The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-18
as you yourself was in your own private
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acts as man.
And you must also recollect with
what assurance you then gave your au-
ditor to be informed that you yourself
was honest, virtuous and true, or in
other words, gave him to understand
that you was immaculate and there
was no "Boss Tweed" in you or your
party. You will also remember that
when you were requested to point to a
single act Of President Grants that
even savored of peculation or dishon-
esty either personally or by winking at
| it in his subordinates, that (evading q
direct answer) you simulated anger and
with loud mouthed vOciferatiOns charg-
ed your humble auditor with consum-
mate ignorance if he did not know all
about Grants rascalities and cor
ruptions. This harangue of yours, SO
| eloquent and chaste, above summarized,
did not transpire in a corner, and your
gray haired auditor retired from the
scene astonished that an American
| born citizen should so sink his loyalty
into the mere partisan, and glory in the
| disgrace of the head Of the Nation be-
cause he did not head also the Lost
Caetse!"
Soon after this, rumor was rife about
our Coal men being in a tight place ;at-
torneys were consulted, creditors were
anxious, and the wonder was thatOn
who had SO recently trumpeted his in
tegrity as superior to President Grants
should be in such fix. Such matters
tend to fasten upon Kenosha a reputa-
tion as not being healthy place for
business. Failures had become too
common and no Democratic House of
Representative to investigate. If a
clean sheet is shown and an honorable
course pursued, and deficiencies salts
factorily explained, all must rejoice
in learning that a compromise is effect
ed with foreign creditors at forty cents
On the dollar, and stock ON hand for
winters business. You accomplished
a desirable end land it is in bad taste to
| fly into passion and call bad names
because our fellow citizens desire that
other dealers in the same line Of goods
could be as successful in obtaining as
great "a fall in the cost of coal to them
IalSo, so that each dealer enters the
market with his goods on an equal
footing. Surely your happy deliver
anoe, SO earnestly sought for, is not of
that exalted or sacred character as not
to be the subject of congratulatory ref
I erenee, for is it not truth that there
has been great fall in the cost of
coal? Could Baldwin sustain himself
under that fall if he failed to make as
grand a strike? That accomplished
well might every poor widow and hard
working voter in town this coming
winter shout:
"Coal! Coal!! Coal!!! A great fall in
"the cost of coal in Kenosha; for Bald
swim has made as grand a strike and
eve willmake him Mayor of Kenosha'
4 But Baldwin is not worth a cent fol-
a grand strike, and abominates Office.
! Kenosha for years has been and Still
is in a tight place." Cannot men who
have the prestige Of financial success
uaadey difficulties, be induced to take
office, and by "as grand strike free
us from this load, that prosperity may
come again?
The coal market, it's fluctuations. and
the causes thereof, the Public" have
an interest in and the right to know
about, even though the dealers say
further comments unnecessarily
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