Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-24

The state COnventiOn and the Iowa Pub
lie Record.
We do not propose that any relation
we may sustain to the approaching State
Convention of the Union Party shall
restrain our pen from expressing our
most cordial opinion of those gentlemen
in the north part of the State who are
continually threatening that eff you
don't do as we want you, We'll do some
thing awful"
The Public Record, in its last issue, is
filled with whines, growls and false
hoods about the Capital clique" "C.C.
Cole" "Gov. Stone" and other things
too numerous to mention. All its thun-
der about the possibility of the Demo
Gratis nominating for Supreme Judge
some War Democrat" like Col. Dave
Wilson, is gone up-for it so happens
the Democrats have taken good care to
nominate pure and unadulterated Du-
buque peace man for that office. So the
not vote for War Democrat on that
ticket. If they want to vote for Ere
mont candidate in opposition to the reg
ular nominee of the Union party, We
haven't the slightest objection. Such
an act would only confirm our present
opinion, that the Union party possesses
some very troublesome spirits, and all
such we expect to see embrace the Ere
mont cause.
But when the Record carries its small
meanness so far as to allege that Judge
Cole is not qualified, either morally or
mentally, for the position" we reply
that it would be better for society, better
for the country, if quite number Of
Northern GROWERS and sore-heads, like
Felt and Hildreth, could be placed under
his tutilage. For such men to assail the
moral or mental qualifications of Judge
Cole is unworthy either of a clown or
harlot.
'That North Iowa is true to the
Union" we believe; but the reputation
of North Iowa is being seriously damaged
by miserable clique, who ought to be re-
buked and disowned. Not content with
sowing seeds of discord and creating a
sore-head party, this fellow Felt states
what every man cognizant with the facts
knows to be false, when he asserts that
"Gov. Stone promised to reward Cole
for his stamping services, and that he
did reward him by pushing through the
Legislature bill providing an addition
al Supreme Judge, and thereupon APP
pointed Cole.n The facts are, that long
before the converting of the Legislature
the Judges of the Supreme Court were
urging the increase of their number,
and We're persistent in their efforts with
the members as they arrived, and that
in an earnest appeal in his Biennial
message. Judge Cole was appointed
upon the earnest recommendation of a
very large majority of both branches of
the Legislature and of the Union MEM
bers of the Polk County Bar, the only
opposition coming from the latter quar-
ter being from very worthy man, who
was himself candidate
The protest from Northern Iowa, to
which the Record alludes, was from a
very small minority of the Legislature.
That "Gov. Stone appointed a time and
place for an interview with Mobiles
friends is true; but that ''he sneaked
out of sight to avoid an interview with
Mobiles friends" is not true, as we
know. Nothing but the mulish stub
bornness of A. 3. F. Hildreth prevent
ed an interview.
So much of the Record as alleges that
the 10th Judicial District will not be
represented in our State Convention
doesn't alarm us in the least. If they
can't send better men than Felt, Hill
dreth & Co. we are glad they are thus
resolved. We want all such fellows to
join their sore-head friends at Cleveland.
Our party will be all the better and
purer for being cleansed of such fellows.
Let them go to their own place.