Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-26

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yourpaper teemed with warnings to
your countrymen against the villainy
and corruption of the Democracy.
you turn your back upon the friends
OF order, give the lie to your past
life, and by becoming the bosom
companion and Presidential candi-
date ofsthose whom you have a
thousand times denounced as rascals
blacktegs, traitors, etc, attempt to
dlslntegrate and destroy the great
Republican party, the champions of
law and order, the defenders and
preservers OF the country and the
promoters Of your own greatness
!; and AL this because Of your personal
hostility to one man. l can but
regard this as a most contemplate,
mean and unpatriotic spirit, the
legitimate offspring of an unnatural
ambition for office. If l have ever
INDUCED. in a suspicion that my
party harbored Judas, it did not
point to the man who has omitted
no opportunity to denouncc the
Democracy as ga conglomerated
mass OF rottenness, immortality and
treason" l venture the assertion
that i moie unnatural alliance was
never formed than the one. into
which you have entered with those
Of whom you have so often warned
your countrymen to beware. /
remember it was you who told me
through the columns of the Tribune
that Gin communities where there
were few or 10 churches or school
houses, there Democratic maiorities
were always the largest;" that "if
there was not a common school nor
q newspaper i'll the the country the
Democratic party would be far
stronger than it is" that call the
vilest classes, the biacklegs, pugil-
lists, keepers of dens, criminals,
shoulder hitters, rowdies, ETC., all
the scum and dregs Of the commune
ty, arc drawn to the Democratic
party by y cord Of sympathy"
Were you sincere in these asser-
tons? Were you honest when you
expressed the wish, "May it be
written on my grave that l was
never its follower, and that l lived
and died in nothing it's debtor?''
Believe me, Sir, the people of this
country connot be gulled into the
belief that your acceptance of the
Democratic nomination was any
thing less than an act of the most
damnablc erfidy, without parallel
even in the corruption and villainy
of the Democratic party itself.
How comes it that you are found
in such close alliance with those in
whom you have said "there was
nothing clear?" Has the Democratic
party, with its two and a half
millions of voters, gone over to you,
or have you gone over to the
Democratic party? One or the
other of these propositions is true.
Your miserable twaddle about re-
form is simply the thinncst bosh.
Nobody believes it, or gives it even
passing consideration. AS well
undertake to convince the people
that Satan was a reformcr in the
Garden of Eden. We have your
own word for it that Sing Sing and
the penitentiaries all over the land
are filed with Democrats. Are
they to be your coworkcrs in your
labor of reform? Do you abandon
the party that saved the Government
for the one that did all in it power
to destroy it? Do you forsakc the
great, high-minded Grant for the
cunning thief Tweed, or the noble,
patriotic Colfax for Seymour, that
man of low cunning and political
trickery?
eff there was not common
school nor newspaper in tho
country" yon might be able to i'm
pose upon the crcdulity of the
people 50 far rs to convince them
you are honest in your new-found
faith. But to day your time would
be much more p"otitably employed
in defending the memory of your
ancestor, Judas Iscariot, against
the charge Of having sold his Master
for thirty pieces of silver.
c. l.. CoRwIN.