Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-02-18
Selett S}lts eel aup.
THE EAST ArJD TEE WEST

We reproduce these sentences from
az article recently published in Tie
| Ch,cego IriJuae:
| '.Ifi, is true that the West has got about
everything else,' the reason is she is posses
sed of the best qualified men for various high
Offices. The West has go, into the habit Of
producing tirst-class men for civil as we'll as
military employ ynsnt. The brains and en-
| terprise Of tho East are chiefly absorbed in
money getting, stock -jobbing, and gambling
III Wall>st. During the war the East acas
nsrcr able 10 pash The Rebels out Of sigh, Of the
Potomac, while the West conquered them in
twelve States. The intellect OF the East was
too much cngrossed in filling Government
contracts, increasing the tariff, and other
gaintul pursuits, to develop high order IF
military talent or s.atesmanship- and they
should not now complain If tie West over
shadows them in ability for public affairs as
well as in martial rcnohn.'
Wenote this as the beginning Of an
illiberal, dangerous. and unpatriotic
policy, and as expressing a feeling
that we are panied to see in a news
paper that claims, however family, to
have any sympathy with the Repub-
lica party. We remember during the
impeachment trial that this same
newspaper clamored against the friends
oflmpeachment as ~ Eastern Ring"
and went on to deEounce the said
"Rlng as corrupt, grasping and
devilish. That Impeachment discus
sion was not pressed!
We have always believed in a Union
without geographical limitations We
never hear the words NORTH or
south used ma distinctive political
sense without pain. IN the same man.
ner we regard the use of the terms
East and West When certain
friends insisted that because Gen Grant
was a Western man the East should
of necessity furnish the Vice Presi-
dent, we protested. We held that, if
Gen. Grant could be strengthened by
a Westerl man, such man should be
nominated. The Convention did so,
and took Mr.. Colfax According to
this Chicago writer, it was because
the West had attained the habit OF
s'produclng first t-class men for civil en-
pioymnnt," and no man could be
found in the East, although such rep
resentatives of the money getting,
stock,.j ,.jobbing" intellect as Sumner.
Boutwell,, Seymour, Lowell, Emerson,
Phillips, Bancroft, Carey, Webster,
Whittier, Seward, rot to speak OF all
the editors and proprietors of this
very newspaper, happen to be East
ern men, not altogether without "a
Western reputation. Four years ago,
when an Eastern man was removed
from the Vice Presidency to nominate
a Western man, in Mr.. johnson, we
submitted. We were told that reasons
Of policy dictated this change. We
now learn that it was because the
West was in the habit Of producing
men like Mr.. Johnson,-"the best quail
flied men for various high offices, -
while the barren East was exhausted!
1t we were to decerd to sectional
arguments, it would require no effort
to show that in politics, as we'll as in
legislation, the West has always had
the advantage. OF the East. During
Mr.. Lincoln's administration, we saw
five Western meRin the Cabinet and
two Eastern men Stanton, Denni-
son, Harlan, Speed, and McCulloch,
against Seward and Welles. Mr.
johnson did not vary the proportion
until Mr.. Evarts became Attorney
General. In the Supreme Court, we
find Ave Western Judges-Chasc,
Miller, Field, Davis, Swayne-and
only three from the EAST, Clifford
Nelson, and Grier. In the regular
army, we believes there, are five gen
eral officers from the west, and but two
from the East. We have heard no
complaint of this. We claim the
Western men as Americans, and glory
in their cxaltation, We believe that
they We're honored because OF their
fitness, and we are not a little surpris-
ed TO learn that it was because all the
Eastern men competent to serve in the
Government were stoo much cngros-
scd in filling contracts" and "other
gainful pursuits" "to develop high