
Icy of Mr.. Bushnell and would have
been in the party he has joined.
Thank God we have yet enough men
left who will not ''forget that eternal
vigilance which is the price of good
government, and who will not tire
of fighting pIunderers and will not
let tho country go to their control.
If the pIunderers nominated Grant
four years ago thea was the time Tor
Mr.. Bushnell to have left that party.
To say that they nominated Hayes
at Cincinnati is more Democratic
cant. The truth 10 that the class of
mon who nominated Grant four years
ago were beaten in the Cincinnati
Convention. Their candidate was
Conkling and he had only small
fraction of tho votes there. We are
told that our party cannot shake off
that class of men. Did they not re-
ceive a good shaking at that Conven-
ton? Besides it has shaken off 9TH
ers who were in the way of success
full Government, the majority of
whom are now with the Tilden par
ty. 1t shook off some who wanted
to ride into Office but could not.
| AmonU these arc four ont of FIVE of
such men as Charles Francis Adams
and George w. Julian who begged
Office of the Republican party until
they found that party would not give
them office. Another is John F.
Farnsworth, who was shaken off be-
cause he was so internal lazy he
would do nothing for his country
while in Office. Another was A. G..
i Curtin. who concluded he would