Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-02-17


WIfElAM McKHY, 81 Polk 60.
srd,dst2til 81 DEs 4oisaEs Ixfao.1s4rsr,
J.sC., LOCKWOo D. Of Louisa ga.
I st6rirra ~ rsrairArx EArD ssrrcs fas
ANSON HART, Of, johnson county.
40 49, THE oUsRA0Er0RIHv ~
We Win % have The sitihsas sf Iowa fully
rsstel q regard 70 TIE nature Of the cutrage
pefpsessssd upon The citizens Of Burlingtoa
- ths late City Elsction, by the Lccofoco
psstys AID i esder to Do %, We must state
Q fsW faots. IS 7asoa ase s. .e.ssass ~
T. Last gear there was ) majority Of the Board
Of Aldermen opposed - the license system.
i pfspss;tion 70 lieonse was brought before
The Board ard defeated. But soon after, in
The absence If Mr.. Adams, Mr.. Silas A. Hud-
son introduced . proposition to grant licsn-
ses, It was carried, and when Mr.. A. return
"a 70 She city, the 'deggsry Keepers allhad
licenses which could not, Of course, be an
nulled. Thus was tho city, after clecting an
asti-iicenss Board, tricked into chartsring
ne shpte tribe and iegaiizing the traffic, BY
SILAsaAs HUDsoNll And - member Of the
Board, Nj. Fl. has uniformly voted and spc-
ken against every proposition for the sup
preston Of @intemperance. In season and
out Of season, he has stood up nanfully a.
the chAmpien Of the whisky influence and
leader Of the anti-semperancs party. About
his private habits it is not our business either
to know or state asy thing. His public acts
are ~ THAI coneern u. ~ gsss.i9t a,..t,,. ,,al
AZ the late election the Locofoco party
tsok up this Mr.. Hudson a. a candidate for
Mayor, with set of Aldermen equally sure
% please The liquor dealers and drinkers
here. With this free and easy ticket, they
we're bound 70 get all the Grocery interest,
which is notla very weak one. But this was
not enough. The ticket Was pu. lished ap-,
provingly in the Gazette, and endorsed as
An anti Knew Nothing ticket Rantiag ap-
peals were made to the foreign population.
Thsl unscrupulous demagogues who control
the Gazette, appeslcd to the prejudicss of
the foreign element, All that would not vote
for Mr.. Hudson through love Of Lager Bier
and Blue Ruin, were to DO olamored into it
BY An outcry against Know Nottingham
Thus they secured both the Whisky and For
sign influence upon one md the same ticket.
But this was not sufficient. It was found,
scunting only the legal voters, Mr.. Hudson
must come short of an election. Whatodid
they DO? These scheming and unscrupulous
trickssers packed the Judges Of election 20 a.
thsrsby TO Get = majority in each Ward in
fasse It receiving votes of Aliens, who had
not even declared their intention Of becoming
citizens Of this Republic. This was under q
city Charter gsanted in ls45. bat annulled by
the eonsitution Of the ysar following a
This .is, the whole state Of the case. The
cause Of temperance has been thus ovsrborne
here and broken down, at least for season.
The friends Of temperance have been voted
down by men who have not, many Of them,
been . year in this country, and cannot speak
our language. The food gates have all been
opsaedupoa as, and We are in the hands Of
men some Of whom declared before election,
that they did not ask or wish vote from an
Am4rican citizen all they asked was an ho-
assty German and Irish votsi ss4ssiga.F
II there b one hoasst temperance man who
slill adhsrss to the fortunes Of the Lecofoco
party II this State, w ask bis candid css.id-
Aeatioa IT the shove facts. risea u t.lieaa4 leI
IN T.s fie s-.--- e-s--------- s. sfeslsti
60 aeos = tHads 'HAe Reward. 'aea 81 q siafza
by = dispatch il another column it will b
ssen'tha the devotion Of our fellow citizen,
Augustus Caesar Dodge, to tho cause Of
popular Sovereignty has been rewarded
hy he appointment Of, Minister to Spain.
paHYDRorHoBIA.-According to ell accounta
Hydrophobia i prevailing to an alarming sx-
tent in Nsrthern Missouri and Southern Iowa.
The Valley Wing suggests general staying
Of the canine race. This is . good sugges-
ios. - l. would matsriasly increase the cir
culation Of newspapers and promote the cause
rof. education. We don't recollcct ever to
have known man owning more than one
dog who took newspaper-and those hav.
ing more than two. are not only too poor tc
take newspaper, but are not even able te
send their children to school! Kill the dog,
BY oil means! 20 s "
s.StAyFHY NxyER CAN co 70 KASsAsv'-
The following among other resolutions wa,
passed q l''largs and enthusiastic" public
nesting in tho city Of Liberty, Missouri. W.
present it for the consideration Of the advo.
Gates Of "popular sovereignty"