Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-29
To the Voters
Of Wood County!
Why the Republicans will
Succeed.
I

l.
The American people are just enter
ing upon another presidential campaign.
The Republicans recently met in Ma
tional Convention, nominated their
candidates for President and Vice
President, and declared their princi-
pies. The Democrats followed, at
Cincinnati, named their candidates
and announced their creed The peo-
pie are now left to choose between the
candidates, which is simply a choice
between the parties, and they will
have until November IN which to make
up their minds Either the Republi-
cans or the Democrats must control
che Executive Department of the Gov
eminent for the four years commenc-
ing on the 4th of March next. No
body possessing any intelligence at all
believes for moment that the candi-
dates of the so-called Greenback party
will get any considerable number of
votes. 1t never had any principles
upon which to build permanently an
organization of rational men desiring
she public veal; and while for a time
many good people were deceived into
its support, sober investigation and
dIspassiOnate reason have induced the
great majority Of such to abandon it.
The little there is Of the Greenback
party to-day, consists Of few self
constituted leaders, who are unscrupu-
lous soreheads, with too little of char
acter or ability to maintain respect
able standing in either of the other
parties, and their few deluded followers
who still try to believe that a plan can
be adopted by means of which they
can pay their debts without parting
with anything of value, and gather in
for all their future career the comforts
and luxuries Of life, without labor,
but by "turn of the wrist" One
campaign more, at farthest, will dispel
this mental stupor from al who really
desire to be honest, and leave the
entire sea-room of the party to the
deliberate and intentional repudiation-
lists and biubbering dead-beats who
now lead it. 1t is only necessary.
then. in discussing the political situa-
tion, to canvass the comp arative claims
to the confidence and support Of the
people Of the parties-the Republican
and Observation-Disclosures whom a
choice must be made and this will be
the purpose of this and succeeding
articles
1t is believed that neither the public
nor private life of any Of the candi-
dates justly subjects them to personal
assaults. Gen. Hancock has from his
youth led the life of soldier, He
was educated as such by the Govern
ment. His record as a soldier is an
honorable one, and his services as such
entitle him to the respect and approval
of his countrymen. Gen. Garfield
%as also soldier during part of
the late war. He was a citizen soldier,
leaving civil pursuits to which he was
reared to adopt that Of the soldier,
when his country most needed him.
Called by the voluntary suffrages of
his neighbors aud friends again to civil
life, he accepted and retained a seat in
the popular branch of Congress some
sixteen years, and until the present
although lie was last winter
chosen to the United States Senate
from the State of Ohio for the term
commencing on the 4th of March
next. Gen, Hancock has aeUer been
in civil life for single day. He is
wholly without experience in civil
affairs. Gen. Garfield, upon the other
hand, is Statesmen of ripe experience
and exceptional ability. Both candi-
dates being acknowledged to be men
of unquestioned personal purity, if it
were question of men, merely, the
choice should fall upon Gen. Garfield,
because his life has been devoted, in
the main, to the administration Of the
civil affairs of the Government. His
long experience and prominent service
in Congress, have fitted him as few
men are fitted to discharge the respon-