Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-05-19
A Cute Hl0ye-Premature Fnult.
Finding.

A Cute HlOye-Premature Fnulte
Finding.
| It is the opinion of many Of the more
knowing ones among our opponents, thai
the Swing State Executive Committee !
have transcribed the limits Of their erecu
the authority, by calling district conven.
ton in the first Congressional district, Cal
Fairfield, } and not only SO, but that reg.
ular wing convention to nominate can
didate for Congress, is a bad move for the
party, "any way it can be mixed ups" and
further, that said committee, i'll giving no.
tice eff their intention. at the same time
and place, to "arraage an Independent
ticket for the Board Of Public Works.
have committed downright and most eyre
gious blunder. They say this will have a
tendency to open the eyes of the people to
their designs, and that in the move with
reference to the Board of Public Works,
the committee have violated the spirit, il
not the express letter, Of their instructions
received last winter from "Whig Head
Quarters" at the capital; which were, that
they should call no party conventions to
nominate any Of their candidates, if it
could possibly be avoided, but to hold s'no-
party" conventions for the nomination OF
all their candidates,
But then, hey did not head their call a
Wing convention; its style is simply a
District Convention" The term "Whig,'
or "democratic whig,' even, does not oc-
cur once in the whole notice. The com
mittee do not even style themselve wing
committee; and were it not that their names
and functions had become SO notorious from
their secret circular, commanding all the
faithful of the wing party 10 vote for Har-
Ian, it might be difficult for the public to
determine the political character of the
convention to be held,
They sign themselves merely estate
Executive Committee a committee
of any party, but Of the state at large,
without respectto party. The convention
called is "to nominate candidate, not
wing candidate-"for Congress, and to
"arrange''- nominate-''an INDfpEN-
DEN TICKET for the Board of Public
Works."
This is the substance Of their call, which
we published at length last week. We
think it is a pretty cute move, and that the
federal party ought TO be satisfied with
their executive committee" for extending
their jurisdiction over the entire people Of
the state, without distinction of party. Is
not this call ostensibly for 'no party con-
vention, in the strictest sense, and have
they not therefore obeyed, to the very let
ter, their instructions from Head Quar-
ters," to call conventions?
Those over.wise federalists who were
so enamored with the independent system
in its purity, as to be frightened almost
out Of their wits al seeing the names OF the
whig committee attached TO a publoc call
for convention, will see that their MUIR
merings a, the action of that committee
were premature, and that they were worse
scared than hurt. We "allow" Joe He'd
rick, Eb. Cook and "Phits" Henry War
rem can see as far through mill Stone, if
there is hole in it, as the next Wing ex-
ecu,ive committee.
Is not the whole matter arranged as beau
tifully as any thing you ever saw in your
life? A regular (whig) "PEOPLE'S
CONVENTION" is coming of, at Fair
field on TIE 10th inst, at which will be
nominated and presented TO the voters of
Iowa, at the head Of the federal papers, in
large flaming capitals, "THE PEOPLES
CANDIDATES for Representative in Con
gress, and p, esident, Secretary and Treas
wer otihe Bcord Of Public WUks!"
1t is just as clear as sunbeam, as a
learned professor hereabouts would say,
that the Wing Elk. Com.are preparing to
give us locofocos "Phas"