Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-09-05
State Politics.
Plans and Hopes in the Chip
pewa Valley.
Thad. Pound 5 Letter Falls Like
a Heavy E0lt.
Eau Claire Democracy on the Alert
and Hopeful.
Spartan Sparring.
On the Log-Dotted Chippewa.

On the Log-Dotted Chippewa
The correspondent of the La Crosse
Chronicle gives an interesting ac-
coant of the insideneSs Of things in
Chippewa county in the following
breezy way:
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Sept. l.
There has been a,great deal of silence
IN the political woods along the Chip
pewa until within week or two.
Col. Ginty, of the Herald, and the
other big inJuns of the Chippewa tribe
We're bent heart and soul on renomi-
mating Arthur at Chicago, and for
weeks after that interesting wake they
wore no wells TO conceal their wry
faces at swallowing Blaine. 1t was a
hard dish even for professionals. but
finally visions of state senatorial
honors began 10 loom up across the
crow platter and the colonel, in com
mon with the majority of his fellow
SchemerS, have concluded to lick the
platter clean and trust to oafter-elsction
physic to help out their
digestion; accordingly they have
barely commenced the motions neces
sary for party in the attitude of
lighting. They have held no public
meetings, have formed no club, have
flung no banner TO the breeze, IL is
true, but it is ru,nored that Ginty
and Bingham have held spirited
season of prayer On the other hand
the followers of Cleveland held a
ratification meeting immediately fol
lowing his nomination, organized a
Cleveland and Hendricks club of
over three hundred memhers wltnin
two days, and are generally right in
the ring to stay until the grand
knockout in November, and the pres.
ent indications are that they will STAY
there by a large majority then. Tho
only candidate which the BlaineiteS
are sure of electing seems to be the
Hon. Ike for congress, and this aSsur-
ance probably arises from the fact
that he must be elected by other
counties than Chippewa.
Colonel Glnty is the coming man
for state senator, and will make
jim Taylor goes in against him the
colonel will have To lower his present
pacing record to get there. The dem
ocrats are looking around for good
man 10 fill our chair in the next as
sembly, and it looks at present as il
the choice would hit on Ton Cunning
ham of the Times or Ambrose Hotf-
man; both of these men understand
the political ropes Of the country
pretty well and it is suspected that the
Times man has rather the lead. The
heaviest bolt that has yet fallen III the
camp of the faithful is by all odds the
letter of Hon Thaddeus Pound com
ing out for "Clevtla and clean pol
lticsn There has been an awful facial
attempt at whistling, but nary
sound can they pucker. There
is no Disgusting the fact that
the Hon. Thad has large fol
lowing, and many who stood wait
ing with weak knees, can now fall in
to line and for once vote with their
conscience There is also very re-
spectacle German bolt, and as several
towns of this county are populated
largely with that level headed class of
people, the break will be of great i'm.
portance. The Irish bugaboo was
started by the plumed knights, but
has so totally and dlsgracefully Tag
ged out as TO be source of great an
noyapce to the originators. Que of
the leading employers of laborlng
men here, who has in his employ
fifty eight Irish workingmen, took an
experimental straw" among them
yesterday, resulting, fifty five for
Cleve and, two for ST. John and one
for the Widow Butler" and they
are as solid as that clear down to the
center.