Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-09-03
THE PRESENT CONTEST.


EF- We have now entered fairly up
on the great political contest of the State,
and it behooves Republicans everywhere
to be up and stirring. We have but lit
tie time to prepare for the contest, and
what is done should be done promptly.
There are interests of the highest impor-
lance to the State and to the party in
volved in the struggle, and if Republic
cans will but do their duty, we shall see
those interests triumph. The new con-
stitution is to be put into practical oper-
alton, and in order to give it fair trial
it is imperative that we elect men who
are ready to give its provisions support
The Democrats are pledged to its injury,
and if they are successful, the action of
the people of the State in adopting it,
will be rendered nugatory-their wishes
for change, and the udicious changes
which have been made, will be thwarted.
The Democratic platform breathes bitter,
unrelenting, emphatic hostility to its pro-
visions, and unless Republican officers
are elected, the constitutional benefits
that are now promised to the State will
be lost.
We are to elect Governor, Lieut.. Gov
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SUCCESSORS Of such State Senators as were
elected in 1854. Our candidates for
the first two offices, nominated, as they
were, with singular unanimity, and re-
ceiving, as they do, the hearty and unan-
imous support of the journals of the par
W, are all that we can wish. They GER
tainly contrast favorably, in point of ex-
perience, position, and ability, with the
nominees of the Democracy. They are
both ardent advocates of the great prin-
ciples of the Republican parly-princi-
pies that should be supported and upheld
in preference to men. Iowa, among the
earliest to adopt those principles, must
not prove recreant now. The causes which
impelled her to the position she then took,
are still operating, and yet demand that
she shall hold that position. The moral
influence of her support is necessary yet
to push on the work that has been begun,
and whose glorious promises are now be-
ing unfolded in our sister State of Mis-
souri,. Kansas is not yet free, nor are her
iyrants yet crushed. Sympathy with
Democracy is support of her oppressors,
and Iowa cannot lend herself to this.
We must not only elect our Governor
and Lieutenant Governor, but we must
likewise elect our Representatives. To
the ensuing Legislature will belong not
only the task of putting in operation the
machinery of the new constitution, but
we believe is also to elect a United
States Senator in place of that inanimate
gentleman, GEO. w. JONES. 1t is, there
fore, very necessary that we should have
good, sound, Republican legislature
The change of the day of election from
August to October, by the new constitu-
ton, is the hardest blow that the Democ-
racy could have received. That the Re-
publican party is in the ascendancy in
the State cannot be doubted, and there
can now be no reason why the full vote
should not be polled. The August cleo
ton always came in the very busiest sea-
son for the farmer, and farmers are gen.
orally foes to Sham Democracy, and
whatever keeps them from the polls de-
tracts from the Republican vote. Octo-
Der furnishes leisure to attend the polls,
and if Republicans will but turn out to
them as they should, their success is
certain. Let there be organization and
action. Let Republicans 60 to work, re-
Numbering that their supineness caused
their defeat last spring, and may again
endanger their success. The cause is
worth the toll, and with action success is
certain.
Our county, by the last apportionment,
is joined with Fayette in one Represen-
tative district, and we have one Repre-
sentative, therefore, to elect at the ensu-
ing election. As Fayette has one besides,
this one will probably be given to Blu
chanan. A delegate convention is to be
held on the 18th, at Independence, in or
der to select delegates to the nominating
convention to be held at such time and
place as the Republicans of the two coun
ties may designate. We hope every
township in the county will be repre-
scented, and measures taken to thorough
ly organize the party. Let us endeavor
to nominate a good, sound Republican,
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