Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-07-19
Political Notes

Chicago Journal Tho American
Party whatever that may mean
has issued a call for National Con-
vention in August, to nominate can.
didates for President and Vice Presi-
dent. Any fastidious American who
can't be satisfied with the true blue
American blood of Benjamin Harrison
and Levi 2. Morton must be very hard
to please.
Pioneer Press: Dakota has no cleo
torial votes. but with a generous spirit
she purposes to contribute her share,
or rather what would be her proportion
OF the campaign expenses provided she
could vote. Dakota has as much, if
not more, interest in the success of the
Republican ticket as any full-fiedged
state in the Union. Therefore she
will contribute to the campaign both
money and moral support. Good for
Dakota.
Nebraska State Journal: The Pro-
hibitionists claim to be par excellence
in favor of temperance. To get pro-
hibition they think, or pretend to think,
that absolute freedom of the sale of
whisky is first necessary. A reign of
unlimited saloonkeeping they are in
favor of so that the people will get
tired of the saloons. The Democratic
party is in favor of unrestrained traffic
in whisky. Therefore they will work
for the success of the Democratic
party.
MiIOaukee Sentinel: The only thing
that is urged against the Republican
candidate for Vice-president is that he
is rich. He is known to be able, pat
riotic, generous and virtuous, but he
committed the offense of living under
his income.
Hartford Post: Alternative Burchard
has gone over to Cleveland Good.
May his usual luck attend HIM.
Kansas City Journal:
Wen have no banner OF English stuff.
No red bandana and Thurman snuff,
For us old Glory is good enough
Up with the Stars and Stripes"
Time: A North Adams man, it is re-
ported, is living with his neck broken,
| and he is in great demand at Democratic
ratification meetings, where he is used
to personifY the party.
Chicago Journal. A newspaper that
supports the Mills bill says ''the farmer
makes but little progress in the accum-
| ulation of a competence" No wonder,
with the Democrats and free-traders
| threatening all his interests, robbing
him of protection, and attempting to
make the South American greasers and
the Canadian 50-cents-a-day laborers his
rivals in the markets at his own doors
where his products are sold. No class
could make progress under such OBJ
| stacles.
Chicago journal. The lead mines of
Illinois and Wisconsin have had to
come in competition during late years
with the richer lead ores of the gold
and silver regions. The Mills bill pro-
poses to now let 10 foreign lead free of
duty to further impoverish that indus
try. The lead-mining precincts will be
heard from at the election.
There is still another presidential
candidate in the field. Gen. A. Servius
St. Clare. of Boston, Mass, has pub
lished long manifesto, in which he
| argues that he is eminently fitted to fill
the executive chair. He says that he
| and Garibaldi captured an Austrian
army of thirty-six thousand men in the
war for Italian independence. He
further asserts that he is president of
society which has 222, 100000 members;
that he has invented large number of
devices important to the welfare of civ
ilizauon, and that he has got forty-seven
bills through congress.
New York Press: 1t is a pity that
President Cleveland was not born in
England. There he would have
chance. The London Spectator, in its
endorsement of his policy, says:
"Grover Cleveland has done more to
advance the cause of free trade than
any Prime Minister of England has ever
done =
Philadelphia Press: Republican pos
tai clerks are being removed from the
service in the Southern states to make
room for Democrats. The only sur
prising thing about this is the discovery
that there were any Republicans left in
tho caryipo IN rapnouo