Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-05-03
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Honesty After tho Election.


The Iowa wing corps editorial have late
ly shown themselves the most unfortunate,
if not the most knavish men Of their class
extant. One year ago they urged Mr..
Harlan's election as "no-party candi-
date but crowed most Justify over the
result, claiming it as wing victory. This,
however, they stoutly denied just prior to
the late election, and again solicited votes
for him as q no-party candidate. BY vir-
tue of this appeal, aided by no small de-
gree Of unmerited sympathy for him, to-
|gether with the prejudice excited against
his competitor on the Desmoines grant,
they did succeed in inducing about eight
or ten hundred democrats to vote for their
no-party candidate at the late election.
Now what return do these political
gamblers make to those democrots whom
they have induced to vote their ticket
Why, gonale reader, if you are still uneon-
IA .
vinced asto the dishonesty ofthe game they
have been playing, every shade of donbt
will be removed by peep into the last
numbers Of the Standard, Hawkeye and
Herald. Embroidered by the belief that
their candidates. elected, the first of the
above named papers says, that s:it looks
very much like party test!' But hear
what the Hawkeye says, after the election
and upon announcing the supposed cleo
ton of this same "no-party" candidate:
"7he result is a perfect TRIUMPH OF
PRINCIPLE. The wings did not
make it a political issue, but the leaders
of the locofoco party did. The latter left
no efforts untried to rally their party. So
that while we promised net to proclaim it
as wing victory before the election if Mr..
Harlan was successful, we feel most full
ly authorized 10 christen the result as a
decided LOCOFOCO DEFEaTr'
Q, "Honest Iago!" thou art caught in
thine own net, at last. How must thy
soul(?) have .'shrunk back on itself, and
startled" at defeat? when-but few DAYS
after the above specimen of gasconade saw
the light-you received a slip from this
office, upseGting all your calculations and
telling YOU that Benton, and not Harlan,
is officially elected. o, the shortsighted-
ness of human folly! 1t was most mag
unanimously Mexican Of you, old Hawk. to
assure us poor ''locos" that you shave no
to crow over fallen foe!''
Verify, we fear that by reason of your
evincing too much sympathy for US, the
milk Of human kindness will be SO ex-
hausted in your generous breast, as to en-
tirely preclude the possibility of your af-
fording to the young and tender paintings
Of whiggery that nutriment SO necessary
to them in thh storm of adversely.
Bat what says our friend, Don Nicholas
Stout, the grandiloquos of the Herald?-
Poor fellow! He, too, has found this
prize in the street, and like his master.
old Specs, has seized upon it, because to
to him it seemed to have no claimant
Alas for stoutiana! he is, if possible, more
s'drawed ON than his generally willy CO.
temporary of the Hawkeye. He heads
his announcement Of the supposed result
thus: "GnEAr! GLoR1ous!!--Th The Peo-
|ple Triumphant--the Conspirators Pros
trate-.4 Corrupt Judiciary RebMed!!!''
As might be gathered from SO startling
and GLORIOUS" a caption, he "knocks u.s.
poor locofoco 'conspirators" hard over the
sconce, and puts the following deadener
at us, to keep US doun:
SLANG your hsrps, gentlemen conspira-
tors, upon the willows, and drink the cup
Of wormwood and gall, which the people
of Iowa have held to your lips. Taste it..
1t will at least cause you to reflect wheth-
er the people are as easily nosed round as
you imagined. Let it learn YOU better
sense and better manners next time!''
Let us up. Oh!