The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-09-29

Governor should act in the absence or
incapacity of the Governor. Mr.. Pol
LOCK was not well enough conversant
with State affairs 10 know that there was
no Lieut. Governor when Gov. Grimes
occupied the Executive Chair, and that
therefore he could not have acted instead
Of the Secretary. He forgot to say, too,
that Geo. w. McCleary, Democratic
Secretary of State, once received $500
for acting as Governor, in the absence of
that officer from the State, charge that
he had constitutional right to make,
just as Mr.. SELLS had. Mr.. POLLOCK
also charged the Republicans with the
extra pay resolution passed at the extra
session of 1856, when the truth is that
Democrat, p. CAD BRYAN, of Warren
county, moved to take the question of
pay entirely out of the hands of the reg
ular committee, and give it to a select
committee of five, and was supported by
NEAL, Of Marion county, another Demo-
crat. BRYAN was the chairman of that
committee, and reported the bill for the
extra allowance, which extra amount
JOHN PATTEE, the Republican Auditor,
refused to audit, and it was paid out on
certificates, issued under the resolution.
A Democrat originated the bill, and
Democrats urged it, and nearly every
man of them voted for it, and yet Mr.
POLLOCK, and all his speech making
friends have not word to say against
anybody but Republicans in that connec-
ton.
| Mr.. POLLOCK displayed his ignorance,
and his desire to falsify, in similar
manner, for some forty or fifty minutes,
much to the disgust of the few who staid
to hear him-Democrats as well as Re-
publicans. We never saw Democrats so
ashamed of anything as they were of
these speeches, and one of them, prom
inent lawyer of this place, said he hoped
that if Dubuque again sent them speak
ers she would send them some one who
knew something, and could do at least
half as we'll as those they have at home
After Mr.. Pollock had got through,
the Democratic nominee for Senator,
john II. PETERS, was called out, and
made few disconnected remarks, main
ly upon that question of mileage. We
have attended to that subject in another
part of to, days paper.
On Thursday evening Rev. HENRY
CLAY DEAN held forth to a very large
audience at the courthouse. Mr.. DEANS
appointmen mt was made for 9 o'clock, p.
NJ, and the Republicans in the meantime
had made an appointment for Mr.. EAST
MAN. to speak in the evening. The Dem
ocracy, finding that the Fair would inter-
fere with Mr.. DEANS audience, put off
their appointment until evening and then
insisted upon the Republicans giving
way. We proposed a joint discussion,
and urged it upon them as strenuously as
possible, but they utterly refused to make
such an arrangement. All were anxious
to hear Mr.. DEAN, and Mr.. EASTMAN, af-
ter every means had been exhausted to
induce a consent to a joint discussion,
gave way, with the understanding that
they were to announce him for the next
evening, which they failed to do. Well,
in the very opening of his speech, Mr..
DEAN played the braggadocio,, and chal-
lenged any and every person in the State
TO meet him in the discussion of the points
he laid down, saying that if he did not
send them hideless away and charge
them nothing for tanning they might take
his hat with his head in it-and then we
saw men who had fought against joint
discussion all the afternoon, applaud the
egotist. Dean then want on with one of
the most senseless, blasphemous and vul
gar harangues that we ever heard from a
public speaker. He drew a picture of
the State five years ago, when emigration
was large and everything prosperous.
He then gave view which lie called It's
present condition, in which he depicted
the greatest amount Of poverty and des-
tuition, and all this be charged upon the
Republican party. Then he charged that
the Republicans were responsible for
counties taking stock in railroads in the
State--the six hundred thousand dollars
worth which Dubuque took, included, we
suppose. Then he accused us of causing
all the mobs and lynchings which have
occurred in the State, Then of being in
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