Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-13
Sam Cary.


dong more ana has done more, by his
efforts to produce agitation and dis
trust, to cause hard times than any
other one nam in the country. But
he comes before the people claiming to
have a-poacy- that is Just what the
country needs, and mu.t have Be
cause he is doing this, it is of inter-
es5 and Importance to the people to
know just how mulch sincerity. and
honesty there asa in his profession
Ills public record In the past stamps
him as a political demaeogue and a
cheat Of the worst sort. \ man may
change his political affiliations when
prompted to do so by honest convict
ions, and be respected for so doing,
but when man will sell his convict
ions of right and his conscience fora
mes ofsPottage~he IS unworthy Of eth
er confidence or respect.
Mr. Cary is and always has been a
bold and active temperance advocate,
and prior 20 1875 was a. member Of
the Republican party. and at one time
vas a mem Der Of Congress. In 1875
:La was a candidate for the office of
Lieut.. Governor on the democratic
ticket 10, Ohio The convention which
n2minated'him boldly took an anti
temperance attitude, and even shook
off such Of the democratic party as
avowedly belieTed7in, d. moral reform
Of the temperance matters of the state,
and even went so far as to- incorporate
an anti-temperance pIafrbs In it's plat
form. Mr.. Cary turned his back upon
his whole public life and utterances as
a temperance man, and stood sqrarely
upon the platform before the people,
and begged Of them to vote for him.
And at that very time he was a
member of an order wlEch was pro-
nounced in favor Of Prohibitory legis-
lation. His boast was that he conld
''stand on, lie on, and roll over on"
such platform
Again, at the time of the tendency
Of the question Of the adoption of the
Fifteenth amendment, be wrote let
ter af which the following. is an. ex:
tract.
"The party that opposed the Gov
ernmeAt in It's effort to, crush the re-.
bellion. and. organize conspiracies in
Ohio to aid the traitors; the party
that denounced Lincoln as a tyrant
and usurper, and our soldiers as hire
lings and dogs the party that de-
nounced the war as failure and tried
to make it so !; the party that dissuad-
ed men from enlisting, and persuaded
them to desert after they had enlisted;:
the party in Congress that opposed
submitting the amendment abolishing
slavery, and in all our State Legisla--
lures opposed the ratification Of that
amendment when submitted; the par-
ty that now tavors the admission to
the. halls Of Congress Of the most con-
spicuous leaders of the rebellion, with
out conditions ;, the party stepped in
crime aud covered with infamy, viii
doubtiots be true to its instincts and
consistent in. its record by opposing
the amendment.
But in 1875, for the sake of petty
Office, he was willing to become lead
er Of this party ''steeped in crime and
covered with infamy." He was will
ING to be candidate of the party
sethat denounced Lincoln as tyrant
and usurper, and our soldiers as hire
lngs and dogs The fact was, Mr.
Cary became political prostitute for
a paltry price. But at the election.
when he ran thousands of votes behind
the ticket, he discovered that the DEM
ocratic party had only bought him for
temporary tool, and he vas obliged
TO 90 out in the cold world again to
hunt for game. A renegade Republi-
can, riddled, forsaken Democrat and
politically homeless, he is now going
about Wisconsin asking people to list-
en- to his o9inion upon. political parties
and natioqal policies, The prominence
which Mr.. Cary occupies in the green
back movement in this state, gives sig
nifcance to these facts of record. An-
other year, if some new political
scheme should be projected with
brighter promises than the one he is
now associated with, he will be found
astraddle of it. All that he seeks. to
accomplish in the speeches he is now
making, is to destroy confidence, pro-
duco agitation and unnecessary alarm,
by the use of arguments that arc ar
insult to intelligent and thinking men
He talks about befriending the labor
ing classes, when the whole effect o
his speeches is calculated to antagonist
labor and capital by attempting to de
stroy that confidence which IS abso
lutely necessary to prosperous bust
ness relations.
There are a good many Republican
who are inclieed to pin their faith t.
the greenback policy and party, ant
the masses are honest in their motives
! We do not assail the honesty of such
but, We DO submit that they should re
quire better wisdom and more homes
judgment than such men as Mr. Car
can furnish.
THE AVERAGE LEGISLATORS
Hon. James Shaw, Speaker of the I'll