Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-06-06

sponsibility, we should not deem it sur
prising. But Messrs. BARSHART and
CORNWALL had always been protested
Republicans, openly declaring themselves
such at the time they became connected
with the Cigilian establishment, and i'll
they desired, at that time, TO make their
paper political, they just as surely desired
to make it Republican. How is it, then,
that they now fling out the Democratic
banner Have they got upon the wrong
side without knowing it Certainly the
evidences they have heretofore given us
of their intelligence does not preclude
such an idea.
But if our neighbors have held aloof
from politics heretofore, they seem to be
inclined TO make amends now. They ex-
press their willingness to gulp down the
Democratic dose without an instant's
hesitation, no matter in what form itmay
be offered. Undoubtedly, they expect
the pill will be presented to them sugar
coated, and they feel perfectly safe in
making the promise. They know that
certain clique in Independence, already
carry the nominations to be made in the
Democratic convention in their brooches
pockets, and that the other members of
the party will have no more to say in the
premises than that respectable old colored
barber who used to scrapc their faces
They intend to use them as ladders that
they themselves may climb into the pub
lie crib and eat their FILL, and the propri-
etors of the Cioilian are preparing to
stand with open mouths TO catch the
crumbs promised them.
But the result of their scheming de-
ponds, they well know, upon the sue
cess of their endeavors to create dissen.
sions in the republican ranks. If they
can but bring in an issue that will dis
tract the Republicans, while by recourse
to that party drill which never fails them,
they can unite their own party upon par
ty grounds solely, they have hopes of
electing their county Judge, at least
For this purpose they have brought the
railroad matter into the controversy, and
the Ctvi1'at, though announcing its read
mess to swallow the result of the Demo
cratic delberation, no matter what it
may be, yet provides that he must be
right upon this question. If the Civilian
did not know that the candidate was
decided upon, why should il speak 50
positively upon these points. There are
prominent democrats in this county who
are friends OF the road, and who have a
fair prospect ofthe nomination, and whose
nomina ton might place the editor in an
awkward fix. But as we before said, he
knows that the nomination is made. and
only needs the farce Of conv ention to
ratify it.
If the Republican party Of this coun-
~ can be fooled by such shallow device
as this, We shall be much mistaken. We
do not believe that there is within the lin
its of the whole county single man who
would not exact or wish to see exacted
from the railroad company, the most full
and satisfactory security to the county.
We know that the railroad company have
never intended to ask the bonds without
it, and that they are prepared to give it.
We know thatno candidate ofthe Republi-
can party will ever receive our support
unless we are satisfied that he is sound
upon this point, and we also know that
no man can De the candidate Of the party
unless he is pledged satisfac torily upon
it. This grave announcement, there
fore, ofthe Civilian, is mere political clap
trap, issued at the dictation of the mer-
cenary clique which has bought out A.
B. q c. body, soul and brecches-a
clique az the head of which, and for
whose benefit it was organized, stands our
present corrupt county judge-who.e
dirty veil of hypocrisy we shall endeayor
shortly to strip off, exhibiting him in all
his disgusting deformity. This is plain
talk, but it is just. We have the evil
denccs and the facts, and We shall not hes
itatc to give them.
Gs- HUNTER, the man who shot an
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