Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04
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ing powerful scent AFTER Ifauu; never
theless, they took mighty good care to
keep Cronin's nose out of the Potter
Investigation.
Workingmen: Who denounced the
white workingmen, their wives, sisters,
daughters and mothers, as ''Hiretings,
beygars, Thieves, and prostitutes?''
Was it not the confederate oligarch
the so-called democracy of to day?
Workingmen: Who declared that
the negro. brutalized by slavery, was
morally and physically infinitely super
Tor to the educated white nottingham?
Was it net the Confederate OLGA oh
the so-called democracy of to day \?
Tne investigating committee are
beginning to think that life is a burden,
and the handling of Republican wit
nesses more dangerous than playing
with edge-tools. Mrs. jerks thorough
" bewildered Messers. Mcmahon, Pot
ter and Springer, and Gen. BoyAton
next day succeeded in completely sill
encing Battery Butler.
Workingmen: Who declared as a
fundamental article of their political
faith. that certain mental emr low
ments," all manual employments,
= were incompatible with men cultiva-
tion,' and hence opposed to all plans
or systems for the education Of The
people?
Was it not the Confederate oligarch
the so-cailed democray of to-day?
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt is supposed
to be sharpening his weapons of de-
Tense and refreshing his memory on
the catechism since his little affair with
Henry Watterson, in which the demo
cratic compliments of the season were
exchanged. Mr.. Hewitt knows the
amiable nature Of that distinguished
EDITORS lambs, especially those in the
folds of Gotham.
South Carolina democratic county
clubs, acting, doubtless, on the sug,
gestions from higher management,
have resolved that they will permit no
" strangers" 70 come into their midst
during the coming campaign for the
purpose Of misleading the negroes.
This is gentle intimation that free
speech and republican orators from
other states are to be strangled to-
gether.
Workingmen: Who made the grand
discovery that the slaves Of the An
cicnt World, and notably the Jewish
slaves, were ,ohtte, not black, and
therefore urged, as a cardinal doctrine
of their political faith, that slavery
was the natural and normal condition
Of the laborer, whether achjte or black?
Was it rot the Confederate oligarch
the SO called democracy Of to-day?
Workingmen: Who denounced
''free society as failure" ''an abor-
ton, . corr apt and corrupting; and
as a means Of reforming Northern so
ciety, Of purging it Of the immortality
and crime caused by its freedom, de-
liberately invented infamous plans to
reduce the white workingmen, their
, wives, sisters, daughters, and mothers
to slavery?
Was it not the Confederate oligarch
the so-called Democracy of to- day?
Ex- Major-General Fitz-John Por-
ter, thinking the political condition of
the country is now such that he can
be relieved Of the punishment imposed
upon him for assisting the enemy to
defeat General Pope in 1868, and be
restored to his rank and pay in the
Army, has succeeded in having his
case reopened. A soldier who shall
read the n8w plea submitted by Gen
eral Pope will regard the additional
evidence adduced by him as an aggra-
walton of the charge of disobedience
of orders, of which he was found gull
t..
Workingmen; Who rebelled
against the constitution and the laws,
and attempted to establish Confeder-
acy, with slavery as its cornerstone, ,
destroying hundreds of thousands Of
precious lives and thousands Of mill
ions OF treasure, multiplying widows
and orphans, and carrying suffering
and woe throughout the Republic,
amid crimes, before when the world
stands appalled,; and as means Of ae
comprising their Infamous projects of
reducing the white workingmen to
slavery-of abolishing ''free society,""
VAST not the Confederate oligarch
the so-ealled Democracy of to day?
Workingmen: Who now, although
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