Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-10-09

A"~Jt "oA w. ooey "sis 100 So
her irrespective of anything Char
ley Harper himself, who is BY nature
impressible, will hardly have the
cheek to oppose contestant like
that. Why, were such sweet state
of things brought to pass, l believe
Charles would withdraw from the
field and 60 stamping the county for
the gay gazelle on the Democratic
ticket Be just like him. And if she
is elected, as of course she is bound
to be, what's to hinder Charley from
marrying her and running the Office
in her stead? Think of all this.
brother Democrats, and for Gods
sake don't fool away another grand
opportunity.
While on the subject of politics l
will take occasion to say to such of
my Democratic friends as were sur
prised and panied by certain portions
of my last weeks letter to The HER.
AID, that "me and Henry" meaning
Mr.. Watterson and your brilliant cor
respondent, are for Mr.. Tilien to day
quite as enthusiastically and far more
intelligently than we were in 1876
The reasons for the faith that is in us
you will find in the following para
| graphs cut from a recent double-lead
ed leader in the Courier Journal
The situation which now faces the party is
at one and the same time morally and pru-
dentially imperative. The Democrats may
1 Ia ~ ~ al TslIap Al, r. III,
elect him the fault will be their own; but
they cannot cut decent figure in the field
except uader his leadership. The Republi-
cans, who, whatever their shortcomings, have
rarely shown a want of acumen, have long
seen this clearly, and, dreading Tilden as their
only danger, have brought their whole engn-
cry to bear upon him. They have not abated
their attack for an instant When his for
tunes were at their lowest ebb and he ap-
peared to be in nobody's way, they refused to
allow his reticence or observation to deceive
them. Though he was silent, they were not.
From day to dav, from month to month, from
year to year, they have gone On piliug up de-
famatory charges, sure all the time that, if
they could crush him, they would secure an
easy victory. Steadily have they been as
sisted by a body Of Democratic politicians
and newspapers; time-servers, selfseeking
cyclists, equally Ignorant and hungry blum
derers without political instinct or fair-mind-
edness. The result is that-no matter which
way New York goes we have come.upo this
emergency-not whether we shall nominate
Tilden, but whether, in case Democratic di,
visions and disputes bring us defeat this fall
all along the line, Mr.. Tilden can afford to ac-
cept the nomination and take another despe-
rate chance to win US a victory we may not
have the capacity or the courage to secure.
Those whose stock of wisdom consists in
the coarse, familiar cutlery that we "Don't
want coward who was elected President
and hasn't the pluck to take the office" might
be dismissed with silent scorn, but that there
is reverse and positive side to their silly
clamor, Illuminating real danger in our path.
Here follows summary of what
happened between the day of election
in November, 1876, and the inaugu-
ration of Hayes in March following;
after which Mr.. Watterson winds up
by saying that Tilden "did what was
most patriotic and most far seeing,
what was most heroic in the highest
degree he held his peace of all men;
he was silent under obloquy, miscon-
struction, falsehood; aud this day
the country owes its prosperous calm
and the Democratic party its united
existence to the dignified, reserve,
and the self.denying abstinence, of
his action then and his conduct ever
since"
These are the facts in the case. They are
unalterable and they are not to oe escaped
The nomination Of Mr.. Tilden is inevitable IL
is that, or ruin; yea, worse than rum, for the
Democratic party, as a party, can as little af-
ford to put itself upon civil-war platform as
1t can afford another capital blunder and an.
other first defeat, There is no issue on
which Mr.. Tilden ran before which is not as
cogent now. There are additional issues even
more intense. All that wsss pEQwsed A. .ISS 81
was lost was lost at Washington. Under the
circumstances, the rejection of Mr.. Tilden
would be blunder and crime i; blunder
because, whether we can elect him or not. we
cannot escape the issues that are bound up in
his person; crime because wanton Injustice
is the p,rent of all crimes. 1t will be for Mr..
Tilden 10 say whether he can afford to 90 into
contest which Democratic politicians and
Democratic newspapers have in advance made
so uncertain.
All l have to say in addition to
the above is that if Mr.. Tllden is not
nominated tine and Hank" and thou
sands and thousands and thousands
OF Democratic boys throughout this
broad land will boom with royal
good will for Mr.. U. S. Grant next
year. We have had enough of non
sense, we. And If we miss it again,
We'll leave the country and 90 some.
where
TO watch the long bright rivers drawing
Slowly their waters from the purple hills;
Somewhere beyond the sparkling
brine we'lltake up CLAIMS and thence
forward and forevermore--
in Elysian valleys dwell, Tdel.
Resting weary limbs at last on beds of aspho-
(Which beautiful quotation reminds
me that vt is now ''the very witching
time of night" and that / ought to
bethink me of resting my weary limbs
this minute on the wide spring bed
with snowy coverlet, standing SO CO.
silly in distant corner Of the room.
But not yet, me cheild, not yet. The
"gloom" must be lightened up to the
extent OF another page or two before
quitting comes for me)
When the clerk of the Mondell re.
turned from the postoftice last Satur.
day evening he came staggering along
under burden about the size of a
number nine cook stove. 1t was
done up in bro ~n paper and bore the
following inscription GA mushroom;
tor the HERALD correspondent, with
the compliments of Horace Beach"
Of course it wasn't mushroom at all.
only a fungus formation found BY Mr..
B. in the woods that day and sent to
me simply as joke of the first mag
nitude. When was here last sum
mer the city editor of the Courier in.
vited me to go riding with him one
afternoon. | went. We drove up to
French Town, across the sand flats.
and camo home along the foot of the |
bluffs marking the city's eastward
boundary. Here and there along the
way / saw some fine mushrooms. a |
few OF which | gathered and brought
to the hotel. Then the trouble began,
Everybody about the house said they
were not mushrooms at all, only toad.