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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
A FATAL ADM SSION.

General Ewing, who is one of the most
prominent supporters of General Han
cock, says The Albany Evening Journal,
is on record as saying that mo presi-
dent, whatever his personal views, dare
antagonize on a mere question of ex-
pediency, the representatives of the party
that elects him. Our government is
ruled by parties not by men,"
If General Ewing is right then it be-
hooves the American people to see to it
that Hancock is not elected president.
And he certainly is right. The PROPOSE
ton he lays down is sound. Parties do
govern in this country. The president
derives his chief significance not from
his own character so much as the charact-
er of the party that stands behind him.
On a mere question of expediency no
president, whatever his personal views, !"
will be found antagonizing the repre-
sentatives of his party. But Ewing
might have gone further. He might
have argued with equal truth that no
man who reaches the White House desti-
tute of the great underlying principles of
civil government, whose whole life has
been spent i'll the military SERVICE whose
talents and training have been alike to
the duties which go with the presidency,
who has no personal views on the
great questions that would come before
him for decision-that no president of
this sort would be capable of antagoniz-
inc his party on any question, whether OF
expediency or of vital moment and per-
manent consequence.
Hence Ewings admission, if generally
accepted and acted upon, will be fatal to
Hancock's presidential prospects. His
nomination created considerable enthusi-
asm in his party He went into the can
vass on a hurrah But this campaign is
to be decided by the cool second thought
of the voters Hancock will never be as
strong again during the canvass as he was
the day he was named at Cincinnati.
Then the fact that he was a soldier of
brilliant achievements came to the front.
But that fact will steadily recede and will
be supplanted by the consciousness, grow
ing more acute every day, that
Hancock the soldier that wds is differ
ent person from Hancock that as the lea
der of the democratic party. If elected,
he would not be president except in name.
His party the party which the Ameri-
can people have refused to trust the
government with ever since 1860, and
which is just as much as entitled to dis
trust to-day as it ever was-would rule
him with road of iron. He would fall
a prey to his conspicuous unftness for
the place, and would be run by certain
ambitious democratic leaders. The cleo
tors can be counted upon not to turn the
republican party out of power for the
purpose of making any such foolhardy
experiment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
THE DEMOCRATIC C.4NDIs
DATE.
A MAN WITHOUT ANY POLITICAL RECORD
OR STANDING.
ChreagO Times.

ChreagO Times.
All the organs of the Cincinnati party
are declaring with great positiveness that
General Hancock is the strongest man
the party could have nominated This
declaration considered in the light of well
known facts, implies a very singular
state of things. Every one knows that
General Hancock has been, from his
youth, in the profession of soldier that
he has not been educated for any pursuit
of civil life, and has never entered upon
and civil pursuit that he has no politi-
cal knowledge other than may have been
gained as casual student of political
literature that he has had no expert
ence in civil affairs, either administrative
or legislative that he is in no sense
statesman or publicist, and has never
shown, never having had an opportunity
to show, any particular capacity or fit
ness for political leadership. In a word,
he is man without any political record
or standing whatsoever It is in the
presence of these facts that he is said to
be {" the strongest man the party could
have nominated for its political leader
The statement may be true but if true,
what is the inference it obviously war
rants and invites 1t implies that any
of the statesmen who have been long
conspicuous as leading men of the party,
who have given shape and direction to
its political actions, and are widely known
as its representative men-who represent
its policies and political Would not
be strong candidates and it implies that
OF
i'll the fact that they would be recognized
as among It's foremost representative men.
General Hancock, on the other hand.
not being recognized as among its repre-
sentative men, is exempt from this cause
Of weakness. He is the strongest man
the party could have named. because he
is less identified with the party, less rep
resentatiye Of its politics and political
reputation, than any other the party
could have named. In other words. his
strength as the party chosen leader con-
sists in the fact that he is not and has
never been, among its leaders, not known
as possessing any Of the requisite quaiiii-
cations for its leadership.
What other meaning is conveyed by
the statement that General Hancock Is
the strongest man the party could nave
chosen? What other inference does that
statement warrant or permit, than that
the party's weakness Is in its own politi-
cal character and its strength in the
cOncealment OF its character behind the
name Of man who is not known rs a
representative Of it, nor of any political
character whatever, but only as respect
able soldier?
Generally it is a rational opinion that
the strongest man a political party could
take for its political leader would be its
best known, most popular, most repre-
sentative statesman. IF there be any
exception to this general rule, must it
not be when the party stands in mortal
terror of itself
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
Buffalo Express.

