St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-07-15
The Congressional Canvass.

district, for holding political meetings.
We are not yet advised whether his
competitor, Mr.. Lef1ingwell, will &C
company him or not. BE that as it
may, we do not apprehcnd that very
great amount of interest will be taken
in the canvass by the people of this
portion of the district. Both parties
in the North feel that their rights have
been denied them in the nominations.
Had Dubuque secured the Demo
cratic candidate also, as was strongly
suspected she would, it was in con-
temptation by the people of the upper
Cedar Valley to put up an independent
candidate to be supported without re-
gard to party politics; but,as it is, prob
ably no such movement will now be
made. This idea of independence or
neutrality, we are aware, is shocking
thing to demagogues and wire-w orking
pOiiliCluuS, VIII dHcCI W DtIlcNc INC
salvation of the country consists in
drawing party lines straight-in abus-
ing those who presume to do their own
thinking and acting-and who find it
necessary to get up some kind of cx-
citcment in order to make themselves
conspicuous.
! Now, what occasion or necessity is
there for all this? What is the differ
ence between the two Congressional
candidates of this district now in
nomination? We donot believe there
are ten men in the district who can
point out any difference in their politi-
cal doctrines. Mr. Leffingwell is I'M
derstood to be anti-Lccompton and
anti-English Compromise. Does any
one say that Mr.. Vandevcr is not the
same?
But in our opinion there are other
interests, that affect the well being of
the American people, besides "nig-
gers )" and who can say what are, or
what are not, the opinions of either of
the Congressional candidates upon
such questions as the immediate con-
struction of the great central Pacific
Railroad by aid of the General Gov
eminent /; the Improvement of the riv-
ers and harbors of the West by the
same aid +; the currency, banks and
banking /; the disposal of the public
lands ; the revenue laws, and how
they should be adjusted the Indian
policy of the Government the crca-
ton and admission of new States the
Central American unostin" the in
crease or decrease of the army and
navy rctrcnchment, economy and re-
form in the Government expenditures,
&c, &c. Who, we ask, can show us
any difference of opinion between the
two Congressional candidates upon
any or all Of these questions? If no
one, then we ask, why should our peo-
pie manifest any particular zeal in the
canvass?
Both candidates are located in the
Southeastern part of the district, and
unless they are very different from
their predecessors it is not to be sup
posed that they will give themselves
much trouble about the local interests
of the Northwestern part Of the State.
We, who are on the ground, in the in
terror, know how wofully our rights
have been disregardcd by Mississippi
River Congressman, and how much
we are to-day suffering for the want of
proper post office and mail facilities,
aid for the construction of railroad,
&c.
We are told that, in the Democratic
Congressional and State Conventions,
after Mr.. Leflingwell was nominated,
his friends, in the flush of triumph, at
once went to the Northern delegates
and offered to give them any nomina-
ton they would then ask, of the re-
naming ones. they being only for in
ferior State Offices. The proflercd lib
erality was spurned, and when an at
tempt was made to force upon them
the nomination of James Crow of Ger
no Gordo county, for Register of State
Land Office, they promptly voted it
down thus showing their Southern
friends (?) that they could not cast in
suit upon injury with impunity, Not
50 with the Republican delegates in
their Conventions. Several of those
from the North betrayed the wishes of
their constituents at the start, and
went in at once for the Dubuque Con
grcssional candidate. Even their man
Miller, of Cerro Gordo, did not get the
he claimcd-that for State
Treasurer-but gladly accepted the
most inferior one on the list, that for
Register of the State Land Office
The incident reminds us of an appli-
cant at Washington, who applied to
the President, first, for commission to
some foreign court, but at length came
down in his aspirations, from one
graduation to another, till he finally
asked the President if he had some
old clothes which he would give him.
APPLEs.--ln the older settled por-
tons of the Cedar Valley, apple or
chards are common with every farmer.