Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-19
An Outside View.

mel, with 40 other interest in the
political affairs of this district thar
Republicans generally throughout
the State properly have--to-wit
the welfare of the pa<ty - has
strongly urged the withdrawal Of
both Keyes and Hazelton, and the
substitution of anew man upon whom
the party could unite. This having
been found impracticabIe, that paper
as all Republicans, is left no other
course than to decide for itself
which of the candidates has the
better claim to support. The Re
pubticon-Sey.tinek decides in favor
of Mr. Hazclton, on that ground.
In its issue Of The 10th it clearly
iustifes that decision, and most
pertinently discusses. the matter as
follows:
The Madison Journal is carrying the force
OF check little too far when it deyotes half
q column or SO TO personal abuse of Mr..
HazeIton, the Republican nominee for con
gress in lhc Third District, accusing him OF
"brazcn impudence" and "mu.ish obslinacy"
in not Withdrawing from the canvass, ana
following this attack with a commentator OF
Mr. Keyes' course as "truc to the interests OF
the purity" Mr.. Reyes was willing to with
draw If Mr.. llazeton would, and this, In the
journals opinion, is an Instance of great
magnanimity. We had hoped That Mr. Hazel.
on would withdraw, not because he was not
fairly nominated, bui because there was II
large and strong minority opposed to his re
nomination and his candidacy under the cir
cumstances seemed less likely to he success
full than some new man who might have been
found to succeed him. But there is no jus
tice in placing him on the same plane with
Mr.. kcyeS. The latter is simply boiler. No
candid and unpr,judIced person who will IN.
yestigate the subject cnn doubt that Mr.
liazelton received the gupport OF twenty two
out of forty two delegates who were entitled
to seats IN the nominating convention. Mr..
kcyes' only claim TO a nomination rest upon
the actiln of nineteen of the delegates en-
titled TO seats IN the nominating convention
who withdrew from it, and, calling in three
other persons. tried TO make believe they
were u convention and pretended to nominate
Reyes not with any expectation of elecling
him, but to defeat Hazelton, Under the or.
cumStances il would be strange indeed III
Reyes should refuse 10 agree to get of the
COURSE il ilazelton would. But If the situa
ton were reversed, and he were regularly
nominated, though by small majority, it is
tolerably certain that he would exhibit less
alacrily on the subject of Withdrawing, II isl
every mans right to run for congress ii he
chooses there are several ways in which he
may properly come before the peoples asa cand
date BY seeming the nomination OF q con
yention, 10y accepting call Of his friends, OF
by announcing himself as an Independent can
ddatc, But man has no right to come for.
ward as candidate upon false pctcnscs
claiming that he has been regularly nominal
ed by hi, party when such Is not the case
A party man who runs against the regular
nominee Of his party is a boltcr BoUng Is
sometimes justlablc, but the man who bolts
must have case which warrants 1t, or OK.
pect TO he condemned 10y his political associ,
atcs In boiling, moreover, he should do Il
frankly, and not attempt to shield himself
under gauzy and indelcusihlc preteNts a
boiler who tries to deceive the voters by Get.
ting up q false claim, is much worse than the
holt In
the party in the Third District, Mr.. Uaz-lton
is entitled 10 the support of AL Republicans
who feel bound 10y the uSages Of party organ
iAlion. His character AS = man and his rec.
ord ia congress are fair subjects Of criticism.
lie has served in congress three terms Two
years ago, his election was generally desired
hy The Republicans OF his district. We believe
that Mr.. Reyes went into his district and
made speeches in support of him. He is The
same raa now as Then just rs good Rcpub
tican as AT that tmc in character just rs re
spectacle and deserving. Only two things
have Happened since which may serve TO eN-
plain Mr.. kcyos' present hostility to him. In
the winter OF 1881, when Keycs was a canaL
date for Senator IIazatou is understood to
have favored The choice eff Cameron and,
this year, Dane county having been incorpor
ated in the Third District, under the new
appJrtionment, keyes and Haaclton became
rival candidates tor the nomination for con.
gress. These facts may account for the hos
tile feeling between ilc TWO men, but they do
not concern til, Republican purity. The qucs.
ton for the voters Of the district to consider