Demoine courier., 1855-03-01
II NOMINATIONS.
The CandidateS---Their Position on
the Senatorial and Other Questions.

the Senatorial and Other Questions.
1t would be vel! for the voters OF this
State to take into consideration the posi-.
ton occupied by the candidates who offer
3 themselves for their suffrages at the mex,
April election, and in order that they
may do 50 We propose to show exactly
d whore they stand.
Is 1t will doubtless be recollected by all
our readers that the Convention which
nominated the Democratic ticket for Riv.
er officers and the State Land Office,
adopted a platform, and that should
those candidates be elected, it will De
heralded forth TO the world as a triumph
i Of the principles set forth in the afore
said platform. II, however, the ques.
a lions at issue were put before the people
with nothing in the way Of Offices to
warp and bias their judgment, we could
readily guess their decision. Undes the
fimsy veil of Democracy, that Conyen-
ton has endeavored to force the voters
OF this State into endorsing an Admins
,ration whose every act has been one of
hostility to the interests Of the West. and
pandering 10 the interests of the South.
Remember that in voting for the Demo-
cratic ticket you endorse the veto of the
River and HHrbor bill, which appropria-
ted the poor pittance Of 100000 for
the improvement, Of the Mississippi, Dor,
dering on Iowa-and the organization of
Kansas and Nebraska, (if the South
wishes it) into Slave Territories, together
with all other acts Of aggression the
South has or may commit upon the PEG
pie Of the West. Remember, too, tina,
Two of these candidates, o. d. Tisdale
and VIM. Dewey, were among the in
famous absqua,ula,ors from the Assem-
bly, Of your W State. and who by dis
honest and disorganizing influences at
tempted TO .hwar. the election of a Uni.
ted States Senator; and thus leave the
State unrepresented in one branch OF
Congress for the next two years. You
should bear this in mind, and when you
cas-. your votes do il with a determine.
ton no. to encourage such dishonest and
disorganizing acts, come from what party
they may.
81 We have on one occasion previous,
given a history Of the Senatorial contest,
bu. it may be as we'll to refresh the minds
Of our readers on this matter, and in
order to do So, WI will copy from the
M. Pleasant Observer a review of the
affair. merely saying, by way of preface,
tina. it never entered the head of the Lo-
cofoco members OF the Legislature that
the Senatorial Convention had no RICH,
10 meet on Its W adjournments until
they had met some Is times, and j. was
clearly demonstrated that the Locotocos
could no. elect a coalition Wing, but
that at the mex, session Of the Conven-
lion, a man who represented the sen.i.
mems Of a majority of the people OF
Iowa, would be chosen; and although a
portion Of the Democratic members of
the Legislature have the effrontery to at
tempt a defence and justification of their
course, thai still a portion of them were
no, so lost to a sense of honor as 10 at.
tempt TO proven, the election of a Sena.
tor. Only three Of them. however, had
The moral courage to stand UP in Joint
Convention and refuse to obey the die
sates of the ~tyrannical parry leaders. who
now come before the people for them to
justify them in this high. handed outrage.
The following is the extract from the
Observer:
The fact being established that only a
majority of both houses are necessary to
make al election valid, the only question
then 10. how mus. that majority come
together? The joint convention met to-
ge.her on it's W adjournment. Had j,
power TO do this! The law OF ~ gave
them this power. but if il had rot. moth.
ing 10 clearer in parliamentary law, than,
that every BODY has a right to sit upon
its W adjournment. This had been
practiced in every legislature where they
elect ty joint vote. Take for instance
the States Of Missouri and Wisconsin
and Illinois, they have all been pursuing
this course during the present winter
Where is the person who will argue thai.
a con xentinn called touether for 3 trans