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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
A CONGRESSIONAL committee at

A CONGRESSIONAL committee at
Washington is at present investigating
the operations of the Milwaukee whis-
key ring. Judge Cate, Of this state,
is the master spirit of the committee,
and is evidently doing all he can to
besmirch Republican officials. That
the committee does not desire to get
out the whole truth is manifest from
the fact that district attorney McKen-
uey, who is in w ashington, desired to
cross-examine some of the witnesses.
and his request was denied. 1t is said
that some of the witnesses who have
testified before the committee, swore
to an entire different state of facts on
the trial OF the whisky cases in Mil
waukee, and that McKenney was de,
sirous of confronting them and ascer-
tanning, if possible, which of their
statements is the true one. If the
committee desired to get at the bottom
facts il the matter, no distractions
would be thrown in the way of full!
and thorough investigation But it is
evident that this is not what the com
mittee wants. With one-sided COM
mittee, DESTROYS Of suppressing such
facts as do not tend to smudge the par
ties intended, and with witnesses of
such soi!ed regulations as those upon
whom reliance is placed to- establish
the truth of the charges made, it is an
easy matter to determine what the re-
suit of the investigation will be: so far
as Cate and his committee can control
it. We suspect, however, that before
the examination is concluded, McKen-
ney and others will be heard, and the
bottom knocked out of the story as it
stands at present.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14

THE New York Mail gets off the
following at the expense of Gov. Til
den. We suspect that gentleman will
never hear the last of his efforts to get
paid newspaper puffs through the
means of an advertising agency:
Puff, brothers, puff with caire,
Puff the New York Governare.
Twenty-Five cents for quoted mattaire,
Seventy-five cents for original mattaire,
A Fl, e-doliar bill for the editaire.
Puff, brothers, puff with care,
Puff the New York Governaire.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14

AT the Centennial, the Philadel-
phia ladies cry out, isn't it cunning?"
New York ladies, "How superbly
lovely" Boston ladies, "Ah, how
exquawsite" Louisville ladies, "Be-
aiiful TO shaah!" Chicago ladies,
Oh. my wished I owned thatw
While the genuine Yankee girls from
the rural districts exclaim, "Gee
vhlmminy, but amt that ere stun
ner, neowv'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14

NEARLY two thousand relatives
ask Mrs. A. I. Stewart to divide her
husbands estate among them. They
all claim to be not only relatives but
friends Of the family. and the afflicted
widow is compelled to. cry out-as
have many other human beings at
some time in their lives-"Oh, for
del;verance from my relatives and
friendsp
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14

A SUIT has been commenced by the
u. S. Government against jacob
Thompson, ex Secretary of the Inter
Tor, for the value of the Indian Trust
Fund bonds stolen during his term,
amounting to one million dollars with
10 years interest. Thompson turned
over the bonds, or the proceeds of
their sale, to the Confederate govern
ment, and thinks it very wrong that
he should be called upon to make the
amount good.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
Wisconsin Democracy.


