Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-03

cate the Capitol on the east side OF The
Des Moines river, and he answered he
would, and that he was not appointed
until he gave that pledge,
that this same Pegram, when he came
TO act in the matter Of relocation with
the other commissioners, concluded that
honor alone would not pay him when he
found the speculations gong on, ana re
CURED, demand and compelled p"r-
ton oil the conspira,ors and spectators
to pay him ten thousand dollars before
he would or did aequlesce in the loca-
tion Of the Capitol for the beneht OF the
SPECTATORS, that these commssioners,
Influenced by the means aforesaid, lo-
Gated the Capitol NOT within the corpo-
rate limits Of Dcs Moines City, nor on
the west side of De. Moines river,
where Des MONIES City lies, where the
people of the State generally supposed
1t vas to be located, where the reloca-
ton bill passed, but located it on the
east side of the Des Moines river, near.
" one mile from Des Moines City, on
the land Of the spectators that Judge
Wright owne ten acres OF the lots III
cluded within the speculation, which he
got of J. b. Stewart, Esq, at the rate
of thirty dollars per acre, amounting TO
onW three hundred dollars III ALL, aud
that Is months after the relocation was
made he sold his interest in the reloca
ton speculation to one Rose Tor a SPLEEN
did farm, valued at seven thousand five
hundred dollars, in Van Buren, county,
Iowa and further that by this OPERA
TIos OF Judge Wright and his confieres
the State of Iowa lost three hundred
thousand dollars worth of real estate
which was offered as bonus to the
State by certain propretors and capital
| lists Of Des Moines City, to secure the
Capitol relocation within the bounds OF
that city.
Now, mark you, editors of the DEM
ocRAr AND NEWS, that though these
specific charges have been made at
u,any times and places aud publsi. ed in
many Democratic organs of the State,
and documents and witnesses referred
10 to sustain them, yet to this moment
has not even ONE Republican journals
dared deny them, or even speak about
them. No they have never yet even once
referred to them either by denial OF
explanation.
| When the Democracy charged on
the Republican leaders Of Iowa, their
fraud and corruption in the Insane Asy-
lum affair, the latter insisted at first it
was all a " Democratic lie," but as the
people would not be contented with a
simple denial, they manufactured that
famous document, known as the
Grimes. Winslow Letter." which was
the only thing that saved the State o
Iowa last year to Republican Govern
ment. Can they not manufacture ;
s'roorback" Of similar sort for to-
present occasion in defence Of judy
Wright & Co.?
Again our Republican leaders claim
/ they are per Sc the friends of home
stead law, and yet they are now sup
porting candidate for Judge who by ;
most strange and unprecedented decision
has virtually nulIified the HOMESTEAD
! EtglsfatnYG 6fsfsoU. 5bT '"" '""""r'''
Because Of Judge Wright's compliclt
in the Capitoi fraud, and of his hostllit
to the homestead policy, many Repub!i
cans who don't belong to the 'thie
wing" desired convention that som
one who had not WI nged the State an,
was not opposed to home>teads, Nigh
T be nominated But the "thiet wing
having the control of the Republica
State Committee, refused a convention
and arbitrarily placed Wright on tn
ticket without convention.
That Wright will be elected on thi
occasion | never have doubted, for Ii
has nearly, if not entirely, the Who'll. Re
publican press of our State to supper
him, with the same zeal and unscrupu
Ionsness that they published and sup
ported the Grimes-W inslow letter, whcl
they knew it all to be fabrication an,
falls hood. And on the other hand III,
old Clay Wing principles, which al
ways most zealously advocated when il
the Legislature of this State and tn
Congress Of the United States, and tn
tact that had allowed the use of M
name as a Republican elector Of low;
in 1856, was, and is, reason enough VIII
hoseDemocratice editors in the middle an,
northern parts of our State nudcqudia
ted with my past liherality in polt ca
matters in support of honest men for of
flee, irrespective OF party, where / be
ieved the public interests required il
should decline to interfere, as between
Wright aud myself
| But, sir, when distinguished citizen
Of both parties requested of me the us
OF my name as an Independent candi
date, l did not feel at liberty to decline
for success is not the true measure o
public virtue, and | felt that it woue
put me in position to vindlcate CERTAIN
principles OF right at this time, which
hereafter would compel the Republica
leaders Of this State to become NOR
honest, or dive them from power.
Messrs. Editors. commenced will
the intention to speak Of several othe
matters, but | find the boat on which
20, is about to depart. must stop here
without even time to correct anv I'm
grama ical expressions contained in tn
oregong lines. Yours,
u. F. MILLER.
STATE ITEMS.
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