Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-06-15
About Congressman.

SOmIuItlec.
JOSHUA TRACY, Chairman.
About Congressman. ..
The editor of the Eldora Ledger, VIII,
Is much more at home in giving ex
tracts from Tristram Shandy than il
discussing politics, even the politics o
his own Congressional District, has fol
lowed the Boone County Inder int,
the war against Judge Hubbard. I
petulantly inquiries if there is but on,
man in Northern Iowa capable of rep
resenting this District in Congress pr
The editor Of the Ledger is doubtless o
the opinion that oil of Northern low.
Is included in the Sixth Congressiona
District, when the fact is that all O
Northeastern Iowa is in the Third Dis
triet. If we should answer the Ledoer'
inquiry affirmatively, and say tina
Judge Porter of Hardin county was tina
only man, the editor would probabl,
coincide with us with remarkable goot
grace and promptitude. But we do no
answer after any such fashion. Gu
candidate is Judge Hubbard. Can til,
Ledger produce better man? We ar,
not for Judge Hubbard because ",
deefa him the emily fit man in the Dis
trict for the place; but because we kno,
him to be At for the place-because h,
has been tried and not found wanting
and because we consider his four year.
OF experience calculated to make him
amore useful Member of Congress than
any new man could possibly be. Are
not these good reasons for preferring
him, and desiring his denomination
The Ledger is altogether wrong in
saying that Mr.. Hubbard "aspired to
nScnatorial seat" He did nothing of
the kind, and no such accusation can
he proved against him. Mr.. Hubbard
Is not an aspiring politician, in the first
place, and In the next place he fatty re-
fused to accept the Scnatorship for the
short term upon the contingency of it's
being rendered to him. Therefore we
do not believe that there are those who
received promises" from him in COM
pensation for their support.
The Ledger also informs US that
the assurances given to his Hub
bard's) friends who helped him to his
present position, were also sundered
like rope OF sand" In making such
statement as this the editor of the
Ledger shows himself to be dupe of
some designing party or else unpartlon-
nbly ignorant Of the facts. At the first
Convention, held at Webster City, on
the It'll of August, 1862, the nomination
lay between s. Bagg, Isaac Pendleton,
Chas. Pomeroy and John Scott, until
the 32d ballot when Pendleton with.
drew his name and nominated A. w.
Hubbard of Woodbury.. On the 42d
ballot Mr.. Hubbard was nominated
Until his name was presented in the
convention, he was not thought Of in
connection with the Office, and until
the action of the Convention was made
known to him flor he was not presently
he had no idea Of being a candidate.
AT the second Convention, held at TT.
Dodge, August 3lst, 1854 Mr.. Hubbard
was re-nominated by acclamation.-
Therefore the talk about assurances to
friends who assisted him to his present
position is all bosh
Bat who are those friends. so-called
What assurances do they profess to have
received? Let US treat this matter
openly and above-board, without con-
cealment. 1t is evident that those
" friends" are after something, and per-
haps that something is Judge Hub
bard's place. While they are trying to
prove that Judge Hubbard has been
bargaining, they are also necessarily try
ing to establish the fact that they were
parties to the bargains! They get into
a trap and try to pull Mr.. Hubbard in,
and then cry to the "dear people, to
look and see the false position our Con-
gresham occupies! Remarkable wis.,
dom this! The fact of it is that few
politicians, envious of Judge Hubbard's
honors, are taking unwarrantable means
to secure his defeat, each in the hope
that he himself may be elevated. And
they talk Of rushing one individual at
the people!" II the Nevada .Agis
Boone Iadec or Eldora Ledger land
these are all the papers in the District
which oppose Judge Hubbard) can sug-
gest a better and more capable man, let
them do so, and support him, and get
the people to support him, if they can !;
but this throwing dirt at Mr.. Hubbard
and facetiously reiterating that there
nre other men than he fit for Congress
Is q decidedly nonsensical manner of
opposing strong man, and decension
even in politics, of which they should
not allow themselves to be guilty. &c.