Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-03

delegation will be much divided.
Cor. RoBT. INGoRsoL says that in law,
"the verdict is on the side of the weight
lest perjury" This explains the diff
Guilty courts and juries of ten have in
reaching a verdict the perjury is so
great on both sides that the court and
jury get bewildered and cannot reach a
conclusion.
THE ID district democratic congress
sional convention meets at Waukesha to
day, and the 9Th district republican con
yentiou meets at Berlin. The latter it is
expected will kill A. j. Turner's boom
by renOminating Guenther. A long fight
is probable at Waukesha, with the chances
against both Bragg and Delaney.
TnE way tho republican primaries all
over the state are jerkrd into line and
made TO resolve in favor of the old ticket
and the old leaders and bosses and in
dorse all the past, shows that the same
old crowd, runs the party and that the
MASSES are 50 many jumping jacks with
strings All attached. Guenther is indors-
cd III his district and Stephenson in his,
and Price in his, and so on all round and
bossism is done with the accuracy of ma
chnery. The bosses do everything, cx-
ccpt to breath for the obcdicnt voter.
II the cablcgrams sent from the old
world are true Prince Alexander will go
back to his throne with the enthusiastic
approval of his whole people. In some
quarters this view is doubted, but the
people Of bulgaria and Romclia ought
to support Alexander. lie did not ask TO
DO made tho ruler OF either state, but has
governed them with credit To himself and
advantage to them and so for rs can be
Judged At this distance if the people of
the balkans want peace and prosperity
they ARE more likely to get il by support
ing tho Alexandarian government than in
amy other way.
EAHruQuAEr shocks of greater or less
violence were experienced from the Mis-
-ouri aud Mississippi rivers To the Allan
tie ocean last evening. Tho vibrations
seemed to ho north and south and the
uudulatlons travel toward the east. High
buildings in the cities were rocked
and some of them slightly injur-
lives were lost. The schocks seemed
to 10 the most severe i'll the Atlantic
stntos, whore in some places three and
four shocks were felt. Many hotel guests
nnd employees, printing house employees,
families, and those in attendance Mt the
atres and other similar places rushed pelI
men into the streets, those of tho hotel
guests and families who had retired not
stopping To dress Itwns night of terror
never equalod in the United States.
Tnrur was %5,oOo,000 of the interest
hearing public debt called for payment
during August. No such amount was over
called III a siHEIo month by a republican
administration except to bc refunded into
new bonds. The reduction of tho pub
lc debt since tho first day of january,
IS9"' Is 9'2,"""ooo. The expenses "t
running the government Tor that tlme'
exclusive Of the pension roll, has gone
down about SlsoooOO0 below any similar
period of republican rule; while the pen
sion roll has increased nearly $200oO000
Tins shows how the democratic party
gives the ne I" the republican campaign
charges which were swallowed for fifteen
y'af7 by thousands OF men VIII" ought t"
nave known better. PENSIONERS never E"t
So m"'h' tn" government expenses have
not been s" little sine" tn" war; the pub
l'' debt has never been paid faster and
Tue '"'"red people nave not been rc. en-
7laNed nor has the confederate debt been
paid
Logan. Sherman and Edmunds arc all out
of the field for Isss. Tho contest has mar
rowod down to liiu, of New York, and
Blaine; but Judging from the many strong
points IN Hin, as told and rctold in re
publican newspapers he will get the re
publican nomination certain 1t Cleveland
- nominated hy tn" democrats. If what
The republican press said of Hin, when
he Nas running forEovernor against pay-
cnport, wos all trne, and what the same
press now says of him Is all true, he is
iii" greatest reformer of this. or any
other age. II" has improved i'll two
years frnm the worst man in the
state of New York to the best man
IN the whole country for presi-
dent. Tho republicans ought not to fail
To nominate him and scoop in the ear
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