The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03

vour vote for Mr.. Blackman, then / think
you ought to do it have not come here 30
beg for your support or to get down under
ANY FALSE PRETENsEs
Why could not do it? | said repeatedly
that IL / were in the Legislature, and d large
number of people demanded the submission
of vote to the people | should favor
it. But you are not satisfied with that. You
want should go further listened TIE
other night to the veteran Neil DOW
in GAINESVILLE with as much interest as
have listened lately to public discussion.
But was sorry TO hear one utterance from
that distinguished champion OF your cause.
He told you how they managed in Maine.
They went to a candidate and said, Sir, Will
you vote for this measure! de SAID no,
cannot They waited until the night before
election He saw his election was lmper-
lied They knocked on the door. They said
to MIN, We have SO many votes; Will you
vote for the measure now. he said. Yes
And ne voted for it What A great reform
to be pushed forward by a man that viii
sell his principles for few p3ltry votes!
Buy a man like that? Do you not know that
the moment his interest guided him he
would betraY you and sell you out, or be
sold himself? You ask me to do that!
cannot do it But you say. Why would not
you carry this into Congress! why, let me
tell you. 1t takes Chree-fOurths of the
States to amend The Constitution. It
take five years at best to amend
the Constitution Of the United States We
got the original constitution by scratch
Our opponents deny that the fifteenth amend
ment has even now been adopted. Sup
posing there is something else standing
right in the line of Republican duty in the
House of Representatives, and you cannon
aid
PROHIBITION THERE THIS YEAR
nor next year; gupposing there is danger 0
ON 41afiOna1 Ipniola fi0u o0iTW into the hands
of the Democracy of the South-for IL In
power the Northern Democracy cannot con-
troll them-then what? Are there no lssues2
Yes During the next Congress, with emil
grants pouring TO the Northwest, you ought to
have two states admitted, with four senator's,
Republicans every one, and corresponding
number of representatives SGlll that would
be kmOre opportunity to steal again
ILaughJer.l Is there nothing pending that
the Republican party has at stalker With
our lamented Garfield as standard bearer,
with all the excitement of the Presidential
campaign, with the clarion notes OF patriot
ism ringing every where all over this land,
we saved the last House of Represent
atives by bare one Republican majority,
and if it had not been Tor the aid of the
Greenbackers in the House we probably
should not have been able to organize it, and
your Speaker and committees and all the
machinery of legislation would have gone
into the hands of the Southern Democracy.
Well, what of it? What of it? We COM
menced, we thought. for the first time at
the right end of the line; we put out four
men sitting there for eight months drawing
their salaries who had no right there, no
more SO than one of you, and any one of
those votes not only defeated my vote, but
disfranchised every elector IN The FIRST Dis
trict of Wisconsin, for you vote through me,
and if misrepresent you you have the ram
edy in your own hands Christian people,
you wrote to me commencing The action of
Congress in striking down that twin relic Of
barbarism, polygamy, and redeeming the
last pledge of the Republican party. The
last representative OF that iniquity has sat
in the House of Representatives if IL is kept
under Republican control Give it to the
Democracy and the next Congress will see it
RETURN, HYDRA-HEADED
and defiant And yet you are establishing
intemperance and promotlng prohibition.
Didn't we abolish slavery? Yes, | believe [
was an humble worker In that cause from
boyhood. But did we abolish it by driving
every helper from our side If he didn't
adopt our particular method Did we not
accept the aholitionists, the Republicans,
the barn burners. the war Democrats. the
Union men--every man who could lend aid?
Was he not gladly welcomed? But you say,
indorse our methods now, or we will not
listen to you Abraham Lincoln did not
march fast enough to suit us, and yet if
ADIduuLu lllDCOlu u6Q IllAAG OuS HIS
take in practical administration, the Union
would have been restored with slavery in the
Constitution and neither you nor [ would
ever have seen the end of it in our time.
Practical resolutions must be produced by
practical methods; put with all our practical
methods to wipe out that terrible evil, 1t
took the lives of 300, 600 as brave men as
ever carried Dayonets cleaning to the burn
ing fields of war. And yet will you by a
resolution, tear down the SKY or shut out the
sun and let those who would like TO work
with you go where they may while the Bit
terest enemies that they or you have will be
installed, invested with power which has
NOT ONE THRoB OF SYMPATHY
with the object you have in view
What next! The Chicago Times says that
nowhere in the United States has member
OF Congress been charged with voting for
THE LIQUOR BILL AT THE GARFIELD
funeral except Williams in the FIRST District
of Wisconsin You see it required genius to
discover it, and we have genius in this CITY,
Now, then, what is the charger The fourth
plank of mis- independent platform says the
present use of liquors is disgrace to us as
Nation; the passage OF the Garfield fu
neral bill, appropriating So, 900 an outrage
on common decency. Twas not lat thatfu-.
neral" | spoke in GAINESVILLE on that day.
At my opening speech in Kenosha / used
this language, and have been using it ever
since: [ pronounce the statement that I
elGnGE VOGSu IOr, SanCUtOnSQ, SuppOEG0u> OF
in any way approved of the above expendi-
ture as unqualifedly false, without one
shred or patch of truth to stand upon, and
/ call upon the authors of this charge to pro-
duce the proof, retract the charge, or stand
as self confessed liars before all honorable
men. The GAINESVILLE Gazette said that
DENIAL SO POSITIVE
would probably call out response, yet
from that day to this Mr.. Winans
and his speakers have been de-
claring over and over again that
did vote for that bill until yesterday Mr..
Aeiser admitted to j. d. King that that
charge was mistake. When King told him,
You ought to have known the fact before
you charged it, he replied, Yes that was a
mistake. And yet my neighbor will 60 right
on, night after night, reiterating that charge
to prejudice and poison the minds of tine
temperance people. / took that denial
they had printed it as an advertisement in
the GAINESVILLE Recorder, marked with u
printers sign Ito be continued till Nov ~
after / made that denial took it into the
Office and told them had an advertisement,
to put that denial right under that platform
keep it standing there as long as that plat
form, and send me the bill, and the next
morning after the first insertion that plat
form and that denial vanished from that
paper and have not been seen there since
EApplausel You call that honorable war
fare! Well, what was the reason? You will
see it tomorrow; these men OF the press
will do me justice. l have statement from
the journal clerk at Washington that he
positively remembers When those resolu-
tionS were passed there were not over
twenty members in the House. and
that it occurred immediately after
the reading of the journal, which
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