Buffalo EXpieSS-
Is General Hancock for protective or
a free-trade tariff? Nobody knows?
Is General Hancock for woman suffrage
or against it Nobody knows.
Is General Hancock for hard money or
soft money? Nobody knows
Is General Hancock for pensioning
rebel as well as union soldiers Nobody
knows.
Is General Hancock for civil service re-
form or for the old Jacksonian spoils sys-
TEN Nobody knows.
Is general Hancock for public improve
ments or for a strict construction of the
constitution Nobody knows.
Is General Hancock for continuing the
silver coinage till resumption will be up
set, or for stopping it? Nobody knows.
Is General Hancock for pensioning
everybody who served in the Mexican
war, whether wounded or not, and whe-
Their rebel or not Nobody knows.
Is General Hancock for enforcing or
for multiplying the amendments to the
constitution by which the fruits of the
war were secured? Nobody knows.
Is General Hancock for controlling the
railroads and other common carriers by
congressional legislation in the public in
terest, or against it? Nobody knows.
Is General Hancock for maintaing the
election laws in tact or for giving the
south full swing in carrying itself solid
by fraudulent elections Nobody knows
Is General Hancock for or against APP
pointing enough new democratic judges
of the supreme court to upset the war
amendments to the constitution and so
witty the rebel debt and pension the
rebel soldier How far, in short, is he
ready to go to show bis gratitude to the
ex-rebels, his late enemies III the field to
whom he now owes his nomination aud
by whose votes he must be elected? No
body knows.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

On 9es the "war issues are dead,
and there is no place for the "bloody
shirt" Everything now is lovely Just
hear southern democratic paper
explain it. Says the Mississippi Star:
Inaugurate social ostracism against every
white man north or south, that gives his support
to the building up of the republican party; dis
countenance any man who will go assist in
making the bond Of any man elected on the re-
publican ticket; refuse to have dealings of any
sort with the republican party, and show to the
world that you are in truth and deep.a true dem
Ocrat
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

The Democrat quotes the opinion Of
Edmund Jussen on Gen. Hancock S
nomination, and alludes to him as g life
long republican. We don't suppose it is
a matter of the least Importance to any
body what Edmund Jussen thinks about
Hancock, Garfield or anybody or any
thing But The Democrat must not
quote him as "a lifelong republican. y
Jussen once belonged to our party and
was honored with an appointment under
it at the instance of his brother-in-law
Carl Schurz So long as that teat was in
Jussen's mouth he thought the republi-
can party was all right Gen. Grant saw
fit to remove him, and Jussen all at once
discovered that the republican party was
eorrupt-indeed too wicked for so pure a
man as he to have anything to do with.
From that day to this. he has been acting
with the democratic party and is now In
full fellowship with it. Will The Demo
crat have the decency to retraet its false
hood?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
WHO CURSED HANCOCK TN1865?
New York Commercial.

The ex-rebel silent sympathizing press
of the north is now asking who it was that
insulted Hancock at the time of the Sur
raft trial. We answer them. It was their
press. At that time it was principle that
led them, now it is interest. Not repub-
lician paper ever condemned the gallant
general for his behavior at that time, and
we want everyone to know who it really
was. 1t was The World. It was The Ex-
press. It was The Daily News, and all OF
that little coterie of southern sympathizers
who swore so in Flanders whenever a vic
tory for the north was announced; sympa-
thizers, some of whom were given place
in forts to reflect on the madness of open
ly opposing law and order in time Of the
nations peril.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

