The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-02-23
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Keokuk Dispatch \ Nrascatine Enquirer.
WE TWAIN SHALL BE ONE
Self Interest Makes Strange Bed Fellows
The Keokuk Dispatch and Muscatine En-
quirer have made it their special business since
the adjournment Of the Legislature, to snarl and
bark at us and the editor OF the Reporter In
deed, the Jackdaw, who chirps and fiirts for the
amusement of the public about Muscatine,
commenced his dirty work, among the FIRST
weeks Of the session, by wantonly assailing us
as State Printer, for the purpose we suppose, OF
aiding him as a candidate for the office Of STATE
Printer, for which at that time, it was notorious
that he was secretly an applicant. We are duly
apprised Of the EXCESSIVE ranity which both
gentlemen possess, and therefore are not
surprised that they should aspire to the
leadership Of the democratic party Of Iowa,
but we would remind them, especially tae editor
Of the Dispatch, that however desirable the at.
tainment Of this object, it must be accomplish
ed, If accomplished at all, by the force of true
genius and solid integrity, and net by resort
10 such ingenuity and strattegen as was made
use OF at iowa City during the recent session
Genius, when directed in proper channel, is
always to be admired, and we are free 10 admit
that both these gentlemen possess rare genius
as editorial itemizers; but genius alone, never
made great man, nor never will. Frankness,
sincerity, and Incorporating integrity, are
necessary ingredients, without which no man
can be truly great We dislike TO avow that
these gentlemen lack the qualities enume atcd
but we viii venture to suggest, that a little adj
ditional education would do them no harm.
So long as these gentlemen conducted them-
selves in a becoming manner as aspiran,s for
Office, we interposed no objection to them. The
editor of the Dispatch as candidate for Score
tary Of the Senate, and the editor Of the En-
House, found in US, true friend, which the
nominating vote will attest. But when We found
the one assaling US in the most unjusti6able
manner, during the first weeks Of the session,
and the other quietly urging him on, merely be-
cause they imagined US capdidate for State
Printer, after we had repeatedly assured one Of
them, that we were not, we esteemed it priv.
leee and also a duty. to direct our influence, if
merit. Il will not appear strange then, that we
supported Nj. John CLARK, for State Printer;
and had we been silent partner of MIR Clark,
as chargedby these gentlemen, we may assure
them, in all modesty, that the result might have
been different. Mr. Clark has denied The
charge Of partnership. through The colsmns of
the Reporter, which renders it unnecessary for
us to recapi,ulate the denial, although the false
accusation finds its way to the public, in almost
every variety Of editorial dress, through the
columns Of the Dispatch and Enqurer.
We disapproved Of the means resorted to, to
promote Messrs. Cunning and Hornish's cleo
ton, both for the injustice it worked to Mr..
CLARK and others, and we had the Independence
to avow it. TAis Is tho heed and front Of our
ofsnding. And allow us to inform the editors
Of the Dispatch and Enquirer, TINT. unless we
are greatly deceived in the character Of Gen.
Dodge, and the good sense Of his constituents,
it will require something more potent than the
jealous snrmise Of two editorial gentlemen,
whose entry into Iowa, has been marked by an
overweaning anxiety for Office, to convince Ell
Their the General, or the people, that one who
has sustained and voted for him, ever SINCE he
first made his bow to the public, as . candidate
for public trust, has at length conceived a plo,
for immolating him upon the altar of political
strattegem and knavery. We are too long in
this country, for any recently imported gentry,
to make such an impression pass as current with
democrats.
But let M briefly review the article Of the
Dispatch, which, notwithstanding the bad spirit
IN which il was conceived and put forth, has
been copied into one paper at least. 1t says,
'sthe Miners Express il the only journal, of all
The competitors, that has seen fit to obtrude lie
spersonal griefs" upon the public
Il 10 sufficient to remind the editor, that we
we're no .sQmpetitor" and therefore had no
spsrsssal gyMfs" to satisfy. If we ever have,
Ne assure the gentleman, that we shall not
sex The columns Of newspaper,to settle them
In saying that the "Express is the only journal
# ell the competitors, that has seen fit to OBJ
rude it, apersonal griefs' upon the public,
- editor certainly did not intend to be UNDER
TODD q intimating, that no other urnal disap-
,roved Of the course pursued by him and his
tisnda, for if our memory serves Us, the Daven
,ort Banner was far more indignant and harsh in
d csi6cisms, than were we.
Again the article in question says:
alt {msaning the Expressly says that Hornsh
~ successfully electioneered for, for the reason
nong others, that the DisPA rcH Is committed
o Gen. Dodge, and that his "interests in the
,outh, required that it should be fed by the State
'rinting.
Here the editor 10 again at fault. We made
10 such statement a. he attributes TO us. We
id say however this much in our letter Of cores
ondence Of Jan 18th, which we can establish
nd, which We presume the editor will not !
leny. -
at was likewise urged BY his friends, that it
would seriously initiate against the re election
f Gen. Dodge two years hence, if the Dispatch
lid not resolve the benefits arising from one term
f the State Printing"
This argument we regarded a. . plea Of pov.
rty, used By the friends Of the Dispatch, with
- considering the injury i might work to Gen.
lodge. We shall NOT taunt the Dispatch with
ecapying asttPpsry tootAold," although it is
10 secret, that il has been between hawk and
uzxard for the last two years and that it win
equire al the mental and physical resources Of
u editor and friends to sustain it. As an evil
ence that We said nothing in the communica.
IsA Of the 18TH JAM. which could refer in the
en0test degree 70, o. should by any fair con-
lsuction Of language be tortured into, any
PRESENTATIONS Of the Dispatch, we submit the
ensainder u the paragraph, Of which. the above
J ! ~, and III that We ever said upon the sub
~.
Thass men who resorsed to this species Of