Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-04-23

gion of wide awake men the st. Lou
is grain company will find a hercu
laen task before them. ..E ...s.
The Coming Campaign
"Linkensale," the Iowa correspon
dent of the Chicago Post, sings ink
on the coming campaign in sIowF
thusly: ...H
''Iowa is political chaldron boiling
evermoIe. In short, we never let up
The reason is, I suppose, because We
have general election every year
Even years, We elect Secretary o.
State, Auditor, Attorney General
Treasurer, Register of State Land
ONCE, etc., besides Representatives
in Congress, and certain county Off
GERS. Odd years, we choose q Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, a Judge
of the Supreme Court, members Of
the General Assembly, and certain
other county officers. This keeps
things moving lively. The General
Assembly to be chosen this year, will
have a Senator to elect TO succeed
Mr.. Grimes, who has ably represent
ed the State for nearly a dozen years
with such great and acknowledged
ability, in fact, but for his vote on the
impeachment trial he would be re-
elected against the world, This of
itself, were there not mach of local
importance to come before the Legis-
lature, would give the coming cam
paign uncommon significance, and
invest 1t with unusual interest to the
citizens of the State generally and
the irrepressible lobby particularly
There is virtually but one. candi.
date for Governor. Tt is true knot
of politicians got together, as l learn,
in a Des Moines saloon the other
evening, and discussed some corn
pressed" and gubernatorial question,
concluding to put up the Hon. Eze-
kial Clarke, of Iowa City. Mr..
Clarke is a thoroughly first-class
man and Radical, but Gov. Merrill
will be renominatcd by reclamation
in spite of all that, or any other man.
The Governor has not carried the Ex-
ecutive office of the State around in
his hat, and let the wind bow away
his hat. He has let the American
eagle alone severely, He has SO con-
stantly attended the duties of his of
flee that its correspondence has in
creased three fold. In substantial
merit, he Is the best Governor we
Aave had since Mr.. Grimes.
Candidates for Lieutenant Govern
or arc scarce. Col. w. p. Hepburn,
of Page county, one of our most brill
liant young men, has been spoken
of. He has ability for any Office
Capt. Woodward, of Lucas may be
brought out agaln. He came very
near getting the nomination two
years ago. Both of these gentlemen
have editorial experience and 1t is
81 remarkable fact that Iowa has al
ways had uncommohly fine men for
Lieutenant Governors, majority of
them having been editors. ,.r~~.s ..... .
The Hon. John L. Dillon, now
Chief Justice, will be renominated
for Judge Of the Supreme Court. He
is our most scholarly lawyer, q man
of every personal virtue, Judge of
the greatest industry. integrity,
learning and ability. rnr ~~.rau..
The contests for the Senatorship,
except, on the second election of both
Mr. Harlan and Mr. Grimes, have
been tbs mos. ami ssatad ever occur
ring I'm the politics Of Iowa. The
choice of the latter's successor is go
ing to he no exception 10 the rule
Present indications show that every
politician in the commonwealth,
from those who comprehend the po-
litical affairs of the, State down to
those whose genius regulates the
cross reads, will take part in the con-
rest, A large number of names have
been mentioned in this connection,
some of them being those of excel
lent gentlemen whose modesty
would forbid their thinking of such
thing some of persons who have
been politically dead and buried for
a considerable length of time; tho
ers thus forced into print would eer-
tainiy fail OF an election to our eff
cient aud intellectual constabulary
force from any townshipinthc State;