Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-08
POLITICAL POINTS.

Congress. Returned ?" said Toombs,
"Why, damme, his districtll keep him
In congress as long as he lives, and when
he dies they'll run his executor"
Col. w. P. RENDIa prominent bust
ness man of Chicago, a representative
Irishman, and a life long Democrat, has
announced his purpose to vote for Gar
field and arthur and act with the Re-
publican party, because he considers the
fundamental principles of that party
true, and that it is the party of freedom
and progress. And SO they come.
The court records of Indianapolis
show that English, Democratic candi-
date for vice president, is one of the most
successful foreclosers of mortgages that
the country has produced. The cases of
this kind are numbered by scores. His
nomination, therefore, we suppose must
be taken as an evidence that "the Demo-
cratic party is the poor mans friend
"THE civil should be superior to the
military power, and it is opposed to the
prevalence of this idea that military
thieftain should be selected for high
civil position" said the Democrats, and
then, to illustrate the harmony of Demo-
mated major general of the regular
army for president. Great are the "con-
stitutionl doctrines and principles of
the Democratic party p
For years past the Democratic organs
and orators have been denouncing, with
the full strength of their vocabulary, the
"bloated bondholder;;" it is therefore en-
tirely in keeping with the practice of
the party that they should, this year,
nominate as their candidate for vice
president, one of that very class. When
Democracy has been especially denunci-
atOry Of particular persons or principles
it is time to begin to look for it's adoption
of the same.
MURAT HALsTEAD, editor of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, an Independent in
politics, recently wrote letter upon the
campaign which concluded as follows:
I will add that Gen. Garfield, if elected Presi-
dent, as I believe he will be,-for think the
Republicans will carry Maine in September and
Indiana in October,-will go into the Office an
ADLER and better equipped man for the place
than any one chosen since John Quincy Adams:
This is the more important as coming
from one who is not partisan of Gar
iAOAeA LII oIlO POIOAOul oOuoO.
SENATOR LOGAN, who has been speak
ing in Maine, says that there is no doubt
of compile Republican victory in that
state; that the fusion fraud of last year
has driven many independent voters
into the Republican ranks; that
the Republicans are making an exceed
ceedingly active canvass with he most
encouraging results. There seems little
doubt that when the attempt was made
last fall by the FusiOnists to count
out Republicans who we're honestly
elected and count in their own candidates
they dealt a fatal wound to both the
Greenback and Democratic parties.
REPUBLICAN, prospects in New York
continue to brighten. Further reports
from the interior counties are published
by the New York Times, all of which
represent the Republicans as united and
enthusiastic for the support of their tick
ct. Garfield clubs are forming every
where, and the determination is to get
out every Republican vote. Not alone
is the work going forward in the country,
but in the metropolis effective work is
doing, and it is confidently predicted
that the Democratic majority there will
be materially decreased, and that the
Republicans will carry the state.
THE Democratic leaders of Indiana
recently held a meeting for consultation
as to ways and means of conducting the
campaign. There was considerable dis
cussion as to the best method of spend
ing the campaign funds, when finally the
subject was settled by an emphatic declar-
alton by W. FL. English, the Democratic
candidate for vice president, that "the
time to spend money is on election day."
Whether he holds this view because he
believes in buying votes outright, or
because the opportunities for the legiti-
mate expenditure of money are then re-
duced to the minimum, and the demand
on his purse would thus be greatly re-
duced, is not known.
The Republicans are daily making
gains among working men. Many who
have heretofore steadily voted the Demo
cratic ticket appear to be waking up to
the fact, long ago established,
that the Republican party is
pre-eminently the party of liberty
and equal nghts-the party that
has done almost everything that has
been done for the elevation of labor.
At Republican meeting in South Bend,
Ind, on Saturday night, it is estimated
that there were nearly 1000 torches in
line, and ITO of these were carried by
Polanders who have heretofore voted the
Democratic ticket, but have now renounc-
ed the Democratic faith of their own free
will and formed Garfield club.
The New York Herald, the sympathies
of which ere with the Democratic party,
admits that President Hayes admins
tration has been very clean one; that
''few administrations have been so in
vulnerable on the score OF corruption"
and that he has done much to correct
political abuses. This is emphatically
true, and it might be added, with equal
truth, that the administration has been
an able one. Evarts' management of
the state department. has been very cred
table, while the treasury department
has had no ADLER head or better admins
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