Demoine courier., 1855-03-08
WING NOMINATIONS.
The Wing and Democratic Candidates
Their AnteCedentS.

Commissioner of the Demoine River
Improvement, resides at Fort Demoi1e,
is one of the oldest and most estimable
citizens Of the Demoine Valley, and if
elected, which we doubt not he will be,
ne will fill that important station with
honor to himself and profit TO the people.
The best endorsement he could have lies
in the fact tina, he was elected Judge Of
the 5th Judicial District, at that time
strongly Democratic, by a handsome
majority. The more unscrupulous prints
Of the Locofoco rarty have attempted to
find some flaw in his character, but the
malicious darts thrus. at him have only
recoiled upon their W heads.
o. d. Tisdale, the Democratic candi
date for Commissioner, resides in Davis
county. With his political history we
are little acquainted, and moi. being a man
of any note, or having ever distinguished
himself as a friend Of the great improve.
men,s contemplated in this valley, we
can say but little about him, except that
he bears a fair character al home. He
owes his nomination, doubtless, TO the
fact OF his being one of the famous "ab.
squatulators' who attempted to defea.
the election of u. S. Senator.
J. C. Lockwood. the Wing candidate
for Register, resides in Louisa county
Was a membnr of the last Legislature,
and Distinguished himself for the ability
and untiring industry with which he at.
tended to the interests of his constitu-
ents and the State generally. Mr.. l..
would make an excellent Register. and
will undoubtedly be elected.
DR.. VIM. Dewey, his opponent, is
we'll known in this section Of country
perhaps a little too well for his good -
He was one of the early settlers of Wa
peIlo county, and has been first "one
thing and then another" both in occura-
ton and profession. And, indeed, WI
are like Judge Williams, who, on n
occasion asked Dewey, when pleading
at the bar, which side he was on, whelh-
or for plaintiff or defendant? We hardly
know where to put him. When he came
TO Iowa he vas a Whig, but turned Lo-
c~ofoco, as he himself said, because the
Wings were in the minority and could
not bestow an office on him! He was for a
while a kind ofhanger-on to the Demoine
improvement, and we believe for some
two or more years received a fat salary
from the funds for doing comparatively
nothing. After The improvement had
got below par and the Locofoco nan
ayers Of it had ca, up all the available
lands, and run the State in debt without
doing any work, he chad leave to quit"
and took himself off TO the West part
of the State, where he has been figuring
first for one thing and then another, from
District Judge downward. Last August
he was an Independent candidate in Ere.
mont county against a Democrat, for the
Legislature, and was elected by profess
ing to be more Whig than Democrat
But when he got to Iowa City he found
that "ihrift follows ~fawning" and he was
democratic to the core, voted against the
liquor law, as also did Tisdale, absquat-
ulated from the Senatorial Convention
and got a nomination for Register there
by. His location, in the extreme south
west corner of the State, if nothing else,
would be a great objection 10 his election.
Arson Hart, the Wing candidate for
Register of the State Land Office, is a
valued and well known citizen of John.
son county, and will receive a large vote
where he is best known. Indeed. the
most INSCRIPTIONS Of the Locofoco party
presses can find no fault with him, either
as regards ability or purity of character.
Stark H. SamueIs, we believe resides
in Clinton County, and is a brother of
SamueIs Of Dubuque, the Locofoco
leader IN the lower branch Of the last
Legislature. The Office was too small
potatoes for Ben. 10 accept, so he turned
il to ~accountby getting a nomination to it
for his brother. With the character and
qualifications of Mr.. Samlels we are
unacquaintec.
In voting for these officers the people