The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-26
HON. CHARLES q. WILLIAMS.

HON. CHARLES g. WILLIAMS.
We take pleasure in occasionally /
speaking of Hon. Charles G. Williams.
a well known citizen of Wisconsin,, |
now Register of the land Office at |
Vatertown, Dakota. Mr.. Williams
filed a large space in public life in
Wisconsin. Besides having been a
prominent member of the state legis-
lature. he served five terms in Congress
elected from this first Congressional
district. Mr.. Williams, although in
Dakota, is still resident of Wisconsin,
having retained his homestead in
GAINESVILLE; besides the constitution
provides that absence from the state
on business Of the United States does
not incur a loss of residence in the
state. We believe Mr.. Williams has
still brilliant future IN Wisconsin.
It is no time now to speak of the un-
principled means employed TO defeat
his reelection in Congress in 1882. but
the time will come when the story NAV
be told.
Watertown, Dakota, has recently
been connected by railway with Min
neapolis, which latter city invited the
citizens of WatertoWn to a free ride to
that new and magnificent city Of the
West. One hundred and fifty citizens
accepted the invitation, and were given
a grand reception at Minneapolis. Elo-
quent speeches were made. Among
others Hon. G. G. Williams was call
ed out, who responded in his usual
happy style. The President of the day
introduced Mr.. Williams in words
complimentary to his oratorical pow
ers, the subject assigned him being
sour Hosts of Indianapolis" We
take from the Minneapolis Tribune the
chief part of the address. Mr.. Williams
said:
"The men Of Watertown W ere proud
to sit at table with the business men
of Minneapolis. They were the kind
of men that built cities and founded
states; who can never be conquered in
war; who were unsurpassed in peace.
Watertown is modest, and never
dreamed of metropolitan airs until the
men of Minneapolis touched her with
the steel fingers of enterprise and put
new light into her eyes. WATERFOWL
will greet Minneapolis and repay the
compliments rendered her. We recog.
nize that the hand of God pushes the
crank and turns the wheel that moves
the rollers that grinds the golden grain
that turns out the staff of life that
stiffens and strengthens the backbone
of the world. Who can estimate the
| future of this city, You have doubled
within four years. You are in the
hands of destiny. If you ask me how
the business men of to-day differs
from the business men of fifty years
ago, will ask you to stand on the
Manchester and Liverpool road with
George Stevenson, and see the civiliza
ton that he saw when his crude loco
motive first crept along the rails, and
then stand above this vast system OF
railways stretching out over the great
nations, embracing hundreds of thous
ands of miles, and you can see the
difference. You wish tonight to spetk
to correspondent IN London or Liver
pool. and you step to the keyboard and
! touch the lightning. You are with
: him in an instant; tine transaction in
wolves millions. perhaps, but it is dis
patched summarily. and on the morrow
you are at liberty to engage In another
: Lightning and steam have revolution
, lied TIE world, and our business men
are no. to be compared with those
of fifty years ago. Hence, it is nc
wonder that marble palaces spring uE
: in a night on the western frontier
+ There is no pioneer life as it used tc
be. Watertown is not provincial fol
the railroad has revolutioniZed it
There are men who have left marble
!. floors and granite pavemenCs. to stand
on the virgin soil of the prairie. There
are men there from England, Scotland
from New York, from Brooklyn anC
; other cities, and they are there from
choice. They have brought their re-
. 6nement with them, and they have
/ come to stay. What does the grea
system of railroads centering in Chi
cago and spreading out to you anC
other cities mean? Who can read the
; destiny of these cities? The speaker
then outlined in most eloquent terms
some of the possibilities of the coun
try, closing with an expression Of goo(
will to the city. He was loudly ap
j plauded.
We very much regret that space pre-
cl'ldes the possibility of giving to ou
readers the whole of this grand feas
of eloquence which the whole north
western press have gone into rapture
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