Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29

States officers in the discharge of thei1
duty. Some time ago some illicit whis
KY was seized by the revenue agents, bu1
was at once recovered By the distillers
through writ of replevin issued by the
state judiciary, in direct violation of 8
| United States statute, which places such
seizures out of the jurisdiction of such
writs, and this began to be the regular
practice among the moonshine distillers
of that section. AS fast as the govern.
ment officers seized their illicit whisky
they would regain possession of it by
writs of replevin. Now, in one case the
justices issuing such writs have been in
dicted in the federal courts, and a test
case will be tried.
DEAD THURMAN.
It is now certain that the Republicans
have carried both branches of the Ohio
legislature, and it is therefore an impos-
sibility for Allen G.. Thurman to be re-
turned to the United States senate, on
the expiration of his term in March, 81.
We can therefore say that Senator
Thurman.is politically dead; and, in our
connection with American politics for
fve-and-thirty years, we never recorded
an event with more satisfaction. When
he entered the senate, nearly twelve
years ago, he enjoyed the reputation of
an able jurist and also that of an honest
politician. He has gradually been de-
scending lower and lower in political
morality under the hope of the az.
grandizement of himself or his party
until he has sunk to such a depth of
degradation that we may say there is not
a more dishonest politician in the United
States senate.
Before the leprosy of the Greenback
delusion spread over the land, Thurman
was as true and unfinching an advocate
of honest money as any man who sat in
that senate; but when he saw there was
a possibility of aggrandizing himself by
deserving the sound financial principles
of Jefferson and Jackson, he hest tated
not moment, but drifted into the
theory of almost an unlimited issue of
government paper, and at the same time
urged series of measures which would
have destroyed the national banks, and
left the people only with government
currency and the issues of the exploded
state bank system.
When any proposition was made
in congress for a debased coinage
Of silver or for light. weight
dollar, not one Democrat dove lower
and deeper than this same Allan
Thurman, in order to catch the votes of
the thousands of people in Ohio and
elsewhere, who were supposed to favor
anything good or bad in the form of
currency. Dan VOORHEES, and he were
often found voting together for the
EXTREMIST and widest financial measures
which could be proposed. This was the
more astounding to the country, be-
cause this same Allan Thurman had
previously often placed his votes on
the same record and on the same side of
finance as that of John Sherman, our
present secretary of the treasury. Those
who heard Thurman speak in the senate
were convinced that he was not honest
in his expressed convictions, but that he
was playing as base game for the presi-
dency, as American politician ever
engaged in.
The industrial interests of the country
will also never forget that he more than
any other Democratic senator, urged a
number of measures at the close of the
March session in 10 which prevente
the passage of the appropriation bills,
and thus enforced The call for an extra
session of congress-; and of late he has
frequently advocated monstrous doc
trine that congress had the right to
compel the president to sign the repeal
of law obnoxious to that body, but
which the president approved, by with
holding supplies to carry on the national
administration In order to please his
southern supporters he urged congress to
refuse supplies until the president had
consented to the repeal of the present
federal election law, which law is an
a special grievance to the rifle and shot
gun clubs in the southern states. He
failed in this congressional bull-dozing
through the frmness of President Hayes.
Thurman has also surrounded himself
with some of the most disreputable poll
ticians in Ohio, with persons of such
reckless and unprincipled characters in
political cheating, that no high-minded
statesman would have any associations
with them. Pendleton has been bad in
finance, but his associations are respect
able. Thurman has become equally
bad in finance, but his associations are
discreditable. II is blessed thing for
the country that the political career of
this man is ended.
It is said there is God in heaven.
We believe also there is God in poll
tics, and this God is the avenging retri-
button of an aroused and outraged
people upon a recreant and faithless
representative when they have an oppor-
tunity to pronounce upon his misdeeds.
-lMizaOaukee Euening Wisconsin.
To the Independent Voters.
The fourth day of November, which