Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-07-06
The Candidates Of the Republican Party
'roYn the Muscatine Journal.

From the Muscatine Journal.
We place at the head of our editorial
columns to-day the names of the candi-
dates placed in nomination at Des
Moines.
Col. Ed Wright has been long and
favorably known to the intelligent peo-
pie of Iowa. He has been an active and
prominent politician for near dozen
years, being n leading member of oul
House of Representatives nearly all that
time, except when he was doing brave
and efficient service in the Union army.
1t is well known that he went into the
the service rs Major of the oath Iowa.
the Methodist regiment-and that, af-
ter three years of great activity and
honor, he returned to Iowa, the com
mander of that splendid regiment; was
soon afterwards again elected to the
House and made its presiding officer. -
If the State were searched rs with a
lighted candle, no better man for Sec
rotary of State than Ed Wright could
be found.
Major S. f. Rankin, of the Sth Iowa,
was nominated for Treasurer. He, too,
made bright record during the war,
i'll q regiment whose term Of service
took in the bloody field of Shiloh and
the brilliant charge on Spanish Fort
Major Rankin is man of great modes
ty and of unusual merit. His name,
wherever he is known, is the synonym
of honesty. He is the very man, there
fore, for the office to which he has been
nominated.
John A. Elliott, was nominated for
auditor by reclamation. He has filled
the office for two years to the entire sat
istaction of the people. He had Il very
difficult position to fill. His immedi-
ate predecessor, j. w. Gait II, had been
in that office for six years, he had pre-
formed his duties faithfully, honestly
and efficiently. 1t was no easy thing
to be as good an auditor rs Jonathan
w. Cattell, and it is the highest praise
for Elliott that it can be truthfully said
that he has even surpassed his prede-
cossor. No man more honest, no Off
Ger more faithful or capable, or true to
principle than Elliott can be found be-
tween the seas.
Col. Cyrus c.. Carpenter, Of Fort
Dodge, candidate for State Register, is
man after our own heart. He is one
of the best men we ever knew. He is a
good speaker, and successful politi-
clan. He was in the Legislature many
years ago, and commanded great re-
spect in an assembly which had among
its members Wilson, of Jefferson, Seev-
ers, of Mahaska, Rankin of Lee, Drum
mond, of Benton, Sanders, of Henry,
and others since eminent in politics or
war. Col. Carpenter was in the staff
department during the war, and per-
formed all his duties faithfully and
well, such men as the lanented McPher-
son, Gen. Logan, Gen. Dodge, and Gen.
Sherman have spoken of him in the
highest terms. His nomination gave
us peculiar qualification, and it will be
ratified by prodigious popular MAORI
ty.
L. f.. Bissell, present incumbent,
was nominated for Attorney General
by reclamation. There are many ex-
cellent lawyers in the State of Iowa,
but if there be one more thoroughly
learned, skillful, or honorable than Bis
sell, we do not know him. He is hon
est and indepeudent--so much SO that
he will probably lose some votes in
consequence of those very fine qualities
and must he highly esteemed and
admired by all who can appreciate a
good man and 4 great lawyer.
e. II. Stiles of WapellO, was nOmin-
ated for Reporter to the Supreme Court,
very much against our personal wishes
and exertions-- for we thought, and
still thing, that Winthrop ought TO
have succeeded-but to our hearty &C
quiesence, when we learned that he
had never been Tom. Seymour Dem
ocrat. We have but little acquaintance
with him. He is highly spoken of by
those who know him best.
Charley Linderman, of Page county,
long Clerk of that County, a successful
soldier in the late war, and a tip-top
fellow personally, was nominated for
Clerk to the Supreme Court. He will
make a coed Clerk. The question OF
locality caused him to beat such men Us
DIR. Saunders, Gen. Trumbull and Lew.
Kinsey.
The whole ticket Is good one, and
ought to he elected by rousing MAJOR
ties.