Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-16

Honor EO WEOm Honor Is Due
). In the hour of our congratulation, Will
}, the flush of exulting joy has Eot left ou
s checks, nor the fierce food which course
j through the veins of the victors subsidized i,i
8 the tempered flow of every day life, we tax
a our pen with pride and qualification to perform
/. the most pleasant duty of this campaign. /
8 is to award the just need of public honor t.
those who have rendered va liable services i,
the battle. And first, to all the Republican
! Of Muscatine county, we think that there i
due the emphatic thanks of the whole party
in the State, for having given the largest pei
centage Of Republican gain Oh any pre7iou.
vote of any county in the State. In no othe,
county have the Republicans organized them
selves more promptly to the call or NOR.
efficiently than here. By so doing, they have
rescued the whole county organization from
the hands of the Democrats. In every pre-.
cinct' they have come out to the polls to a
man, we believe, and have gained largely, In
every township but Montpelier, they have, in
accordance with the ADVICE of the County
Convention, and with the repeated exhorta-
tons of the Journal, nominated straight Re.
publican township tickets, and the result las
fully vlndicated the wisdom of this policy.
In nJ6re townships Bloomington, SweetIand,
uoshen, Moscow and Fulton they organized
Wide Awake companies, and the r publican
gains have been largest iD those townships
we congratulate you, Republicans of Musca-
tlne county, upon your noble erformance OF
your duty, and upon your success. Amope
the agencies which have been most efficient in
winning this victory is the Wide Awake
! organization. This gallant band of Young
men and old men have done wonders, and
they are entitled to pre-eminent distinction
among the valiant soldiers who have won this
great victory. They have contributed the
most money, and they have given the most
time to the contest, of all other persons, and
above all, they have lent all the life and energy
to the campaign which it possessed. Their
agency has been simple one, it is true; and
very many profound, long heads in the oppo-
site party, and a few in our own party, who
belong to that class of men who are always
differing from everybody else, for the sake of
appearing wiser than their neishbors, affected
to think the movement childish and useless
one. But these wiseacres must remember
that the rule in this world, in everything, is
that its simple things are always chosen to
conlound the wise-lke them. This world is |
full of profound bodies, who are always uz-
zling their deep heads to find out some far
fetched, high and sublime way of doing things
But, somehow, it always happens that, |
anything important is to be done soon ano
done well, the mass of tho people seize upo: |
some simple, homely and ready agency, anu |
do the work while our philosophers arv |,
standing by, shaking their heads and wonder
ing what use there is in such unphilosophica
conduct The Wike Awake organization is
an apt Illustration of this fact. 1t consisted |
merely in assembling the young men of the
country in companies, and giving them semi
military drill, and cheap uniform, for the
purpose Of giving order and promptitude to |
their political PROFESSIONS, and Of doing the |
vigilance work Of the campaign. Itsecured |
these ends, and two others:
FIRST 1t enlisted three -four;hs of the young
men of the North in one gallant, enthusiastic
body, with an esprit du corps that no standing
army ever boasted Of
Second. 1t insplrited and aroused the
public more freely than any other means coulu
have done.
Another band of workmen who did !
yecman' S work, and contributed largely to ou,
victory, are the able and talented corps o.
speakers whom the Central Committee placed
in the field.
Hon. VIM. G. WOODWARD and JACOB
BUlLsR, Esq, have both canvasscd the county
extensively, and have been warmly ard
enthusiastically rec' ived by the people every
where. Their speeches have been among the
ablest and most interesting in the State. and
have told largely on the result.
HENRY O'CoNNoR has devoted all the time
which could be spared from his official duties
to the canvass, with his usual energy and
enthusiasm, and the effects Of lis labor are
plainly traceable wherever he has gone.
j. ScorT RIcnMAN has put his shoulder to
the wheel, and, with his talents and influence,
has quietly and unobtrusively done able and
valuable service to the cause.
d. G. CLOUD, in spite of i'll health and
pressing professional duties, has taken an
earnest and effective, though net quite 50
large, part of the labor of the canvass No,
his has generally been the lions share) as in
any previous one.
Judge MEAsoN has also taken the stump |
with all the energy and fire of young man.
GEO. W. KINcAID, JNo. A. PAgvIN. A.
HEBERLINa and Mr. McxLEY have also con.
tributed ably to the victory by their speeches.
Among the younger portion Of the party, |
the array of talent and effective speaking
ability has been, without exaggerasion, very
brilliant, and highly creditable to this county.
We do not think that it has been equalled by
any county in the State. Our younger
speakers have acquitted themselves nobI,,
and have made efforts in our school-house
and rural districts, which, if made on large,
stage, would have won for them an bonorab,,
and Statewide reputation. 1t would he
invidious to particularze. We assign them
all credit. JoHNO. WILSON, L. f. WAsnBuss.
Gro. W. VAN tloESE, GEORGE A. Foss, R. G
WALTER and W. +. DAVIS have deserved the
thanks Of their party.
We would be untruthful and unjust to pass
over in sill nee another powerful and no less
important influence than either of those first