Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1854-08-16

against him. ifo1 46sr.crs whence least ant,ci
pated. -
Yet from this very Gerthrow. we may
enabled more clearly to discern, the lsrkin
agencies. the untoward influences, the ope
aatagonisms and the strangling treacherie
by which il was effected: be enabled 10 upse
more distinctiy-sssv midnight hearts Of Wn
politicians ascertain who is the man tn
has the interests Of his party really in tend,
regard and who That will not hesitate to sacri &c
them all. to carry out ends. most mapiiestl
base. petty and Sc fish; who it is, whose i'm
beclity of action but marks the hypocrisy O
his clamorous professions, who II is that pur
sues the undertaking line Of political consis
tency and who that bases hisrule OF consisten
action upon the Wild impulses of malignit,
and passion.
And under circumstances like the presen
we may also, with more reasonableness, pre-
dict, upon whose shoulders will rest the homo,
and the labor. Of re-lifting the party to its
original and well merited supremacy, and OF
cementing its shattered interests, with tina,
calm dispassionate unity of sentiment, SO es-
sential to our success and safety, as political
organization.
In reviewing briefly the events of the late
campaign, We speak as committed to the party,
although open to the imputation of non com
'nittaiism as regards the factions, into which
our Democratic house hold has beer lamenta-
BILE severed. Believing both to have erred in
policy if not in principle from the strict lire of
Democratic duty, We do not feel il incumbent
upon us to endorse the errors Of either. So
far. we are committed to neither and SO far, on
the other hand, are we committed to both, as.
sured that the elements of regeneration are to
be found in greater or less Rrofuseness, with
each.
We regret, however, that The course of the
Reporter in Designating the remote as well as
immediate abe.tors of our defeat, and in at.
tributing it, not wholly to perverted Principle
but IN measure TO mistaken policy, is de-.
nounced by some as an obstacle in the way of
reunion and vigorous reaction. 1t is expected
by others that the Reporter will take decided
stand one way or the other partizan sheet, "a
course which we can never take, SO long as
$ over and above all else, there remain those
republican principles, upon which alone can
the Democracy Of johnson or of any other
county, hope to be triumphant. An abandon.
ment of these for minor, for ex'raneous, for
personal, for pretended issues, has always
proved the precursor Of defeat from which
there is no recovery. save by return to the
fundamental and often Gesecratcd creed of or
time honored party.
We sustained the Marengo nominations, on
account OF Their prima .tacie validity, and as We
expressed ourself fortnight since, because we
considered it wide from our province to ferret
out the chain of undcrworkings, which fasten.
ed that result upon Us, and in SO doing, we
have met with the open reprobation OF none
1t was the only course;-none other was open
to as;--it was the Democratic course, which,
once abandoned, left US "at the mercy of the
winds and waves of discord and turbulence
having en- dorsed those nominations, we were
under obligations TO stand by them to the end
and in SO doing, We assumed no partizan
grounds whatever. We stood, honestly and
earnestly on what we considered to be partv
grounds, believing that the reputation of Mr..
Workman's nomination by a certain portion of
the party drew no lines Of demarcation consti
tuting either sidc,the pure Democratic interest,
TO the exclusion OF the other. The result has
shown that such was the ase,-that there
were individual members of what is termed
the 'bolting faction who committed undoub,ed
errors of policy. adverse to the immediate in.
terests Of the party, and those within the d..
vision denominating itself "Tbe Party par
excellence. who displayed during the canvass,
an abandonment Of political principle, not
at all IN consonance with the virtual platform
assumed by them as the and the only "Defen.
ders Of the Faith..'
We are far from alone in the opinion that |
nothing was 10 be gained by bringing out
candidate in opposition TO Mr. Workman, al.
though we'll aware of the powerful hostility |
that was levelled against the proceedings Of |
the Marengo Convention, and although we
should admit the truth Of the alleged sturen-
dous fraud charged upon the nominating dele
gates Of that convention.
We are told that Mr. Workman was repudi.
ated by the popular voice of this county, by
the nomination of MIR. Cover or that we are
also we'll aware, and although by no means
endorsing MIR. Workman's subsequent aspira.
lions for the Senate, why not give the people
another opportunity Of repudiating the same
individual at the ballet box, if they chose so to
do? Had we submitted to The nomin alton oui. !
city. would our county tick have been SO dis.
astrously riddled? Would the nominee of the
party for the House have been supplanted by
a Wing?
Regarding the efforts Of the Workman oppo-
sition as thus impolitic, and judging from The
face of the Marengo Convention, unjustifiable
even on the score Of conscientious scruples.'
we are led TO deem the nomination of Mr.. |
Grouse as fircbrand rather than an cxtinpu
Usher, tending to widen the breach, to aggra
vate the sore, % distract the party and TO |
arouse that spirit Of revenge, by which some |
Of the friends of Mr.. Workman openly ayow |
themselves 10 have been actuated, in aiding |
to achieve the defeat of Mr.. Cover.
In endorsing the nominations, we neper en-. |
dorsed-never shall endorse, the final action Of |
ms irielis IN opposing q man and Democrat
on t@e sane t'eae ct, nominated by large major
ity OF the party, and having the advantage at
least Of an unguestioned legality of nomina-
hon. NO ProvocatiOn, however unjust in it.
self, could justify this suicidal wrcakiu. of