Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-05-16
Grant Takes the Field.
New York w orld.

uIc VI " lL plhIWulbo iitLo hV1i''i W
take in regard to the new Army
bill of Congress, one question Mt
least may be considered to be set
tied. The veto which the President
is likely to send in to Congress to-
day will not prevent the country
from putting stop to the military
interference of the Federal Govern
ment at the polls. But ii will pre-
cludc the Republican party from
nominating any other candidate
but General Grant in 1890. No
other candidate can stand on n
platform ltup iorand buttresscd
by General Grant during his Pres
idential terms, rcpudiatcd repeat
cdly and Indignantly not only by
President Hayes himself but by his
chief advisors, and onl y accepted
now by President Hayes and his
chief advisors under the direct and
ovcrmaBtcring influence Of those
personal allies Of General Grant
who have forced their way again to
the front of the Republican organi-
IA AI IA tuh
waste time or words on situation
that speaks for itself II the Prcsi-
dent yctocs the Army bill now
before him he accepts the positions
laid down and defined for him in the
House by Mr.. Robson, and there
is no man, woman or child in this
country who needs at this time Of
day To be told what and whom Mr..
Robson represents in our politics.
If the House Of Representatives had
allowed itself to follow Speaker
Randall into u wild and inconsid-
crate policy, if the Democrats who
have organized and led the House
in its determined contest for the
freedom Of the polls had permitted
themselves to be eXusperatcd into
interfering with the regular opera
ton Of the Government, Ma. Robe
son and his followers in and out of
the White House might have sue
cccded in diyerting publcnttcnton
not only from tho true nature and
the inevitable tendency If the
policy which they have now I'M
posed upon their party and upon
their President, but also from the
national scandals and the national
pcrils involved in II revival of
Gnntism at Washington with all.
that the name implies. This has.
been made impossible by the wise
and temperate course Of the Con
grcssional majority. The lfcpub
LEANS nj the opening of this session
Of Congress met the lawful demand
of the majority for a policy in nc
cordance with the views Of the
electors ~ Whose votes thcy become
II majority, with threats of Iilbus-
tcring on the door, The Repuhli-
cans now meet Tint demand Of the
majority with the weapon of per
pistcnt and reiterated Executive
vctocs, II this be not III temper
revolutionary politics il would be
hard to say what are revolutionary
politics. II is for y minority, not
for n majority, TO adopt such poll
tics. They IRE to DC met, and thcy
viii be met, by the conservative
politics Of national legislature
which remembers that whilreNccu-
tivcs change and pass away the
nation and the Government endure.
The business Of the country will hc
attended to, the just and the lawful
needs of the Government will be
supplied, and il will remain for the
people TO deal with II revolutionary
party and M unfaithful executive
II their way and at their own time,
Immigration to this country is
on the increase The number Of
immigrants who arrived ut the port
OF New YORK during the first quar-
ter Of this year, 1879 il l1tti,
against S,7S6 for the first quarter
Of 1878. The largest nmhcrcomcs
from Germany, England comes next
and ireland third.
Throughout Minnesota, northern