Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-08

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leries set apart on other days for the
voting sex only were equally occupied
to-day by select audience of both
sexes
On the lofty platform, side by side,
sat the President of the Senate and |
the Speaker of the House worthy |
representatives of their respective par
ties-Ferry, dignifed, always scrupu-
lous in observing the laws, and re-
spected by his opponents for his inn
partial decisions /; Randall, dema-
gogue, utterly unscrupulous in his
conduct and despised by his oppo-
nents for his partizan rulings. Ferry
has constantly risen ia the good opin-
ion of all men Randall has lost al
ready in the chair whatever reputa-
ton he had made on the floor.
A Single Group.
On the floor, with one or two ex-
ceptions-President Grant, for ex-
ample, and one or two of his secretar-
ies-could be seen every man now
here who has won great fame by his
deeds in the fields of war and politics.
In one group | saw Sherman, as fidg-
city and restless as when spoke
to him in his tent before Atlanta
VIM. M. Evarts as alert as at the
Beecher trial-lookingas Ralph Waldo
Emerson would look il he were done
up as pickle Jerry Black, chewing
his constant half pound of tobacco,
and making striking contrast in fig
ure and form to the great New York
lawyer Blaine, with his lion-like
crouch, leaning forward in converse
ton with Bancroft, the octogenarian
historian of the United States. Near
them were Zach. Chandler, two or
three Judges of the Supreme Court,
and other celebrities of the army, the
navy and the bar. 1t was sight to
remember.
Now, You Hush %
A little girl at q Kindergarten
school the other day after her teacher
had reproved her of a fault lost pa
thence with the length of the lecture,
and with true American independ-
ence remarked-"Now you hush.
Her advice is needed in the country.
Those of us who have protested
against the Electoral Bill should cease
to oppose it now. 1t is the act of the
majority Of the American people for
the Democracy support it as body
and about one-third of the Republican
party.
New Leaders Wanted.
If Tilden is counted in the Repub-
lican party will be dissolved or reor-
ganized. Events have no pity for
good intentions. Pilots who strand a
vessel and leaders who lose a victory
may be excused but they must be re-
lieved of their commands.
The last campaign was managed
on the part of the democracy with
matehless ability in the doubtful
Northern State as we'll as remorseless
atrocity in the Southern Gulf States.
The Republican campaign was bum
gled from the beginning to the end of
it 1t was victory won despite our
official leaders.
/ am talking out what all the lead
ing Republicans, outside of single
Ring, believe and say, when | affirm
that Mr.. Chandler, although an admir-.
able Executive officer. one of the best
Cabinet ministers we have ever had
in The Interior Department, should be
held responsible for the present posi-
ton OF the party, aud ordered to step
down aad out Of The CHAR Of the ma
tlonai Executive Cnnmittao. We mood
a man who will swear less and work
more-drnk less and study more a
man whose conceit will not blind him
to the fact that brains and hot buster
win battles.
1t is time now for those of us who
love the party as the old crusaders
loved the Cross, to raise the standard
of revolt against the bunglers and the
thieves tile Chambers and Senator
Edmunds, on the one hand, and the
Washington Ring and Railroad Sub
sidy gang on the other hand who
have brought us, between them, into
the present critical condition.
Bnt, in the meantime, we ought not
to keep up our protest against bill
that the majority OF the people by
their Representatives have approved.
1t will be enough to hold the authors
of the wreck, if the party is wrecked,
personally responsible for it.
Railroad Swindles.
The Railroad lobby has not yet
abandoned its raid on the National
Treasury. Corporations are the priv
LEGGED classes" of America. As long
as money ond work were plenty, it
was easy for them to obtain concess-
ions that no Government ought ever
to have granted. The people did not
care. The Nation, for example, first
built the Central Pacific Railroad !;
then it paid for the thirty millone
Credit Mobilier; and up to to this date
it has paid 80 millions more for interest
and it will continue TO pay for TWEEN
ty years four millions annually. At the
end of that time, it will have paid
enough to have built the road over
and over again-and, then, it won't
own single foot of the line
In addition to all that, the public
who use it are charged five times the
fares that would pay the company a
handsome profit if the road had been
honestly built. A cent mile fare
would pay handsome profits for any
railroad in America if there were no
frauds in it from the moment of its
conception until it was in running or
der! There is an average stealage of
$751; mile in the first construc-
ton of every railroad in America.
This railroad question will one day
be a vital issue in American politics.
In the meantime, let the people watch
and see that these colossal robbers
get not single dollar more from the
public treasury nor a single foot of
land more from the public domain.
Lobbyists.
These Railroads aud all great Gin
terests" employ shrewd men and hand