Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-31
COL. GOODWIN DECLINES.
His Reasons for Refusing to be q
Candidate for Attorney General
IN tba EraanhaaIx Tickaf

Lq00T parry. uENTLEMEN: On INC |
23d inst. | received printed circu-
lar containing the platform adopted
at WATERFOWL on the 10Th inst, also
the names of the nominees of that
party for the coming election, my
name appe airing 8 candidate for an
important office. The use OF my
name Was without my consent, but
of this | may not complain, yet as
| repeatedly STAGED before the con-
vention was held not only that |
would not attend the convention,
but that would not accept any
nomination. on the ticket, it is my
right now 10 decline. Otherwise
than state | have received no off
cial notice of such nomination, but
as the circular is signed by the
chairman of the executive commit
tee, shall consider it official.
The platform does not receive my
endorsement except as hereinafter
stated. The preamble reciting that
"A money despotism controls the
law making power of our country,
dictates judici.l decisions aud
yields an undue Influence over the
executive of the nation in considera-
ton of the laws passed for the ben
eft of the people" is not true so far
as | know. 1t is true that unscru.
pulous men for personal ends, have
endeavored by lobbying, TO cor
rnpt legislative action, and that on
certain occasions in large cities of
the East, especially in New York,
the local judiciary were to an
alar ming extent corrupted by mon-
ey, yet wherever such acts have
been discovered there has been vir-
tue enough in the people to con-
denim and in the law to punish the
perpetrators. No ground exists for
these sweeping assertions that q
money despotism controls our law
making. judicial and executive de-
partments. Our judicial power,
both State and national, is exercised
for the most part by men of up
right and honest purposes; as up.
right and honest as any judges in
the world Our executive has, so
far as my observation goes. been
scrupulously observant Of the laws
and the legislative, aside from parti.
san strife encouraged by desire
for party power, is by no means to
the censure stated. l do not be-
lieve that our law makers and in.
terpreters are under the corrupt
management of "money despot
ISM" Were that true the time j.
ripe not for building up new par
| ty but for emigration to another
country.
The first resolution, in my judg
ment is i'm polite, and fit could b.
accomplished, dishonest. "We de
mand,' it eays. "the immediate
calling in and payment of all United
Estates bonds in full legal tende,
money of the United States
that the Government never issu
another bond of any kind" If the,
are called will they come? Th'
Government has Issued them. The,
are in the hands of bona fide hold
ere. They are not due. and as T.
many there ia no option. How
could our Government be homes
I and do this thing? Thia resolution
in it's broad sense means az issue o
about two Thousand millions of dol
lara OF irredeemable currency. Sue
an issue would ruin our peopl, ant
WHAT IN" rhSnaTrGs CO Rfi;eaessssltutes o
our Government may be, mono Ca
forecast, but | am sure that shoul
we be threatened with foreign In
vasion or domestic instruction
which is worse, and the Govern
ment to protect its life were com
PEELED to borrow, | should be IN
willing TO be connected With par
ty that had pledged itself To issu
no bonds. l see no difference be
tween such party and the o.
that declared green backs unconsti
tutionaI. while tho Government wa
in the white heat OF revolution. Th
third resolution has no mea ding il
connection with the fret Th,
fourth is twin OF the first. Th,
sixth resolution il patriotic ant
must receive the endorsement of ev
cry good citizen 1t is true that .
solid South or a solid North, a,
thereiu STAGED is adverse TO the des
of whole country. And any SCI
ofmen North Or South who attempt
to array one section against another
are demagogues. The Southern mar
who socks local support and lauda
ton by advocating secession or rev.
olution is no better than the North
ern man who seeks the same ends
by an appeal to the ugly passions
OF war. The other resolutions in
the platform are not unsound.
When l cast my lot with the
Greenback party the platform an
nounced was not in our creed. Now
resumption is accomplished. Whst
good can result from further politi-
| cal interference with The finances.
unless perhaps we can induce the
law-msking power to put enough
silver in the silver dollar TO make il
| equal to dollar in greenbacks or
gold The laws OF trade governed
by an honest political economy will
give the surest relief. What we
want in finance is stability, not
medicine. The wrecks of the re,
sumption law are on the beach and
on the rocks. The storm is over,
aud We cannot better our condition
by invoking another tempest. 1t
our party had confined itself 20 the
advocacy of measures OF practical
Importance, measures TO relieve the
country from the burden of unequal
taxation, by causing eli property,
real and personal, to pay It's last
proportion of taxes with no exemp.
tons, treating railroads, corpora.
tons, churches, and all properties
alike, il we as d party had insisted
upon those rules of civil service re-
form which would rob machine pol
itics of their motive power and
which cur present chief magistrate
fount time To promise, but never
time TO enforce, | should haze been
proud to be with the iorlorn hope
upon the tickcs of sach party. AZ,