The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1871-07-20
THE YEAR OF THE FIGHT.

In Iowa, it will be this year. The
grand struggle along the whole line
will, Of course, be next year, when
every State will be on the battle line
and The whole Union raging with
the noise Of the conflict. But al
that the opposition hope to make
out OF Iowa, they intend to make
out of the campaign just commencing.
What they want and what they will
aim to do, is to cut down the next
MAJ ority ten, fifteen or twenty thou
sand, and use the reduction as proof
that Radlcalism is crumbled and dy-
ing in its strongest holds. They hold,
and hold truly, that to reduce the
maj ority in Iowa this much this year,
will insure them one or two States
more next year.
SO let us understand them, and not
be mapping while they are carrying
out their game in Iowa. In arrang-
ing for the canvass at once to come,
let us meet them on the lines of last
year, and keep them within the mar
row bounds in which we have held
them several years and are now
holding them, But let us remember,
that while we are perfecting our pre-
limlnaries, mapping our campaign,
and selecting our generals, that we
are face to face, even in Iowa, with a
harder fight, than we have lately had.
Our Democracy are animated with a
new life. The snakes have slipped
their skins, and are come out in
counterfeit costume, in which they
hope to meet with better success
than that they have found under
honest front and open colors. And
the leaders have really succeeded in
inbuing the masses with a belief
that this year will be worth while to
vote, and that much depends upon
this election for the success of the
greater. one III the coming year.
They have all become thoroughly
converted to the new war cry, any
thingtor success-anything to power
and areready blinded to follow in any
direction. on any departure, that will
lead to the tlesh-pots Of office and
the profits OF place.
They make no secret of the pres
ent designs upon Iowa, 80 we shall
be doubly culpable if in being fairly
torewarned we are not carefully
forearmed. An organized campaign,
carefully drawn even to the minutest
of details, was presented to the par
ty chiefs at the time of their recent
State Convention. 1t was adopted,
and the engineering drafting it ap'
pointed to carry it out. In open
Convention the new commander
strengthened the Democratic hear,
with the assurance that "tbe real Re
publican majority in Iowa is not over
twenty thousand" and that he
intended to prove it at the next
election. This, to be sure was
cheap and empty; but on the Demo
cratic ear, now so quickly on the
alert, it sounded trumpet call of bet
ter things speedily to come. Undel
the inspiration Of the New Depart
ure, and the dare deviltry of feeling
which mask or disguise puts upol
all men, the Democrats of Iowa, as i
is for every one to see, are dressing
on the color line with an activity the,
have not exhibited for many years
This fall they intend to make
strong fight and have their ever,
man at the poels. And let us no
foolhardily underestimate thei
strength. All OF their men, the oil,
Conservatives, the sore-heads an,
the bare-foots of the hills aud hol
lows, who have not been voting flo
years, have been galvanized with tn
new medicine, and will this time b
found in their place ready to vot
early and often.
Knowing these things, it is for u
, to meet them halfway and thras
them more soundly than ever. Civ
us ticket of sterling men, a plat
form bold and plain, and live CON
/, mittee 20 conduct the canvass, an
: we will meet the same old Demo
5 Gratis trigged out in Republican ole
, clothes, and snow them under wit
the old forty thousand majority
, and add an extra ten thousand jul
A for the good effect it will have o
. next year.-Register.