GENERAL. Hancock's blue uniform can
not conceal the regiments ofgray and but
ternut. behind him. 1t was an old trick
of the rebels during the war to dress some
of their men in the loyal blue with the
intention of deceiving the federal troops
that they might the easier capture some
strong position they desired. 1t did not
win then, and it will not win now,
General. Hancock was q gallant leader
when he was fighting treason, but he will
recognize the yell that comes from his
followers now as the same old Johnny
veil that he used to hear in his front.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

THINGS ARE NOT altogether lovely
with the democrats in Indiana. The In
dianapolis Sentinel, the organ of the
democracy there, refuses to support En-
glish. The latter is rich, ayaricious and
misery. A few years ago he had some
money transactions with The Sentinel,
and sought to Cypress its publisher and
ruin him. Friends came TO the rescue,
however, and saved The Sentinel from
the clutches of English. The Sentinel
has not forgotten the circumstance, and
is squaring accounts with the Shylock
who would, if he could, have stripped its
proprietor of his property.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

The Jefferson Banner is mistaken. Re
publican papers are not 'denouncing Gen.
Hancock because he obeyed orders of the
president and secretary of war, and hung
Mrs. Surratt.' They are only recalling
the fact that democratic papers abused
Hancock for doing what he did at that
time. We are are not prepared to dis
pute The Banner when it says that
Hancock did just right But we do
object to those demoerat c papers which
were SO loud in their 1enunciation Of
Hancock, charging him with hanging
Mrs. Surratt without giving her the
benefit of clergy, or permitting the
daughter to see the president to plead in
behalf of her mother, now turning so
short corner as they do and swearing
that they never thought Hancock could
have done otherwise. We want them to
stand by their record, That is all
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
A SENSIBLE DEMOCRAT.
New York Commercial.

81 would gladly vote for Hancock
were | assured I wasn't voting to rein
state that miserable horde of aristocratic
and traitorous rebel brigadiers, who VIII
take courage at Hancock's success and
threaten another rebellion if the confed-
crate bonds, debts and all are not paid
for by the people. In this view of the
matter" said a well-known war demo
crat, " [ must vote for Garfield"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

Milwaukee Sentinel.

When the republican ratification meet
ing at Montgomery, Ala, was broken up
by rotten eggs and gun-powder two weeks
ago, the dispensers probably did not
know that the following was to be insert
ed within two weeks, in their platform at
Cincinnati:
"The right to free ballot is right pre-
sentative of all rights and must and shall
be maintained in all parts of the. United
States"
The amount of amusement this clause
will cause DOWN South ought to make the
whole democratic population grow fat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

WONDER if General Hancock, in his
letter of acceptance, will endorse the
democratic party in refusing to vote sup
plies to the army, of which he is mem
Der, at the last session of congress.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

GENERAL Garfield turned his back
pay into the government treasury.
LYMAN Trumbull, the democratic candi-
date for governor of Illinois, put his back
paw into his pants.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
County Court, Jefferson Co.-In Probate

Notice is hereby given that at regular tenn of
the County Court to be held in and for said
county at the office Of the county Judge, in the
city OF Jefferson. i'll said county, on the first
Tuesday of July next, being the 9th day of July,
A. D., 1880, at l O'Clock F. NJ, the following mat
tiers viii be heard and considered
The application of John E. Humphrey. ex-
ccutor of the last will and testament of E1inor
Humphrey, late of the town of IxoIia, in said
county, deceased, for examining and allowing
his final account of his administration Of the es-
tate of said deceased. and for the assignment of
the residue thereof according to law and the
terms of said will.
Dated this ID day of June. y. D., 1880
By order Of the Court
33w4 HENRY CoLoNIUs, Judge.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

