The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-12-05

DIR. Eads. Superintendent of Public In.
s.taction for the State of Iowa, has either
sirnally failed in sustaining the duties OF his
Office as IN honorable man, or onr cosem-
sorsries are strangely a, fault IN the serious
charges preferred ssains, him. Fer some
tine il had been animated tina, that tunc'
,ionary was aeisul,er 10 the trust repesea
Ia him, and While few as bad ~ he was &C.
cased of being and only wanting the opp0f-
tanity 10 excel him in The fraud With which
he was charged, sought TO .mphcaie others
a. the transaction, Gov. Crimes With tha,
psonp,ness sud ,horoushness Tor Which he
is remarkable. went assiduously TO work to
ferrct cat The exieni Of DIR. Eads' eelinquen-
es. That the Governor should interest him
self to ascertain the srimes OF high priest
q, Democracy" and on tie eve OF an i'm
portant lection. highly incensed few
lhin.elinned demagcgues who regard TIE
interests OF party a. superior to those OF the
people, and 80 they sought to shield Eads BY
turning the cuusnt of popular indignation
upon the Governor. Alss! for their ill adj
vi@ed and impoaiic course; the very means
that they used for HE protection proved his
destruction, BY fastening the catastrophe
they sought to avert The Governor was
induced to make greater exertions and the
upshot Of the matter 10, as we learn iro"
the Keokuk Gate City. that Judges John.
son and Boyies have received nouce IRON
Gov. Grimes that the Superintendent Of
Pablic instruction is deIaulter Of one hun.
bred thousand dollars, and that the Execu-
tive would lock TO them ss his sureties to
make it good to the State" The same
authority says, that Sit i. understood that
under his control to make him safe, but
when the incompetency Of Esds was talked
OF before the election, Johnson procured
the signatures of about so Germans. mos.
Of them farmers. near Madison, to a bond a.
collateral security for Eads. Johnson's sal.
walton, politically. depends on his success in
releasing them in some way"
A If DR.. Esds were not sufficiently con
demned by the serious charge thus perferred
agains, him, our cotemporary Of the lowe
City Repahlican prefers another Of an en-.
tireIy different character. That paper says,
that "the plain and unsophisticated people
of Fort Demoines have been greatly shock.
ed to find that the DR.. has already been car.
rying cut the new Democratic principle IN.
der which Nor nonisrn takes shelter. and 10
regulating his domestic institutions TO suit
his own TASTE, ~ithou, regard to old fashion
ed notions Of right and propriety."
Newspaper editors ought not to be toe
prying into the character Of the apostles and
aud teachers OF modern Democracy. The
private characters ot few of the men who
sc, themselves forward 10 instruct their fell
low morisls in the blessings conferred upon
our country by the spread Of the peeuhs,
institution of The South, will bear critical
inspection. But one would nationally sup
pose that man sustaining the relations TO
community as al educational reformer that
DR.. James D. Esds does, occupying as such
the most prominent position in the State,
and coming in contact with minds whose
development mos, be more or less inauen.
ced by his course, instead of using that posi.
ton "to shock the moral sense OF commani
IT," would eRdeayor to leave bright ex
ample az patrlmony to HE children. |
The reports circulated against him be true
and from the dirsctness OF the charges W
have no reason 10 doubt them. the soone,
that DR.. Ea6s is removed from the high po
-siiion he now dsgrsces the better !, viii b
ior The honor of our State.