Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-09
Democratic Nonsense about Wiscon-

After quoting from the Philadel-
phia Times an exultation over an im-
aginary prospect that the Democrats
will carry Wisconsin at the next cleo
ton end an assertion that the time was
when tho Badger State was good for
thirty thousand Republican majority,
the Milwaukee Sentinel reviews the
ground as follows:
In the first place, we don't believe
the Democrats expect to carry the
State as we certainly know they have
no good grounds for any such expec-
tation. And time never was when
the Badger State was good for thirty
thousand Republican majority. At
presidential elections the heaviest
vote is cast and the largest majority
ever given was 4,l47 for Grant in
1868. In 1872 Grants majority was
1861. At the gubernatorial cleo
tions before and after Grants MAORI
ty in 1868, the Republican majority
was, in 1867, but AGA and in 1869 it
was 1903. 10 1861 it was 1891.
After 1867 there was just as much
reason to predict Republican defeat.
as now, the majority then being only
4764 and the majority of last year
over 6000.
The vote of 1873 does not indicate
anything in regard to the present po-
ltlcal sentiment of the State. Then
the Democratic party changed it's
name and Joined the Changers, who
were then in their full strength. AS
early as two years ago the Changers
discovered the hollowness of the
Democratic pretense of reform and
last year they abandoned the Demo-
Gratis almost in a body. Last year
the Republicans made gain of 81
SIG over the Democratic vote of 1873
the only time the Democrats, in
disguise, carried the State.
Surely any confidence the Demo
Gratis may have cannot come from
review of the election statistics. If
they have expectations they are based
on something else. But if they con-
clude that Gov. Ludington's declina-
ton indicates weakness, they will rub
their eyes one Of these mornings and
find they have been deceived. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that fear of
Republican defeat is not why Gov.
Ludington declined a denomination
'that he could have had for the ask
ing"
The Democratic party has abso-
lutely nothing to offer to induce
change of the vote of last year Any
reliance on dissatisfaction with the
Presidents Southern policy among
Republicans will fail. There is no
dissatisfaction with the Administra-
ton and if there we're it could not aid
the Democratic party, since it has
steadily advocated the same policy
for years. A few machine men are
sore oyer the inauguration of civil
service reform, but the gains because
of the reform will more than compen-
safe for any loss in that direction.
The accession of German voters to
the Republican ranks in Milwaukee
County alone will be far greater than
the loss throughout the entire State,
by reason of the destruction of the
machine. The only time the Demo
Gratis carried the State W J when this
Congressional district gave a Demo-
cratic majority of l,O73-which it
will not do this year, With a candi-
date who is in pronounced sympathy
with the Administration the Republi-
cans will carry the bulk of the Ger
man vote of the district, which last
year gave the Democratic ticket
majority of over 60OO.