Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-04-20
HIGHLAND.

Born, On the 18th inst, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Dolan, a daughter
Peter Stephen has purchased site
for new residence from G.. Sweeney;
consideration 5000.
Mrs. Peter Engles is on the sick list
this week.
DR.. H. p. Mix has large line of
wall paper and border. All bright and
handsome patterns, and at popular
prices. Call and examine. 36w2
Jacob Fecht, the proprietor of the
Blackney House, is building an ad-
dition to his hotel-size "a by 30 and
IL feet high.
Our miners have about all resumed
work again.
\ democratic caucus will be held at
Lampey's Hall, on Saturday, April q
at Z o'clock, p. m, for the purpose of
selecting delegates to attend the county
convention to be held at Dodgeville on
the 9th inst.
Andrew b. Kennedy left here on
the 18th inst, to attend a business
college in Iowa. May success attend
you, Andrew, wherever you 60, is the
wish of many friends.
Our fellow townsman, Is. III. Kreul,
has grown 50 large that he is going to
build an addition to his store building
which will make it 40 feet longer
Paints, oils, varnish, brushes, wall
paper, stationery, toilet articles, no.
tions, glassware etc, at DR.. III. p.
Mix's. 36w2
On last Saturday evening the High
land Temperance Union elected the
following named officers: President,
Charles Steele; Vice President, William
Rubado; Secretary, Miss Mamie Steele;
Assistant Secretary, Miss Annie Moore;
Treasurer, George Dolphin; Sergeant,
George Dolphin.
The contract for quarrying the rock
for the new church has been let to
James Nuldooney, at 49 cents per
road.
We will chronicle marriage in the
near future. Whose is it?
The republicans held meeting on
the l4th inst. and organized a repub-
lican club. Patrick Mccormick was
chosen president. The honored gen
tleman delivered a brief speech on
taking the chair. He made the re-
mark that the republican party was
the only party that ever benefited the
laboring man. This is nice taffy for
the citizens of Highland. 1t might do
in some town where knownothingism
vet prevails; but it will not take here
1t looks bad for man of intelligence
to make any such remark. Does Mr.
Mccormick know that the best and
only laws passed in this country to
benefit the laboring man were passed
by democratic congresses and dem
Ocratic legislatures? The mechanics
lien law was a democratic measure.
The law making an exemption in favor
of life insurance was democratic
law. The democratic party was the
first to pass law founded upon the
principle of state control over rail
roads, and caused that principle to be
established by the highest courts of
the country. Let Mr.. Mccormack read
the doings of the legislature of Rhode
Island in lS65-6-7, when both branches
were under republican control, and
compare them with those of Georgia
or Kentucky during the same period,
and it may open his eyes. What is
the cause of all the strikes in Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and other
republican states. The strikers are
all laboring men, and in republican
states, under republican laws. Why
don't the republican party benefit those
poor starving men? The republican
party is in favor of high tariff tax
alton upon which the monopolies and
trusts rest their foundation. For the
robbery of the laboring men of the
country by the trusts and combina-
tons the republican party is directly
responsible. J. w. C.