Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-10-30
THE CHICAGO TIMES GOEIH
FOR OUR NEIGHBOR.

! In his zeal to earn all honor posi-
BILE in the cause of King Bro. Craw-
ford was so rash and unwise as 70
address letter to the Chicago 9smts
complaining OF that papers course
in advocating the election Of Hazel
ton rather than King, after Cothren's
withdrawal. To that letter the Times
makes editorial reference, from
which we excerp the following:
''And now comes the editor of a democratic
organ in Mineral Point, and says: Your cdi-
'torial does great injustice to the dem
'ocrats of this district. The issue is not, as you
J intimate, between honest money and fiatism.'
] The real issue, according to the organist, is a
purely personal one. Prominent republicans,
he asserts, say that they will not vote for Geo.
&C. Hazclton, the republican nominee, because
! they know him to he demagogue, and that
| 'his moral character is very far from being
/ above rcproach.' The question, therefore, that
| the people of the district are called upon to
decide is whether Hazciton is more Of dcma.
| gogue aud q less moral man than King. 1t Is
great moral question, in the presence Of
| which the question of honest money and ma
tional honor or prosperity VS.. dishonest money
and national disgrace and ruin sinks into insig-
| ntcance. 1t is the great case of King VS..
Hazelton, and The voters Of the Third District
are the grand inquisitors whose solemn duty il
Is to decide which is the purer man. This is
The great issue, overwhelming all other issues,
and the nation awaits its decision with batcd
breath.
Says the organist Il am hard money dem
'ocrat. and desire the democrats of this district
80 be represented just as they are lie prob
ably means by this that he wants them 10 be
represented in the columns of THE TINES just
as they are. Does he also want them TO be
represented in congress just as they are! He
cannot deny that King is the nominee of the
iats,s, or that King is himself an extreme
chcup.moncy man. He does not pretend to
deny that iIazelton Is u hard money man, and
the candidate of hard money men. But he, a
prolcssed hard.money man, wants the demo
Gratis Of his district to be represented in con-
gress by King. Does he want them to be rep
resented IN congress, as in the columns of THE
TINES, Just MS they are y If so, what are they
bu, iiuti>t>Y If they are not falists, they GER
tainly would moi be represented just rs they
are by the faiist, King. The organist states in
his organ reason which he does not state IN
his letter to Tue TINES why the democrats OF
his district would be represented just as they
are by King. He says
We have presented the alternative of voting for
George C. iia.A'ton, who is az advocate OF III :
present burden,oInc and Unnecessarily expensive
system of national banking, and whose principal
claim upon his own party Is the zeal which Is
prompted by his hatred TO everything which is
advocated by the Democr tic party, or of voting
for owen King, II citizen of our own county lille
long Democrat and IL Democrat still in every e.
sential except In that which we regard as de-
fusion upon m imaginary financial question,
which we believe will only be temporary.
That explains it. The organists course is de-
termined 10y his party prejudice, and not by his
protessei belief with respect to the only political
question at issue in the present contest He sup
ports King because he is a lifelong Democrat
and opposes Hazelon because he has not been
life long Democrat Undoubtedly a good many
more "Democrats' will support King for the adj
ditional reason that he stands squarely on the
Democratic fiat platform of every western State
except Michigan, while Mr.. Hazelton stands on
an honest money platform. 1t is a fair presump
ton that those who vote with party which make
cheap money the main plank in its platform do
not believe that cheap money is "delusion' or
the financial question is "imaginary.' or item
porary" 1t is fair to presume that those who vote
Tor an extreme greenbackcr. like King, standing
On an extreme grecnback platform are themselves
greenbackeis
1t is certainly the rational course for men who
believe that the grceuback theory, if reduced to
practice would bc disastrous to the material In.
tercsts of the country, TO lay aside their party
prejudicos SO far at least to withhold their votes
from the man who, If sent to Congress, would do
his utmost to reduce that theory to practice. The
grcenhack craze Will die when il is killed. and
not before: and il is the duty of every man who
wants to see it dead to help kill it, or at the very
least not to help nurse it 10y sending the worst
victims of the craze 10 Congress.
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