Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-03

The Wisconsin democrats are
believed to be in favor of an amend
ment of the game laws of the
state, prohibiting the hunting Of
wildcat" money democrats dur
ing presidential campaigns.
Mr.. Cleveland has only few
days left before election in which
to explain whether or not he is in
accord with his party on its free
trade, wildcat money plank; and
after election it is wholly improba-
BILE that anybody will care whether
he was or not.
Not much is heard about Adlai
| Stevenson these days, but as he is
reported to be circulating in the
section of the country where it is
pronounced treason to scratch a
democratic ticket, and where a
copper-head ranks next to a rebel
in social rank, it may be presumed
that the democratic candidate for
vice president is floating in the
cream of the swim.
If our democratic friends per-
sist in betting their good republi-
can redeemable money upon the
success of the candidate from
Buzzard's Bay, they will soon
know more about financial de-
preston and genuine desolation in
general than they ever learned
from perusing Grover Cleveland's
mournful utterances and sorrow
promoting documents.
If the boss-ruled legislature by
its last gerrymander has disfran-
chised you from voting for Senator
and Assemblyman, it has left you
the boon of voting for the bosses
candidates for state officers, and
for Senator Villas candidate for
president, whom he asks you to
think of "as an agent from
Heaven"
Friends of the democratic party
say that Gov. Peck's bad Boy
book has no proper place in the
campaign. That's SO; it is an i'm
proper book anywhere you put it
But the question remains: Is the
author of such a book, 1t being his
most famous work, a proper man
to be Governor of the state Of
Wisconsin? Will you teach your
children that the author of books
unfit to be read is fit man to be
/ Governor?
Granting that Gen. E. S. Bragg is
stumping the state in the interest
of Congressman John L. Mitchell
for the United States senate, and
conceding that Mr.. Mitchell could
not very we'll do it for himself, it
does not follow that Gen. Bragg
is prompted solely by that desire
for harmony which has been
announced as indigenous to Wis
consin democracy this year.
Chairman Walls political mirror
undoubtedly reflects a broad sur
face of what has become concisely
recognized as sweetness and light,
but it is hardly comprehensive
enough for such task as that
would reveal.
If the people of Wisconsin are
SO ignorant that the democratic
organs and stump speakers can
write and crate them into belief
that they are mentally and fnanci-
ally paupers, and can then reason
ably expect to buy them to vote
the democratic ticket in hope of
relief with the proceeds of the
New York Worlds corruption
fund of SIS 900, then, indeed, is a
campaign of education sadly
needed in Wisconsin. But it does
not necessarily follow that the
mendacious time-servers and office
seekers of the Wisconsin demo-
cratic party are qualified to lead
the way to the light of patriotism
and the paths of honest govern
ment. The fact that the donkey
may occasionally show wisdom
with his heels does not signify