The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-22

I JOKING aside, something which the edi
| torial fraternity perhaps indulge too free
l IL in, there is no man In the republican
party to whom Harrison owes more thar
to H G. Kress of this city. He was {
Harrison man from the first, though ht
did denounce as traitors those who de
serted poor old Jerry. kress was the
first man Of the Wisconsin delegation
who broke for Harrison and at time
when an accession to the Harrison col
| umn would give it permanent strength
He has since. in season and out OF season
been and active worker for Harrison
He has been in correspondence with the
nominee and has visited him by invita-.
ton. People may with reason doubt
kress's claim, that it was.largely through
him the democratic majority in this coun-
ty was reduced; but he could not do more
than he did to bring about that result
The Polish circular may not have been
such piece of political strategy as be
fancies it was; but it showed diligence on
his part.
1t is noised about that Mr.. kress is a
candidate for the position of governor Of
Wyoming. 1t is big reward for the
actual services performed but not viii;
too much for the disposition he showed
He is almost cheek by jowl" with Henri.
Payne, the political Warwick of Wiscor-
sin, and On terms of almost familiar inter
| course with Harrison. His appointment
to the position is by no means improba-
be Mr.. kress should encounter no OPP
position at home. The selection OF G
Manitowoc man is an honor to the city
and it is he or none. With other claim
| ants from the city The Pilot would be
wholly Indifferent to Mr.. Kress's success
in fact might prefer the other fellow
As it is it prefers him to any man out
side of Manitowoc.
Besides it is polite for democrats to
| urge, or at least feel pleased at his ap
pointment. II Mr.. Kress's horosc cope
we're cast it would be found that he was
BORN under lucky star. He has at
| yempted nothing in politics thus far il
| which he has failed. 1t seems to be lucl
| instead of good generalship, but-hane
| the odds-he is always successful. There
| Is growing superstition that whatever
| side kress espouses is sure to win
| Dame Fortune may desert him at any
time but thus far she has nothing but
| smiles for him. He mag succeed in wip
! ing out the democratic majority in this
| county. Impossible" the reader may
| say. But suppose that little over one
year ago some one had predicted that The
| then comparatively unknown Harry Kress
| would have been delegate to the ma
| tional convention, would have lead {
| break to the successful candidate wher
wise politicians confessed they could not
| see the outcome, would have been the re-
| cipient OF letter from the presidential
sominee expressing acknowledgment fol
services rendered, would have been an
invited guest of that nominee, would
have been the practical dictator OF his
| party in this county; would not the pre-
diction have appeared wilder than the
one now made that in two years more he
viii succeed in reversing the standing OF
the two political parties in this county,
One other consideration of a political
| nature borrowing force from Kress's
| lucky star: 1t will be to his interest to
| prevent Wyoming from being admitted
as a state. Just as soon as it attains
statehood the governorship is gone. The
| democrats have an interest in keeping
| Wyoming out and if Harry Kress's luck
] 4 .es not go back on him he will keep his
| Job until after the election of 1892, and
then Cleveland can bounce him. If he
comes back to Manitowoc with his peck
cts full of money he will not be the worse
fellow for that. He might even build a
factory, and then we'd all whoop it up
for him and forgive him all his political
| misdeeds