The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-12-08
MEssRs EDIroRs:

but in reality written by persons in this city I,
bold relief from under the mask which they
have assumed. For the present intend only
to examine the claims of the ii IN. Judge Clark
as set forth in those articles and of the present
Senator, and by their own standard shall we
Judge them.
The editorial headed 'Nho shall be our next
! SENATOR takes for its text the following para
graph from that hybrd sheet, the Burlington
Telograph
"The influence OF State in either branch of
Congress is measured BY the ability and charlc-
ter of its delegation. If it fails thus to fortlfy
itself before the country, it inevitably becomes
an humble sdppant for favor rather than dig
nified vereignty commanding Justice by the
force Of its influence. A new State especially
needs to place itself in such position as to be to
some extent the controller of lis own fortunes.
This it may do by judicious selection of pub
lie servants.
So far as that goes agree to every word of
it. The object then of the comments which fol-
lows that paragraph in the 'Democrat" is TO
prove that its friend and patron, Judge Clark,
comes fully up to that standard, and of course
that the Hon. George w Jones falls far below
1t.
| How strange it was, that the people Of this
very strong hold of democracy, the second con-
cressional des,rict, could be so stultfcd as not
to discern those efiulgent qualities in the char
acter of Judge C-eprev:ous to the last Angus
election.
1 II n ~ 1. T..
| condescended to emit few rays of his ilumi-
mated mind upon the benighted democracy of
this district he mi ght have saved their district
| if not the state the humiliation of repudiatng
this ssg,ant Of intellect" and he might have been
sen, back to adorn and dignity the house Of Rep
rescn,atives, and in some measure have filled
the vacuum occasioned by the demise of the
/ departed 'giants" Calhoun, Clay, and Web
s.er -! But SO ii is, after an eight months trial
in the lower House of Congress. When this
second "Webster' had many and fair opportu-
nit es to give evidence of his ''commandlng
Abilities and to display that eloquence of which
he is SO great master to an enraptured "Sen-
ate, claiming them by the charm of his gold'n
word, OF wisdom, as, issued from the svery
tonrue and euph>nic voice of this mighty sage
of Iowa; bat unfortunately the people of his
district could not disc oover any of-those shining
qualities in Judge C. They 'sweghed him in
the balance and he was found vanting," and
for the first time in the political history OF
Northern Iowa, has Dem ocrat been so shame
fully beaten.
If Judge Clark is the man whom Iowa ought
to select to fill the vacuum left in the councils
of the nation by the "departed gian's' of the
senate, is it unrea sonabie in t, ask his friends
to point out a single occasion where he gave
evidence of such great abilities. are now claim
! ed for him. Ii is true, there wls one occasion
on which he made attempt, but 50 "bored'
the House with his peculiar seriptural elo-
quence, that the members got alarmed least
they should share the fate .f Phara N and his
host, and to save them selves from being en-
guphcd, used the magic word 'gucstion by
which they saved themselves and left the mighty
man "horse and rider" tumbling in the midst o.
the aRed sea, the waters Of which he had JUS
! opend to overwhelm his aiversaries. This was
i one IuSldHCt NBeH oHu "
this second Webster proved the commanding IN
fucnce, Of the young state of Iowa But tc
be serious the fact was that the Fl 'use of Rep
resentatves were determined that they should
d not be "bored ~
The second instance where the "young state
of Iowa proved her influence" in the mighty
genius of her gifted Representative, was wher
he wrote letter to the committee of commerct
requesting them to report in favor of approprla
:, ton fer the improvement of the "Rapids' tht
date of the letter showing it to be, fully da
after, the said committee had reported to th
House, in favor of the same improvement I!
The third instance was, when this sable ant
a Efficient Representativ, got up in his place
f and most gravely asked the House that th
n aforesaid committee of commerce should be in
d struc,ed TO report, the fact being, that he wa
r he only man in the House who did not knoN
: that the committee had reported t6o days pr.
o rious thereto, which fact was announced to th
: no small amusement of tho House and no dout
n to the utter establishment of the 'tdgnifed
), member from the second district of Iowa.
v Such is small specimen of the legisa'iv
d ygilence and capacity of Judge Clark, and tn
). commanding influence which he would WELD |
, the councils of the nation, should he be agai
r sent there. The people of this district are nc
such doIts as the writers in the "Democrat
would fain make them appear to be. No the
formed too just an opinion of his honesty Gn
ability, last August, to hastily reverse it, an
la they estimated him correctly when they lie
Is Large as the majority was against him, hesita
not to say, that if none bat those ioho aoere
:. are in faUor Of his election had roted for hin
u the majority against him would have been don
led.
Let us now examine what are the claims
" the present efficient and able senator, Geo.
Jones, to the qualifications judged by The
or own standard, and here. let me say, that in n
At opinion the very best test of the ability and il
. fuence member of Congress has in that bod
s is the number of Bills for the benefit OF his co
+ stituents he originates and able to carry in
~. house of which he is member. To mention
81 one half Of them which Gen. Jones has origi
= ated and carried into laws for the benefit of 10,
and Wisconsin, would be too numerous for Il
communication, but as the judgment pronounc
isl by the Editor Of the ssDemocrat' upon the qu
ou ifications of Judge Clark and Gen. Jones for t
6" station to which they aspire, is based not on
III public services or acts of those Gentlemen
u merely his private opinion, then the opinion
- any other individual in the community ia j
Ms as good authority to the cor ary But let
ds see what are the opinions of few of the ma
who might be named, and who in posi;i
n. to judge of the qualifications of the Hon. G,
= w. Jones for the station which he occupies
In 1886 the secretary oe war, writing 10 ci
zen of Wisconsin, said.
in "How fortunate for your Territory ii was
va 'selcctipg thatyoung man (Jones) for your d
ng "egate. never knew SO energetic and persev
le- sing representative. H is with me often, a
III, "when he comes | know he has some favor
ers task for his constituents, and he generally p