The copartnershi p heretofore existing between
Fl. A Black and Thomas Brooks under the firm
name of Black Il Brooks, is hereby dissolved by
mutual consent. The business of the late firm
will be conducted by Thomas Brooks & Brother
WATERFOWL. May Is, 1880.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
County Court, Jefferson County-ln Pro

bate.
Notice is hereby given that at a special term of
the County Court, to be held in and for said
county, at the Office OF the County Judge, in the
city OF Jefferson, in said county, on the 18th
Tuesday of July next. being the 9th day of
July. A. D.. 1880 at / O'Clock z. NJ, the follow
ing matter viii be heard and considered:
The petition of Calvin Cheney, executor Of the
last will and testament of Cyrus Cheney, de-
ceased for the examination and allowance of
his final account as such executor.
Dated, this odd day Of June 4. D., 1880
BY order Of the Court.
36wt HENRY CoLoSICs, Judge.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
FOR SALE.

The fine Brick residence of the late Ebenezer
w Cole situated on Clyman Street. Terms easy
possession given 1st October, 1880. Address
Mrs f. W. COLE, Sheboygan, Wis.
Box Ia. 81
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
Military II Office.

Whereas application has been made to the
Governor by Otto LCef1ier and sixty-five others
for the organization OF Il volunteer company of
militia in the city Of Watertown, Jefferson coun-
ty ard the undersigned has been appointed
mastering officer TO muster such volunteers and
perfect the organization Of such company. now,
therefore,
Notice is hereby given that have fixed Mon
day the fifth day ofJuly 1880, at o clock p NJ,
Us the time and lower Turner Hall in said
city OF WatertoWn aS the place Of meeting for the
purpose of such muster and organization.
GEO. W. BURCHARD,
Col. and Aid de Camp
Mastering Officer.
Dated June Il. 1880 35w2.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07

10 Spruce ST., New York, can learn the exact cost
of any proposed line of ADVERTISING in
American Newspapers. as~ 1OO-Page PAM
phief soc.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-11

Some papers are not much account
as % appearance, but l never took one
that didn't pay me, in some way, more
than l paid for it. One time an old
friend started a little paper away down
in southwestern Georgia, and sent it to
me and l subscribed just to encourage
him, and so after awhile he published
q notice that an administrator had All
order to sell several lots of land ut pub
lie outcry, and one Of the lots was in
my county. So 1 inquired about the
lots, and wrote to my friend to attend
the sale and run it to fifty dollars. He
did 80, and bid off the lot for me at
thirty dollars, and l sold it in q month
to the man it joined for a hundred, and
so I made s~ixty-eight dollars BY taking
that paper. My father told me that
when he was . young man he saw a
notice in q paper that a school teacher
wa wanted away off in . distant coun-
ty, and he went there and got the situa-
ton, and . little girl was sent to him,
and after awhile she grew mighty sweet
and pretty, and he fell in love with her
and married her. Now If he hadn't
taken that paper, what do you reckon
would have become of mes Wouldn't I
be some other fellow, or may be not 1t
allg-tBM Arp.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-11
/. Cheek!

chsskI
We very much dislike to engage in
a newspaper controversy, but inasmuch
as the editor of the Argus has Saw fit to
allude to us rs q democratic editor
we propose to very slightly review the
past political history of the two editors
of Red Cloud and see which, in the
light of past events, would be the most
likely to be a democrat at heart. In
the first place, the phial of wrath that
Mr.. Kenney has SO relentlessly poured
upon the head of Mr.. Case and other
democrats of this county, and the
malignity with which he has followed
them, even after the election was over,
is wholly due to the fact that the demo-
Gratis did not e fit to patronize the
aforesaid editor in the matter of cam.
paign printing, but, on the contrary,
had all their printing done at the
CHIEF Office. So much for that. But to
so back to war times. During a part
of the time the great struggle was going
on, Mr.. Kenney was publishing one OF
the vilcst copper-head sheets that was
ever circulated in the north, whose
columns was filled with abuse Of union
soldiers who he sneeringly termed
Lincoln hirelings." In the columns of
that vile sheet Mr.. Kenney each week
gave vent to his joy owe confederate
victories and sOrrOwed over their de-
feat, and was loud in his prOtestations
against the wal which he declared a
failure. In 1864 the editor of the
CHIEF, at the age of sixteen, actuated
perhaps by the remembrance of q
brother who went down beneath con
federate lead and steel on the bloody
field of Shiloh, and of a brother whose
life was at that time being slowly
wasted away in one of the rebel prison
pens of the south, went to Uncle Sans
recruiting Office at Merietta Ohio and
offered himself as a target for rebel
bullets. But where was the immaculate
editor Of the Argus at that time? Skslk-
ing about the hickets and byways to avoid
the draft
For a years was this man q demo-
crat, and for two years q republican:
A republican for the purpose of draw
ing a little patronage from the republi-
cans of this county, and yet he has the
sublime cheek, born Of Jealousy, to in
%sinuate that a life long republican, who
has voted anything but the re-
publican ticket, has been guilty of the
cowardly, the debasing act that he
himself was guilty Of two years ago,
viz: To become n contemplate turn
coat.
In the light of the past political his
tory of the two Red Cloud editors, let
the honest republicans and the honest
democrats Of this county decide which
is the most worthy of their confidence
and support.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-11

