Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
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NIinnesota's First Choice.

IL Is everywhere OclicVeuasluA VIC :aTo
to have the hottest political contest this
year ever experienced in this country.
It is foolish 10 deceive ourselves with the
belief that the Democracy are not able to
give us mighty hard fight. Every State
government in the South is in the hands of
Democrats, and this means solid South
nothing else. All the talk about the
Republicans carryinga Southern Slate,
is the veriest Losh. The Democrats have
1873 electoral votes solid to start with
AZ votes from the Northern States is all
they need to give them victory. We have
nothing to give away in the North. ..s,5i
Another important consideration is this:
The Democracy have both houses of
Congress. Congress counts and declares
the electoral vote. This year our victory
must be clear and strong and decisive, or
our cause is lost The slate of Maine
tells us what we must expect from a
Democratic. Congress. Every technically
will be turned against US. Our victory
at the polls!must be so overwhelming as to
make i, morally impossible to beat US ip
the count.
In close, hard fight, such as we are
likely to have this year, ii is of the highest
importance that we put our strongest aud
best man forward as our leader. We be-
lieve that the convention which meets
next June IN Chicago, will virtually de-
eide the contest; it makes or breaks US
as party. Let US put up man about
whom clings the faint of trickery or
fraud, and our cause is undone. But let
US put forward a man against whom the
malice of the enemy must beat IN vain,
and the battle for the right will be half
won. This man, in our sincere judgment,
is John Sherman, of Ohio-able, honest,
courageous, patriotic John Sherman. To
him more than any other one man be-
longs the credit of defeating the rebel
bulldozers of Louisiana in rs. He stood
like a mighty bulwark against their
threats and trickery. The Republicans
of the South love John Sherman as they
love no other man. His candidacy would
do much to rebuild the Republican party
in the South-to restore what other Re-
publicans have lost to us.
To John Sherman, more than to any
other one man on earth, belongs the credit
of successful resumption, ard our brig ht
revival of good times. This alone should
make HIM the next President of the Uni
ted States. As great finance minister,
he stands without peer. We mean
what we say-without a peer Against
most of the other men at present named
IN connection with the presidency, all
sorts of stories are af1oat; but against
John Sherman, not one.
If the question today could be sub
mitted to the Republican party of this
State, and free and untrammel!cd cx.
preston obtained, we confidently believe
that John Sherman would get twoth1rhs
of the entire vote Of the party. This, too,
Notwithstanding the fact that no work
has been done in the State IN his behalf.
We yield to no man IN an honest desire
Tor the success of the Republican cause
this year; but it is our emphatic judy
ment that the party is not strong enough
to carry Gen. Grant, with his third term
and the dark spots in his past administa.
tious. 1t is also our judgment that the
party is not srong enough to carry Mr..
Blame, with the weak spots which his
past record presents. The enemy can
riddle him, and will, if lie IS put for
ward. But John Sherman is invulncra-
bic and he will be invincble.
The TRANSCRIPT nails his flag to the
mast head, and will labor increasingly for
the good of The party, from now until
the convention meets in Chicago, by do
ing what it can to make the best, the
purest, the ablest politician and states
man the country can boast, that conven-
TONS choice for president.
John Sherman is Mnnesota's man,