Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-09
The Bulletins Attack on Gov
Stone.

The Bulletins Attack ON Gov.
stone.
We referred briefly last week to
the Des Moines Bulletins attack on
Gov. Stone. We do not deem that
any extended reply is in the least
necessary; but in the Pella Blade OF
the 3lst ult. we find the following
article, which goes so entirely down
to the root of the matter, and shows
up the status of the Bulletin and its
editor SO clearly, that we copy it
now entire. The Blade says:
Since the time when Satan offered
to give the world to the Savior If he
would fall down and worship him,
we have not had an example OF i'm
pudence equal to what appears in the
Des Moines Bulletin of the oath inst,
written by the hand that stole the
swamp land funds of the State,
against the man through whose for
bearance and mercy he is not to-day
in the State penitentiary.
This common thief, with his pock-
cts still lined with stolen gold, writes
an editorial and has it printed on a
press and type, purchased with the
remnants of the stolen treasure, land
now held in his wife's name to keep
the State from levying on it to pay
the judgments obtained against him
for the money stolen,) and presumes
to give advice to the respectable
electors of the 4th District as to
whom they should choose for Con-
gresham. We desire to suggest to
you, that when the people Of this
District need to consult with fOrgers
and thieves, they will have even a
choice among them, and would pre-
fer to choose advisers from among
the many more respectable ones in TT.
Madison.
Your advocacy Of the claims of the
Hon. j. A. KassOn in your own Dis
trict has done more towards the de-
feat of that gentleman than anything
else, and our advice would be to you
to go slow, for your polluted breath
carries with it whitening curse that
destroys every man or measure that
it advocates. 500
Thief, einbezzler and forger is
written upon your brow and associa-
ted with your name, and wherever
your paper is seen the first thought
that it suggests is rogue, thief, en-
bezzler. 1t is therefore good thing
to circulate in a COMMUNICATES q
perpetual warning against pick pOck.'
cts, for no man that knows you, or
ever heard your name, will pick
your paper up without placing, his
hand on his pocket book.
You talk about EX-GOv. Stone, his
bravery, his record as Governor, his
honesty, &c. We once asked you q
few plain questions about your con-
dnct with the Governor, which, with
all your cheek, you llo~o nnves ho,s
the courage to answer, but like a.
whipped puppy, SUNK off into your
kennel, and have not yelped since
till now. Suppose you employ the
hand that stole the 1874, 600 from the
State in writing answers to the fol-
lowing questions:
Were you not the private Secreta-
nv of Gov. Stone, and didn't you
steal about $4,000 Of Swamp land
funds, that came into your hands by
acting as such Secretary?
Are you not an admitted Theft
Did you not acknowledge before
the Investigating Committee that
you did appropriate these funds to
your own use?
Didn't you build paper mill, a
planning mill and brick block in
Des MOines with these same funds,
and didn't you tell Stone, North and
others that it was of money you bor-
rowed of friends in the East ut 6 per
cent interest? /
Wasn't that lie?
Are you not most immitigated
liar as well as thief?
Didn't you do little swindling, if
not to say downright forgery in the
exchange business?
How about the drafts you drew on
and elsewhere?
How about drawing your paytwice
for papers furnished the last Legis-
lature?
You say you propose to meet Gov.
Stone on the stump If he ID nOmina-
ted, with his record, &c. Now you
know that you havn't either the
courage or ability to do that.
YOuspeak of the GovernOr'srecOrd.
You would look we'll finding fault
with his record, wouldn't you, when
the only blot on his record scas made
6y youS
The only mistakes the Gov. ever
nade was when he yielded to the re-
quest of the Republicans Of DesI
Moines and appointed you his private
Secretary, and then after you had
abused his confidence and stolen the
funds, and were five times indicted
for forgery and embezzlement, that
he didn't follow you up to the fullest
extent OF the law, and have you sent
to the penitentiary for the remainder
of your days, as you justly deserved,
and which you escaped only through