The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-01
The State Central ard the Legislative
Committees.

/ Lie otate 06hbFal a1d Gno Legislative
/ Committees.
A first step is for the Republican masses to
| Ignore the Legislative Republican Committe,
The Republican party did not authorize the ap
polntment OF the commtte which has under
taken to uSurp the functions of the COMMITTEES
which the party did appoint. MtIlpaasee SENT,
mel.
Ever since the organization Of thu
Legislative Committee last March, thu
Milwaukee Sentinel has done it's ut
lmost in the attempt to prejudice the
Republicans Of the State against tht
committee, to make it appear that it
was organized at the bidding of one
man, in the interest of one man, and
that that man is Mr.. Keyes. The Sen
ti91eJ has also endeavored to make it
appear that there was no need of the
new committee, that its appointment
was an insult to the State Central Com
mittee. and that since it's organization
it has undertaken to usurp the func-
tions Of the State Committee. The
I, Sentinel knows as well as any one
| knows, that no one man could organ :
ize such a committee to further his
own personal ambition against the
will Of the party. It knows that no
such an organization could so mold the
sentiment Of the Republicans in the
State on the Senatorial question as to
secure the election of MI. Keyes. Mr..
! Carpenter, or Mr.. Howe It knows
that the reason why the Committee
was called into existence was that it
might serve as an auxiliary to the reg
ular Central Committee, and nothing
more. It knows that in no single case
has the Legislative Committee under
taken to Snub the other committee, to
uSurp its functions, or to do any work
which was not proper for it to do. It
knows that there is no "ring" attached
to the Committee, that the members
thereof are above the character Of
ringsters, and that they can not be Sc
duced by fattering nor influenced by
money, to work i'll the individual in
terestS Of any one man for the United
States Senatorship. They are men Of
common sense, Of some political sagac-
ity, sound Republicans, and know full
well that the Republican party of
Wisconsin would not tolerate a ring
committee for moment.
I We presume it is fair to charge the
Sentinel with being in favor Of the
election of Mr. Carpenter to the United
States Senate There is no harm in
that, as the Sentinel has perfectright
to support whom it pleases. 1t has al
right to oppose Mr.. Keyes, MI. Howe,
OF any other man who may have an
! eye on the Senate, providing the Oppo-
sition is made in due season, and with
some regard for personal character and
for facts. But we suggest to the Sem
ti1ael that it is taking a very unskillfnl
course to secure the election of it's
friend, Mr.. Carpenter. There is no
county in the State where Mr.. Carpen-
ter should have greater number Of
warm friends than in Rock county.
Here he was graduated; here he began
the practice of the law, and here he
took the first step which afterwards
lied him to success and to fame. But
the persistent efforts of the Sentinel to
get up quarrel between the two COM
mittees, and to damage the Republican
prospects in the State seems to indi-
cate that that paper is not looking af-
ter the success Of Republicans this
fall. This course of the Sentinel is
stoutly condemned by an exceedingly
large majority of the Republicans in
} Rock county. The Sentinel should
join the Republican ranks and contrib
ute it's mite toward the success Of the
time-honored Republican principles,
and not play into the hands of the
Democracy Indirectly, nor go out ON
wild skirmish on it's own hook. The
first business in hand is to elect a Re
publican Legislature, and then all can
: take hand in the Senatorial fight
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