Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-09-26
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old adage of s'tempest in teapot" The
drubbing administered to its editor by Mr..
Parvin, we are glad to observe, has had a
beneficial effect. In the principal editorial :,
which is intended as reply to MIR. Parvin' 5
communication in this paper, the editor
backs considerably down from his former
position, although he assumes to reiterate
. all he then said. He cateehises Mr.. Parvin
as to his attendance at the Upton Conven-
ton and endorsement Of the nomination Of
ex. Governor Hampstead; also as to his be-
ing before the County Democratic Conven-
ton for the nomination of Senator. These
questions have already been admitted and
explained, but it seems that our contemporary
will not comprehend the explanation. Does
he not know that previous to these conven-
tions the line of demarkation had not
been drawn between Nebraska and ant :
Nebraska Democrats? Mr.. Parvin entered
both conventions an avowed anti Nebraska
Democrat. At the Upton Convention he
and Jerome Car>kaddan were prepared to
oppose the endorsement of the Nebraska bill
if t had been attempted. But MT a cord ,cas
said about it. While balloting, Mcssrs Par
vim and Carskaddan voted for 7. H. Benton,
IT., whom they knew to be an anti-Nebraska
Democrat, and who is now Republican,
But Gov. Hampstead obtained the nomina-
ton, and Mr.. Parvin presuming that he
would maintain the same silence throughout
the campaign with regard to the Nebraska
bill as the convention did, endorsed his nom
inaion. Our readers know, however, how
Gov. Hampstead soon after appeared on the
stump as champion of that Infamous meas
ure, and also how the people at the polls re-
pudiated him and it.
In the County Convention, held subse-
quently, Mr.. Parvin also participated as an
anti Nebraska Democrat, as we showed con-
clusively last week.
Where, then, is the ground of the charge
of inconsistency so persistently urged by the
Enquirer against Mr.. Parvin? Has he not
always been honest and straightforward in his
views on the Nebraska bill?
But the secret and sole cause of the En-
9uirer's bitter hostility to Mr. Parvin is let
out in the last issue. 1t appears that s)me
years ago, in heated discussion about rail
road matters. MIR. Parvin alluded to the
present acting editor of the Enquirer, (Judge
4. II. Thaver) as a ''stranger' and not enti-
tied to the consideration for his opinion
which long term of residence and interest
in the community would warrant. This was
a very natural remark for man to make
under such circumstances. But it is seized
upon now as something extremely heinous,
and Mr.. 1hayer parades his ''private griefs"
before the people for sympathy and for the
purpose of injuring Mr.. Parvin's public
character. The people have nothing to do
with such matters. To follow man in this
manner with vindictive malice for fancied
personal insult, is not the way to discuss his
fitness for particular Office.
As to Mr.. Parvin's course on the temper
ance question, from which the Enquirer
strives to make capital, we have only to say
that he has been a constant and consistent
friend of sobriety, not only in precept but
in example. He advocated the prohibitory
law when it was before the people, as did
all, or nearly all, the friends of temperance.
But since the question has just been decided
in this county by the adoption of the license
law, he does not consider it at issue in the
present canvass. We feel assured, however,
that whenever and wherever temperance
measures require q defender or supporter,
they will find him true to his former profess
sions. That he begged Mr.. Deitsch to &C
cept the Republican nomination and then
deserted him is untrue. Let the Enquirer
provo this allegation if 1t can!
EYGov. Walker has issued a proclama-