Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-11-02
NEWS NUGGETS.

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Dane county has four of kind but it
won't win this time.
In another column is given bit of
inside history, showing how the liquor
league is assisting the prohibition party
in order to defeat those candidates who
are obnoxious to them and whom they
cannot manipulate. Happily the ex-
posture comes before election and when
voters can express their opinion of such
an unholy alliance at the polls.
Burr Jones is nice little fellow, too
nice to go to congress this time. Some
other time, but not just yet.
1t must not be forgotten that in addi-
ton to the usual election of congress-
man and county officers the people will
vote, next Tuesday, on two amendments
to the constitution intending to perfect
the feature of biennial elections. We
now have an important general election
on our hands every year. 1t is to do away
with this that the present amendments
are given to the people and consistency
urges their adoption. The spring cleo
tons where town officers and judges are
chosen will be held as usual but the an
nual fall election will be thing of the
past, and instead we viii have the
furore of general election only once
in two years.
Beecher claims to have been Oar
winian before Darwin. Mr.. Beecher
must then have been close student of
the monkey species.
Mast the caricaturist is getting some
of his old time vigor into his recent
political cartoons. One of the best is a
half page drawing representing the
Goddess of Liberty as Little Bo Peep
watching her sheep, to whom comes up
the Democratic wolf saying: There
are some black sheep in your fold there
fore you had better let me take care of
the flock. Having been so long with
out food has made me kind and gentle,
and has changed my nature SO com
pletely that am an excellent shepherds
dog now" Republicans will you trust
the wolf.
The election of Burr Jones, the Demo
cratic nominee for Congress, il this dis
would FURNISH one step in the poll
,uc4 -, w We Democratic
". !, aopes Climb in;o power IN 1854.
.erlt!icans OF Grant coaniy you are
called upon to assist in breaking up this
deep laid plot.
Remember vote for Reyes or Hast
ings is a vote for the Democ' atic NOM
inee. Republicans can you afford TO
give it.
A great deal of honest and merited
Indignation is expressed at the interior
ence of the administration in the politics
of New York State. But is such action
any worse that tho domination of the
capital city over the politics of state?
Yet this is the position which Madison
aspires to, not only in the state, bu!
even in the district, to which it is attach
ed. Some years ago the people of Wis
consin, disguised with the tryranical
rule of the Madison ring, rose in their
wrath and, as they supposed, smashed
that nest of corruption into thousand
fragments. Their JOY was destined to
be short lived. however thorough might
have been the smashing. The magnetic
attraction of public plumber and politi-
cal spoils drew the fragments together
again. where they were cemented fast
by the glue of state patronage. Their
first tttempt at running things in the
old way since their reunitication was
the plot to secure the congressional
nomination for one of the leaders of the
gang. They failed in their object and
the district will teach them lesson on
Tuesday that will save the state at large
many hard fight in years to come.
Mike Mcdonald, the Chicago gambler
and thug, who is runni.g the Demo-
cratic partyin Chicago, is hearing more
solid truth of himself just now than he
has heard before in his life time.
The case of Maggie Henneeke is ex-