Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-09-03

D-A series of charges appeared against us in
the last Republican over the signature of "a De-
mocrat." 1t is not our intention to refer to
them separately and infinitely, but simply to
say that SO far as they are applicable to us they
are basely false. We are frank to confess that
we were opposed, for good reasons as We then
supposed ard as subsequent events have pro-
ven, to the nomination of the present Treasurer
and Recorder, but after his nomination it is not
true that We labored either as an individual or
as the conductor of public Journal, to defeat
his election, and as proof of this fact we beg
leave to call attention to the following extracts:
The Reporter Of July 9th. says
"Thc last Reporter contained the proceedings
of the late Democratic Convention of this coun-
ty, and the result Of its action is now familiar
to our readers. The ticket presented is good
one-the several candidates are endowed with
all the qualifications requisite for the correct
discharge of the Important duties which an
| election will devolve upon them-and, whatev-
er individual preferences may have existed be-
fore these nominations were made, the princi.
pies and established usages of the democracy
cast upon each member of the party an OBJ
legation to sustain them with his voice and
vote. The success Of this ticket, which has
emanated from the assembled delegates of the
party at large, we believe to be of the utmost
Importance to the public welfare, not only in
its present but in its Interior consequences;
and these considerations should, and we txnl
will, induce the reliable democracy Of e.
ital county to forget the@ere -
! Nominations. all4 ~
toned alacrity, the ticksllWhicM w.
tatives have officially presented for .hdnl
frages."
| The Reporter Of July %, contains the follow
ing:
1--WE earnestly caution every democrat, who
IS worthy to wear the name, against the perni-
cious practice commonly known as swapping
of candidates. This specious of trading IS al
ways baneful to majority party, and cannot
possibly result in anything but injury to the
democracy Of this county, inasmuch rs every
democrat who thus trades, is bargaining with
a certainty of being cheated, by giving ma
tJority for minority vote. Let no one name
upon the democratic ticket, be exchanged for
any or all the wing candidates."
And again the Reporter of the 3Oth July
says
call officers to be voted for at this election,
are connected exclusively with the county gov
ernment and far more importance belongs to
them than is generally conceded. Indeed, it is
OF the utmost consequence to the public inter
est Of the county, in which every citizen is
deeply concerned, and to the democracy, that
the candidates whose names appear at the head
of our columns, should all be elected, and il
they are not. it will be an inexcusable negli-
gence or detection on the part of those who
have the power to do it,
In addition to the foregoing we would also
refer to our review of the nominations in the
Reporter of the 18th ult.
We wish the public to decide whether there
is any thing in the above language indicative
OF disposition to defeat any portion of the
ticket Subsequent to this however, and on the
eve of the election, we became convinced that
the democratic candidate for Recorder had for
med league with the wing candidate for She
riff. by which to secure his own election and
the defeat of the democratic nominee for Sheriff,
Capt. Irish, and consequently we felt ourself
absovcd from all obligation to support him;
and We hesitate not to say that had not this
"bargain and sale" been effected, the whole
ticket would have been triumphantly elected.
And even at this crisis We did not labor to de-
feat the Recorder, but to secure the election of
the Sheriff, who had been thus wantonly sacri-
feed and traded of. We urged every democrat
to vote who was willing to vote the ticket, re-
CARELESS of his predictions for Recorder
] Something is said about the distribution of
tiekets We have simply to say that we print
ed none but the regular democratic ticket at our
office, ~ithout emitting the name Of any candidate
nor had ace any agency, directly or indirectly, in
distributing any other, in defacing any name or
making any endorsement upon il in the manner re-
ferred to in the communication now under con-
sderation.
And just here We wish topropound an inqui-
ry-can as much be said for the self styled de.
mocratic Recorder and his friends? Did they,
in single instance, distribute the regular demo-
cratic ticket? Not one. But on the contrary
they openly boast that they did procure the
printing and circulation of the bargain and
sale" ticket, published in the Reporter 9Th ult,
with the name of the democratic candidate for
sheriff erased and that of the wing candidate
inserted
But it is further urged that Capt. Irish was
the candidate of the Reporter clique" This
unblushing falsehood is uttered without shad-
ow OF foundation In truth. Capt. Irish, was
regularly and honorably nominated by the
Convention and that too on the first ballot,
and to say that hewas our candidate, would be
equivalent to saying that we ruled the conven-
ton that nominated him, which would be Civ
ing us credit for a little more Influence than
We are disposed to claim. We do not de-
ny that he was first choice for the office and
our preference was based upon the fact that his
Democracy and competency could not be i'm
peached, and his conduct throughout the can
| vass shows that we were not deceived. He or.
dered and paid for none but the regular Dem.
ocratic ticket, distributed it in person, exerted
himself for its success and voted it without
scratch. Such is the character of the man who
has been sacrificed by this bargain and SALE,
and whose defeat this pitiful scribbler of IT,
Republicans, who arrogates to himself the ni(glU
Of "a Democrat" attempts to charge upon as
Wewill notpu this subject further but are
disposed to leave the Wing organ to the full
enjoyment Of the billingsgate contributions and
bogus ticket patronage of its so called Demo-
cratic correspondent. Time will test every man.
democracy and show to the world who it's real
friends are.
| UWhat madness, what futility, to
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