Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-09-12
JudyesL0Sve q Friend and Patron of
Common Schools.

IN 1888 he came to this town, when he COM
mcnced the practice of law, and continued to
be resident Of Muscatine until his remov {.
al to Keokuk in 1850. As the country was
new and but thinly settled, his practice was
not sufficient to engage all his time, and he
employed his spare time in cultivating his
farm aud in manufacturing, thus earning
by the sweat. of his brow, an hone.t living
for himself and family.
OF his pubic life and character we do not
intend to speak at this time, as they are well
known to the people Of the State: but of his
private life, as citizen and neighbor, as
we knew him when he lived amongst u.s.
Judge Lowe has lived too long in Muscatinc
not to be known. We know him well and
thoroughly, and we but echo public senti--
ment when we say, that, more kind heart
ed, whole souled benevolent man does not
live in Iowa. lie is universally respected
by all classes, both rich and poor. We do
not believe he has personal enemy in Mus
catine. The seversst thing which his polit-
ical opponents have said of him here is that,
''he is too good a man to be beat" But il
the Republicans do their duty, he will not
be beaten, but will be elected by 10000 ma.
jority. The vote which he will receive in
Muscatine will convince people that he is
appreciated where he is known.
lie is emphatically man of the people.
He takes an interest in whatever pertains to
the welfare of the community in which he
lives. lie has always been warm friend
of popular education. He built, almost en-
tirely with his own means, and on his own
ground, (Which he afterwards gave to tho
District one of tho first Public School
Houses built in Iowa. And in that same
school house, on the same seat beside the
sons and daughters of the poor hborers, his
children were instructed, that call men were
born equal'--that in this free and Demo-
cratic country,
"lIonor and shame from no condition rise,
Act W, II your part, there all the honor lies
Judge Lowe always said "anything that is
good enough for my neighbors, is good
enough for me; where my neighbors send
their children e. school there will send
mine, a, if the public schools are what
they ought to be, they are good enoug h for
the best"
Muscatine and kcokuk are both much in
debted to Judge Lowe t their present ex-
cellent Public Schools.
But how is it with Mr. Samuels, the DEM
ocratc nominee for Governor? Born and
educated in old Virginia, with all the aris-
tocratic notions of the wealthy slave owner,
where the poor white man is reduced almost
to level with the slave, he thinks it would
be a disgrace for man of his cloth to send
his children to the Public School, which he
says is only fit for farmers children and the
poor laboring class of Irish and German,
who arc not able to send to the Academy
and Seminary. lie treats with contempt the
revolving idea that a scion Of cone of the
First Families of Virginia" should disgrace
his whole ancestry, by sending his children
with the sEcommon herd" to the free Public
Schools of Democratic Iowa. ''Thank God,' y
he says, s'his children have never attended
Public School"
We believe Mr.. Samuels is honest and
speaks out the true sentiments Of his heart.
Any one who has heard him speak, cannot
but be convinced by his naughty, egotistical
and consequential air, that he feels the hot
blood of The ''F F. V.'s' coursing through
his veins. He is proud, naughty and domi-
neering in his manners, and looks down
with disdain upon what he terms the plebei-
ans, or the poor laboring class. He knows
nothing of their necessities and cares for
nothing but their votes. He wants Office,
and through chicanery and trickery he ex-
poets to obtain it. Niger, niger, niger il
his watchword, and as he boasted in his
speech at Keokuk, che intended TO ride into
the Gubernatorial Office of Iowa upon the
topmost wave of prejudice against the mig
gers"
What contrast is here presented to the
courteous, polite and affable Judge Lowe,
the poor mans friend, and the friend and
patron o. popular education. If Judge Lowe
is elect; this fall to the Gubernatorial chair
of the State, he will exert his utmost to
build up system of free schools that the
Governors children may attend without dis
grazing the State.
Farmers and laboring men of Iowa, these
two men are before you, for the first Office
III. the gift of the people of this State. In
Judg Lowe you have man who has been
tried and found to be trr sly and competent;
one who understands your necessities and
sympathises with your desires; one who
believes that the farmer and laboring man
have the same rights as the rich or the
s'F. F. V.'s"-one who asks nothing for
himself that he is not willing to labor to Sc
cure to all. You have much at stake in this
matter. We have given you true portrait
Of the two men and leave you to make your
own choice. The Public Schools are the
peoples Colleges, and can be made equal to
any Academy or Seminary in the State, and
those who wish to see a system of Public
Schools established that will afford an on.
portunity for every son and daughter of
Iowa whether rich or poor to acquire good
education, will vote for Judge Lowe but
those who wish to see our school system re-
duced To the VIRGINIA system eyclus;vo1, for