The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-08-19
What will they do now |!

WI nat Will tney DO now!
GS The whole stock in trade of the
Democratic party in this State, since the
commencement of the present political
canvass, up to this time, has been libels
upon the honesty and integrity of MAR
TIN l.. NORRIS, the present State Trea-
surer, and through him, upon the charac-
ter of the Republican party. Mr.. Nor
RIs, we believe, was first elected to his Of
fee as Democrat, and has heretofore
enjoyed the confidence of the people of
the State to such an extent that they have
kept him in his responsible post for three
successive terms. Heretofore, no breath
of suspicion has been breathed against
him, but as the rascality of Democratic
Superintendent EADs rendered it neces-
sary that similar odium should attach
itself to Republican official, as an off
set, the hue and cry of deaulter and
thief was raised against Mr.. NORRIS. In
order to give color to the charge, they
mutilated the report of committee APP
pointed by the late Legislature to inyesti-
gate the affairs of the treasury, and thus
mutilated, published it throughout the
length and breadth of the State. This
committee was appointed two or three
days before the close Of the session, and
the day subsequent to Mr.. MoRRIs's re-
turn from New York, where he had been
to negotiate the bonds of the State. A
part of the proceeds of those bonds he
had brought in drafts and certificates OF
deposits. He was called on to make his
exhibit to the committee but few hours
after his return, and of course before his
drafts and certificates could be converted
into money. The report of the commit
tee gave detailed list of these drafts and
certificates, showing that, with them,
there was a surplus of $500 in the trea-
sury to the credit of Mr.. NORRIS. The
report censured him, however, for not
having the gold in the Treasury. The sup
preston of the part of the report which
enumerates these assets, and the publish
ing Of that containing the committees
censure, are the means whereby EAD's
coterie of school fund pilferers have en-
deavored to make case against Mr. Nor
RIs.
This they thought they were succeed
ing gloriously in, but we apprehend that
the clear, explicit, manly statement of
Mr. NORRIS, which we publish on our
outside to-day, will block their game
most effectually. This shows that those
drafts and certificates have been nearly
all paid, and that what remains is kept in
place simply for the convenience it af
fords the Treasurer in the transaction of
his official business. Not a cent has vet
been, or can hereafter be, lost to the
State, through Mr.. NORRIS, and not a
warrant goes away from the door of the
Treasury uncancelled. Of this every
man who reads Mr.. MoRRls's statement
must be satisfied A reiteration Of the
lies against him cannot, therefore, here
after harm him, and as the present politi-
cal capital of our opponents is thus rem
dered unavailable, we are led to ask
What will they do now?
EE"The State Bank Commissioners
met at Iowa City week before last. and
organized by elecling EzEKIEL CLARK, of
Iowa City, President, and A. l.. MASON,
of Muscatine, Secretary. Some appica-