Convention at Milwaukee last Wedues-
day, tor the purpose of nominating
delegates to the St. Louis Cow ention,
and choosing State electors.
The following delegates to St. Louis
were chosen:
First District-N. D. Fratt and F. w.
Lyman, delegates, with ]. Hackett and
| Geo. Daubner as alternates.
Second District-Wm. F. Villas and Geo
W. Bird, delegates, with o. F. Cornish and
j. F. Trip, alternates.
Third District-I T. Carr and J. H.
Ernest, delegates, with DR.. Van Heuzen and
| q. e. Ro1olf, alternates.
Fourth Distriet-J A. Hinsey and A.
Senior, delegates.
Fifth District-E. c. Lewis and Jos. Ran
kin, delegates.
Saith Disrict-Jas. Robinsn and Myron
Reed, delegates, with James Yates and j.
Nj. Reed alternates.
Seuenth District-H. H Hayden and S.
| II. Dickinson. delegates, with u. W. Gallo
way and S. Freeman, alternatives.
Eighth Disrict-W. w. Wilson and ] E.
| Clark, delegates, with F. A. Corn6eld and
/ T. S. Heller. alternates
at Large-Geo. B. Smith, James r. Doc
little, Alex. Mitchell and Theodore Rodolf
The following electors were chosen {:
| First DISTRICTS. A. White
Second Disrict--W. w. Corning.
! Third District-W. E. Roe.
| Fourth Dtssrict-John Black
| Fifth District-Conrad Kreuz.
Sirth District Sam. Ryan.
| Seventh Distributions Anderson.
! Eighth Disnact-Hermanh Naber.
| At Large-Edward s. Bragg and John
| Lawer.
The convention adjourned uncere-
moniously without passing single
resolution whereby the people could
judge of the line of policy the great
democratic party of Wisconsin intend
ed to be governed by in the coming
campaign. From being the party of
'great expectations purity and sin
gleness of purpose, it clearly proved
itself to be combination of craven
political towards without any settled pol
icy in view except success ard division
of the spoils. Such an enormous dis
play of white feather cowardice on the
eve of presidential contest has never
been seen before. If the democracy
think they can succeed by being non
committal and leaving the people in
the dark as to how the party stands on
the prominent issues now before the
country, they will find themselves sad
ly mistaken. Political double dealing
and straddling, such as the democracy
of Wisconsin have inaugurated into
the campaign, will not win. The peo-
pie demand square open fight on the
national questions now agitating the
country, and the democrats very much
mistake the feeling of the voters, il
they think they can successfully carry
on campaign by lodging main issues
and using deception and double-deal-
ing to advance the interests of their
candidates. But this is the policy
those opposed to the democratic party
will have to meet in the coming cam
raign. False promises will be held out
and deception in every form used to
win the people over to the democracy.
The condition of the party has become
desperate and every means will be
used to hand e:country over into the
oIntehnc IF Tho Honr, do~oAo.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
New Advertisements.
FUERMANN'S
Bottled LAGER BEER.

THE UNDERSIGNED is PUTTING UP
i in Pint Bottles, his celebrated Lager
Beer, aud is prepared to fill orders in any
part of the city and country promptly.
Delivered in Boxes of dozen bottles each.
The attention of Farmers and Private
Families is respectfully called 10 this bev-
erage. All .aMANN.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
Rev. MYR0N w. REED

Judges for Awarding Prize Banners
Phillip Schmidt, ]. B. Murphy, Jesse
Stone.
Centennial Committee Chairmen of
the different Sub Committees
Bands-Miller's Band and Boyne's
Band of WATERFOWL, and the Juneau Cor
net Band.
Grounds for Observation-Disclosures
Grove.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
CENTENNIAL.

4 NY PERSON WISHING a STAND
"A for the Sale of Refreshments, &c. at
the Celebration Ground in Richards Grove,
on the coming Fourth of July, should apply
to the undersigned before Saturday, June
18th. VIM. BIEBER.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14

We last week alluded to the affidavit
of one Grif6ths, in which an attempt
was made to smudge Hon. E. w.
Reyes The Jefferson Banner last
week printed the substance Of the aft.
davit, and evidently considered it "a
big bonanza" The other day Grifitns
appeared before the crooked whiskey
investigating committee in Washing
ton. and there swore that portions of
the affidavit spoken of are not true
But whether he is lying now, or swore
falsely when he made the affidavit is a
mooted question. The only point in
the matter about which there is no
controversy, is that he is frst-class
liar, and not entitled to be believed
under any circumstances.
THE Jefferson Banner has very sud-
denly become an ardent admirer of the
Rehm-Rindskopf Conklin crowd, and
champions their cause in the most
valiant manner. 1t comments on what
We have heretofore said as to their
credibility as witnesses, and affects to
be terribly Mortified that we are not in
clined to accept their statements as
gospel truth. We are Of opinion that
Bro. Bird as an editor, gives their ties.
tlmony greater weight than he would
do as lawyer; and that in neither ca
pacity would he believe a word thew
say were it not that it answers his
purposes just now to do so, in order te
turn it to account against the Republi.
can party. For our part, we are will
ing to accept it at its full value as de.
termined in the Mum case in Chicago
and the Jonas-G oldberg trial in Mil
waukee, where it was held to be entire
" Enthusiastically. No fair minded
man would hang dog on the evidence
of hundred such men given under
similar circumstances. The alternative
was presented to them of swearing t.
enough to convict some one else. or OF
to prison themselves, and the juries II
the cases mentioned decided that the,
were not to be believed. Now will tn,
Banner tell us seriously if it does no
think that was correct conclusion?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
GIe RepnbHrap.
JUNE IA. 1876.

