The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-09-26

For Clerk of the District Court, "a
CAPT. ROBERT l.. FREEMAN.
~ For Recorder,
PHILIP REDEMANN.
Reuben Noble.
This gentleman-like Senator Doolittle,
Gov. Randall, Mayor John j. Talmadgc,
c. c. Sholcs, Alexander Mitchell, and
many other distinguished persons of
Wisconsin like Thomas j. Turner, chair
man ofthe Illinois Central Committee of
Republicans, Judge Power Of Decatur
county, Judge Scates, and others Of emf
hence in Illinois like 1t. Gov. Raymond,
of the New York Times, Thurlow Weed,
Henry Ward Beecher, Gen. Dix, "Commo-
dorc'' Vanderbilt, Aspinwall, Gen. Grant,
Gen. Wool, Gen. Meredith, and host of
other gentlemen known to the whole coun-
try-has decided to throw the weight of
his influence in the scale of restoration,
Cancellation and common sense, against the
revolutionary conduct of Congress. This
sin on the part of Noble-for that is what
radicalism and party robbery calls its
now denounced from end to end of a con-
gressional district which till recently was
proud to honor him as the most efficient
leader of its Republican hosts. His mo-
tives arc impugned, his private character
is indirectly assailcd, he is called a ''cop-
pcrhead," a ''sympathizer with treason"
defender of Lee and of Davis and IAN
enemy to the martyred Lincoln and his
policy weakened turn-coat'' well,
every epithet in the billingsgate vocabula-
ry is applied to the most eminent man in
the Republican ranks in the district, if not
the ablest lawyer in the State, and without
fattery we may say one of the few, politi-
clans of Iowa or the west who has pre-
served his integrity amid the conflicting
partizan warfare of the last twelve years.
Politicians who are infntessimal in brains
and bankrupt in influence step into the
arena and with column upon column
against man whom they fear in contro-
versy, either colloqqical or public, as they
do the day of doom. Brass and Stiffness
are nearly allied, and it is difficult to de-
eide by perusing the baldcrdash of the
Register, the Leader, the Mirror, the Ners,
and the Dubuque Times, whether the wri-
%oro for %hnoo ohoofo oro ;pAuopcod moro
by their fears or their want of sense. VI
Noble has suddenly become so bad and SO
weak man as those who assail him en-
deavor toprove, why do they turn their logic
and their manners loose upon the world
to indignify their presses by assaulting SO
unworthy a character? If these political
harlequins are correct in their photograph
of the Conservative Congressional candi-
date the masses arc certainly sensible
enough to see the odiousness of the origi-
nal without such an extraordinary display
of lights and shades as they attempt to ex-
hibit with the picture. In the old State
elections Mr.. Scattering was the man
who polled the fewest votes. In using a
shotgun of the oldstyle its principal repu-
tation was that s'it scattered well.'' In
modern days the. less scatter writer
or an orator has about him, the stronger
he is regarded riae-shot being more
effective costing less lead and wasting
less powder. Diarrheas in language, like
their prototypes in cholera, arc not admir-
ed by the sensible in one view, nor the
healthy in another. Our contemporaries Of
the radical persuasion seem to think that
ehe number of their discharges against
s'Rube'' Noble will effect his political
death, while good judges only smile at the
strain they make, and wonder why they
cannot find prescription, intellectually,
which will cure them of the cacoethes scrib-
enid (if this is not latin it is Lish). Our
cotemporary (local) of last week went
for NOBLE, a man whose name has given
the Ncws-man all the rcputation-notoriety,
we mcan-that the warrior of the 9th Cav.
ever possessed! MAIZE was, for years, the tail
in the kite of Noble & Odell-a good man
enough, but poor worker at anything he
has attempted in public life; of his private
success in any respect is not our business
to speak he is now on his second editorial
tour against the TINES, and We know his
progress is not great. When the French
mans horse fell down he said it was "no
the horses fault but his misfortune, be
cause, sare, he can see not very well ~
Precisely. The Major is not clear-sighted
and hence his editorial errors. Wepardo,
him personally.
When an opponent of ours cannot b.
dispatched by half dozen blows we giv'
him up as inyinciblc. We shall never thinl
Of striking him oftener than that-but j,
lastwcek's Necs Mr.. NOBLE received NINE
TEEN special notices on the inside of tn
paper and column and half leader o,
the outside; and yet Noble is ALIVE! Ism
ii surprising7 fla man is SO hard to xii
that twenty blows week won't do the job
the fellow who strikes him don't know no,
to handle his tools, or the intended yictir
is bound to livei
County FAIR-On Wednesday Of mex
week. CoRLErr, the Secretary calls on u
n