Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-09-29

| j HE JAiR.- nc lltSb AHilusi CT ~
the buchanan County Agricultural So
ciety, which closes to day, has been an
| unauestionahle success. The entries ana
attendance has been fuller and larger
| than either The management or public
anticipated The interest manifested in
the Fair by the farmers, mechanics, mer-
chants, implement dealers, and in fact all
! claascs Of the community, is highly graf
/ flying ard gives promise Of great results
for future fairs. " have not the time
or space 70 give anything like descrip-
sion OF the fair and its attendant Incidents
| bilt viii make fuller mention of it in our
next. There was one feature. however,
which gave us much pleasure to examine
and that was the show of fruit in the
Floral Hall We counted fifteen different
collections Of apples, embracing from five
to thirty varieties each, many of which
were as fine as any raised in the east.
The names Of the exhibitors in this line
will be given next week. The show of
dairy products was very fine, the sewing
machines were in full force, while the
! show of fancy articles, millinery, en-
broideries, &c, was perfectly bewildering
The stock was also very fair and attract
ed much attention. The receipts up to
last evening were $3.50.
BUTTON -uoL1Na. The Conservative, in
speaking of the Republican candidates
in this county says:
with fear and trembling these can
didates, some of them, are rushing fran
tically about the county bntton holing
every man they meet. and asking for his
vote"
This provokes us TO ask what Mr..
ucnshaw, the Democratic candidate for
the Assembly, is doing if not "button-
holing?" Usually one Of the most atten-
tive men to business, his shop has hardly
had his attention for an hour in the
twenty.four during the last three weeks.
He is putting in more and harder work
than any three men on either ticket, and
with as little to show for it as ever any
man had, either The lack of success is
not because he is q bad man, but because
he fails in all his button . Icing to CON
vince Republicans that anything would
be gained by deserving an equally good
and competent man on their own ticket
to go for him. When he suggests, as we
hear he does, that if Republicans will go
for him Democrats will go for Becmis,
with the further intimation that the name
of the latter would have appeared on the
Democratic ticket had it cot been for the
opposition of q few old straight-back,
anti.departure fellows, his interlocutor,
some substantial Republican farmer, kind
of smiles and says that he did not know
shat Becmis needed strength from the
Oer,ocrats When he talks about his
deter. ancd opposition to the law per-
hitting the people to be taxed for rail
roads he is reminded that Mr.. Hovey is
inst as Diet, ,rn'ined, and furthermore, is
instructed by the Convention that nomi-
mated him to use al proper means to have
tie odious law re, ,,caied. But we set out
merely to answer the ding of the Conser-
satipe by showing that Democratic can
d;datos were "buiton-hol,. g." We have
no fluit to find that Mr.. Helash NV asks
for votes. 1t is only matter OF taste
after all. and we should not have a!iu1ed
to il but f,g The above silly fling Of the
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