The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-04-13
THE RAWLINGS OF A MAD MAN.


community. whether the man who stradd'es the
try pod in mysterious corner of the Globe
Building, is responsible for what he says. Ger
! tainly no one with moderate de -ree of ration
atty, can pernse his effusion of the 9th inst,
emit led, "Jos,sIsM REBUKED BY THE DE
MocRicY. and regard him in any other light,
than as the unfortunate creature of a mind dis
cas- d, or morals totally corrupted.
as WE remarked in our article Of yesterday,
every thing with him must succumb to the one
naked ana s'lemnly recorded determination, OF
! killing eff Senator Jones. Whatever trans
pres of political tendency, whether at home,
or in remote corner Of the State, which has
not had the previous sanction of the neutral
co.erie, is at once denounced as piece of cor
rupt Jonesism. No peaceful organization of
democrats into Convention, whether State,
| County, or Township, can take place,-nor can
men come together in the most uninportant
/ primary m eiings, that r'is janus-faced and
| charity educated renegade FROM justice, does
not set his sAl machine at work, TO manufacture
rapidly approaching some old woman,
10 amu-e The childreI, lies him up in her apron
strings and bastes him Soundly-when house
cam take fire, steam boa, blow up, crimi-
his leg, dog figh, occur on the street, that
| the Dubuque Herald, will not announce it, as
the work of an incendIary Jones man. We
are heartily sick of this eternal ciamor about
Jonesisln Why don't tbs time serving editor,
exercise Tor once, little discretion and abandon
a theme every body is sick of Why don't he
shake off The rags and filth of dirty and con
lemptble prejudice, which is rapidly eating out
his heart, and driving his soul to perdtion -
| Has the ruder passions of nature held dominion
over him so. lung, that he has no power, had he
The disposition, TO reform: Deplorable indeed,
8 the mental condition Of that man, whose
| mind is never llumed by one single generous
| impulse.
| Bat we have Inadvertently wandered from the
! subject we set out with, and will now repair our
| fault, by submitting few observations in ans
wer to die foolish and contradictory article OF
the Herald. That journal says, that The cause
lof the democratic defeat was the nominations
made at the Court House, and that those nomi.
nations were concocted and carried out by a
clique OF Jones men. Now, what are the facts
| and We ask no one to take us as authority, but
| appeal to every candid man who was present
Nineteen-twen;ieths oil the persons present at
that meeting were men who hold Senator Jones
in high estimation. Not that they are Jones
men in The depraved acceptation given to the
term, but they are men controlled by no savage
and ferocious personal hatred, which prevents
them from doing an honorable opponent justice.
| The exceedingly small minority present. led on
! by this hugo intellectual giant Of the Vest,
| Dennis Mahony, were DESTROYS of the nomna
ton OF gentleman opposed to the present im-
provemen Of the harbor. Finding themselves
too few in numbers to accomplish any thing
single handed, they resolved that they should
not fall alone, but that the Democratic party of
the city must fall with them. If necessary to
venge their own weakness. Finding that the
Jones men, so called, were going to concentrate
their forces upon C. II. Booth, {it.ssing under
etood that 8 J. o Halloran would not be cam
didaie against him) they Immediately resolved
to throw their influence into the scale with the
friends of q Halloran, and by so doing, endea
vor to force his nomination upon the convention
| against both his declared will and judgment =
And in order to secure their aim, they set them
selves industrously at work amongst the Irish
members Of the convention, and appealed to
their prejudiccs by boldly asserting that the
Jones men were opposing O'Halloran because
he was an lrishman, and going in for Booth,
because he was an American This appeal had
the desired effect, and Mr.. O'Halloran was
nominated, and the nomination no sooner an.
nounced, than the Herald clique chuckled a,
The triumph and openly declared that ne could
not and would not be elected, and that it was
for this reason they went in for his nomination
O'Halloran was as strong a Jones man as
Booth, but his difficulty with the City Council
had arrayed temporary prejudice against him
which the Herald clique b,asted, must defeat
him They were satisfied. Jonesism was de-
fsated at any rate, and that was enough for
them, even though it was At the sacrifice of
lrrtss triumph.
The truth is, there was nothing like Jones
and anti Jones issue at that convention beyond
what was covcrtly exerted by the Herald clique,
rom the fact that the Mayoralty absorbed pretty
much all the interest, and both candidates were,
L., l., r Al
According to the Heralds own showing then,
hey are responsible for the defeat Of the demo-
cratic party, as they dare not deny, they voiei
Tor. and helped to nominate "a Jones man, for
he most important CITY Office
1t is strange infatuation that would place
hem in such dilemma.
But, we can give better reason for the defeat
IF the democracy, than they have done This
iefeat is attributable TO three distinct causes
lst An opposition created among premanent
democrats TO Mr.. O'Halloran, on account of
difficulty between him as Treasurer and the
Common Council, by which the latter, wrong
ice. End A personal difficulty which occurred
between Judge Cookery and Capt. Koch and his
son, drove almost the entire German vote, which
IS democratic, from the ticket.
And lastly the opposition Of the editors and
strikers" of the Dubuque Herald. These
three causes, together with the opposition Of
many good democrats, to drawing the party
lines in City elections, constitute the true reas.
ons for the defeat of our ticket We sbal lnva
occasion hereafter TO comment upon them, and
until then let the Herald bieat
As to the personal controversy sought with
Judge Cookery, we have no response to make to
il and presume he will treat it with the contempt
il merits--silence.
CouRr.--State of Iowa, vs.. A. A. Johnston