On two or three occasions the Jet
ferson Banner has alluded to Postmas-
ter Moak as editor of the REpUBLI-
CAN. The Banner, as usual is faulty
In its statement of facts, but as it was
never known to correct an error, We
presume it will not do so in this in
stance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14

Before the next Presidential cleo
ton November y. seven of the states
will hold elections for State officers
In September, Arkansas, Vermont and
Maine. and in October, Ohio, Indiana.
West Virginia and Georgia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14

The Democrat last week contained
one of the paid puffs tor Tilden, which
were sent broadcast through the coun-
try by that New York advertising
agency. It is noticeable fact that
these friendly notices are Simultaneous
" appearing in most of the democratic
papers In the state. The offer of six
dollars for their insertion seems to have
been generally accepted, though occas-
ional exception is found, as in the La
Crosse Democrat, which spurned the
proposition aud exposed the trick.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
ORDER OF EXERCISES

National Song by the Choir and Bands
Reading Of the Declaration of Indepen-
donce by VIM H. Rohr.
National song.
Grafton in English by Rev. M. w.
Reed, of Milwaukee, and in German by
VIM. L. Schmidt, of Milwaukee.
National song.
In the afternoon music by the Bands
and general rejoicing.
At o'clock awarding one prize Ban
ner each to the town sending the most
decorated teams, and to the town repre-
sented by the greatest number of persons
on horseback.
In the evening GRAND FIRE
WORKS, brilliant illumination of Turner
Park and Grand Ball at Turner Hall and
Music Hall.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
order OF THE DAY.

National Salute; Ringing Of Bells;
Music by the Bands at Sunrise; At2
O'Clock A. M. in front of Turner Hall,
procession will form under the command
of the Chief Marshal, to consist Of three
Bands OF Music, U. S.,sState, County and
City Officials, Fire Department with the
new steam fire engines, Military and
Civic Societies; Pupils of the Public
Schools, Citizens, Farmers on Horse
back and Decorated Wagons, vehicles
mounted by persons showing styles OF
l776 and 1876; A company of Soldiers in
Continental dress; General Washington
and his Staff; Decorated Wagons; indie
pendence Hall with Congress of l776
Liberty and the State of the Union; the
Four Seasons and other Al,egorical Tab
leaux; and exhibitions of the various oc-
equations, and products of manufacturers
Mechanics, Farmers, &c.
The procession will promptly march tc
the Celebration grounds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14

JAIRlC;K KENNEDY'S Livery and
p BOARDING Stable, lst street, opposite
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
BLAt KSMTTHC

SrhaGOE INDRA, Mill Pick Dresser.
n :, and Blacksmiths, First Street. South of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
BOOTS & SHOES

a NIoN SCHUMACHER, Boot and Sfss
- = Oealer' Third Street-North of Main.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
Display Steam Fire Engines

National Songs sung by choir Of One
Thousand singers, accompanied by Three
Bands of Music
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
FURNITURE.

YIN KICK, manufacturer and deo1or -
- all Kinds of Furniture and Upholstery.
~ street, LIST block south of Main.
Oo. JUNGMANN & Co. dealers in Fnr-
= niture, III Main street
Smyrna times., 1876-06-21
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Nathan Cook, near Camden, claims to
have the fastest trotting horse in the
county.
A camp meeting is to be held in Daley's
woods, Marydel, commencing Aug 18th
Rev. E. ii. Hinson, pastor
The P. w. & B. r. r. Co. are building
smith shops at Dover, for making repairs
to tools used in the Road department.
A lady named Grafton, in Wilmington,
whilst gaping the other day, dislocated her
jaw. A physician fixed things for her.
A firm in Milford tried the experiment
of packing trout in ice and shipping them
to Philadelphia, this season, and it is said
the experiment paid well.
A lady named Mills, in Wilmington, to
whom q son was born last Friday night,
named the little fellow Hayes, in honor,
she says, of the next President of the
United States.
The Centennial Commissioners from Eng.
land, Australia, Russia and Belgium, accom-
panied by number Of prominent machin.
lists of this country, went to Wilmington
last Monday to see the manufactures in
that city, especially the LobdeIl car wheel
works.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-21

