Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-26
Current Opinions.

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Democrat member of Congress raised
himself up as from the grave and sent
forth maniac howl for fraud. The
good people of Georgia should suppress
or bury Stephens as he has already be-
come a stencil. His heart is blacker
than that of John Sherman's.
Albany Journal: tits possible that
the Potter-Tilden movement may yet
disclose some new developments; but
as it stands to-day it is a complete and
ludicrous failure which overwhe!ms
all the parties to it in confusion and
ignominy. More than that, it is a
self-confessed fasco. The very con
spirators who started out with open ynd
loud vaunts of what they would accom-.
plish, and with secret designs of still
more dangerous ends, are forced to
| disavow tbs attempt and to declare
now what they utterly refused to de-
Glare month ago. Their failure is
dismal and their humiliation complete
Chicago Times: A little too late
to be of much service him, some Of Mr..
Tilden's friends in New York have
have just made public, what they claim
to be fact, that he had nothing
whatever to do with starting the fraud
investigation; that he has been oppos-
ed to that stupendous blunder from
the first, and that nothing but his un-
conquerable affection for Potter and
Manton Marble has induced him to re-
main silent under the charge that the
movement was inspired by him. Why
he has spoken now, after holding his
peace SO long, his defenders forget to
explain. Perhaps the discovery, in
the light of the almost unanimous act
ion Of the House, that the country ut
ter y condemns the Mexicanization
scheme, and that all who have sustain
ed it arc doomed to speedy political
death, has had some effect in restoring
to Uncle Sammy the power of speech.
Chicago Tribune: Senator Dan
Voorhees, is candidate for re election
to the United States Senate, and in
view Of this fact, the Indianapolis
Journal appropriately re-examines his
record. 1t quotes letter written by
c. C. Clay to Jacob Thompson, de-
faulter and ex-Secretary of the Inter-
ior under Buchanan (both parties then
being in Canada) in which the feality
Of Voorhees, to the Lost Cause is
vouched for. This letter is dated at
St. GATHERINGS, July II, 1864.
Another letter, written from Long
Branch to Voorhees, himself by James
W. Wall approves "the excellent quail.
ity and great efficiency" of certain
rifles, which, it is we'll understood.
were to be used in the Western Rebel
rising. But no new testimony is need.
ed to show the disloyalty of Dan Voor-
bees. He has attested it over and
over again out of his own mouth. If
the people of Indiana wish to smi, ch
the memory Of their lamented War
Governor and Senator, they can do it
in no manner more effectively than BY
returning this blatherskite and rene
! gade to his seat in the Senate.
Inter Ocean: The Republican par
! ty cannot afford to waste its energies
by Juggling into its platforms Of princi-
pies issues unimporsant, especially
where they would ooly create conten.
tons. The party can afford to allow
it's members the largest individual
opinions of men and the official acts of
their leaders. But it is apparent to
all that if We would succeed and carry
forward the great work for which the
Republican party was organized, We
must 90 into the fight under the old
standard and to the music which has
sounded the successful charge in the
dark days of the republic. The party
that has saved the nation, upheld its
honor. befriended labor, rescued the
slave from his chains. and brought out
of the financial distress returning pros
perity, has yet warm hold on the
hearts Of loyal men everywhere. Its
work is not yet completed Its old
enemies are alert and watchful, and as
ready to strike as when the first bugle
call reused the patriots of the nation
to sense Of their danger. Our State
conventions as they meet should not
wrangle over the unimportant person
alities which have been introduced:
but buckling on the old Republican
armor, as Michigan has done, 90 out to
meet the enemy with the same defiant
energy which has characterized it dur
its fifteen years of continuous victory.
Philadel phia Times: Alexander H.
Stephens is about to start the Indepen-
dent ball in the solid South, and every
body who loves the stirring up of dry
bones of any sort will welcome him to
his good work. 1t can't but be healthy
In It's results, no matter whether Mr.