Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-11-03
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The Mayor Of Toic,.esi is singular
animal. He is, to use Language ia
miliar, Of course, to his classic cars
sal geser's. Pure i'm speech, chastc
in thought, meek in disposition and
wise in counsel: mobile in character
generous in4sentiment and in action
patyioticin his public life, and, pub
lie spirited on I'LL occasions, he adds
dig.iily to Incorporation over whose
representative, legislative body hs
prcstlcs.s Incapable Of LelHg, 'v-
erne4 on any, OCCASION b ,yss dut Smo
tivcanot purely" and wholly public
willing 1T AT times to sacrifice" any
personal aims for tile public good, in
l,i.-, is tic cxaltation or Toledo com
plctc. as.H
Our rcaders,in Toledo, will recol.
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lcct when, 4 % few "a months, or more
ago, thc railroad ffisoaai Tadsna, City to
Toledo was ,.s; algitatis.d. "A Subscription
Of twe,ity Thousand dollars was re-
ruirc,l. Almost every body was
in earnest in the matter and took
holdsos 0sE llk&ect j. i'll gHaleayEgy.
Subscriptions = roltp,l fia, in sums
ranging from. OHc 70 QUO thousand
dollars. Our .wssthy Mayor dil not
at that llnle occupy the. position he
now graccs vita his Serene dignity.
1t is, aid Away ! las bccn conceded
by ali who knoy tue benefits that
railroads bring in thcit train, that
our prcsolsI iAatAfdl and generous
Mayor woul.troap ,nore- benefit from
the ibaiidnyiI 81 tic contemplated
read than any other n.an.in Toledo
or Talna county. Under these circum-
stances, q ,i,A,h AtN m ordinary
II 81 sor.iltiiineesas,, most any man
with the .,monnt offoh,lncss foS filthy
lucre usually possessed by, men,
would Lave urged the p4,r on, and,
to aid at wo,,la have .tl.f5wp IL
cool'tivc 'tlfodsanda dbllafs,, 81 !, Mt so,
tho man whom we ghonor.
to day. By ,lisse remarks tfe Nas
not attitatddby my Motives " per-
sonal enrichment 10 was possessed
Ola spirit ofsclf'sacriiicing nobility Of
character, very scarce even in the
City ofChurchcg'' He saw,a with
a prophets ken, that the road was to
kill Toledo. Others Gould not see it,
but he could, am tfsiseAsSiaid the
'niseldySolts AnuflHsstle did, i..ow
ever, add the wisdom Of his counsel
to the undertaking. al,e s,aa3
Not long ago, a vote was taken i'll
Toledo township on the proposition
10 aid ia building the s'plnySsroml.
Again this public spirited citizclinlid
cityaioAlecr exhibited his patrioic
devotion to the public good J. Before
and hiring the day .s5ots election. he
along, on' streets in phrc-
niticsvigor, ot,ti,Hes, in his earnest
ness, sj.Mnpisg and sbrantiislling.,sllis
oakcn sccptrc, cnlbltnatic Of his oiii-
sial aM!pritN ln'hele WAS ~ do1Yt,
here IS no doubt a At this late Gay,
hat CTR city nose tic sgapl.poslter
must ROT spitths s).vas wonderful
y insca,Host, .as,rl often, TITS sad, lie
nads4 af.tsiflx blue via his IN
,criptural ana,hemas and tire .b5-
tealiiH AAt they Gould dc
,cct the fumes OF sulphur in tho pass
ing breeze.
We are tempted, in view Of the
many virtues Of our anti railroad
ricnd, 70 apply to him the noble
once pronounced by Cicero
lpon that great Roman patriot, Cat
,linc, who had aided Rome very
learly as much rs our chivalrous Off
.ial has aided Toledo, but in another
way. In order to please our many
readers VIC give the words
If the great orator in their original:
"Quousque tandem abuterc, Phil
pus, paticntia nostra? quamdiu nos
,tiam Juror istc tuus cludet? qucm ad
lincm scse cArcnatajactabit audaciay
The proper solution to the above
eloquent HETEROGENEOUS will, We
rope, be found at the city election
,ext March.
We are aware that this article is
'atllcr phytolithologic in its general
but VIC cannot refuse to
write cncomiums on our public OIL
.ers where they are so richly de-
served as in this instance.
The Mayor has seen proper, by
;irtue of his official dignity, to take
% himself much that was said, last
week, Of an unnamed opponent Of