Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-29
How Hazelton Ran Behind.

article that may have been prepared
in Boscobel, since 1t appears to have
been printed in the Dial little be.
fore it was in the Union, attempts to
show that we are "untair" in our
statement that Mr.. Hazelton ran be-
hind his ticket. Well, let US see.
First take the year 1876. In Rich
land county Hayes had 447 majority;
Hazelton had 394. The Republican
candidate for Sheriff had 52l and the
candidate for County Clerk had 500.
In Iowa county Hayes had 303 ma
jority; Hazelton had 222. The Re-
publican candidate for Treasurer had
sos and the candidate for Register of
Deeds 534 majority. In Grant coun-
ty Hayes's majority was 1925; Ha-
zelton's l346 ; Ivey's for Treasurer
1854, and the others running at about
1850. In Green county Hayes had
500 majority and Hazelton S25. The
Republican candidate for County
Treasurer had SOL, their candidate
for Clerk of Court $40 aud their can.
didate for County Clerk 1919. In
La Fayette county Hayes had 125
and Hazelton 10 majority. Thus in
every Republican county in the Dis.
trict Hazslton ran behind the Presi.
Dental ticket and away behind the
county Republican tickets. In Craw-
and Orion 140-which shows there
is something in Mr.. Hazelton that
would make him a good Democratic
candidate. So much for 1876. Now
for 1878:
The Dial Union" dismisses the SAB.
ject"of Hazeton's running behind in
1878 with the remark that there was
no ticket in the District that year to
compare with. That is an "unfair"
dodge. Every county had a county
ticket. The opposition was divided.
as the Union states, in some of the
counties. AS in these cases there
were two men to draw from each of
the Republican candidates, Mr. Ha.
/
zelton's vote should have been greatly
larger than that of Republicans run.
ming as third candidates. But YOU
will find that even where three were
running The Republican candidates
were generally nearly up to Hazelton
and sometimes above him. We make
the following comparisons on candi-
dates in the different counties where
the opposition was not divided
In Richland county in 1878 the
Republican candidate for County
Clerk had $40, their candidate for
Clerk Of the Court 1924, their candi.
date for Register of Deeds 2s5 ma.
jority, while Hazelton's was 264. One
OF the other candidates, a specially
pronounced Hazelton man, had but
"a majority. In Green county the
Republican candidate for Register of
Deeds had 463 and for Treasurer 1924
majority, while Hazelton's was but
1871. lfsome of the other candidates
went lower perhaps it was because
they had been too much Hazelton.
lied. In Iowa county Hazelton had
1861 votes, and the only other Re-
publican who had but one man to run
against had 1878. This puts him 1l2
behind his ticket in that county. In
La Fayette county Hazelton's vote
was 1885 ; that Of the Republican
Sheriff was 2059 and the Treasurer
POLO. Not one of them was as low
as Hazslton, and yet in that county
special effort had been made by IN.
ion Of Democrats and Greenbackers
to Get the county offices. In Grant
county Hazel!on's majority was 685 :;
one candidate had 915, another 933,
another 857, and the maj }rity on
members of Assembly was 833. One
county candidate was not elected :;
the one defeated had been known as
a special champion of Mr.. Hazelton
for the last twelve years in all that
gentleman's efforts to get nomina.
lions for himself and to keep old SOL
dlers and founders of Republicanism
out We set the fact down, not as
his crime, but as his misfortune. The
same class Of victims are got a few.
Mr.. IIazelton has managed to run for
offices that partisans felt it was neces.
sary to save to the party. He has
encouraged and helped his personal
friends to get nominations not impor-
tant to the party, when he knew
their record as offensive champions
of his cause would bring them to de.
feat.
The above record of votes if taken
at the highest show Mr.. Hazelton to
be about 1000 behind in the District.
and taken at the minimum show him
TO be about 500 behind the Republi-
can ticket. And it might have been
worse. He ran against a candidate
that scarcely anybody cared to elect;
against a candidate generally believed
by his own party to have no qual6.
cation for the office, and who ran be,
hind his ticket because many Demo-
Gratis would not vote for him.
II we may Judge by conversation
with Republicans, q large proportion
of those who have voted for Mr..
Hazelton have done so under a men.
tai protest They felt that the place
in Congress must be saved They