Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-06
dence, and serenaded, and then the
crowd dispersed.

dence, and serenaded, and then the
crowd dispersed.
The 9th plank of the Democratic
Platform, and the Sth of the Repub-
lican Platform, of this State, meet an
appropriate comment in recent
dispatch from Washington stating
that eight hundred assistant revenue
assessors have been removed since
the last of October, under the law
providing for the consolidation of
districts. This is 33 per cent. OF the
whole number of assessors. The
Government certainly seems to be
lessening the "myriads of tax-gath-
erers' and thereby "iessening the
expenses of collection" at very
satisfactory rate.
The Democrats are bound 10 be
dissatisfied, anyhow. If O'Connor
had been our nominee for Governor
they would have abused him "for all
that's out" would have called him a
common drunkard, and everything
else that's bad. But seeing that he
was not nominated, they now take
the other track. They declare he is
the very man we ought to have
chosen; and the Constitution says that
"he was defeated in the nomination
by combination among the politi-
clans Of the party, on account of his
being an Irishman by birth and
temperance man from conviction"
What pity it is that our poor,
misguided party always select the
wrong man!
And the Constitution is very indig-
nant because Rev. Mr.. Wilson, at
our State Convention, prayed for
"the usual 10000 majority this year"
and was cheered for it by the Con-
vention. "The notorious fact is that
the radical party of this state is con.
troiled and run by tho Methodist
church," says the Constitution, with
tears in both its eyes. Deplorable,
truly!
Three members of the Congress
sional Investigating Committee will
soon leave for the South to take tes-
tiwony in regard to the ku klux
operations. Since the Committee
met there has been an abundance OF
the most contradictory testimony in
regard to Ku Klux outrages-Demo-
cratic witnesses almost unanimously
swearing that there isn't any kuklux
and never was any, and other per-
sons, including the sufferers them
selves, testifying to the many mur-
derous outrages their own eyes have
seen. On the 2Sth ult., only last
week Wednesday, President Grant
received a memorial, signed by G3
residents of Fayette Co., Alabama,
saying that the Ku Klux make the
lives of loyal citizens there wholly
insecure, and appealing for the pro-
lection which the Constitution
guarantees.
The Register considered it "signal
omen Of increasing good" that Il
proposed declaration in favor Of II
liquor license law was choFed down
and rejected in the late Democratic
Convention Of Iowa. We would
think SO too, if we could believe that
there was any sincerity in that
action of the Convention. But the
truth was merely that the Conven-
ton had just put on the Republican
lions hide, and choked down that
License resolution only because it
didn't want to let the Democratic
ears stick through too plainly.
The Hdnkeye remarks that, the
elections of this year are all off local
character; but in many of the States
the contest promises to be OF more
than ordinary interest Congress
men are to be elected only in Cali
fornia and Illinois, the latter TO fill
the vacancy caused by the election
of General Logan to the Senate.
Governors and other State officers
are to be elected in several States, in
the following order: Kentucky,
Aug. 6; California, Sept. 5; Maine, in
September; Ohio, Iowa and Mime
sofa, in October; Massachusetts, and
New Jersey, in November.
There are those who think that
Gen. Augustus Caesar Dodge, the
Chairman Of the Committee on Res
olutions in the late Democratic State
Convention of Iowa. must have
ohanood hia mind some gince he was