Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-09

| their constituents, who vote for them
| expecting them to carry out the
principles they have announced
well, they can't prove false; they
are Changers, and Changers are hon
est. Then they must make every
effort in their power to make all, or
nearly all church property subject to
taxation, for it is the property OF
corporations. Our universities and
colleges must must pay taxes upon
their buildings and libraries, our lit
tie incorporated towns must pay up
on their cemeteries, and if the tax
is net paid the ground must be sold.
30 they know what they are talking
about-do they mean to do what they
say are they in fun or in earnest?
are they honest, or trying 10 pull
wool over the eyes OF the people:
in their frantic war upon railroads
and banks will they also strike at the
churches. their schools, and even the
homes OF the dead?
They declare that each honorably
discharged soldier should have 100
acres of land free, but how much
sympathy, for soldiers-how much
patriotism did they manifest in ma
king their ticket? They have bare
Is one soldier candidate of nine, and
Clark, Crozier and Farris among the
eight We're unfriendly (to put it
mildly to the soldiers cause.-The
cause Of the country. Very sincere,
are they not, in their love FOR the
soldier.
Again they say 'the public officers
who betray their pledges or trusts
are reunworthy Of renewed confidence" ;"
Did not the man on the head Of their
ticket betrays his pledge or trust
when he violated his oath and the
constitution of the State for $l4 mile
age which he drew and pocketed
dishonesty? The platform declares
in favor ola strict construction of the
constitution" The constitution said
81 90 for 90 miles. Green construed
strictly, but made $40 Of l20. He
says the mileage was counted by rail;
there were not at that time $40 miles
Of rail in the State. He travelled by
stage and drew mileage by rail, uid
Chicago perhaps. He violates the
Constitution, his pledges and his
| honor, disgraces his constituency,
dishonesty appropriate5 public
money, and IS renominated by the
honest Grangers and Democrats, in
violation of all their pledges and OF
their platform, which says: We will
nominate only those known to be
faithfully in sympathy with these
declarations, and will repudiate at
the polls any candidate known 10 be
unfit or incompetent. Will they re-
pudiate the grabber:
Their County platform tells US that
they are opposed to class legislation,
but their acts tell us that they will
legislate for class. Their whole ef-
forts are for class, they are under
secret pledges TO class, their June
resolutions pledged them not to sup
port any man for office unless he be
a farmer or q manual labOrer, yet
they have placed two men upon their
ticket who do not belong to either
class, and one Of them is now their
chief orator and they oppose a ticket
composed almost entirely Of farmers.
Their acts say that farmer who is a
Granger is honest and worthy, and q
farmer who is not also a Granger, or
who will not vote their ticket, is not
honest and not worthy.
They pretend to oppose monopo-
lies, but their creed is the creed Of Il
monopoly.
They condemn trickeTy and trick
sters in politics, but by trickery and
tricksters are their cause and their
ticket sustained, and the most noto-
rious and unprincipled wire-puller
in the county is their bosom friend,
their counselor and defender.
That the masses Of this party are
bad men, or that their purposes are
bad, we neither say nor believe. The
majority are honest worthy citizens,
with whom we sha II ever feel proud
to cooperate for the public good, in
politics as well as other matters which
deeply concern us as community
and nation but their political par
ty and the Grange, we believe are
being debased for bad ends by bad
men. Hence we feel called upon to
do everything reasonable and honor
ahIn that lies In our mower f0 fhWarL