North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-23
Joint Di.ens.ion---Noble ana Allison.

Joint nssion...Noble and Allison.
On Saturday evening Mr.. Allison had an
appointment at McGregor. The Demo
cratic Clubs Headquarters are in the
Cambrian Hall. Mr.. A. was expecting to
speak in the Key City Hall or in the
basement of the Baptist Church. Our club
proposed joint discussion at the Cam
brian between Noble and Allison. On the
latter gcntleman's arrival the proposition
was accepted by him. The terms were
Mr.. A. one hour, Mr.. N. one hour and a
half and Mr.. A. to close in half an hour.
The Hall was we'll filed. Mr.. Allison
opened with the usual radical rehearsal of
Democratic, "copperhead' sins prior to
the war, during its life and subsequent to
'sthe peace" extended by Grant and Sher-
man to the rebel forces under Lee and
johnson. All the troubles OF the country
were attributed to the ugly conduct of the
democrats; the expenses OF the nation were
shown to be lesseuing under the fostering
care of radical legislation The grave Of
Mr.. Buchanan was opened to give odor to
the untenable financial reports of the
honorable member our folks were made
out regular "secesh'' in disguise, and Act
LIST closed.
Mr.. Noble began by showing that the
leading men in Lincoln's cabinet, together
with his confidential advisers were now in
sympathy with the democratic party on
reconstruction and finance and that Mr..
A. in attempting to defame the democrats
by statements unwaranted by facts was
travelling out of the role of honorable
discussion. In substance, Mr.. Allison was
pettifogging the case. After very briefly
replying to the skim-milk, stale palaver
which is the stock in trade of street, store
box radicals, Noble introduced the main
question; that Of Allison's completely ,cith
eight other corporators in robbing the
treasury Of the United States of about ]
million Of dollars in the Pacific Railway
extension from Sioux City. Noble was
quite severe on the member from Dubuque,
nut he said no more than the facts will
justify as officially reported and as boldly
charged by Allison's warmest radical asso-
ciates. In another part Of our paper is
an extract from Congressional speeches
by Washburne and Tafe. As these
speeches embody the main points advanced
by Noble we wave the condensing of No.
ble's speech. Mr.. Vandever, Col. Thomas,
j. X. Graves and many others in the
front ranks of radical authority charge the
same thing upon Mr.. Allison and hence
the perusal Of Washburne and TaAee's
remarks will tell the substance of Mr.
Mobiles speech on the Railway question.
Allison, in reply to Noble, opened with
that not unusual affectation of purity,
"Who steals my purse, steals trash" &c.,
&C., and proceeded to deny that he had
been specially benefited by the construction
Of the line of the road admitted the Com
pany to have received $4,000 mills for
- miles of road not tosoard the Pacific,
denied receiving over 70, 600 acres Of land,
because nearly all the 1880 acres per
mile had been taken up-by whom it was
absorbed he did not inform us y Here
was an apparent loss to the nine corpora.
tors (of which Mr.. A. was one,) Of S4l, !
600 acres, which, at government price
would have yielded Sl,O52,Ooo. The
whole grab that was expected was 1884, ).
600, half in land and half in certified
bonds. As the company did not receive
all the land, their disappointment equals
little over million Still worse for
the financial acumen Of the corporal ors,
Dir. A. informed US that they were re
quired to build bridge across the Mis-
souri, costing On immense amouns Of
money, say sl,7Oo,OOO! Mr.. A. know.
that no such requirement was made, fol
had it been he knows there would have
been too little pay in the contract to in
duce its acceptance by shrewd corporators.
The whole pay (land and money! was to
be S2,304 900. Bridge $l,7OO,OOO, con.
str~Ntioa of u miles of road las per en-.
gneers estimate, $4,000 a nile), making
S936. GOO @oze, Had every foot Of LAND
been received, tho cost of the road con
struction and tie bridge would have
exceeded the profercs pay. as follows:
Construction of road. ...,,.....S 36.OO(
/" Bridge.....~..... 100000