So FAR as we car learn, in the way of
local sentiment, the Cincinnati nominees
find unanimous endorsement among the
Republicans of this section. Although the
selection of Hayes was not looked for here
any more than in other quarters, still it
meets with as hearty an approval as it does
the country over.
There is one noticeable feature about the
nomination. 1t has left no sore heads on
the party's hand to be reconciled. The
friends of Blaine and Bristow alike come
into the arrangement with marked unan-
Unity. And with reference to Blaine, we
will just say that We could never see that
. general sentiment manifested for him in
this part of the county that the State con-
ventiOn indicated. He had warm friends,
of course, but they never seemed numeri.
cllly strong; not more so than the Bristow
men, if even as numerous as they. Indeed,
now that the nomination is over, some of
/ is warmest followers, some who look upon
him as the second Henry Clay" are more
than satisfied with the result. They begin
10 question whether, with all his greatness,
lie could have been elected President.
Henry Clay could not. His admirers begin
to think that his path of duty IS just the
one he is now filling. 1t is there he can
do the greatest honor to himself and to his
country. With reference to Gov. Hayes,
the idea that he only possesses negative
strength and fitness, is not so readily
accepted as was at first given out. He is
not "the nobody" that the Democrats
graduated with honor from the Harvard
law school without brains; he could not
have made popular lawyer in Cincinnati
ar a successful general in the army without
brains or mother-wit; in short, if he were
as deficient in attainments as the Demo
Gratis would have US believe, he could never
have defeated such Democratic giants a'
Thurman, Pendleton and Allen, in Ohio
Yet he has defeated them all three, and
done it, for the most part, when the oddi
were strongly against him. 1t took some
thing more than the sterling honesty tha
even the Democrats concede to Gov. Hayes
to give him the victory over such wiery
politicians as we have named. lie coulC
not have proved a success in every position
as he has done, without something lik
good hard common sense to couple with Iii
honesty, and any man who has these tw
elements has enough TO make him compo
tent-has just what Washington, jefferson
Jackson and Lincoln had.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-21

SHALL THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION FAN,
OR TRIUMPH ?-The opening day of the Ex
hibition was, of course, triumph. The
President of the United States, Congress,
the foreign Ministers, and many citizens
were paesent, and the entire attendance
was more than a hundred thousand people.
Yet the cash receipts were only about
thirtyeight thousand dollars. Since then
they have dwindled to daily average of
about ten thousand dollars, while the daily
expenses greatly exceed that amount.
There are many faults in the Exhibition of
which the public has reason to complain.
1t does not attract foreigners, and even our
own citizens have not given it the support
that was expected. The hotels which
raised their prices because of the vast
attendance on the first day were soon
obliged to reduce them When the hotel
keepers reduce their prices there must be
something out of joint, for hotels are like
barometers, and generally give the mean
average of the financial condition of the
country.
1t is conceded, with deep regret, that
since the opening day the Exhibition has
steadily drtted into debt, and all that is
thus far anticipated to redeem it is the
Fourth of July. Our old friend Yankee
Doodle is to come to the rescue. There is
no doubt, i'll our opinion, that the attend
ance then will he greater than that Of the
Inauguration of the Exhibition. The
Fourth Of July is national holiday, and
not only all Philadelphia, but thousands of
people from the ncighboring States and
cities will make it point to use the oppor-
tunity patriotically 10y visiting the EXhibi-
ton Besides this, many societies will
meet i'll Philadelphia on or about the
anniversary of American independence.
Among these are the volunteer reunions.
the international Typographical Congress,
the National Law Congress, the National
and state military cncampments, the Grand
Army OF the Republic, the Congress of
Authors, the National Convention of the
Catholic Young Mems Association (aS large
Il body as the Young Mems Christian Asso.
clatlon), the Statesmen and Commercial
Travellers Association, the Catholic Total
Abstinence Convention of America, the
| Worlds Homeopathic Cor vcntion, the
Grand Knights of Malta, and others which
we need not name. These visitors and the
attraction of the great anniversary itself
will swell the attendance on that day
enormously. But one swallow does not
! make summer, nor can two grand davs
of patriotism make a success of the Exhibi
tiOn.-N \. HrdM
Smyrna times., 1876-06-21

