The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1859-07-21
Our County Convention.

publican Central Committee do not
know their business, but we would for
the benefit of the party they are pre-
sumcd to be acting, aud the one for
which we are laboring, most respect.
fully inquire if the time for issuing a
call for the County Convention has not
arrived. There may be some danger
perhaps in holding the convention too
carly, but certainly none can result
from an early call. This gives the va
rious township committees an opportu
nifty of issuing their calls for the town
caucuses in time to have all the Repub-
licans Of their township notified Of the
same. We deem such course Of pro-
ceedinS highly important to the interest
Of our party.
In the first place it affords equal ia
cilitics to all, to have a voice in the
nomination Of the candidates Of their
party to Gil the Offices. Whereas, upon
a late call, but few townships are in
formed in time to hold their caueuses,
and one. two or three individuals from
each township at tho solicitation Of
hungry Office seekers come without APP
pointment to the County Convention
and arc permitted to speak and vote for
their township, when as is sometimes
the case their opinions and sentiments
are directly the reverse Of the majority
Of the people they represent. By this
method candidates are oft times forced
upon the party, who arc repugnant to a
majority Of them, and thus obliging
Republicans to vote for them or bolt
the nomination; which the political
history Of our party in the County says
has not unfrequently been done.
Second, an early call, one in time
for holding township caucuses, to ap-
point delegates to the County Conven.
ton, awakcns more general and uni
vcrsal zeal in the principles of our party
throughout the county. Each individ-
ual member then, has voice in the
management Of its affairs and the dis
tribution Of its Offices. This secures
his, interest, and instead Of being luke
warm in our course, or bolter, he will
engage heartily in the work and battle
for victory.
Let the call then be issued and let
Republicans in every part Of the county
60 to work. Let them hold up to the
hcsitating, and every Dcmocr4t who is
in the least inclined to reason, the true
principles Of Rcpublicanism, which labors
to secure our Territories to freeman and
save them from that blighting, degra-
ding, communicating damming curse,
slavery which labor for reform
in the present extravagant administra-
ton of our general government, which
advocates protection to ali our citizens,
and equal and exact justice to all men.
Letthem also expose the pcrnicious prin-
ciples Of the Boosting cxtrayigant Dc.
mocracy, expose their haggard form and
hydra head, by showing that they are
composed of factions, each faction ad.
vocating principles condemned by the
others; and that they arc forced to unite
Previous to every important election by
their Unsuitable, greedy desire Of public
plumber that they are responsible for
the present unprecedented and unpar-
donable extravaganza in the Admins.
tration Of our general government, and
and the arrangement in our posta. af-
fairs.
We say, every Republican should go
to work in this style, making facts and
figures count, and we shall reap . glo-
rious harvest next October.
pD We are in receipt Of the first
number Of The Ioua School Journal
published Monty at DesMoincs BY N.
W. Mills 4 Co., and edited by A. J.
Stevens.
Upon partial examination VIC find it.
to be just such Journal as should be
found in the hands of every teacher in
the State and will add that it would be a
very valuable acquisition to the rea ding
matter of every family. tits conducted