The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-04-21

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THANKFUL FOR SMALL FAvORS.
Many Of the Democratic journals have
shouted themselves hoarse over the election
Of SPaAGUE as Governor Of Rhode Island
claiming his election as Democratic
triumph. SPRAcuE is not Democrat aud
did not run upon Democratic PLATFORM
He was candidate before the Republican
Convention that nominated Mr.. PADDED
FORD. His friends alleged that no was
frsudulently defeated, and they called an
other Convention, at which he was put in
nomination. The Democrats in State Con.
vention, about month subsequently, re-
solved to make no nomination for Governor,
bat to support Mr.. SpRAcuE. Thus was
the election of Mr.. s. brought about, and
the defeat Of the regular Republican candi-
date compassed. And this is what our
Democratic contemporaries call 'sglorious
Democratic victoryp' Verify, the almost
disiutegrated Democratic party, is tickled
with less than straw. To show how por-
ton Of the Republicans of Rhode Island
regard the election of SPRAcUE, we quote
from the Newport News, as follows: "We
think that the election of the conservative
Repcblican ticket in this State, instead of
proving n disadvantage to the Republican
party, nationally considered, will be of in
estimable value, and that its seeds of con-
cord will germinate at the Chicago Conven.
ton Into plants OF harmony winch will
send their brightest emblem to blossom at
thesWbite House."
A. other grain Of comfort our Democratic
friend, just now rolling under .hoir
tongues asa sweet morsel-is the(supposed)
result Of The election in Wisconsin for
Chief Justice. We advise them not to be
in hurry about expanding their aminuni-
ton, for "doub,ful things are uncertain."-
tits true the early returns seemed to ind
cate tho election Of Dixon, independent
(Republicaa) ca ndidate for Chief Justice,
but the following dispatch from Madison
to the Milwaukee Sentinel, by no means
anttles the matter in favor of Dixon. Ac.
cording to this dispatch, the chances are
in favor Of Sloan, the straight Republican
candidate:
4e Madison. April Is, 1860.
Twenty. counties give Sloan 4,297
majority. The same counties lass fall gave
Randall 4 ,42a. According to the estimates
on the balance of the COMMITTEES, Sloan has
a majority OF 273 votes in the State.
But, even granting that Judge DIXON
is elected, the Democracy have about as
little causefor rejoicing thereat, as they
had for rejoicing over the result Of the late
contest for the Speakership of the House
Of Representatives at Washington. In
proof Of this, We submit the following
stsroment (from the Chicago Press & Tri-
bune) Of the issue in the late Judicial
election in Wisconsin !: 'sJudge Dixon was
appointed to the Office which he now holds,
by Gov. Randall. None will doubt tha,
Gov. z. is a Republican Of the most strait.
est sect, and no ona.in Wisconsin doubts
that the gentleman whom he named as the
successor Of Chief Justice Wilton was, like
himself, Republican, subscribing to every
article in the Philadelphia platform. If any
question bad arisen on this point, Gov.
Randall wouldnot have been re- nominated;
If any question were to be raised now which
would give color to the charge that Judge
Dixon sympa,hises, in my degree whatever
with Douglas Democracy. or any form of
pro slavery politics, his Republican sup
porters, of whom there we're hundreds in
all parts Of the State, would be cut off from
the hope Of political preferneut, conclu.
siyely and at onca. 1t is hardly necessary
70 repeat the well known state Of facss
which brought Judges Dixon aud Sloan
into the contest. The only questi of
variance between them on the record was
the appellate Jurisdiction Of the Supreme
Cont Of the United States. Tho Consii.
nationality Of the Fugitive Slave Law was
not in issue and II it had been, that fact
would not have constituted q Democratic
triumph, though Judge Dixon had received
every vote in the State. The Hon. Timothy
-. Howe, OF Green Bay, one of the able,t
Republicans in the State, and prominent
candidate for Republican support as Mr..
Daskec's successor in the United States
Senate, has always advocated the opinions
ia regard TO the appellate jurisdiction Of
Of the Supreme Court, which Judge Dixcn
has recently proclaimed, and ho has not
bssu disqualified thereby for any Office in
the rift Of the party. Prominent Republi.
cans in Madison, Milwaukee, Racine,
AGrsss Bay and other places, supported
Judge Dixon for the purpose Of recording
the,r individnal views on this question Of
ths Supreme Cosrs's Jurisdiction, notwith-
ssasdins Jsdge sleaa sas the nominee Of
! Repablican Csnyention. But the best
Ss;Sepcs that ths Democracy havs nothing
fs;o;ce nres nt6h electiea, j. the fact
8 ~ tho Grse: Time il 1t lesst ten years
- y Sssiis l6ey did not dare g make a
49, sssldssse s6eir oEn. They estimated
~ st ilseir own salae when they
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