Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27

For Clerk OF Circuit Court
JACOB T. SEARLS, Seneca.
For District Attorney
BYRDE NJ VAUGHAN, Grand Rapids.
Fol- County suPgri1n,tteeRHddg 45 Of sch9ols-
For County Surveyor
L. W. PITTS, PittsviIle,
T. J. COOPER, Centralia.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
We shall have peace with Spain
even if we should have to lick her
again.
The Dinglay tariff law requires no
defence and the democratic orators
are no longer attacking it.
Militarism in France now menaces the
republic. The latest reports are that
the tickle nation is on the eve of reyO-
luton,
All money, not fully worth in itself
what it pretendS to be, is faith money;
it is good only so long as the man you
want to pay it to, has full faith in 1T.
'Worship the silver calf" say the
democratic leaders in a whisper, and
then they shout: "DOWn with the
republican party for the conduct OF
the war;
President Mckinley plainly enjoys
the confidence of the people. Is he
and his administration to be suS-
tanned or condemned by electing d
democratic congress?
During his trip through the west the
President was able to meet quite a
number of farmers whose wheat was
not reduced to twenty-five cents Il
bushel by his election.
Farm products now find Il reader
market at better prices than during
the lean years of democratic rule.
Yet the farmer is expected to vote for
the return of that rule.
So far the critics of the conduct of
the war have not been able to produce
Il single witness to COrrObOTate their
charges. Yellow journalism and
yellow craftsmanship cannot stand the
searchlight.
The evacuation Of Porto Rico is
now complete, Admiral Schley having
announced by bulletin to the navy
department, Monday, Oct. n, that
the last detachment of Spanish troops
had sailed from the island.
When the democratic newspapers
and platforms charge the adminiStra-
tiOn with giving commissions to mex
perienced persons they reflect upon
the Governor of Nebraska who gave
the army its most conspicuous political
Colonel.
1t is interesting to know what posi-
tiOn the democratic party will take in
congress on the question of colonial
expansion if that party should carry
the next house. Let some of the
democratic stump speakerSan answer the
question.
The present seasons outlook for
large work III the lumber camps OF
Wisconsin is most encouraging, and it
has already given an upward turn to
wages, This will also be felt in other
lines of winter business, and the open
ing of 1899 must show up prosperously.
President Mckinley is a bad man
because he sought to avoid the war
when the democrats yelled themselves
hOarSe for it, and because he ended the
war before they wanted it ended and
NillOItu Jul SUSTAINING "a clli SAC ICACtl
That was very incOnSiderate on the
part of the presidents
Sitting on store boxes and deriding
the administration and the party in
power does not make prosperity. The
government cannot make prosperity,
but it can give the people conditions
under which they can prosper if they
utilize them, and that has been done.
The loafer never prOSpers.
The present senate will not permit
President Mckinley to pursue a con-
siStent republican policy toward the
weight problems growing out of the
war if a democratic congress is elected
next month. Unless republican voters
do their duty next month these QueS-
lions will be settled by democratic
congress.
Remember, voters, the safest method
in voting is to mark y in the square
under the party designation, and the
safest party to vote for is tho repub-
lican party. Therefore make an X
under the head of the republican
ticket and vote for all the republican
nominees. We believe that each and
every one is worthy of support.
The democracy is much encouraged
by light registration of voters in
most large cities. 1t is a peculiar
Illustration of the value Of democratic
ARGUMENTS that the orp1tpSt Dum bnr