Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-05-26

seems more swamp land ahead.
A. FARMER.
"A Farmer'' In Reply.
NJ. Ed,tor:-The Tama Citizen, q |
paper printed mostly in Illinois or
Wisconsin, Tor the Lord knows
where,) is just out with an appeal to
the Iowa Soldiers because somebody
has made an attack upon Governor
Stone. The editor is evidently Ia.
boring under great mental excite.
ment, or continued III health, as he does
not tell us upon what part Of the
Governors person the attack has
been made, neither does he tell us
the time and place Of rendezvous, or
to what commander, tho soldiers will
report. But the danger is imminent,
the attack has been made, Help! for
the love Of God!
"Oh, where Was Cambridge, then.
One blast upon his bugle hsrn
Was worth thousand men"
I d. hope that the soldiers will obey
the call, as somebody is evidently
getting hurt.
The editor charges that the attack
is "false and shameless" and he has
called upon Capt. Lauderdale to
prove it. Well, it is easy to prove
what nobody cares to controvert
It is not Gov. Stone, - soldier, but
~ Governor, that we are discussing. |
The Governor is not asking the peo-
pie to confer upon him military ap- |
pointment; if SO, it might be pertinent !
and proper to discuss his military ex.
ploits. And were it necessary to ex. |
anime his career as q soldier, I think
nothing very remarkable would be |
discovered. 1t would be found, per.
haps, that he did his duty, and LETT |
the tented field for home as soon as |
a good opportunity offered. But the |
Governor is asking us to elect HIM 10 |
an important civil position, and, OF
course, he claims our support because
Of his eminent fitness Tor the place.
It is proper, then, under the circum-
stances, that we should examine and |
see If this claim is we'll founded. I !
gave some reasons, in the REPUBLICAN,
why we should not support Gov.
Stone; the editor OF the Citizen says |
that that article was "scandalous,
false aud shameless" said moth.
ing in that article that I cannot es-
tabl,sh from the Republican journals
Of the State, published in the last FIVE |
years, facts that the editor of the |
Citizen UiW not, and dare not, publish.
And when he charges that my article |
was false and shameless, he either
wl:fully falsifes or else he is shame.
fully ignorant OF Iowa journalism; IN |
other words, "he Is either knave or |
fool"
The editor informs me that I Of |
Tered direct insult to the friends OF |
Gov. Stone, "when I said that his |
friends said nothing Of his honesty, |
integrity, and efficiency" Many OF
the friends of Gov. Stone are support
ing him because they believe him to |
be all right and some tew Of them
would support him if they knew him
to be all wrong, provided they could
SEQ fright smart chance" for specu-
lation in the operation, and, when
any one attempts to let In little
light, one of the Governors friends
says, in his most tragic style, Bah!
Scandal! Copperhead!!! 1t lis an easy
matter to make faces, call names and
get up side issues. but these are nei-
Their arguments nor proofs. and it Is
generally safe to infer that the cause |
is bad one that can only be defend.
ed by such weapons.
But the editor makes novel ar
gument in favor of Gov. Stone. He |
says sin the efficiency he manifested
he saved thousands of dollars to the
State, vastly more than the whole
amount Of the Swamp Land Deialca-
tion." l had always supposed that
the Governor was elected tor the ex.
press purpose OF attending to the at
tairs OF the State aud seeing that the
State suffered no detriment. The
Governor allowed one man whom he
appointed aud whom he could At any
time remove, aud for whose honesty
he was responsible, to steal about
$4,000, aud the editor says that 9TH
ers were attempting to steal = good
deal more and he, (the Goyernor,)
prevented it and saved the State.
This, put in an ineligible form,
would read like this: $2OO, 900 passed
through tho Governors hands while
in Office belonging to the State, the
Governors appointees stole 80, 900
and wanted to steal the balance, but
the Governor would not permit it
aud no saved the 100000 to the
State; from this, he argues that if the
Governor had not been an efficient
public servant they would have stol.
en- the whole pile. The editor seems
to be an ardent admlrer of that kind
Of efficiency. Wonder if he expects
to be one OF the Governors appoint
ees If he 10 elected? The editor says
that when Gov. Stone discovered the
embezzlement, no demanded CON-
mittee Of investigation. II is shown
by af6davits, that will not be i'm
peached, that the Governor must
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