Year: 1875

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loan the Milwaukee and Superior Rail
road Company, and the tax payers Of
Milwaukee have now substantial reasons
to regret that his sound advice then was
not followed. When he was first elected
Mayor OF the city of Milwaukee, her
bonds We're selling at sixty cents on the
dollar and city orders We're at a discount;
but now the bonds are worth par and or
ders are cashed at sight. SO We might
go on and enumerate dozens of instances
where his financial business affairs have
OF the greatest value to his fellow Cit
Zens. He is warmly in favor of railroad
building in every section Of the State
where they are needed, but he is of the
opinion that it is inexpedient for farmers
to hazard their all in such undertakings,
or for young cities to contract debts that
they can never pay. He took stock to
the extent of his ability in the first rail
road ever projected out OF milwaukee,
but becoming dissatisfied with its man
agenent, he sold his stock in the open
market III New York. At the last elec-
ton for directors of the company, he
struck off the names OF all the city mem
bers from his ticket and voted only for
those who resided in the country.


If any evidence We're wanting of the
high esteem in which Mr.. Ladington is
held by his fellow citizens, it will be
found in his three electi ons as Mayor of
the Democratic city of Milwaukee, in
each case over popular and able nomi-
nees of that party. Although he has
always been an enthusiastic and pro-
nounced Republican ever since that par
ty was organized, his great financial
ability and businesses tact recommend
him so strongly, that the politician was
forgotten in the useful and efficient man
of affairs, and partizan success was sub
ordinated to the good Of the people and
the interests OF the city. In his race for
Congress last fall, be drove one regular
ly nominated candidate from the field,
and with another popular and able Dem
ocrat against him, he reduced Governor
Taylor's majority in the district from
over II, 900 to 2,200. Histhree elections
to the Chief Executive Office OF city
that boasts its 1900 majority against
him, must be regarded by every candid
man as the highest compliment that
could be paid to his honesty, integrity
and business capacity, and they stand as
the unimpreachable proof of the wisdom
of the Republican party Of the state in
naming him as suitable man to be
presented to the people for their s1lffra
ges, and to administer the affairs of a
vigorous Young commonwealth, whose
interests he has ever guarded and pro-
NOTED. His call to the Office of Mayor
of the chief city of the state, like his
nomination to the highest Office in the
gift of the people Of Wisconsin, was the
spontaneous summons Of the people, and
not brought about by the efforts Of him
self or of his personal friends. He be-
longs to no clique, ring or faction OF any
party, and he believes in carrying into
our public affairs, both state and nation
al, the same honesty fidelity and econ
omy that should characterize every well
regulated business enterprise. Mr..
Ludington's whole life has been plea
for the right of every poor boy to rise
to the highest positions Of honor and
emolument by his own career is a shin
ing example Of what an honest and in
dIstrior1s man may achieve under the
fostering care of our free institutions.
The sterling that have shone so conspi
cuously in his useful and eventful life,
have attracted the attention of his fellow
citizens, and challenged their admiration
and their praise.


1t is not deemed necessary in this
necessarily brief and imperfect sketch of
Mr.. Ludiugtons life and political belief
to enter into defense of his opinions
against the false accusations of his parti-
zan enemies but it is sufficient to say
that he is in hearty sympathy and accord
with his party in regard to the demand
for cheap transportation, the Importance
of the speedy Improvement Of the Fox
and Wisconsin Rivers, and upon all
other questions that affect the permanent
welfare of the people of Wisconsin.


Mr. Ludington has never been an Of
flee seeker, and the only letter he ever
wrote in regard to his nomination for
Governor, was one to Hon. E. W. Keyes
Chairman of the State Central Commit
tee, some time prior to the assembling
of the Republican State Convention,
III which he explicitly declared
that he would not accept of the
nomination except it came to him
as the free viii offering of the whole
party, without any effort on his part and
without the opposition of any element
or faction of the party to which he be-
longed. That his nomination was the
spontaneous choice of the convention,
the vote by acclamation, unanimously
given amid deafening cheers and the
heartiest applause, is sufficient evidence,
and that the electors of Wisconsin intend
to ratify that nomination at the ballot
box, III November, we have the fullest
assurance and belief. We believe tl.is
because the people are prompt to recog-
nize the claims of one of their own num-
Der, and our candi 7ate stands to-day rs
one of the best representatives of our
free institutions that can be named.
Every man who believes in the rights of