The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-24
The Issue in 10 wa. and What Came
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We think that our readers and cotempo-
raries will bear us out in the assertion
which we make, that, from the day on
which Gen. Tuttle was placed before the
public by the Democratic State Central
Committee, not one embarrassing word
was uttered by this paper. And for the
purpose of having our position clearly I'M
aerstoOd, we wish it remembered that not
until he UGS candidate were we respOn-
sible for line thatappeared in the Herald
respecting him. We proposed, as we said,
to let him find what entertainment he
might, and to reserve for an hour when no
possible disadvantage could result there
from, our opinions Of his nomination and
of the character of the men mainly lnstru-
mental in placing him there.
We went to the State Convention and OPP
posed the nomination Of Gen. Tuttle fairly
and persistently. We were not credulous
enough to believe that we could carry the
State, but we did believe it possible to earn
the respect Of our opponents and preserve
our own by taking a bold andrmanly posi-
ton. We could have adopted an unequiv-
ocal platform of principles, we could have
placed upon it candidates Of acknowledged
ability and worth and consistency, and we
could have fought enthusiastically, altho'
certain defeat awaited us as an organiza-
ton. But the schemers of the party de-
clared otherwise. Ed. tombstone, who
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destruction, James d. Eads and Curtis
Bates-the former a very bad and the latter
| a very weak man. tombstone, who helped
saddle upon us a constitution especially
framed for the purposes of JAS. w. Grimes,
and who became the barrier to our assaults
upon Republican extravaganza by being
| connected with every enterprise that party
devised-demanded futile, and refused to
be contented either for himselfor Lee coun-
fty with any other.
Judge Trimble, who had been in the war,
and wished an endorsement through the
nomination of futile, demanded him, and
could not be prevailed upon to take up
another. D. o. Finch, who at the COM
mencement of the war, was about as bitter
an enemy as we had, simply because We
stood firm from the commencement
against the suicidal policy Of war, also de-
manded Tuttle and refused Fisher OF
Mason Hernish, who two years before
had voted for an aboiitionist for Congress:
because Democrat was not loyal enough
ton of the State, with but few exceptions
asked for futile, through its delegates
7 while the people, assembled by thousands
demanded a representative man. TIL
T committee on resolutions, of which w
We're one, brought in a PLATFORM on achicd ~
General IN the army could ruth the least con
siStency stand. 1t avus as une47.iUocol{y OPP
pOSeO 20 inc NtT, Us cOnuNcteU, uS dptuyOfi
could possibly be framed to be, and 4
: especially denounced as official pe1JolTe
, acts of The administration ac!tieh ere!.
} General in the field apas bound to sustain on
, carry ont. sh' .a u..
The resolutions-not up to our standar
: in all things, and yet accepted by us an
' those who thought as we did, for the SAX
: of harmony-were unanimously adopted
Y whereupon the friends OF futile, REGARDLESS
: of the anomaly attempted to place hill
1 upon them. We all fought over the a
/ tempt for five hours. We exposed the il
e consistency of Brigadier General upon
: declared anti-war platform. Weexamine
: his record, and appealed to the convention
= and the result was that he was beaten fl
Q the nomination by thirty-four majority
e 1t is useless to say that at any one time
was nominated, for it is notorious TIL
n there was much irregularity in voting, ar
j. if his friends had been in q majority one
g they could easily have shown it on a S
n cond trial. We nominated good tickle
10 appointed an efficient committee. and can
t, home to labor for the principles of OIL
Ii party.
a; But the uneasy politicians, defeated fai
70 ly in Convention, set to work to demora
I'd ize the party by procuring the withdraw
IS of its nominees. BY misrepresentation, |
personal appeals, by promise OF great N