The former graduates of the Wesleyan
College, in Wilmington, held their 18th
alumn9 anniversary at the College, last
week. Among those who participated was
one of Smyrna's young ladies. Says EOery
Ecenjng: Miss Sue r. Colt, Of Smyrna, Del,
read memorial of Mrs. Lizzie Long Car.
roll, Of Sussex county, a member Of the
Alumne, who died during the year. 1t
was a well written and most feeling tribute.
Misses Laura Galloway and Sue Schofield,
of Phila., Miss Hoover, of Washington,
Miss Martin, of Kentucky, and others who
have graduated at the College, took part in
the exercises. Mrs. Smith, Of Wilmington,
formerly Miss Ware), is the President OF
this Alumn@ Society; Mrs. Foster, OF
Orange, N. j., formerly Miss Helmes Pit.
man, of Smyrna), is Vice President; Miss
Sue r. Colt, of this town, Rec. Secretary
and Miss Day, of Dover, Corresponding
Secretary.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-21

IT is counting Presidential chickens be-
fore the old hen is we'll on her nest to
figure up the result now, but there is
always a certain degree of interest in such
figures. let them come when they may.
We will therefore reproduce, i'll con-
lensed form, some ciphering which the
New York Tribune has been indulging in.
At the next election the whole number of
electoral votes will be 500; majority will
be lSj. There is no speculation about this.
Now for the estimates: 1t is pretty gen.
orally conceded. the Tribune thinks, that
the Republicans are certain of l5S of these
votes, or - short of a majority. The DEM
ocrats claim l49, or sc short of a majority.
To obtain this l49, California, Connecticut,
Nevada, Oregon. and all the Southern States
hut South Carolina are conceded to the
Democrats. There are still 62 votes, a
majority of which one side or the other must
get. These 60 votes are divided between
New y York (35), New Jersey (9(, Indiana (l5),
and Colorado (3). Now. the point is this:
unless the Democrats carry New York they
will be defeated, while the Republicans
can elect their ticket without New York
The election hinges on that State, the
Tr.jtue thinks
This all does not amount to much except
u show that neither side can afford to
make many foolish steps. Those of our
readers who are of u speculative turn can
take some satisfaction, it may be, in work
ing up these figures. though they may not
be worth any more han a February peach
prediction.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-21

Miss Jane Stuart in an article on the
. Stuart Portraits of Washington" in Serb
ner's Magazine for July, has this interesting
reminiscence " | once heard my father, in
a private conversation with Washington
Allston, give his candid opinion of Gen.
Washington's appearance. He said that
his figure was by no means good; that his
shoulders were high and narrow, and his
hands and feet remarkably large. lie had
'aldermanic proportions, and this defect
was increased by the form of the vest OF
that day. But, with all these drawbacks,
his appearance was singularly fine. l have
heard my mother say that the first time
she saw him, he entered the hall door, as
she passed from the entry to the parlor,
and that she thought him the most superb
looking person she had ever seen. lie was
then dressed in black velvet, with white
lace rufies, &C., exactly as Stuart's picture
represented him."
Smyrna times., 1876-06-21

The DELAWARE LIGTHoUsEs-Congress has
made the following appropriations: For
constructing a dyke to protect the site of
Mispillon Light station, Delaware, from
the overflow of the tide, $4,000, and any
surplus of this fund may be appropriated
for the purpose Of making a road from the
lighthouse to the firm land; to complete
the construction of the lighthouse on
Cross Ledge shoals, 5000; for continuing
the construction of the lighthouse ON Ship
John shoal, $4,000, and the unexpended
balance Of the appropriation made March
3, for a lighthouse near the south ond of
Pea Patch Island is made available for the
construction Of range lights to guide past
Pulkhead shoals.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-21
MARYLAND ITEMS.

The farmers in parts of Kent county are
complaining Of the pear blight.
In Kent county, where the bulk of the
peaches are said to lay the fruit Is falling rapidly from
the trees
T. L. Sutlif, formerly Of Smyrna) is
going to open -four and feed store in ST Michae!s
Talbot county
Two lawyers of Centreville, Messrs. j. b.
Brown and T. J. Keatng upset In sail boat last
week and got good ducking
NeW School IHoNses.-Fiye public school