Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-10-02
Special HERALD Correspondence.

Special HERALD Correspondence.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN, Sept. Bon,
cross country correspondence die
not go IN the manner and direction
promised several weeks ago. And
will briefly tell you why. About th,
time | was preparing to make tina
holiday journey through South Grant
| received by mail remarkably al
turing business offer, or rather propo
sition, from a well known gentleman
OF this city, and being on the look
cut for just such an opening, natu.
rally did what any other sentimental
idler in my place would have done
come over here at once to see about
IT. And here | have been ever since
and here expect to remain during
the winter, if not longer. The HER.
AIDS indirect information that | am
on the staff of the Courier is not cor.
rect. | am simply drinking mineral
water and taking Turkish baths as
before; stirring up the menagerie
now and then with my lead pencil,
through the columns of some good
newspaper, and convincing Major
Whaley and those old veterans that
four of kind beat a full hand every
time, no matter whether the consid
Grafton is pretzel and glass OF
"Dr' Dave Carter's Milwaukee beer
or an assortment of vacant "sand
lots, whereof this town is said to
possess great store. Hoping this will
satisfy all who have done me the ia.
vor to read my recent letters in these
columns, | will see what luck | have
stroking somebody's bristles the
wrong way this time.
This Grant furore doesn't it beat
all! What wonderful little man
that is, he looked rather small to me
when saw him at Platteville, several
years ago, and stood talking down at
him about, the Lord only knows what.
remember OF being struck with his
fresh, girlish complexion, his steely
blue eyes and his glossy black aud
neatly trimmed hair and whiskers. -
His hand was soft and white and
small enough to belong to ga id
literary TELLER" instead of to the great.
est warrior the world has ever known.
l, with the rest Of the big Normal
boys, was an ardent Grant youth in
those days, and continued to he I'M
til swept away from my solid Repub-
lican moorings by that terrific "tidal
wave" which Wnitelaw Reid, Murat
Halstead, Carl Schurz, and those
boys, let loose at Cincinnati. Be-
sides, had just fallen in love with
delightful little daisy of Democratic
lineage-a mere slip of a girl, de-
mure as kitten, and always having
ga tangled distraction of golden
strands floating down in charming
disorder" from her lovely head as
she bent over her books and -wres-
tied with the batflers in Euclid ?-no,
wrote fond, foolish little notes to her
equally fond and foolish adorer.--
Well, to return to our lamb chops, I
went tack on Grant and began to
boom for Greeley and to ''cla.h
hands across bloody chasms" and
things. became as good Demo
crat as any of 'em and have remained
pretty firm in the faith ever since
In 1876 | played a passabe sort of
second fiddler to Manton Marble and
Henry Watterson, the tune being
"Tilden and Hendricks, or Reform is
Necessary" How it came out you
all know as well as | do !; but isn't it
little strange though, all things con-
sidered, that the guiding star of my
political and journalistic existence,
the far. cleaning h adlight of the
Courier Journal, should entertain and
promulgate sentiments like the fol-
lowing in regard to the man whom
the Democratic party, as a whole,
fears more than any other figure now
on the stage of American politics
The two Grant administrations were giving
us continual scandals and surprises Upon
the district rings, the moety frauds and the
army contracts; the safe burglaries, the whis.
ky crooks and the post-traderships; the Tom
Murphys, the Corbins, the Belknaps and Bab-
cocks, the very shadow of the White House
fell. That Gen. Grant was personally never
compromised, is immensely creditable TO his
sagacity, as well as his integrity, and shows
him TO be great no less than clean man.
He stands vastly ahead Of his party in NOR
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patty and feeling which responded to the
happily false report of the death of his daugh.
ter was largely tributary TO the kindly respect
in which he is held by the American people
|. he were thief, or the conscious hacker of
thieves, this would not be so. He is, as a
man at this moment, the most attractive fig
ure presented to the common eye, having the
largest individual following of any citizen of
the republic; and it is perfectly true to say
that, if a Republican is to be our next
president, he is the choice of the whole South
lie. me explain. Gen. Grants election inns
plies new order Of things IL means the
overthrow of democratic institutions,
splendid government, an era of movement,
i'll which the South will stand its chance with
the North, a wipe-out and begin over. I'm.
der this new system we shah get reorgani-
cation and enlargement of the army, and n
reinstatement of the old regular officers.
We shall, by the obliteration of sectional
lines and state lines in a magnificent, central,
lied military power, get the Confederate put
upon an equality with the Federal soldier on
the pension list. We shall get double
track, broad gauge, iron.bedded and steel
rallied road to the Pacific, constructed by a
government looking only to material deyel-
opement and progress. We shall have the
Mississippi river put on level with Long Is
land sound. and levied up to the moon if
need be. We shall have war; first with
Mexico, and then with England, offering op,
portunities for the young bloods of the coun-
try, consolidating us at home, ennobling us
abroad-in which the future of the Southern
boys will be placed on footing with the fu,
ture of the Northern 0oys-the whole to end
with the annexation of Canada ana Mexico.
All this Gen. Grant will give us, if we fall
down and worship him, And surely it is
something; something more honorable and
more tolerable than the existing sneak, thief
system under which we live; in which a weak
administration is constantly chiseling us on
the sly; lOosening our moral underpinning,