Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-10
OntcSt i'm this County.


The COL between The candidates for
the Legislat,, in this county islooked upon
with more interest than any other in the
State We have full ticket to elect. Our
candidate for Senator is fair representa-
tive of our party-bold in declaring his opin-
ions, fearless in discussing our party meas
ures with his competitors, land irreproachable
in his political as we'll as private character
He has State reputation. Ills qualltica-
lions for the office are undoubted. Opposed
to him is man who has never done any
thing more than acquiesce in all the retro
grade movements of his party. The little
popularity Of which he can boast is of
negative kind. His princi pies and qualiti-
cations have never been put to the test, and
he utterly refuses to try to make a speech IN
public. Politically the people know but
very little about him. 1t is acknowledged
by his organ that he was once whig, and
no evidence is given that he did not change
his politics from mere game of chance
He has no defined course of policy. To
bank men, his friends represent him as fay
orable to banks; to anti-bank men, he is
represented as occupying the Democratic
hard currency ground. Toa certain class Of
his party he is represented as holding to the
doctrine of 'squatter-sovereignty' in the
Territories; to others as going the indivisl-
BILE swine on Mr.. Buchanan's declaration
that 'slavcry exists in the territories under
the Constitution" How are we to under
stand him? His colleagues on the demo-
cratic ticket are conducting the canvass in
pretty much the same way. They discard
public speeches as not convenient to their
mode of electioneering. 1t is not designed
that all the pledges and promises they give,
or even the declarations of their opinions,
shall be subject to comparison OR criticism.
They must be delivered privately and con-
fdentially, so that even the appearance of
inconsistency may be avoided.
The contrast presented by the Republican
nominees is noble one. They have visited
every precinct in the county and talked pub
licly with the people. They have uniforms
ly invited discussion-not because of high
opinion of their own ability in debate, but
because they felt conscious of the strength
anu tfarightness of their course and believed
with the poet that,
"Thricc armed is he
Who hath his quarrel juSt.'
Upon you, then, voters of Muscatine coun-
ty, rests great responsibility. The Repub-
lican majority in the county is small and
may be overcome by little pipe-laying on
the part of our opponents. This they will
not scruple to do if they consider it necessa-
ry to accomplish their designs. They have
already shown their determination to defeat
us. They have gone to great expense in
publishing campaign paper, and employed
bitter personal enemy to Mr.. Parvin as
editor. The entire past history of Mr.. Par
vim, both public and private, has been ran
sacked for something that may be used to
his detriment. But satisfied that nothing
true of this kind could be found, certain
facts have been distorted and misrepresent-
eG, and, with certain other base fabrications,
are paraded before the public as the result
of this deep and thorough investigations
We ask our readers to look at them. They
may be found under the editorial head Of the
Enquirer, set forth in italics, blazing capt.
tails and exclamat alton points. They contain
the gist of the charges with which the En-
ouirer has teamed since Mr.. tarvin's nomi
nation, and "carry with them their own
Our Republican friends are reminded, in
that euery cote Of our party will
be required on election day to defeat the
base schemes and designs of the opposition.