Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14
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on the It'll inst. one week old.
j. II. Smith and James c. Dawes
are building new houses.
Albert and John Gachnang are
building an addition on their house
two stories high. John got married
lately, this accounts for it.
Boys send and get more of your
German friends to locate in our town.
There are good homes for thousands
in our county, of stalwart Germans.
Mr.. James Davis of York State has
bought several lots and is building
barn and will soon move into his
new location. Mr.. Davis has been
afflicted for years with the asthma, he
says this air and atmosphere on yellow
river gives him relief. Mr.. D. has
been looking around the country a
good deal, has considerable means, and
has concluded to make this his home,
if his health remains benefited.
The Garfield and Arthur club hold
their meetings every Thursday night.
Every meeting adds to the list. Why
if every town would do their duty like
our little town, and give Garfield and
Arthur their votes, there would be no
use of distributing blanks for the
Hancock electors. [ have been sport
ing around some lately, and occasionally
[ fall in with a Democrat and invaria-
bly, he falls behind that uniform, and
says Oh how grand the democratic
war record, how beautifully grand. We
had as many democrats in the war as
you republicans. [ admit it, there
was Robt. e. Lee, Beauregard, Bragg
Toombs, yes General Toombs and Jeff
Davis. wont dispute their democrat
ic principles or war record either.
There were more democrats than that
in the war, there was Gen. Anderson
of Andersonville, yes and Wade
Hampton, and one hundred and thirty
eight more that [ am obliged to con-
cede are democrats. And since |
find this record so hard to refute [ will
have to allow there was as many dem
ocrats in the war as republicans. Dem
ocrats have a natural affinity for fight
ing. Mexican democrats have bulls
and bears they fight, nearer home some
smaller game they champion. Some
you will see with bulldogs and game
Cocks. The game cock seems to be
the most popular choice of the fight
ing democrat, owing probably to the
cheapness of expense to the party to
raise the bird, being a Government
fowl and it's well known adaptability
to the fighting business Well any
man that will dispute with me and say
there was not as many democrats as
there was republicans in the war I
shall tell him go and look over the
muster Rolls. The muster Rolls of
the G. S. A. Nay you need not go so
far, 60 to the nearest cemetery look at
the white marble over that Union
Soldiers grave, you need not 60 so far,
cast your eye upon the passing multi
tude, see that hobbling old man, that
orphan child and there a widow. IF
this will not remind him who the Dem.
were during the war [ will bring that
butternut and gray uniform, it never
failed to fit or convince a democrat
that there was as many Of this party
in the war as there was republicans.
They invariably wore the butternut
and gray. [ want to tell you how bad
they detested the blue. The town of
Dexter, Wood Co. tried to send one
Democrat to the army with a blue uni
form. But those big brass buttons
and eagles took all the democracy
leaning that way out of him, his friends
advising him it was not so bad to fight
for the Union, he was strongly pur-
suaded to 60 like man. So Strong
was finally hand-cuffed put aboard the
train; the train moved on towards the
Union Camp with lightning speed and
off jumped our man. / am told he
slid out through the window, rather
meet his death on the "a ilroad then
wear the blue in the Union Camp.
The question is now before you, you
have viewed the game fowl in all its
beautiful plumage. One by one it
sheds its coat. Shall the new one be
the blue or the gray.
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