Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-29
Darlington Republican Correspondence.


sHULLsBURG, Wis. July II, 1885,
No glory is won without labor; no victory
is worth having unless gained by desperate
battle. Why should popular Republican
be nom mated for Congress, and thus by sat.
isfying the whole district win a victory most
easily, when we can, by renominating Ha-
zleton, force upon ourselves success only
after doubtful straggle. True, with Halle.
ton the chances would be against US, indeed
tue Republican party might be terribly
broken, for luckily Hazleton runs behind his
party ticket always. Nevertheless. if we
could, after barely escaping defeat, only win
triumph with him as our candidate, how
great would be our glory! Wouldn't our
party be strengthened, and wouldn't the
Democrats be forever cowed, ii we should at
last succeed in electing HazIeton by dozen
votes? The encouraging fact that he every-
where and always runs behind the ticket, SO
far from being an objection: emphatically
points him out as the very man we must
nominate. Most true, his candidacy will
weigh down our Republican nominees in
every town, and beat some of them out of
sight; but, poor devils! their defeat will
only add lustre TO HazIeton's third term.
What right have we Republicans of this
district to object to being slaughtered for so
truly good man as George C. Hazleton?
We know that his fortune in running be-
hind any other Repub lican on his :icket
never deserts him, and that at the coming
election this customary reduction will be
greater than ever before. PROFESSIONALLY,
the weakest man we can possibly nominate
entities him, in my Judgment, to grateful rev.
erance from Republicans, and to an enthusi.
astic selection over all others. Look OF the
Official figures:
When Fairchild, for Governor, in 1867.
received a majority of 1916 in Grant county,
Hazleton, for State Senator, on the same
ticket, received q majority of 449. Thus he
succeeded in reducing the Republican major
ity on himself 997 votes! Again, in 1869
Fairchild's majority in Grant county was
1882, but Hazleton, on the same ticket, in
his own home county, proudly achieved S3l
majority, thus retreating 70l behind his
party vote! And in 1876 did he not CALAMITY
run behind in every county, and reduce his
majority behind the Republican strength SIG
in the district? Ia 1879, the last time he
ran, was not our Hazleton behind the ticket
not only in every county, but in every pre-
cinct, and ont of total vote of %, 29S votes
did he not beat Owen King by no more than
just %? Who, then, can deny ;hat Hazleton
is hero, when, in one year, he thus actual
ly reduced the Republican majority 1900
votes?
The fact that in every county in the dis
trict there are ADLER, more popular Republic
cans; men, too, who have not settled in
Wisconsin merely to hold office, but who
can represent this district with tenfold more
wisdom and effectiveness. are TO me reasons
why those men of undoubted worth and
character must not be allowed either voice
or support in the coming congressional con-
yentlon; but, on the contrary, these are man,
liest reasons why we must 90 right on nomi-
mating forever George c. Hszleton
JUSTICE.