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

eation. 1t is severe, but the authority i.
as sound rs Clayton. County car furnish
We do not dislike Mr.. Allison, but hi.
own political folks do, and as there,s nj
Independent Newspaper in the County
none that publish articles rejecting: or
VIM. b. A., We take pleasure in givin,
portion Of cur columns to those wht
have right, as Americans, to vent.lat,
their views. Our TINES is owned by it.
published proprietors.
McGREcoR, Iowa, Dec. 2ist, 1869.
EpIToRs TINES The enclosed letter i.
just received from particular frient
from Council Bluffs, Dec. l4th, -wh,
has completed thorough business can
! vass OF the State. Its clear and com,
prchensivc statements, bearing upon the
approaching Senatorial contest, entities it,
think, to placs in the public prints.
The shameless Vaccination now plotted
by the venal and corrupt aids of the AL
lison party, should be made known to tn,
people, that through their Representative.
in the State Legislature, such monstrou.
and gigantic corruption should be not on.
ly challenged but averted.
Yours, II. E. NEWELL.
Since | met you and estimable lady in
your peregrinations (does that word sui.
you p through what was but so lately the
EAR WEST, but now the center Of a
great Nation, l have 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. have many
times missed your company and regretted
that our paths had not lain the 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
excelled by the outside world; it is we'll to
have good opinion of ones self, perhaps
no one else will. Where l have most
missed you, Homer, was in gaining adj.
mission to lodie's society; your counte.
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 dutchaan would say. that furnish
ed the key to the ladies car, cabin, parlor,
&c. Well, the nett time / trust myself to
the cold charities of this unfricndly
world, far from home and all it's endear-
ments, too will have part ofthat home,
with me per your example, but enough
Of this. write more particularly to ex-
press some views on the subject Of which
We conyersed while journeying to gether,
since which time have had much oppor-
tunity of observation, and l 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. l predict Mr.. Allison will be the
successor Of James w. Grimes, in the U
S. senate, know it is contrary to you,
wishes; that your preference would be fol-
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 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, asd 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 puGi
he is getting through the New York and
Chicago Journals. As contemplate al
such course may appear to the few
who see bis own autograph affixed to hi
| own personal laudation, the mass see only
| an evidence that he is respected at home
and abroad while, in fact, If properly un-
derstood, is only evidence that he, re'3
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 other more powerful in
| fuenccs at work as lamcntable, as the fact
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 at
the ballot box, and fancy they are playing
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