The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-05-15
The Incubation.

The Inquisition.
4 The Editor of the Tribune, seems anxious t.
keep up the fuss which some few disappointed
4 Wings are making about the Surveyor Gene
ralship, and in article in his last week S paper
subjects usto an inquisltoral examination, about
as pointless and ridiculous as that to which Gen
j Booth was subjectedEby ordcrZof the Secretary
Of the Interior few;weeks since. Here isgoone
of the questions, r S Z| .vR
ttDont the Editor of the Express thinkit may
! be tolerably well known that jobs are given in
payment of political services, for the attain.
ment of political ends, without judicial show
ing that the officer giving the jobs is possessed
of an exact and legally appreciable knowledge
that such is. the fact?''
If we may be allowed conjecture as to the
meaning of this nterrogatory, we would say the
Editor intends to ask our opinion as to the prac-
tice and propriety of sbestowing official patron
age in manner to sustain the party in power.
We answer unhesitatingly-W approve ofsuch
bestowal. We have never preached any other
doctrine, and should an opportunity offer we
should practice no other. We have never rails
ed our voice against "proscripton for opinion S
sake,' and we hold it to be perfect tom foolery
for any person or party to do SO. 1t is in this
that the Wing party have ever stultifed them
selves. They preached a doctrine which when
in power they did not practice. They have ne
yer failed to add falsehood to deception in this
matter, and the Ediror of the Tribune is one OF
them 1t is not General Taylor's prescription,
but his dsingenuous, silly, lying promises that
we find fault with. The retention of Gen. Booth
in office, has been claimed an exception to the
universal classifying of these promises. We de-
muir to that declaration. The universal sweep
ing of Office holders throughout the State and
Country has been ':for opinions sake,' and the
retention of General Booth has been for the same
cause. The Wing party here have been divi-
ded upon this question; miseradty divided among
themselves, and the strongest of the factions has
been in facor of Gen. Booth, as sgood enough
Wing for them.' 49,. T.
The question solemnly propounded by the
Tribune, whether it is not ''tolerably we'll known
that jobs are given in payment of political servi-
ces, or for the attainment of political ends,'
should, in connection with this matter, be adj
dressed to Maj or Mobley, Plat Smith, Timothy
Davis, Major McKane and other competent sur
veyors who have been perfectly mum upon the
subject of removals ever since General Jones
had the Gerry best assurances that no remoral
aoould take place.
Men go to their friends for favors, whether
they be for poitical services rendered. or for the
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principle that the Editor fthe Tribune went to
Washington, and secured the fat jobs of Public
Advertising which he has just finished, and up
on this principle, as we suppose that the above
and their friends from the Office of the Snrvey-
or General. Mr.. Wood seems to know nothing
about the Wing party of Dubuque, or else he
takes fendish deligh in sticking thorns in
their sides. This railing against Gen. Booths
retention is unbecomng the organ of the Fogies,
and is entirely behind the age we live in. Does
he not know that the big leaders Of the party
frowned upon this recent humbug investigation
by the Department of the Interior, and like one
OF old, were crying at the corners of the streets,
"ttou canst not sag / did t!' The investiga-
ton was made contrary to their wishes, and SIM
ply as sort of salvo to the conscience of the
Cabinet, or to pull wool over the eyes of a few
credulous hangers on from Wisconsin and the
lower part of Iowa. If the Department wish to
remove Gen. Booth, why do they not do it, as
they have all others of Democratic appointment
Why all this ssgoat's WOOL parade, simply to
prove that j. J. E. Norman, almost the only
Democrat who did get contract, (and that
staving one, and obtained, too, upon promise
to divide with one of Gen. Jones Wing friends
was incompetent to run compass? Oh! Wing
gery-oh Fudge!