Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-18
LETTER FROM OREGON.
Cor. Growers relation to the Murderer Gro
yer-Home Opfnfon OF Him Good lines
Busy Flowing, etc .,-Written by Grant
Comfy Man.

EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In your
issue of Dec. IA, in commenting upon |
the great "Oregon Electoral Fraud,
you note a similarity in the name OF
the Governor here, and the Lieuten-
ant that shot the soldier at Lancaster
in 1855, and are probably right in
supposing they are of the same line
age. The Governor has brother
somewhere on the Coast Service,
by the name of Cuvier Grover, and
1t is very natural to suppose he is the
Lancaster man. The Governors
course in the /" fraud " excites a great
deal of indignation here; even some
of his own party censure him for his
action, and it is thought by many,
that he will not be permitted by the
II. S. Senate TO take his seat a. a
member of that body. 1t is said
there were heavy bets offered at Sa-
lem, that he never would get his seat
in the Senate; not for the reason, as
some OF his friends would imply, OF
being in danger of assassination by
Republicans, (for upon second sober
thought they remember it is the wrong
party to expect that from J but that
he would be ilnpeached in his present
Office, and consequently affect his SEN
atorial claims. He is censured very
strongly in his act of telegraphing at
once TO his Tammany Masters"
through the n. Y. Herald, an expla
nation of his course, and misquoting
the State Constitution as his adthor-
ity, in which he leaves out the ''other.
wise" in the section that says:
"When a vacancy shall occur, through
death, resignation or otherwise" the
other members shall proceed to fill
such vacancy" and it appears he
thought it was of secondary import
ance to report to his constituents
and the people of Oregon, his reasons,
but of course he wishes TO clear the
path for higher walk than the peo-
Pile of Oregon would help him in, if
they had their way. Although being
twice elected Governor, and from
there, by the State Legislature, to the
U. S. Senate, he is far from being a
popular man here. His second cleo
ton for Governor was secured more
by his party managers sharpness
than by the wishes of the people.
They helped to get out the usual
"bait" for disaffected Republicans
a third party-and so managed to get
him elected by small plurality, about
500, against the wishes Of thousands
OF voters and as the present Legisla-
ture, from local causes, and the same
cold bait" is Democratic, he has man.
aged to get elected to the U S. Sen
ate, but the chances are he will not be
very shining light to that august
body. That the people of Oregon,
when they get down to their work,
repudiate him and his party, is plain
to be seen, from the vote last fall, the
Republican majority being over
eleven hundred, equal to tens of thou
sands in Wisconsin, comparing the
number of voters.
Times are very good at present,
the advance in wheat to one dollar
per busheI, gold, has had the effect to
enllven things considerably.
The weather is warm and pleasant,
no rain for nearly six weeks. Farm
are busy Flowing, sowing, &c.
All are anxiously looking to the
fiual move in the Presidential game.
Hoping that the "right'' may win, |
remain, Yours, &c,
G. r. L.
MONMOUTH, Or, Jan. /, 1877