Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-05-08
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s'Oh. What Lots OF Fnni,

'0h, What Lots OF Fun!"
DEAR HERALD:-Last week an angry
breeze swept from narrow alley heap
of rubbish, which found Judgment in the
columns of q mongrel political sheet.
Here it met the gaze of the writer, and
thinking a slight analysis of it Evil
doubtless be of interest to that class of
Republicans who are opposed TO ma
chine methods and bossism," / shall
trespass on your columns for this pur-
pose. feel impelled to thank the one
who piled up said rubbish for Inform
ing the people just what may be ex-
pected from the ring hereafter for no
man is in better position TO give such
information than he
Why did he not begin his historical
sketch with description of the Lancas-
ter caucus? An insight into its meth
DDS would doubtless be as interesting
as that of the convention. Was there
any ring work" about this loyc-feast?
Was it conducted solely with view to
harmonic existing factions on ''civil
service reform and anti-bosssm princi-
ples?'. Why was it necessary to 90 out
side OF this caucus of eighteen to find
''some one to represent the soldier ele-
ment?n Were there no soldiers in the
house? Or, is il not the fact the list
was made up 10y "boss' before the
caucus, and only those who voted to suit
said boss, at the last election, put on it?
This seems TO be the kind of hurnl0ng
sought all the way through. 1t seems to
an outsider that the lamb and the Lion
| lying down together, wlth-the- lamb in
side-the-lion," illustration is applicable
/ here. Was there one man on the dele
CATION who voted for Hazelton? If so,
will he please give us his name? "How-
ever, it was expected that the delegates
would drop all factional feeling and
unite as Republicans to secure the
greatly desired harmony" We have
heard of such bids for harmony before.
The South only asked to pcaceably Sc
cede, keep all the government property
within her domain, and have US capture
and return her runaway slaves, and
then all would be harmony But it is
lamentable that the delegates from
';Beetown, Bloomington and Cassyille, .
had not sufficient stamina to withstand
the Establishments of ''Hazeton's chief
lieutenants, including an antiGood
Templar Democrat How much more
''harmonizing' it would have been had
the man who, we are informed in the ed
itorial comments, ''was looking for
them, and wanted to talk with them, so
they could fairly understand each
other,n found them outside county
office before it was too late. 1t seems
that sat Beetown, the Lancaster delega-
ton thought the Beetown and Bloom
ington delegations co-opcrated with
them in entirely disposing Of the Hazel
ton clement but evidently scheme
had been laid underground, and these
plastic delegates were beguiled from the
paths of rectitude and" foisted on Re-
/ publican town against the wishes of the
| towns representatives, +" and must fur
Their quote "agai'ast The fuse frotesta-
ttolas for harmony made By The ring" a
man distasteful to the ring alone.
| Had this terrible organization who
''have vowed political death to those
who opposed Hazelton," not sufficient
power to overcome n caucus of eighteen
''civil service reform and anti-bossism
principles" thermometers? If not. how
could they SO manipulate as to send as
a delegate to Madison man so smirched
while chairman of the Central Commit
tee by his advocacy of that terror of ere
formers?''
Now, in all candor, can any man look
back over Lancaster caucuses-tow or
city-for the past two or three years,
and fail to see the footprints of the ring
work and bossism? VIII he not wonder
how the machinkry was kept in motion
before some OF the ''reformers" were out
of their swaddling clothes? But it
seems the virtue Of moral suasion is no
longer thought potent in bringing about
harmony" and reform, and now it
is TO be coerced by threat. Votes
kill as well as elect. How true! But
it is said that quack doctors have, ere
now, been forced to take their own med
ieines with fatal effect, and political as
pirants ''to any position of honor or
profit in the halls of Madison would
better take warning Are there no liv-
ing issues? Isit not time to let the dead
past bury its dead? That done. then
may we look for Harmony in the
party. REPUBLICAN.