Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
Judge Grant Decline.

The following card is taken from the Dav
export Ne,os:
TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF THE I'll
JUDICIAL DISTRICT:
We are authorized by the Hon. james
Grant to state to the Democracy of Muscatine
jackson, Clinton and Scott, that owing to the
pressing nature of his business arrangements
he is compelled with regret to decline the high
honor they have so kindly and unanimously
rendered him. Nought but considerations Of
that nature influences him in the matter; but
the duties that he owes to his clients nccestl-
I tate him to TIL, course.
1t is certainly to be regretted by the Dem
ocracy that so popular and so able Democrat
us Judge Grant should be compelled to decline
the Nomination. nomination thrust upon
him by a unanimous vote of the late conven-
ton, twice taken.
So ends chapter first of the farce. ltmight
be appropriately called "Much Ado about
Nothing" if it were not a pity to misapply
the title of so good play to so poor one.
This is one of the cases in which the DEM
ocracy act so naturally, and so perfectly in
accordance with the nature of the creature,
and with the analogy that exists between it
and its representative in the animal kingdom,
bird of high renown, which is wont face
tiously to hide its ugly head in some corner,
and then believe that its whole unwieldy
carcass is shrouded from the view of others
as well as from its own. Judge Grant was
nominated, not to run, but to decline. Every
body thought that it was good humbus, and
nobody was humbugged.
Farce No. 2 is now to come on the stage as
soon as the managers, Messrs. Harvey Leonard,
Thomas F. Butterfeld, William F. Brannan
and ~ Kelso draw the curtain. We
learn that there is slight disagreement behind
the scenes as to what should be done next.
In short, there is humbug within the hum
bug, by which, while they have jointly con-
spired in the aforesaid foul way to deceive
the public, they have also been playing off a
little private humbug upon each other.
One portion of the managers, personal
friends of Judge Bennett, of Davenport, a
Black Republican, and a quomdam candidate
before Black Republican Convention, united
in Judge Grants nomination, in order that he
might decline, and that they could run the
aforesaid Bennett in his place.. Now, although
this all seemed very proper and pretty to these
personal friends of Mr.. Bennett, it does not
appear so proper to the rest of the managers,
now that the question comes up for action.
They see very well that with two Black Re-
publican candidates in the field, and no Dem
ocratic one it would become mere question
of personal preference, and that, as Mr.. Dillon
is personally one of the most popular men
with both parties, in the District, and Mr..
Bennett is rather the reverse, they would
rather lose than gain by the bargain. Besides,
it is rumored that the friends of Mr. Brannan
desire to see him on tho track, and that in
agreeing to the aforesaid little arrangement
they had an eye to running their favorite
indirectly, whom they could not so well run
directly, owing to other aspirations from the
same place. SO our readers will see that it is
not at all certain what character will appear
next on the stage, and as it will make very
little difference in the election, we presume it
makes still less to them