Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-07-29


gain asks majority at your hands de-
MES the responsibility of majorities TO
the People. They are unsafe deposlto-
ries Of the rights ard interests Of the
People. 1t is unsafe any longer to sus.
tain Party that thus strikes a. the fun
damental principles OF your Institutions.
REMEMBER your River Improve
ment! Are you satisfied with its man
agement, and will you permit your mu,
niicent grant to filter away in salaries TO
officers, or be diverted to other purposes;
or will you elect men pledged to restore
to the people their right TO elect their
Board, and who will do something for
this work besides talk, contract, and fz-
zle. Bear this in mind on Monday
next.
Democrats, you have followed party
long enough. Choose this time between
party and your own interests. Look
carefully over the noise, confusion and
shutting devices OF your party leaders,
at the real principles and issues involved
in the canvass. Your private interests
and the prosperity Of the State are OF
vastly more importance than the tempo.
rary qualification of a Party triumph.
Between the candidates the choice
ought TO be easy. Mr.. Flint you have
tr ed and found wanting. His votes in
the last Legislature, for $l2 day TO
Hendershott; for the 1900 acre donation
to Jesse Williams; for taking from the
people and ves,ing in tine Governor the
selection of our River Board; his anti
Democratic votes or the question of let.
ting the People vote on amending the
Constitution, and his Incorporating
hostility to Banks, SO clearly necessary
to your prosperity, all point to him as
most unsafe man to send gain TO the
Legislature, while Mcssrs. Cock, Ram
sey and Allen, though new men, are of
the same school-if their. shutting, dou-
BILE and inconsistent course, Through the
canvass, entities them to claim to belong
TO any school. Nothing, we are per-
suaded, can be expected of them, except.
to march at the tap Of the party drum
wherever il may lead them.
Hedrick, Dickens, Leib and Lind, on
the contrary you can trust, because they
are Independent. of pas. or present unfa-
vorable influences; because they are
bound 10 no man or set of men for
nomination.; because they are not the
tools Of any grea. politicians, but have
been brought on, by the public sentiment.
of the people. in opposition TO system,
q policy Of legislation, which tina, pub
lie sentiment condemns and desires 10
see overthrown. You can rely upon the
efforts and votes of all these men upon
the right side Of every question. They
will do what they have pledged them
selves to the people TO do. They will
advocate, urge, and vote for an amend
mant of the Constitution, for the pur-
pose OF securing TO US sound and safe
system of Free Banking more libe-
raj policy in regard to corporations, & the
election of Supreme Judges by the PEG.
pie; the election of River Officers by The
People; the preservation of the River
Grant for the purpose for which it was
made, and the more vigorous prosecution
of the Improvement; and on the Code
you can rely upon them, bncause they
will harmonise and act with the Wings
from every part of the State, who are
universally in favor of amending the
Code; while it is certain that manv, and
probably majority of the Democrats,
if elected to the Legislature, will 60 there
in favor of trying still longer that expen.
sive and foolish experiment, and oppo-
sed to any material amendments. Ma
ny leading Democrats in other parts OF
the State are now advocating adhesion
TO those features, most objected to among
US, such as the Usury Law, the Reve.
nue LEW, &c. We believe that these
and other needed reforms will only be
secured by the election Of the Independ.
ent candidates. They may not have
the "gW Of CAB" equal to their oppo'
nents, but they viii VOTE right, and tina
is the main thing. Vote then for The
Peoples Ticket!
In the contest for the county Offices
no politics are necessarily involved, but i
is important TO the county. AS between
Messrs. Hayne and Johnston, the con
test seems to be warm, and is perhaps
eliciting more feeling than that of any