Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-09-02
GRILL STONED

waging incessant Chinese warfare upon him
ever since his nomination last year, and now
few Of our own,party fling at him sulIi-
Gent quantity Of atrabilarious abuse. They
call him " Bill Stone," and all that sort Of
thing. They refuse to support Judge Cole be.
cause. las they asseverate, he is "Bil. Stones
candidate" On that last point we may say
parcnthctically that il Cole be /" Bill Stones
candidate all the other gentlemen on our cx-
ce!lent ticket are equally so, for the same
Convention nominated them all. They ought
all, therefore, to be supported alike or oppos-
cd alike, unless there be some grounds OF
personal dnftncss or inability on the part Of
some of the candidates, which is not pre-.
tended. Gov Stone did not have jot more
to do with the nomination Of Judge Cole
than he did with the nomination Of the other
candidates. But enough on this point.
No man can be governor of Iowa without
making enemies. There are too many seem
ingly conflicting interests to subservc, too
many argus eyed politicians with axes to
grind, too many sore heads to be balsamcd,
and so forth and so on Besides, eternal
vigilance is'the price of liberty, and it is not
only excusable, but .omphatically just and
proper that all our public officers should be
held responsible for just administration of
public affairs. They are Our servants, not
our masters. In all their official conduct
they are amcnablc to the laws and response.
bic to the people. Hence, a fair criticism Of
their acts and policy is among the duties of
every intelligent citizen and of ,snch crti-
cism no man can justly complain. But when
it .descends to ribaldry and bllingsgate
when it manufactures false statements and
builds thereon false trains of reasoning; when
it falls into personal vitupcration and black
guardsm, it becomes most blamcworthy, and
at the same time that it thus degenerates it
destroys all hope Of accomplishing its end
No man Of ability has ever yet beer put out
Of office by the sheer blackguardism Of his
opponents, and, we think, no man ever will
be--a fact which we beg leave most respect.
fully to commend to the consideration Of the
two or three gentlemen Of our own party
who are just now pitching into "Bil Stone"
AS for the copperheads, they are joined to
their idols 1t is their vocation to abuse
good, and true, and patriotic public men. If
the angel Gabriel were governor Of Iowa,
they would call him coward, a libertipe and
a horse thief. 1t Injuries no ones reputation
among honest patriots to be abused by these
fellows.
This same man /" Bill Stone" is making
right good governor. lie has as much in.
luence, today, in the departments at Wash
ington City as any executive in the country;
he has constantly exhibited most effedtiwe
solicitude for our gallant sodiery, personally
attending to their wants in far distant camps
right under the cncmy's guns, and in all the
hospitals; he is now hard at work organic
ing the militia, and he will have no "Paw-
paw arran gemcnts" either; in short, he has
done, and is doing, his public duties vigor-
ously and successfully. lie is making Iowa
better known to the country, as'witness the
following from the Washington City Rcpub,
lic0n ,,ef recent date:
a PLrcEY STATE.-We have a notion that
young Iowa is about the pluckest State on
this continent--or any other, for that matter
They go the whole hog" out there, having
no sort of mercy on rebels, guerrillas, or
Cnnnn,l,nal. Naf tln,
mors Of bushwhacking invasion from Mis-
Baker organized the Home Guards, and or.
dGretl that nc prisoners should be taken in
case the invasion were mad! lie ordered,
moreover, any State officer who should take
any guerrillas prisoners to be dshonorably
stage out Of Iowa.
II seems The militia Of the State is now
being organized under an act Of the last
Legislature. In some localities the Cops are
trying to get control of the organizations
Whoreupon the Governor tecgraphs as fol
lows:
'DSs AmXEs, August 10, 1864.
GEE. y. 3. BAKER Il desire the policy
by whichI shall be governed in organizing
the Militia 10 be well understood. am de-
tcrmined al all hazards that there shall be no
Paw paw arrangement in Iowa. To this end
be careful, and commission those only who
are known to be strictly loyal. Issue no
arms to companies unit! satisfied by positive
proof that they are organized in good faith
by good men. w.M. STONE.
1t is plain the iowa officials, at any rate,
have no respect for rose water policies and
n.,lp 81 fhn of sol IN,
this respect. We are assured Of being en-.
tirely safe in predicting a majority OF 10000
for Mr.. Lincoln.
And We have an idea he will make it still
better known to the country and to foreign
countries before the close Of his administra-
ton Of our State affairs. lie is going ahead
theoretically, and is making az few mistakes
as could reasonably be expected. lie has
made no ridiculous blunders at all that we
are aware Of. No man, not a disgusting
toady, will praise his every act and speech,
but every candid person who has the fear of
God before his eyes, must confess that he is
credit to the State of Iowa. That is what
we think of "Bill Stone.'
A-Hs
j. ". Bosler has a,goyernment contract
OF furnishing 4G,O(O bushels of corn at Sioux
City, at So, per bushcl. A McCIcady has
the contract for hay at 1904, baled and
1874, stacked, per ton. For $50 tons of
hay at Yankton, A. G. Fuller has the cen
tract at $3.50, stacked. VIM. p. Lyman
and c. L. Hedges have contracts for hay at
st. Rundad at $500 per ton, and F. D.
Pease, at TT. Sully, at $27,oo per ton
These contracts were made recently by Capt
Bagg at Sioux City. We CLEAN from ;the
Journal.
IL the battle Of Rcams' station, on the
Weldon Railroad, on Thursday of last week,
our loss was about 5000, while that of the
enemy is estimated at 5000. They &C.
knowledge four gcr erals killed and one
wounded. Our forces still hold three or
four miles Of the railroad, and Lee is tho't