Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-06-26

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Our Candidates-The Union Cor
VentfOn.
The largest delegate convention that eve
assembled in this State, assembled on tn
18th inst. But three small counties, with a
aggregate vote of about ten, were unrepreser
ted. Over seven hundred and ninety vote
were cast by about seven hundred delegate
in actual attendance. Every public house il
Des Moines was crowded from its office col
ner to the attic. Delegates arriving on Tues
day were entertained with the hospitalities Q
the Union citizens Of that place. Beside
the regular delegations there were hundred
present from different parts of the State.
Upon our arrival, We were inclined to tb,
opinion that the race was between Gen. War
rem and the Hon. E. Sells. By noon we saw
change in the current, and were confden
that the next Governor of Iowa would be Mr.
Sells or Col. Stone, not that Gen. Warrel
was not appreciated, but that his locality wa
against him.
At 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning j. I
Lane, Esq, of Davenport, called the Conven
ton to order, and nominated Maj. Ed. Wright
of the bloody Twenty Fourth Iowa." tenn
porary President Still suffering from q
severe wound received at Vicksburg, pale
and haggard, Major Wright thanked with
feeble voice the Convention for the homo,
conferred. Prayer was offered and the usual
committees were appointed and set to work
:. Sherman Hall was found insufficient to
contain the multitude, and an adjournment
was made to the large and capacious Court
House. Soon after convening, Gen. NJ. NJ.
Croker, one of the most intelligent and un-
compromising Democrats of Iowa, appeared
upon the floor asking seat. No sooner was
he discovered, than the entire audience rose
and greeted him with the widest and most
tumultuous applause. Never was such en-
-thusiasm exhibited over any mortal before,
since the days of Lafayette. A motion to
nominate Gen. Crocker for Governor by accla-
nation, would have been greeted with equal
enthusiasm and had he not most peremp-
torily declined nomination, he would be our
candidate to-day.
Coils. Stone, Williamson, Mcdowell, Gen.
Warren and COL Coulter were all invited to
the Presidents platform. Speeches from
Grinnell, Nourse, Price and Sanford were
greeted with applause. .s-.
On the 7th ballot for Governor, Col. VIM
M. Stone, of Marion county, received major
ity of all the votes cast, and his nomination
was made unanimous, Gen. Warren in kind
and patriotic terms Withdrawing his name
from the convention.
Col. Stone, at the breaking out of the re-
bellion, was Judge for the district composed
of Washington, Keokuk, Mahaska and other
counties. At the call of the President for
the first 5000 troops, in April, 1861, COL
Stone resigned his Office and raised compa-
ny for the Sd Iowa regiment. He was first
under fire of the enemy at the battle of Blue
Mills, Missouri, and we believe severely
wounded. We recollect that he was distin
guished for his gallant conduct during that
battle, being then Major of his regiment. At
Corinth he was taken prisoner, and for a long
time tasted the sweets of rebel mercy in Lib
by prison He was permitted by the rebel
government to proceed to Washington as a
commissioner to effect, if possible, an ex
change of prisoners, and was mainly instru-
mental in establishing our present system of
exchange. Upon his return home last sum-
mer he Immediately rendered his services to
the Government and was assigned to duty as
Colonel of the 22d Iowa. In this connection
we recall the attention of our readers to the
dispatches concerning the bloody assaultupon
the rebel works at Vicksburg, wherein Col.
Stone, with his regiment is said to have taken,
after much hard fighting, rebel fort, plant
ed our flag on its works, and held it against
fearful odds, for twenty-four hours, fighting
and dying, but never retreating, and yielding
only when almost the entire regiment was
captured by superior numbers. Wounded in
the engagement, he returned home to recuper-
ate his health. Until within week before
the convention his name had not been men
toned in connection with the Office of Gov
ernor. Knowing him to be capable, his 10y
atty and patriotism tried as by fire, true
representative of Iowa soldiery, the people
took him and will elect him by majority
that will startle the whole race Of copper
heads from their slimy dens of treason. Col.
Stone is a self-made man, a type of the true
American who works out his achievements by
indefatigable labor. Copperhead SANDERS
cannot reach him. Malignant falsehoods will
not ALLEVIATE from him the peoples affections.
For Lieutenant Governor several distin-
guished War Democrats were nominated but
declined lest their usefulness should be i'm
paired in the approaching canvass. The old
Democratic war-horse Of Northwestern Iowa,
Enoch w. Eastman, was nominated with
scarcely a dissenting vote, on the first ballot.
An old citizen Of the State, well known for
many years as the ''sledge hammer of Iowa
Democracy" he will add great strength to
the ticket. -sso Ii oi.' ,''..-ra) 400
For Judge Of the Supreme Court, the con-
vention gave an overwhelming majority on
the first ballot for our distinguished friend
Judge Dillon, whom to know Alright is to love
and admire. We will undertake no useless
task of complimenting Judge Dillon-he is
too well known. Even his political opponents