Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Democrats are not wholly with
out consolation this year-they carried
Kentucky and elected "Pestilence"
Blackburn governor.
AT Ogdensburg, last Monday, Senator
Conkling declared that the election of
the entire Republican ticket is insured.
The great senator rarely ventures pre-
diction on defenseless grounds.
SECRETARY SHERMAN recently re-
ceived twenty dollars from an anony-
nous sender with the request that it be
placed to credit of the conscience
fund.-" Such a remedy, we think,
would soothe pretty hard conscience.
The Republican victory in Iowa is
found more and more complete as the
particulars of it are known. The Ham,
ilton Freeman says: 'FHamilton county
swings back to her mornings. She
repudiates the repudiators,' gulls the
sGullivers,' wipes out the faters, and
elects every man on the Republican
ticket by from $50 to 400 majority"
DURING his speech at Cooper Union,
Secretary Evarts, among other good
things said: But who is this Robin
son who carries on his back this jockey
in black and white, so arrayed that what
is now white should appear black and
black white? Nobody can tell until
after election. If then the Governor is
elected, it will be Tiiden that rode him;
but if defeated, it will be FELTON,"
WASHINGTON advices say that in the
next session of congress the Democrats
will inaugurate free-trade campaign
for the purpose of diverting attention
from the blunders of the extra session.
But, be it remembered, that that seed was
sown, has borne fruit in California,
Ohio, Iowa, Maine, and is sprouting
freely in New York, Wisconsin, and
everywhere else where newspapers go.
JAMES G. BLAINE was present at the
large Republican mass meeting at
Cooper Union, New York, Tuesday
night. His name caused great enthu-
siasm, his presence called forth rounds of
applause, and when he opened his lips
there was wild and prolonged shout
of delight from the assemblage who had
listened one hour and forty minutes to
speech by Secretary Evarts, and then
yelled, "Blaine our next president"
Surely Blaine has touched the hearts of
the masses of Republicans, and is every
day growing in strength and popularity.
The Democrats have very unpleas-
ant way of standing by and fraternizing
with man until he is defeated in an
election and then kicking him after he
has fallen in their cause. They are now, for
instance, saying more hard things about
Ewing than did his enemies in politics
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the little couplet:
Help one another, boys, and do it with a
will, t9f eFq m
And never kick man becauue he's going
down the hill.
The official count of Ohio shows that
the vote cast at the recent election was
the largest ever pol]ed in the state. At
the presidential election in 1876, 659,77
were cast. The vote now polled is $685.
667, or an increase of 1896. The Green
hackers polled 9,129. In 1878 they
polled 1882 votes, SO the decline in
their vote is over 70 per cent. The
party will soon be utterly extinguished,
as such political rogues as Sam Gary
drop into the arms of the Democracy.
And there let him remain. The Prohib-
itionists polled 4,145. Fosters majority
over Ewing is Il, 129. His majority over
all ether candidates is 1856. The YER
dict of the people of Ohio is therefore
unquestionable. The Republican party
has majority over the Democrats and
every possible ally which they can bring
into the field. Governor-elect Foster
declares that this is strong presidential
boom for Secretary Sherman.