Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-02-20
caoArs OF rnE WOUNDED.

ORGANS OF THE WOUNDED.
We admit Communication from Mayor
Hudson in reply to remarks Of ours made
IN our Saturday issue. This he thinks is
due to him. This communication was re-
ceivsd ct 90 late an hour IS to leave US
scarcely time or room to reply IS fully Is
We could wish. That privilege We shall ex-
ercise hereafter as We may consider nsces
sary.
There il hardly question of fact be-
tween us. Mayor Hudson makes out for him
self ~ bad q case as We could ask to sub
stantiate our assertion that he was the swhis-
key candidate' He owns his friendship for the
old license system, and declares his opposition
to prohibitory and restraining laws-declares
his opposition to the law for the suppression
Of intemperance; and then caps the climax
by declaring himselfa sober and temperate
man. Now ought any sober and temperate
man, who will use his influence and position
in favor Of licensing drinking houses. and In
opposition to prohibitory and restraining
laws--a man too proverbial for his shrewd-
ness and tact, to be characterized as any
thing else than sswhiskey candid Ite9"
Could or would the liquor interest ask any
more could they ask any more devoted and
steady friend than Mr.. Hudson according to
his own showing?
We have never asserted that Mr.. Hudson
was the advocate Of intemperance. But We
asserted as member Of the board for years
past, he has voted and spoken against every
proposition for the suppression of intemper-
ance. As an advocate OF tho license system,
he has had the confidence to the fullest ex-
tent of the grocery interest, and been their
fast and consistent friend. Mr.. II. took
this course to secure votes and not from any
other motive. And we asserted and believed
and still believe his whole stock in trade as
politician-ths entire summum bonum Of
mis- popularity has this extent, ne more. i. Q,
a"whiskey popularity" and there is nothing
in this communication to gainsay it! Mr.. H'e
position in this community is too we'll known
and appreciated to make it very hard to sub.
stantiate. There is little difficulty in making
out case!
So far as the main points Of our article
made against Mr.. H., there is nothing in this
communication which ovethrows or shake,
them. They stand as We put them. His as.
sertion about the number Of legal voters
here is just as good as ours and no better
only it has not the merit of probability. :
The town and township together did not giv'
but nine hundred and odd votes last August
Is there another man in the city besides Mr.
Hudson who believes there are 1000 legal vo.
tsrs here? Is there another man in the city
who thinks there was IN issue Of s'woop' in.
volved in our charter election between Mr.
Stockton and Mr.. Hudson? This is fig
mcnt of the Imagination. If Mr.. Hudson
did not court the foreign vote, the Gazette
and Locofsco party did that job for him, ant
he got it, almost to q man. The fact wa.
just a. we stated it. The Grocery and Lager
Bier influence went naturally for Mr.. Hud.
son. While the foreign population were in
duced to fall into the ranks by the alarm Of
Kaow- Nothiug-ism raised by the Locofoco.
against Mayor Stockton. But in our next
we will answer Mr.. Hudson touching all the
matters a. issue-and what we cannot sub
stantiate in full ne will take back.
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