The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-09-18
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The Democrats are certainly making a
sorry political campaign this year, IN thu
State. Their newspapers started out with
the resolution to scruple at no means 20
accomplish their ends, however disreputabla
or untrue they might be. They were deter.
mined that il should be alphabetically can
vass Of lies; but unfortunately for them,
though fortunately for tho cause Of truth,
the Spanish proverb has proved true and
"their lies have oil gone home to roost."
The Eads press-that is to say the news
papers suborned by that immaculate fnan-
ccier and ducator-recognizing the truth Of
the proposition that the receiver Of stolen
goods is as guilty as the thief, knowing that
the public school fund had been placed in
their hands without the shadow of authority
in law, and that they were both legally and
morally as guilty as he who purloined it,
were resolved to divert public attention from
their own completely in the speculation Of
that fund, by their gross and unwarrantable
attacks upon other people. Hence the un-
mocratic organs in Burlington, Fl. Madison,
Keokuk, Iowa City, Dubuque, &c., upon the
Republican party and especially upon every.
body from whom they dreaded exposure OF
censure.
REPUBLICAN EXrRAvAGANCE.
A violent onslaught was first made upon
what they termed the Republican extragv-
gance of the late administration. The at
tempt was made to convince reasonable men
that the State ought to administered a
cheap with population Of 100000 souls
and eighty-nine organized counties, as with
population of 25O, 900 and fifty one organ
ized counties. They thought the people
would overlook the fact demonstrated by the
history of every city, county and State since
governments were organized, that the
expenses Of a government increase somewhat
in proportion to the increase Of population
and wealth.
The population of Iowa has more than
doubled within the four years. In that time
the number of Judicial districts has been
increased, more than forty new counties have
been organized and the representation in the
General Assembly has been greatly enlarged:
large additions have been made to the Pen
itentiary and the number of convicts increas-
ed seven fold; the number Of deaf and dumb
and blind children has increased, the salaries
of officers have been raised to respectable
living rates; a costly Insane Hospital has
been nearly completed; Geological Survey
of the State partly finished, and the Agri-
cultcral Societies all over the State have
been greatly encouraged; an extra session
of the General Assembly became necessary
in July, 1856, and Constitutional Conven.
ton was held in February, 1857, both Of
| which were attended with very considerable
expense to the State, and all Of which have
been endorsed over and over again by the
people.
DEFALcATIoN OF THE STATE TREASURER.
They next attacked the Treasurer of State,
NJ. l.. Morris, Esq, and pronounced him q
defalter to the amount Of $l09, 900 because
he brought that amount Of money from New
York in Eastern exchange instead of bring.
ing it in gold. 1t was not pretended tina,
there was any deficiency in the Treasury
In fact, there was an excess, but a portion
Of the money was in drafts on New York,
which were worth more to the State than gold.
They said he was defa'ter because he
ought to have brought the money in gold,
yet when proposition was made in the Sen.
ate to require him to bring nothing but gold,
it was voted down by some Of the very men
who now prefer the charge Of defalcation.
Not only so, but the bill authorizing him to
negotiate the loan declares that deposit of
the money $500, OO0) in the State Treasury
shall be deemed full performance under
the act, leaving him to get the money to
Des MONIES in his own way. This exchange
has been paid out to the creditors Of the
State or otherwise converted into specie, and
this "lie has gone home to roost." We do
not suppose that there is man in the State
who ever believed Mr.. Morris to be a default
er, and there are very few men, cognizant
of the facts, who do not believe that the
charge originated in business hostility to n
conspicuous banking firm in the State, who
were supposed to be the friends of the Treas
urer.
QUARTERS SALARY OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
The next assault was upon Gen. Sells, the
Secretary of State, for receiving $3.50, as
salary for Governor during the absence Of
Gov. Grimes from the state, in Sept, 1857.
1t did not matter that the Constitution and
laws of the State required the Secretary Of
State to discharge the duties of Governor,
and conferred upon him the salary belong
ing to the Office during the absence Of the
Governor. They wero resolved to make
something heinously wrong out of the re-
ceipt Of this small sum, no matter what the
Constitution said on the subject. But this
charge, also, "soon went to roost," when it
was shown that that similar practice had
prevailed since the foundation Of the gov
eminent, and that that most popular Demo
crat, who is kept in training for future
occasion, Gen. McCleary. whilst Secretary
of State, received, under precisely similar
circumstances, $3.50, on the 18th of Janu-
airy, 1854, and $3.50 on the Goth of Sept,
1856.
PUBLIC PRINTING.
The next assault was upon the late Public
Printer, Peter Moriarty, Esq, and upon the
Auditor of State for paying Mr.. Moriarty
his claims for printing an appendix to the
Journals of 1861. The Constitution,
Art. 8, Sec. 10, required each house to keep
a Journal Of it's proceedings and publish
the same" The Senate concluded not to
obey this Constitutional Injunction, and
adopted resolution dec'arin ing that certain
documents-among them the census report,
TIC nOst important tOdt nuu eNcT Dceu suu-
mitted to any General Assembly in the State
should not be published with the Journal.
The House declared that they should be
published with their Journal, and they were
published as an appendix thereto. A docu-
ment submitted to either branch of the
General Assembly by q public officer goes
upon the Journal of the House to which it
is sent, and becomes part of that journal.
1t was not competent for either branch of
the Assembly to expurgate public document
ceive of the improperly of refusing to print
the census report, which was the basis of a
great deal Of the most important legislation
Of the session. The Dubuque Express and
Herald was the great fulminator of this
charge, but it was soon allowed to ego to
roost," when the proprietors of that paper,
Dorr & Mahony, were reminded of the ex-
pcnsive appendix they published, as State
Printers, two years before, ,cithottt author
ity from either House Of the General Assem-
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