Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-07-24
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gress. 1t thinks This integrity and character
are Of the old fashioned kind."s He would
take O first premium in that respect. Why
hasn't somebody thought of the Judge before :!
He is Just the man! Tho spectacle Of seeing
the Judge holding up that monster tooth in
| the Halls Of Congress and toasting the State
! Of Wisconsin would be entertaining, ard some.
thing'that does not often eminate from that
place.-Grant County Gazette.
Yes, Mr.. Gazette, we certainly
hope that the people Of this Dis.
trict will see to it that Judge Mills
does become the Republican candi.
date for Congress. And one of our
chief reasons therefor is the fact
that his integrity Of character is of
the fashioned kind. As we con-
ceiye the fact to be, there is too
much of all that is honest, noble and
true pertaining to the Republican
voters Of this district, to be repre-
sented by man who is not gener-
ally credited by those same voters
with possessing in any great degree
those attributes which ennobe man.
And knowing, that. as the Gazette re-
marks, HE Judge Mills would take
first premium in that respect" We
suggested his name as the man whom
we should like to see as the Repub-
licsn candidate for Congress. 10
have paper so thoroughly Demo
cratic as the Gazette say what it did
Of our choice, certainly flatters us,
although it does not in the least the
Judge; all the more so, too, when
we consider the fact that the Gazette
is printed in the same town wherein
the Judge has lived upwards of
forty years.
We suspect that in making the
allusion that it does in the para
graph VIC quote above about The
"monsteL TOOTH the Gazette endeav.
ored to vent a little Democratic
spleen; but what dismal failure
it makes Of its endeavors! We beg
leave to suggest to the Gazette that
not all the politicians Of Wisconsin,,
and but very few men belonging to
the Democratic party, can respond
to the toast Of Wisconsin" in be.
fitting manner, holding in one hand
the tooth Of u mastodon, and in the
othes an arrow head, fashioned BY
some one of the abOriginals of Wis
consin. There is something striking
in the idea of contrasting the Wis.
consin of the remote period when
tho masto6op roamed over our prai-
ries, or when lived and died here in
the early days Of their race the an,
cestors of those people who heaped
up the vast truncated pyramids of
Central America, with our smiling,
beautiful Wisconsin of to- day. The
Judge has sufficient intellect to con-
ccive snch an idea, and did. And
those that know him best, know,
that well vcrsed as he is in all the
lore that pertains to Wisconsin,
ancient and modern, his response to
such n toast would be entertaining
and instructive. He is one of the
ab!est and most learned men in the
State.
But there are other reasons than
those which we find in the moral and
intellectual fitness of Judge Mills for
the Republican candidate for Con-
gress.
The fact is-the sober, serious
fact is-that George G. Hazelton is
not in this District what is commons
y called strong man. 1t cannot be
denied, so well is the fact known,
but that hundreds of Republicans
voted for Hazelton with a strong in
Al