Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-03-31
superintendent of P.blic In.,ruc,iou.

intendent of Public Instruction. A brief
reference to their respective claims will not
he amiss in this number.
DR.. Eads has served in the capacity of
physician, preacher, and political editor
He is now before the people as candidate
for Superintendent upon the sole ground
that he is Democrat. No paper in Iowa
tina. we have seen, pretends to urge any
moral or intellectual qualification whatever.
Democrats are urged to vote for him be-
cause he is Democrat, and for that reason,
only. 1t is true they sometimes make side
illusions to moral and intellectual quali6-
cations, but they do SO in general terms,
and in vague, unmeaning way, as if thoy
did not themselves believe what they were
saying. The true publications are brushed
over in parenthesis, and name-@Demo-
crat"-put forward as the cynosure of at
traction for the votes of the people. The
people are to employ this man to super;n-
tend the education of their children, be-
cause he puts faith in certain ideas Of ma
tional policy--which is about as incons;st-
ant as if dry-goods merchant were to
employ man as clerk because he had serv-
ed an apprenticeship to blacksmith; or as
a steamboat captain would be who should
employ man as engineer on the ground
that he had studied law. In refusing to
make party nomination to the Office of
Superintendent, the Wing State Convention
paid proper tribute to the good sense of
the people of Iowa.
DR.. Eads once furnished bucket full Of
whisky to crowd of voters, and to show
them that he was particularly tolerant to
the habit Of drinking, raised tho bucket to
his lips. An eye witness publishes in one
of the Iowa papers that he saw the act, but
could not tell whether DR.. Eads drank or
not. Through this pin hole the Doctor
crceps. He confesses that he furnished the
bucket full of whisky, and that he raised it
to his lips, but denies that he drank any,
That this is DR.. Eadss version Of the story
is positively stated by Mr.. Corkhill, over his
own signature. Now, what kind of conf
derce can be placed in man who, in a
crowd of anti-temperance voters sticks hi !
head into bucket of whisky, and after
wards, among temperance voters, AYERS that
he drank none of the liquid? Is this tho
kind of morality you want your children
taught9 If temperance principles may be
thus hauled on and off like loose jacket,
what kind of confidence can Democrats
safely repose in the tenacity and uniforms.
ty of his attachment to their principles?
We like the .lain, straightforward way
in which Dir. Corkhill talks, in answering
some charges made against him by the Keo-
kuk Dispatch. The following is the con-
elusion Of his communication:
81 now rc-affirm in the most positive
manner, that L have never, in private or
public, said a single word against either of
the Democratic candidates for State Officers,
with the exception of the candidate for Su-
perintendent.
Though have said in public and in pri-,
vate-by day and by night-amony friends|
and among strangers never would
vote for whiskey- making-whiske -sell1
ing whiskey- drinking Bible hating Sab
bath breaking- -dishonoring man for|
any Office, and to that expect to adhere
suntil the world is on fire.
And so far as Mr.. Eads is concerned, l
am perfectly willing that he and all con-
cerned, should know, that should he be sue
ccssful in his election, he will not be in the
least indebted and consequently under no
obligation to w. III. CORKHILL."
While wearing the sacred garb of min
lister of religion, Eads was one day invited
into notorious doggery in Keokuk, by a
man who asked him to take some of ssGod
Eye-water - And this impious,
senselcss hlasphemy, Rep. Mr..
Eads tolerated, by accepting the invitation,
which was to drink brandy.) There are
plenty of witnesses to this detestablo fact.
What kind of confidence is to be placed in
a man who preaches on Sunday, and prays
loudly before religious hearers, but who
only wears his religious cloak when the sun
shines! Shame on the Convention that
nominated this man, and with brazen ef-
frontery recommended him to the people of
Iowa for their suffrages! If the Conyen-
lion knew him, how could they rely on his
profession of Democratic principles9 If they
did not know him, why did they nominate
him?
Some of the Democratic papers in their 4
war upon |. |. Stewart, charge him with be-
ing Methodist preacher. Is that crime ?
They forget what DR.. Eads used to be.
They also charge l. /. Stewart with being
a temperance man. The time has gone by
in Iowa, if ever it were here, when fanati,
cal appeals to contemporaries men could
break down q temperance man. We rejoice
in the fact that l. /. Stewart is true and
consistent temperance man, and we do not
believe that many will be found to regret his
being an old fashioned Methodist, or will
say that he is not fit to be Superintendent
because he breaches little occasionally
Keokuk Dispatch to the contrary noiwith-
Some Democratic papers try to ridicalc
his circular, but they don't publish it, lest
it should convict them Of Misrepresentation
They tell us confidently that he is whig,
the Wing candidate; yet the Wings made no
and Mr.. Stewart tells US him.
self that even some Of his next door neigh
bors don't know his politics. This fact
alone is sufficient evidence that he would not
allew the politician to supersede the Super