Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-03
Campaign Documents.

The New York Times calls the month
ly grain statements of the Chicago and
Milwaukee chambers of commerce " Re
publican campaign documents, and of
the very worst kind; because they show
great crops. 1t then adds: "The de-
preston has lasted long enough to ena-
BILE the Democracy to step into power.
But now, nothing short of famine, pes
thence or earthquake can save it from
defeat"
Such sentiments It is the duty of every
Republican to help disseminate. Demo
Gratis find little consolation in the fact of
the wonderful and sudden proof of the
nations looking-up financially, and re-
luctantly acknowledge that there IS 8
"wave of prosperity" It is said that
Ewing, the Ohio infationist and candi-
date for governor of the buckeye state,
looks disconsolately over the smiling face
of nature, morning after morning, and
groans to himself: "Another Internally
" fine day! No signs Of blight in the
"no 'yellows' in the peach orchards!
" Nothing but good crops and good
weather! Another month of such
" luck and we are lost"
Away up in Maine the sturdy old
farmers are gradually becoming con-
WINGED that it is better to have a few
greenbacks worth their face than their
pockets full of waste paper called legal
tender. John Sherman, James g..
Blaine, and staunch old Zach. Chandler
with his "brawny arm' have wrought
this change, aided, of course, by the
ocular proof that these sensible though
deluded voters are daily witnessing in
all kinds Of business enterprise.
Republicanism, in eliminating uncer-
tainties from monetary transactions, and
giving to the people reason to say that
the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der" is nearer actual realization than
ever before in the history Of our coun-
try, is building a high monument that
shall stand long in common Grafton of
the defeat of principles, partly Demo
cratic and partly faetional, that, had
they obtained, would soon have dug a
grave for the land Of George Washing.
ton.
Voters! it devolves upon you to guard
well this blessed doctrine of honest pub
lie administration. Your future shall
be of your own making. Reforms are
still necessary, but they cannot be
expected or hoped for if the horde of
hungry offce-hunters are permitted to
triumph at the polls.
Goodwin Smith, a disinterested and
careful observer Of our political institu-
tions, has said that universal suffrage as
it exists with us to-day will eventually
work our destruction. He proposes an
educational limitation, but the man who
can neither read nor write can
see and can understand that
when he is getting good wages
for his labor, when his crop brings
him a big amount Of the best money,
and when his family is comfortable and
happy, there is no reason to change the
higher order of things whose manage
ment regulates the size of his purse.
Disafection is the offspring of demagog-
ism, and delusion is the by-word of the
artful political orator who wheedles the
ignorant voter with new and plausible
theories that are really lies veneered
with an appearance of truth. A shrewd
political correspondent says that the
voters of Maine who were the victims OF
greenback gibberish last year are going
to show this fall that the veneering of
that comet-like doctrine has worn off,
and they can no longer bear to look at
what is left. So let it be. Let those
who have been deluded and duped by
lies stop one moment and think-th ink
hard-and their verdict will not be
questioned for q moment.