Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-10-04

VILLAINY EXPOSED!
COppcrhcad FaDsehOOd Re.
lited!

THE following is a full copy Of a circular
issued for general circulation ia reply 10 the
Coppchcsd circular which was in part ex.
posed in our last issuc.1
The history Of the operations Of the lead
ers Of the C~oprerhead party Of Buchanan
County, has been a record Of attemp ted
fraud upon the voters Of the county-a record
Of bogus tickets and Of lying circulars, anon
ymously put forth and secretly circulated.
Nearly every year, in some form or other,
these INSCRIPTIONS partisans have sent
abroad among the voters Of the county, just
early enough, in their opinion, to achieve
general circulation, but Just late enough, also,
TO avoid exposure and refutation, some story
or statement affecting the individu af charac-
ter Of Republican nominees, the honesty and
fidelity of Republican officials, or the justice
and equity of Republican legislation--some>
thing that they fondly hoped would arouse
prejudice and personal feeling, and blind
the eyes Of the people to the infamy Of their
own past political record and the danger Of
their future partisan action. 1t has been
the old cry Of thief, to avoid detec,ion--thc
old trick Of the wolf in ~muddying the water,
that the lamb as it drank should not see his
shadow rs it crawled up to devour ii.
II was to be expected that the i'll success
which has followed oil these villainous At.
tempts at misrepresentation and deception
heretofore, would have satisfied these un>
scrupulous par,isars Of the hopelessness Of
winning Republicans away from their prin>
ciples by any such dodge. 1t was TO be
supposed that they had learned by experi>
ence that the people Of Buchanan County
were intelligent enough to understand that
u statement published on the eve Of election,
with no ones pane attached to il, and no
one responsible for it, bore primo Gacie evi.
dence Of its fa%lsi,y-of its being intended TO
deceive. For why should any man, or The
representatives Of any party, printing and
circulating any truthful, homes. statement,
be ashamed to put his or their names to il,
and openly circulate it, giving the largest
opportunity for contradiction and refutation?
But the INSCRIPTIONS authors Of these
precious illusions have always been careful
to keep themselves hid, to avoid the respon>
sibility Of their lies, aud seeing this the
people have Justly estimated their acts, and
have expressed their indignation at such ats
tempts a, deception by constantly increasing
the Republican majoriiies in the county.
Warned by this it was to be expected that
We had seen the end Of these scoundrelly
electioneering anonymous illusions, bat il
seems that such is not the case. The fol-
lowing precious epis,le has been %circnla ted
very quietly in the out-r townships Of the
county, within n few days, not n copy being
handed out in lndependece, because it was
no part of the plan Of the authors to have i,
seen here in time to have il exposed. The
only copy, at this writing, seen in Indepen-
lence, is the one o in possession of the
writer Of this reply, which was sent to . gen.
tleman OF this city by a farmer in one OF the
outer townships Of the county. How well
this marks the dishonesty-.he covert vii.
lainy-of the whole transaction. We givethe
circular in full
TO THE VOTERS OF BUCHANAN COUNTY.
We ask your attention 80 the facts EN-
bodied in the following paper compiled from
the tax books of this County.
The following is a list Of a lew tax pa yers
IN the several Tow ships, and showing the
tax paid by each for the year 1866: