Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1874 — Wisconsin “Reformers.” [ARTICLE]

Wisconsin “Reformers.”

The few “Reformers” of Wisconsin who really believed they were fighting corruptinn and doing a good work in their efforts to defeat Governor Washburn and the Republican ticket last fall will learn after a while that the ZaterOctoa was right in its predictions, and that, instead of organizing a party of honest men, they have fallen into the clutches of one of the worst rings that ever existed. We have heretofore given some of the results’ Of --tfee- iate combination in that State, and have shown our readers how Governor Taylor, who was elected as a Farmers’ Reform candidate, is working in the interests of his old associates, ana is controlled by the Democracy. If further proof were required, it would be found e in the Governor’s late action regarding the appointment of a Jmjge for the County of Milwaukee, There were two candidates for this position—Hon. John E. Mann, a notorious Bourbon, and the attorney of the liquor dealers’ league, and Mr. Samuel Howard, a representative of genuine reform. Petitions for the appointment of the latter were showered upon the Governor, signed by a large number of the members of the bar, by the most prominent business men, by nineteen out of twenty-one members of the City Council, and by any number of private citizens. But it was all to no purpose. The Democratic prejudices of that “Reform” Governor are so strong the even a judicial office is controlled by them. Mr. Palmer received the appointment, and the honest men of Wisconsin who were led into this league with Bourbonism are beginning to open their eyes to the real state of affairs. Meantime, the “Reform” Legislature, which was going to repress all the grievances of the agriculturists, and emancipate them from the thralldom of insolent monopolies, drags its slow length along, and there are no signs of the millennium. As a valuable lesson, which it was perhaps necessary that the people should learn, there could be nothing better than the victory in Wisconsin of the so-called Anti-Mo-nopolists. The unapproachable humbuggery of the whole thing is now becoming so apparent that even he who runs may' read.— Chicago Inter-Ocean.