Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-10-06
THE TIME Is NEAR.

Before our next issue the State Of Iowa
will have taken unto herself . new Ad.
m'n'stration. "for better or for wcrse-for
richer or for poorer" Seldom do loca,
issues and the selection of local officers
arouse such general zeal and interest,"
The judgment TO be rendered At the ballot
box next Tuesday will close an exciting
and most thorough trial. Contests like
the present are full Of good omen. They
clearly Indicate the strength aud order OF
representative governments, in the Re adv
scqu'esce"ce and good will with which the
result Of an election is received. Tb4v
restrain the abuses of power and breaches
OF public trust, by insti.u,ing a searching
scrutiny into whatever pertains to the
public welfare.
With US, political truth finds the fullest
and most rapid development. Our system
goes on from one degree Of strength to
anosher-from one line Of policy to auoth.
er more enlightened and successful. A,
one time We see an attempt to take the
power from the people and centralize it in
few justly stricken down with Federal
ism. At another time the credit and cur.
rency Of the country are rescued from a
precar'ous dependence upon a National
Bank !; aud again q wise public sen.imeu,
dictates that the Protection system shall
rot interfere with the natural laws Of
trade. The successful establishment Of
these doctrines strongly evidence the vi
tal'ty and progressiveness Of our popular
system. ie. these advances were not se.
cured without arduous and protracted
struggles-s'ruggles from which the Dem.
ocracy draw hope and assurance If success,
in coming contests.
Heretofore the great political parties
into which we we're divided, like the Ro-
man youth in the purer ages of the Re.
public, We'd with each other in devotion
to their country, SO that whatever the re-.
suls, il was attended With little or no sur.
render of principle or peril Of Interest,"
But We have arrived At q strangely marked
per'od-a period when, in the language Of
Calhoun, "men seek holier faith than
that founded on the Bible, and an higher
platform than the Federal Constitution, !"
For the 6rst time do we see large party
utterly hostile TO the interests Of par,ic.
n!ar section Of the country, and pledged
to measures that weaken US By dissen tons
and endanger our existence BY innovations
upon our constitutional rights. No party
has ever before in our history, in the brief
space Of i've years embraced 90 many her
esies-falsiied 20 many professious-en
couraged in so many ways resistance to
lsv-robbej the foreign born citizen of 40
many rights-and fed 80 assiduously the
flames Of dangerous agitation, as the
Republican party. In Iowa, it has reck.
'ess'y squandered the peoples money
driven capital from our State BY excessive
tsssion-msde our laws . laughing stock
And rsprosch-violated one Of the mos,
important clauses Of our Constitution, and
east sway the safe. guards Of the desres.
rights aud interest Of the people.
Voters Of Woodbury.! This party now
asks Of you new lease Of power. Ad.
minister now the rebnke they have merit.
ed. Let your voice be for Rerssxcurrxr
AND Rrroax-DExocRAcy AND the R,onr
DODGE AND VICTORY,