St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-08-18
The Aristocracy Of GO Democracy


It is probable that the Democracy of Iowa
will inaugurate something new in the mode OF
conducting the campaign just opening IN this
State The labors of isolated individuals
travelling here and there over the State adj
dressing handfulls of people, will probably be
dispensed with in the beginning, and in their
place the contest will he opened by mass
meeting in each Judicial District, to which
will be invited tie people of the whole Dis
trict Prominent speakers from abroad and
from distant parts of the State will be on hand
to address the people.-Dubuque Herald
When our Democratic friends made
their State nominations they were evil
IDENTIFY believers in the old adage that,
"Money makes the mare go :" but
should their candidates be elected, the
people will very soon be singing Saxe's
song, "Where does all the money go?"
Dodge is rich, Mason is rich, Rabbit
has $4,000 of Uncle Sans money,
Cole has the cash for his Kentucky
"niggers " in his pocket, and Wilson
also has money.
Now of what use is it for them to
discuss principles before the people,
Especially if they have no principles
which the people like when money is
SO much more effectual in carrying on
the campaign? This money, be it I'M.
dcrstood, has been filched from the
people, and is to be used in expressing
them, in taking from them their rights
and depriving them Of their liberties,
in the same manner as the European
despots Cypress their subjects by COM
polling them to support the very army
which grinds them and their liberties
in the dust.
Do the people of Iowa know that,
instead of contest Of principles, the
coming campaign is to be fought, on
the part of the Democrats, aciM money |?
Instead Of meeting the Republicans
and discussing measures of State and
National policy with them, the wealthy
Democratic Office seekers and wire.
pullers are to hold in each district
what they are pleased to term " Demo
cratic Mass Meetings." ostensibly tc
harangue the faithful upon meaning
less generalities, but really for the pur
pose of distributing money and means
and giving instructions to the It'll.
workers, and starting them out
on their missions through their respect
i've districts.
Thus, it will be seen, that the peo
pie, the yeomanry, the real bone and
sinew of the country, are to be met
and swayed, not with the power Of in
tellect in the presentation of great po-
litical truths, but with the po,cer Of
nancy, which is intended to corrupt
them-to buy and sell them, like slaves
in a southern market.
Viii the hard working farmers of
Iowa. suffer themselves thus to be
dragged into market and bought by
these aristocratic money-changers, who
all their lives have fed and fattened
upon the spoils of Office, and are still
whining for more pap? We think
not. They are too intelligent, and
have too much regard for honesty and
economy, and such wholesome laws as
tend to give equal and exact justice
to all. Luckily the farmers of Iowa
are able to find, among their oom mum
bers, men capable of administering the
government of the State. They be-
1ieve that KIRKwooD and RUscH, both
able-bodied and able-minded farmers,
are men who know what il is to labor
with their own hands, and know how
to sympathise with the hardy pioneers
and the working classes the work
ing classes, in return, sympathise
with them /; and next October they
will give them triumphant election.
The Plow-handle Ticket" is the tick
ct that wins +!