Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
Tho Mask OF.

The fact that the new party move
ment is most preposterous conf
dence game, and fraud, is receiving
some striking illustrations. The
"anti-monopoly" convention, in Polk
county, is one of them. 1t was COM
pletely in the hands of squad of
old office-holding and ofice-seeking
politicians, most of whom were
Democrats, and the officers were
apportioned out among them with
as much nonchalance as though the
special mission of the new party
was not to reform politics by the
nomination and election of men
fresh from the people; from the pro-
ducers, DC. Almost every name en-
the ticket is that of an office holder
or man notorious for otficc-hunt-
ing propensities.
One of the resolutions adopted at
the Hardin county anti-monopoly (D
convention, held at Eldora last Sat-
urday, offers another and refresh
ing exemplification Of the peculiar
ideas Of ''rctornl" held by the man
ayers of the new party. We give
the resolution rs we find it in the
report Of the convention furnished
the Dubuque Telegraph by its spec,
ial correspondent:
Resolyed, That while we recog-
nize the services Of such of our rep
resentatives as have sought to deal
justly and fairly with every class
and interest, and have been proof
against temptation, and accord
them due honor still the pregnant
treachery and the pernicious conse-
quences resulting therefrom re.
minds us that ace cannot rely upon
those aehose only pronapter IS q sense
Of daty, but only upon those whose
interests are Unidentified with ours.
From the language quoted we are
not exactly able to determine wheth-
Ell or no the Performers" Of Hardin
county intended to declare that
dealing '.justly and fairly with ev-
cry class and interest has been
productive Of "pernicious conse-
qences," but there is no installing
the purport of the declaration that
they "cannot rely'' upon legislator
"achose only Tromptes IS q sense Of
0uty. The mask is here thrown off,
and the new party comes before the
public, with the unblushiug avowal
that even-handed justice to all class
es, is not what it is after. 1t must
have something more than this. 1t
must have legislation for the spec
ial benefit of producers. 1t cannot
trust men to act from promptings of
duty, the highest motive from which
men eau act, but it would elect as
Legislators, men who are identified
with a certain interest, and whose
sense of justice and duty will not
interfere with their inclination to ia
vor that interest, irrespective ofjus-
tice and the claims of all other in
terests. This is the feast to which
the people Of Iowa are invited by
one section of the new party, and
there is ample proof that the spirit
of the above resolution is not con-
fined to Hardin county.
The hungry demagogues, who
everywhere are coming to the front
as leaders in the organization, are
infiaming the minds Of their follow
ers with appeals to class prejudices.
and, for their own advancement,
counsel just such action as that con-
templated in the resolution. Can
there be any doubt in candid minds
that the new party organization is,
at its very inception, falling into the
hands of designing, dangerous men,
or if not these, still into those who
act from passion and vindictive i'm
pulse, rather than reason and DELHI
crate judgment? Is it not an insult
to the intelligent and honest pro-
ducers Of Iowa, to say that they will
strike hands with such a party?
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