Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-09-06
The Convention Yesterday at Waterloo.


On At the Convention held yesterday at Wa
terloo for the purpose of nominating Rep
resentative and county officers, every towr
but one (Union) was represented. The Ce
dar Falls delegation went into the Conven
ton without any particular men or measures
to forward; they went there in good faith
determined to ask only for what was theil
just right, and equally determined to AWARD
TO other localities what they claimed for theil
own. But though other delegations protested
to be actuated by like motive the sequel
proved the contrary, and showed the men
up as hypocritcs of the deepest dye-men
who would make a solemn promise, and then,
before the words were hardly cold upon their
lips, turn right about and do exactly the
contrary, as boldly and unblushingly as tho
they esteemed lying a virtue and hypocrisy
an essential and important attribute of their
characters. We do not wish to impute this
spirit to all the delegations present it ap-
plies particularly to the delegates from two
towns. Waterloo was bound to have all the
Offices, and to that end violated their solemn
pledges, and by pursuing course dishonor.
able to themselves and the party, succeeded
au Seeing how things were going, and it being
apparent that the Convention was controlled
by the ultra, radical portion of the party
we might almost say the abolition wing
men who would not concede an iota in these
perilous times when the good and true men
Of the country are uniting, as far as can be-
to save the Union from the black vortex OIL
secession, men who care more for the loaves
and fishes and the petty honors of a county
Office, than they do for the perpetuation Of
the government, there remainded but one
thing for the conservative and fair-minded
portion of the Convention to do, and that was
to withdraw, and leave the radicals to work
out their own ends in their own bigotcd way.
How well they will succeed remains to be
proven, but if they have not dug the PIT for
their own burial, we are mistaken. Party
lines cannot be drawn this fall as tight as
year ago, and it will not do to crack the whip
of radicalism over the heads of the people.
It seems to us that there is but one thing
to do, and that is to call a" Union" Convcn-
ton which shall be open to all the conselva-
tive men Of the county, to the Democrats and
Reprblicans, nominate good men and put
them in the field. We have no doubt but
that ticket so nominated would be success
full. 1t would be successful even in Water
loo, the headquarters of radicalism, and the
most prominent and patriotic Republicans of
that place heartily approved of the course Ia
ken by the conservative portion of the Con-
-vention in withdrawing, and even told them
before they went into the Convention that
the treacherous clique which controlled the
Convention would sell them out, that it was
all arranged and we might as well keep out.
The sequel proved the truth of their predic-
ton.
Then let us have Union ticket, the men
can be found, good men and true, that can
not be beaten by the men nominated yester-
day. Yesterday was not the only time that
Waterloo had played its treacherous game ::
they have steadily pursued it until forbear-
ancc has ceased to bea virtue, and it now re-
mains for the people of the county to assert
their rights, rebuke the clique who would
either rule or ruin, they uiU do it.