North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-12-22
Correspondence.

as sound rs Clayton County can furnish
We do not dislike Mr.. Allison, but his
own political folks do, and as thereis no
Independent Newspaper in the County,
none that publish articles rejecting on
VIM. j. A., We take pleasure in giving
a portion of our columns to those who
have right, as Americans, to vent.late
/ their views. Our TINES is owned by its
published proprietors.
McGREcoa, Iowa, Dec. oist, 1869.
EpIroRs TINES The enclosed letter il
just received from particular friend
| from Council Bluffs, Dec. l4th, =. who
has completed a thorough business can,
vass Of the State. Its clear aud com.
srchensivc statements, bearing upon the
approaching Senatorial contest, entities it, !
think, to a plaes in the public prints.
The shameless maohination now plotted
by the venal and corrupt aids of the Al
lison party, should be made known to the
people, that through their Representatives
in the State Legislature, such monstrous
and gigantic corruption should be not on
ly challenged but averted.
Yours, II. r. NEWELL.
Since l met you and estimable lady in
your peregrinations (does that word suit
you p through what was but SO lately the
EAR WEST, but now the center of a
great Nation, l hare continued my journ.
eyings till nearly every County has been
visited with varied success in a business
point of view, but with always the same
enjoyments in witnessing the material
improvement Of our State. l have many
times missed your company and regretted
that our paths had not lain Ehe same
direction. To own the truth have some
times been lonesome you spoiled me for
travelling alone. Oh nonsense no you
have not. Free, easy and rollicking men,
like. you and !, can always find society
wherever we can find humans, and
when we lack others, we can fall back ON
our own noble selves, we are then sure of
having society that is good, at least in
our own estimation, we can appreciate it
whether others can or not; it is not likely
that our own estimation Of ourselves is
excellcd by the outside world; it is we'll to
have good opinion of ones self, perhaps
no one else will, Where | have most
missed you, Homer, was in gaining adj
mission to lodie's society; your ceunte.
nance was always an "open sesame" to
their company. Excuse me; am wrong,
you are not better-iooking than am,
had forgotten it was your lady or frau, as
as the dutchman would say. that furnish
ed the key to the ladies car, cabin, parlor,
&c. Well, the next time trust myself to
the cold charities Of this unfriendly
world, far from lone and all its endear-
ments, too will have a part Of that home,
with me per your example, but enough
Of this. write more particularly to ex-
press some views on the subject of which
We conversed while journeying to gether,
since which time have had much oppor-
tunity Of observation, and ! am sorry to
suggest that you are doomed to disappoint-
ment, not very serious, to be sure, for l
know that you do not build much on pol
itics. predict Mr.. Allison will be the
successor of James w. Grimes, in the U.
s. senate, know it is contrary to your
wishes; that your preference would be for
some honest, capable gentleman, one in
whom the people could trust, one outside
of the corrupt rings already SO formidably
organized; in short, one that cannot be
bought nor will not buy the Office, but
your views are Utopian, the time is past
when the Office seeks the man, the prize
is now gained by the one who will dc.
scend the lowest in a corrupt scramble for
place, and your candidates, neither Mer-
rill nor Williams, will play part in such
competition.
Mr.. Allison has carefully laid his pipes.
In the first place he has bought almost the
entire Republican Press of the State. or as
your people say, subsidized it, that Of
| itself is a power, for let the editor have
ever SO little personal influence at home
where he is known, when his suggestions
are copied into other papers where the
insignifcance Of their origin is not realiz
ed, they possess some force, aHd it is a
fact not generally known to the mass oil
readers that the articles We see comment
datory Of men of Allison's class, are writ.
ten by themselves, and their publication
paid for. Such was the case with the long
biography of Allison, lately published by
different papers, and Of the many pufls
he is getting through the New York and
Chicago Journals. As contemplate az
such course may appear to the few
who see bis own autograph affixed to his
| own personal laudation, the mass see only
an evidence that he is respected ut home
and abroad while, in fact, il properly UNI
derstood, is only evidence that he, re'y
highly, respects himself. Such is the way
| public sentiment is manufactured for such
men and as Allison is in the field with
more money and patronage than any other
candidate can WELD, predict his success.
But there are ether more powerful in
fuenccs at work as lamentable, as the fac,
may be. Money is to settle the question
the masses of the people are honest, but
they are but the dupes of more designing
men they meet at the convention and al
the ballot box, and fancy they are playing