Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-10-31
Hazel Green Items.

On the 18th inst j NJ Mills of Lancaster
addressed large audience here on the grea
finance question. HIS remarks were consid
cred highly interesting He used plain, com
mon sense views which caused the Greenback
ers to mediate upon what ground they ar,
| standing.
On the oath, notwithstanding the wet anC
unfavorable weather our people turned out il
| goodly numbers to attend the joint discussion
on the financial question between Col May, O
Vernon Go , who represented the Greenbacl
party, and Hon. VIM. f. Carter, of Platte,
vile, who represented the Republican or hare
money party Each had an hour and hal
allotted to him. Col. May TO open and close
the argument. The meeting was called to or.
| der by r. Witherbee who was appointed
chairman for the Greenback party for the
| evening de Introduced Col. May who spent
about an hour and ten minutes endeavoring to
| snow the people by misrepresentation and
Interpretations, the necessity Of sustaining the
| soft money policy But he utterly failed to
produce any argument or even lay down his
vie,cs so that Mr.. Carter might respond to
them 1t was nothing but lot of ''Bosh and
Stuff" "hashed up" together with no head or
tail to it, and no foundation for anything he
said. After what he called opening his argus
N.
as much as to say Now refiste ehdt / hare said
Mr.. Joseph Harris then introduced Mr.. Carter
who took up the strain and in less than fifteen
minutes he had the "Hon. Col "(allow me the
expression1 so badly stitched up" that there
was no loop hole through which he might es-
cape Mr.. Carter by his plain reasoning con-
vinced great many Greenbackers that they
were making wrong move, and has thoroughly
won them to the cause OF the hard money
policy. He also dwelt to some extent on the
demeanor of the "Hon." o wen King in the as
sembly last winter which in this section will
be detrimental to his getting great number
OF votes. Col. May got up to close his argu-
ment, but could find nothing to say He found
that Carter had closed the argument half an
hour before.
One of our most intelligent Greenbackers
expresses himself in this wise He doesn't see
why ''hat" (fat) money isn't as good as any
other.
Last Saturday evening Prof. Hayes formerly
of this place, but latterly of Dunleith, adj
dressed large audience in this place, on the
great financial question. Mr.. Hayes is sound
reasoner, and think could convince the most
prejudiced. He was loudly applauded, which
was proof enough that they appreciated what
he said.
Mrs. Thos. Johns is building new house in
the place where the old one was burned.
Mr.. Henry Mayor aud his son Tommy have
returned from Iowa to spend the winter here.
They will return again in the spring,
Mr.. Edward Bates has sold his property to
Richard Scaddan, who will take possession i'm.
medately while Mr. Bates will remove 20 &c.
dar Falls Iowa.
Miss Lizzie Crosby and Ella Ma LAY, who
have been here on visit return to Iowa this
week.
+. G. Thompson is "chuck full" and running
over with politics, and he is on the solid side
of the question.
Rumor has it that a Young "gent" from Min
eral Point and one OF our fair young daugh-
tiers will enter into connubial felicity this week
W. B. Clark, of Bloomington, spoke to a
large audience here on the financial Question,
Oct 2sth. He is brilliant talker, proficient
in all the questions connected with politics,
He was listened to with marked attention and
greatly applauded throughout his speech /
think if the election was to be one month later
there wouldn't be Greenbacker in this sec.
ton.
We expect a speech from Geo. c. Hazelton
next Friday night. People are anxiously wait-
ing the time. E. D.