Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-11-03
Republican Swindles Exposed byQ
Republican.
SPEECH OF DANIEL F. mrLLE1

litical aggrandizement.
In speaking of politics, M. MILLER
said that he had not seen any reason to
change his old political opinions that all
his life be had been political disciple Of
Henry Clay, and since the Wing party had
gone down, he had acted with the Repub-
licans when they nominated honest and
competent candidates, and when they did
not be voted for honest candidates Of the
opposing party, as his friends and aequain.
tances Of Lee county, we'll knew. Eos
several years be had meddled little with
politics, for several reasons, one Of which
was that the statements made by Demo.
Gratis Of the misrule and corruption Of the
Grimes and Wright dynasty in Iowa were
not Democratic lies, as some asserted,
sud that the worst had not been told about
them, and that he did not choose to be
found in bad company. Speaking Of the
Grimes Winslow letter, he said it was
scandal to humanity and the State Of
Iowa, and though heated and diseased
state Of politics might gloss over that mi.
guilty for the present, tho cool, honest,
sober second thought Of the people would
yet vindicats truth and public Justice
Referring to honesteads, he said it was
foolish for any man or set Of mea in Iowa
to claim to be the exclusive friends of that
measure; that in ls4s, as Wing candidate
for Congress in this District, be had ad.
vocated that measure in more than hun
drad speeches, and when in Congress,
though his influence was humble, he gave
ell he had in aid Of Homestead Law, of
which Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, one
Of natures noblemen, and Democrat,
was the author that in 1850. when Hem,
Democrat, and Wright, Wing, we're oppos-
ing candidates for Representative in Con-
gress in the I'd District, the former favored
the Homestead Law and the latter oppos-
cd it, at least he so understood them. He
further said that in 1850, Democratic
Legislature had given the people of Iowa
the bes. Homestead Law in America, aud
Judge Wright, either through ignsrasoe
Of law, or q mistake Of law, occssioned by
the persuasion Of certain police and Shy.
lock lawyers, had, in the Mccormack suit,
knocked the bottom out Of it and lett it
hanging, As il wers, in mid cir, to Be reach.
cd only BY balloon conveyance.
Referring to the Capitol relocation fraud
and conceptions, Mr.. Miller showed that
Grimes, Wright and others had formed an
association Of spectators to procure the
removal Of the Capitol from Iowa City to
several hundred acres Of unimproved land
east Of the Dss Moines river, aud nearly
mile from Dcs Moines city, which is
west of the Des MONIES river. Judge
Wright owned ten acres of the lots, which
he got at tn. triains sum Of thirty dollars
An acre. Judge Wright drew the bill for
relocation and helped badger it through
the Legislature. That the Law gave
Grimes authority to appoint Commi ssien :
er' to relocate the Capitol, that Grimes
appointed Commissioners interested in the
speculation with one exception that Peg.
ram, one of the Commissioners net thus
interested, had been written to, and agreed
by letter before he was appointed by
Grimes, 10 locate the Capitol on the east
side of Des Moines river. but when he
came to perform the duties of his Office
he discovered the speculation, and con.
cludsd honor alone would not pay, and
be compelled portion Of the spectators
to pay him ten thousand dollars in cash
before he yielded to the knavery. Mr..
Miller further showed that the citizens of
Des Moines City had offered the State Of
Iowa real estate worth one hundred thous.
and dollars on which to build the Capitol,
and two hundred thousand dollars towards
the construction Of the Capitol buildings,
oil of which was lost to our State through
the speculation of Grimes, Wright & Co.
Here, voters Of Woodbury. county,
you have the evidence of Republican, \
man who is inside the organization Of that
party, and who undoubtedly speaks know.
ingy and truthfully, that the leaders Of
the Republican party in Iowa. have viii
fally aud deliberately swinded the hon.
est tax payers of the State out Of hundreds
Of Thousands Of dollars, and applied the
money, not for the benefit and convent
ence of the people, but liz such manner
a. to subssrye their own private enter.
prises. These same Republican leaders
stand convicted Of swindling the people
upon the evidence Of Thos. Drummond, q
Republican, who. in speech in the Sen
ate Of this State, Of which body he was
prominent member, charged the party
with misapplying the appropriations made
by the Legislature, and stignatized Jas
". Grimes, the great head of Republican
ism, as An infamous liar" on account of
bis authorship Of the celebrated "Grimes.
Winslow letter." The Republican party,
with these convicted swindlers" and
liars for its leaders, is again asking
the voters and Taxpayers of Iowa, to
grant them q new lease of power, that
they may continue their Wholesale robbie.