Gilletts Washing Crystal. Save labor
and soap. For sale by A. s. Marsh.
Everything in the millinery and
notion line, ut Mn. McBrides.
Hard coal. soft coal, and blacksmith
coal ut the Chicago Lumber Yard. l4tf
Great Bargains and nice goods, at
Mrs. McBrides.
Lauterbach makes the best Of bread,
reason why, he uses Red Cloud mills
Patient Hour. Putnam sells il.
ROby has received a full stock Of
California Fruit-new packing.
Crown Jewell Patent flour, can nj.
ways be had at the store Of Chas. T..
Putnam. The best -four i'm the valley.
The woman that had the lightest,
whitest, sweetest bread, was the woman
that used the Red Cloud mills Patent
flour. She bought it of Putnam.
II you want the best -four i'm the
market you should go to Chss. 4.
Putnam's and get the celebrated Fall
Wheat Flour, from Atchison Kansas,
called the White Rose. IF
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-11
sGY.asa ~ Nh 1aCvsy.

The ScseaA6e Am~rcss of this ueek
contains tso full page illustrations 81
Captain Eads' prcf-.ed railway for
transporting ships with their cargo
across continents.
Captain Esds claim. by his plan Co
be able to take loaded ships IL the larry
est tonnage from me ocean Ia the
other acru~s the ls;mus of Panama. a.
readily ~ can te done by a canal afsr
the Lessup plan. and nj q much les
cost for engineering construction.
The project u certainly bold and in
genions. and the protector anticipates
no serious difficulties in carrying for
ward IN. enterprise. The engrsvings
referred to in the NierhSe Ass~rsnss
show the proposed construction &c not
only the railroad. bat the appliances
for transferring the ships from the
water to tue rail.
In addition % the large number III
engravings, illustrative Of engineering
works, inventions and new discoveries
which appear weekly, the Scs~nfiSe
Amerioan has, during the past year,
devoted considerable space Z illustra-
ting and describing leading establish
menn devoted TO dineren, m~anufac,ur-
ing industries.
This feature has added very much to
the attractiveness and usefulness of the
paper. More than fifty Of the mos,
important industrial establishments OF
our country have been illustrated, and
the processes Of the different manu-.
features Described in its columns. The
Scientific Americas has been published
for more than .hirty-four years BY
NUM- Il Co, 81 Park Row, n. Y, and
has attained a larger weekly circula-
ton than all similar papers published
in the country. The publishers assure
the public that they have not printed
less than $1,000 copies q week for
several months.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-11
p I~20AlmA

II turns out that the round house
which the b. 4 n. Co. have just built
at this place IL MOI 10 be such . tempo
rary arrangement afcr all. II il 90 be
bricked up on the inside and made
substantial and lasting, which fact may
be set down n an assurance that the
company, which has already shown
considerable favor, TO Red Cloud, pro-
poses 10 continue Ia treat IN in . man.
ner becoming our position As the prin-
cipal town and the gateway" &c the
great Republican Valley.