Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-05-17

The WING Nominees.
The Wing State Convention which met
in this city on the llth inst, have desig-
mated the following individuals as the fed
eral victims at the approaching State and
Presidential elections. It is due to the
convention to state, that they have this time
tome out manfully, at least SO far as re-
lates to showing their proper colors in the
persons Of their nominees. They are all
radical men-real red-mouthed wings and
among the most violent in their party
and they are to be run as wing, and not as
|s'independent" candidates. This is all we
desired Of our opponents and although
further deception in this respect has be-
come deservedly disgusting and intolera-
bic to the honest and high-minded portion
of their own party, still we thank them
for showing their hands.
The candidates for Presidential electors
are pledged to 20 for the nominee Of the
Wing National Convention. tits also I'M
derstood that they are to canvass the State.
This will Of course enhance the propriety
Of the democratic candidates doing like
wise.
First upon the list of candidates for E.
lectors we will notice Fritz HENRy WAR
rem, of Desmoines, the Chairman of the
Wing State Executive Committee-alias,
Fitz Doodle or the Wandering Pilgrim
This individual, as our readers have before
been informed, was imported few years
since into Iowa, for the purpose of enlight-
ening the Hawkeyes, and particularly for
the purpose Of of convincing them that it
is for their interest to contribute literally,
in the way Of high protective duties, to the
up-building of eastern manufacturers. He
it is who has lately succeeded the notori-
Gus Clay Mud, in the agency and dispos-
al ofthe Compression wing corruption fund.
Our wing friends are fully aware of the
advantage Of having captain who can con-
troll plenty Of the "sinews of war;"
JESSE Bowen, Of Johnson, the Exceed
ingly Mortified" Doctor Dictator, is an
other candidate for Elector. He is the wing
Napoleon of defeat for the capital county,
and if dictaotrlal disposition and the pos
session Of rank federal sentiments are re-
Communications, he may be set down as a
strong man upon the whig ticket. He
understands, as well as any whigling in
Iowa, all the crooks, turns and hidden
strings of wing wire-pulling chicanery.-
He it was who first started one James
Harlan Oh his "no-party'' pilgrimage for
the SUPPLEMENTARY. There is, if any,
but one other wing in the capital county
whom its democracy will delight to vote
against with keener zest, than that which
they will feel in s'doing" Jesse Bowen.
WILLIAM H. WALLACE, of Henry, an
other candidate for Elector, was defeated
some years ago in contest for the Dele
gatecy to Congress. five were in the ha-
bit Of making as free with private character
as our wing contemporaries of the press,
we might, without injustice, style this in
dividuala genuine Liquor Pot; but we for
bear.
STEPHEN B. SHELLEDAy, of Mahaska,
is the other candidate for Elector. He
was the leader of his party in the House
during the sitting of the last Territorial
Legislature, and consumed a large portion
of the time Of that body in manufacturing
Buncombe for his party. He is an out-and-
outer but we don't dare to say much about
him, for fear he will threaten to click" us,
as he has several times done while the
present senior was IN associate editor of
the Reporter. Were it not for this fear,
we might be tempted to tell how "happy''
this pious Stephen got at the breaking
up of the last Territorial Legislature, and
how kind friends helped him into his wa
gon, upon starting for home. But, as we
said before, we don't dare to say anything
about that.
The candidates for State officers are first,
for Secretary of State, JOHN NJ. CoLMAN,
Of johnson county, an old political dema-
gogue, who has lived off of the people al
most ever since he first set his foot upon
the soil of Iowa, having been appointed
Superintendent of Public Buildings by
Gov. Chambers, before he had been aresi-
dent Of the territory six months. This Of
flee he held for several years, and used it
to his own personal advantage as far as
he possibly could. The Office having
become a sinecure it was abolished by
the Legislature, which deprived him of