Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-03
TUESDAY, MARCH 80, 1858.
Will Republicans support the Cam
didate OF their Party!

Long before the call of the convention, tn
law creating this new Office had been enacte
and had passed into the hands of consider
ing and discriminating public, and week
before the sitting Of the convention, tn
Office, significant by name of great and crit
ical duties, had become an object pregnan
| with interest to all friends of educationa
improvement. As its important sphere en-
larged to its full proportions before tn
public eye, it was seen that no other Office Il
the county was so nearly related to tn
dearest interests of the community, or coul
WELD, if properly filed, so powerful an in
fuence for the veal of the county as this
There was a more sacred trust reposed in
a weightier responsibility resting upon-th
man who should fill the ofice,-more vigor
capacity, and intelligence needed for it
functions than had been characteristic O.
any trust heretofore donated by the public
to any individual. Who shall perform tht
important duties ? This was the query pro-
pounded to every friend of education.
The respective merits and claims Of Butler
Waters, Denison, Uford, Van Horne anG
Beham were argued upon before the private
tribunal of every mans judgment, and tht
hour arriving, men went into the convention
to engage in honorable and friendly compe.
ttion for the nomination Of their favorites
The second regular ballot determined the
The friends Of ''the boy'' rallied with re
doubled efforts for his nomination, and
concentrating upon him the divided forces
Of the opposition, we'll nigh succeeded in
their aim. But So votes declared against
the 73 with the significant voice Of ma,
jority: That it is the will Of this conventior
that THOMAS BEHAM be the candidate of the
party: and the meeting dissolved.
Immediately taking the place of the Re
publican Convention a Convention in
aohich no cord suggestive Of political strife
had been heard-the Democratic party met
in mass assembly, presided over by Gen
Humphreys, from whose lips was announced
the interesting fact: That none but a Ma
tional Democrat would be nominated, and
that then the party would have prize before
them worthy of a hard fought victory. I'M
mediately following this announcement, the
Convention took action, and unanimously
nominated by acclamation Wm. r. Brannan,
ESQ.,, for the Office Of Superintendent.
Will Republicans support their own
standard, or will they desert to the colors of
the enemy? We say that MIR. BEHAM will
receive the united vote of the Republican
party.
We say this, reposing in confidence upon
the honor and stability of the men composing
the Republican Convention. Every ballot
cast in that convention imposed upon every
member the obligation of discharging the
promise, silently but irrevocably made by
his vote, to support the nomination made by
the convention. Republicans know this
and they will not violate their own sense Of
duty by betraying into the hands of the en-
emy nomination to which they have SOL
emnly pledged their support.
First, then, because Mr.. BEHAM is the
nominee of the party, will he receive the
support of Republicans. Secondly. He will
be sustained by the party by reason of the
time talent and experience which he will
contribute to the Office. His time will be exclu-
sively the public's. He has no growing pro-
fession encumberiag his mind. He brings
to the Office twenty years. experience as a
teacher. Among the testimonials of our
candidates capacity to discharge the func-
tions of the Office, would we present the fol-
lowing certificate, which we select from a
number OF the same stamp:
CAMBRIDGE, Ono,
Sept lst, lS51.}
"This is to certify that Thomas Beham,
ESQ.,, has been examined by the Board OF
School Examiners Of Guernsey county, in
reference to his qualifications as q School
teacher, and found amply qualified to teach
the following branches, to wit: Orthogra.
ply, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English
Grammar, Geography, History, Natural PHI
losophy, Astronomy. Chemistry, Algebra,
Mensuration, Geometry, Surveying, Trigo-
nometry ard Book Keeping.
"Having been acquainted with Mr.. Be-
ham for number of years, we most cheer.
fully recommend him to the public as gem
tleman and rs teacher, every way worthy
of confidence. We know him to have been
engaged in teaching Common and High
Schools with eminent success, and recom-
mend him for teacher on account of his
experience, as well as his talents and acquire
ments.
THOMAS W. CAMPBELL, CM.
Board OF School Examiners of Guernsey
county, Ohio"
Not only for his efficiency, and by reason
of his being the candidate of the party but
Mr.. Bebam will be supported ty Republi-
cans because he himself is Republican.
1t is Mr.. Brannan's misfortune, that at
this day, he stands before the public as a
representative of Buchanan democracy. The
violation of Bucbanan's plighted word tc
the country respecting the pirates who sal
from our shores, and the criminal completely
with the Corsair Walker uow hidden i'll dark
concealnent by the menaces OF that pirate
of the Guf-the ignorance and incapacity
manifested by the President In the Treasury
department-the imbecility shown in the
control of the brooding troubles in Utah
and the damning degradation of the Executive
in violating that vital and most cherished
principle Of our country-that government
exists in the assent of the governed-by at
tempting through the power Of bribery il
Congressional Halls, and the force of th,
bayonet. and of fraud in Kansas, to thrus
Down the tllroats of people constitution
which, they detest, these, and all these acts
find justiier in the candidate of the Dem
ocratic party. OF Brannan, the man, th'
l,,vro, thara nothinn fn a1