Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1848-12-02
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BLOOMINGTON, IOWA. (
SATURDAY. DECEMBER2 1913.
ABSURD AND SILLY.

ABSURD AND SILLY.
The course Of the Locofoeo press Of
this State, toward the telegraph line has
been the most absurd and silly-not to
say anything harder OF i,-slat ever oc-
Cured in this or any other country. The
,elegtaah has been called the "tel-He'
graph"-a "whig affair."" and every other
epihe. which an unserupulous Loco press
could use, has been applied TO the line.-
The fac, is, tina. all the head men Of the
line are Locos: Kendall and F. 0. J.
Smi,h Of the. eastern lines, and the en-
,erprising O'Reily of the western, are all
Of the +" Democracy" and, we believe.
always have been. These men employ
whom they choose as operators. In most
eases they have etficien! persons engaged
in the conduc! OF The line.
The reason Of all the abuse. which has
been heaped upon the line, by the Loco
press Of this State. is obvious enough -
The October elections resulted, in the
main, liz a loss 10 ",he party II was
necessary that The people should not know
this, for fear it NIGH. operate agains! the
un,errifed'- -,herefore the channe.
through which early and quick intelligence
was brought to the people should be ira
duced and villiGe1--discrecil thrown upon
i. in every way possible, that the faithful
might be induced to believe T" the party"
We, invincible. Hence the effort to ira
duce the telegraph line; and, of course.
a, The wires could mol be held responsible,
the pers nal good name of the operators
va. aimed a,lheir reputation was. 10 be
handled as if i! was worth no more than
he reputation OF some Locofoco editors,
in Iowa.
Since the Presidential election came off,
these hopeful presses have sustained re-
maskable consistency, and would no. be-
,leve elected not to bclieye--,hc Tele-
graph accounts, in the hope, no doubt
that the, to them, bad news would never
reach the people in this far west-region
But il has come; and every body knew,
weeks ago, Iha. Taylor and Fillmore were
elected on the 7,h Of November. If we
are TO believe the sayings of The worthless,
above named. many of then, do no! yet
know who is elected; and, by parity of
reasoning, they will not, for year or two
TO come. On the 25,h of November, The
" Banner" at Davenport, was sill in
doub.-poor soul The Reporter Of the
29'h has found oui that Taylor is elected
even SO. .
The eastern Locofoco press did not pre-
tend to doubt the Geographic reports
The Albany Argus. Cass paper, confess
'ed the defea. Of Cass and The election of
Taylor in .forfy.eigM hours after The
election was held. The Washington U.
mon in four days after tine election. Il!
could not be expected that Mr.. Richie
would knov as soon as other people at
Washington. The old man has learned
''sile since the passage Of the famous '99
resolutions, and he is. really, tina. much
behind the times.
In no Locofoco paper from the east,
have we seen any abuse of the telegraph
for bringing unwelcome news On the
other hand they have spoke of The in
vension as wonderful triumph of science
md art. 1t seems so TO every high.mind-
ed and liberal man. /! takes a peculiar
organization TO denounce medium of so
great convenience and usefulness, as
worthless 6 whig affair." and ",el-Hs-
graph"
The public will be slow to place conf
dence in the assertions of .hose who are
governerned more by spleen and spite
than by reason, in these matters. S.
COUNCIL BLUFF RAIL ROAD.
Among the many enterprises projected
IN our day, none possess more intrinsic
importance than the one named at the head
of this article. This road is designed TO
form link in the great western railroad,
that will, at no distant day, pass beyond
the Rocky Mountains and meet the COM
merce Of Asia on the shores of the Pacific.
We have not time nor room, at present.