Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-12-12
KEYES

publican. It's position ia not disap-
pointment Any observer of men and
their doings in Wisconsin would have
put his hand right on Mr.. Keyes's
thumb, certain to find Mr.. Fogo IN
der it. Any man who practices win
tering at the capitol, to feed at the
public crib, or who every winter just
before the holidays sends word to
members of the Legislature and Others
likely to have influence with them,
that he will ask for clerkship or
something else at the Legislature, you
may set him down as Reyes man. 1t
is Mr.. Fogo's nature, as it is that of
all this class of men, to regard the Of
fees as belonging to them; that the
people are only parts of a great ma
chine kept running for their benefit.
The people, in their imagination, be.
long to them for this purpose as com
pletely as the thousand slaves on a
great plantation in the South before
the war belonged to their master to
keep him in lordly living. The
feeling to them is natural, they are
not TO blame for it. But there is a
man in this District whom we have
classed differently, who has come out
for Mr.. Keyes. IF we had tried to
guess what editor or editors in this
Congressional District would prob.
ably favor MIR. Reyes for Senator, the
last one thought of would have been
Gen. Bintliff, of the Darlington Re-
publican. And we dare not express
establishment, and wonder what mo-
tive or what inducement leads G en-.
Bintliff in that direction, for he elabo-
rately tells us by portrayiug what he
believes TO be the virtues of the Mad.
ison Boss. His beliefs as to the mer-
its of that great Republican night
mare are as surprising as that Reyes
should be his preference. He says,
for instance, that in "deyotion to Re-
publican principles Mr.. Reyes is con-
fessediy not surpassed by any of our
public men," So far from this BEING
a confessed fact, no thoughtful,
statesmanllke man, such as Gen.
Bintliff himself has always been re-
garded, ever think of Mr.. Reyes as
being in any way prompted or moved
by principle. He Is, on the contrary.
confessedly man of passions aud
prejudices. Again, Gen. Bintliff tells
us that Mr.. Reyes Sin public life
treats the interests of all classes of the
people with equal consideration" We
can hardly imagine how words can
be put together to express more accu.
rately the very opposite of the Reyes
nature ana practice. II there is any
man in Wisconsin who thinks no man
worthy of consideration except those
who toady to him, that man, 10 our
judgment, is Mr.. Reyes. The stand.
ard he has borne is the Keyes stand
ard, not the STANDARD Of the Repub-
lican party" When was he ever
known to secure positions for men be-
cause they were worthy Republicans,
and not for the help they might be to
Reyes. Herein lies great fault He
was rot one of the organizers of the
Republican party. He has been ieal,
Gus OF the men who made the party 4:
the men of sound principles those
who were great workers, prompted
by devotion to those principles; the
able, honest and moral men of the
party. His energy has been used in
keeping this class of men out of vie W,
IN back seats, while he called bum.
mers, gamblers, loafers and scalawags
into his service by securing for them
positions, thus giving the party a bad
name and driving many of its best
away. And the Darlington Republic
can says
We regard it as wise policy, source of
strength to political party, to honor those
who have oftenest drawn the fire OF the enc
my. We have no sympathy with that sneak
ing cowardice which selects non>committal
men for standard bearers
Those are our, sentiments. But if
we were in the army we should not
want to fight under commander
who was as happy fighting and plum
dering his own people as those of the
enemy, and who so conducted him.
self that he constantly "drew the fire.
of the best of his own soldiers. 1t is
not true of Mr.. Reyes that he has
''oftenest drawn the fire Of the ene-
N.Y. His battles and those of his
KIND nave always been fought on the
personal or what might be called the
"scratch" plan never on party prin.
ciple. The Reyes plan to secure vo-
tiers is to buy, treat, bully, delude and
catch the loose felows-no matter
how many good, sound Republicans
you drive away, make up the loss by
these several methods. Such work
does not draw the fire of the enemy,
and it never makes Republicans. ''The
enemy" have loved Reyes more than
the better Republicans have. He
never had natural enmity to them nor
they to him. They have helped him
whenever he needed their help.
When he was charged with the worst
corruption at the time of the prosecu-
ton of the whisky thieves did the