Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-03

wiped 1t out forever. Tremendous
applause.
General Jones then called to the
front his old-time Democratic friend,
Capt. l. w. Griffith, whom he touch-
ingly eulogized as the battle-scarred
hero of Cherubusco, and Hon. J. X.
Graves, Of Dubuque, who had last
year been tinctured with Liberalism,
and with these gentlemena AS grOOms-
men, he said the ceremony that we'd
ded him to the Republican party.
The magnetism Of the union of noble
words and fitting action fairly elec-
trified the audience, and cheer after
cheer made the walls ring again as
the gentlemen descended from the
platform. It was scene that will
long be remem bered in the history
of Iowa Republicanism.
The speech of Gen. Jones was en-
Enthusiastically and repeatedly applau-
ded, and as he left the platform three
rOusing cheers were given for him.
Repeated calls were made for Gov.
Carpenter, who upon being introduce
ed by a committee sent for him,
spoke AS follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: return you my sim
cere and heartfelt thanks for the hon
or you have conferred upon me. I
would not If l could affect any indif-
ference to the action of this COnven-
ton; AS to be nOmineted a second
time to the Office for which you have
named myself, by such Convention,
representing such a State and such a
people and SUCH a party, is no ordi-
nary honor, and should satisfy the
ambition of any ordinary man. If
the people endorse your action at the
ballot box in October next, l pledge
you, and the people of the State, in
the discharge of duties which the Of
flee will impose, my constant and
undivided time and whatever ability
l may possess.
/ have been informed Of the SUBJ
stance of the resolutions which you
have adopted, and ! endorse them
fully and unequivocally. If by a
revolution in the wheel Of fortune Ell
ther of you gentlemen had been call
ed to stand where do, while it had
fallen upon me to act in the place
you now fill, these resolutions are
such as l would have advised and ad-
vOcated.
so much for myself personally.
A word upon the issues Of the day.
In q great party which has gone
through rs many fiery Ordeals and
encountered as many crucial tempta-
tions rs has the Republican parity
which has met and settled SO many
questions UfM fundamental nature
it could scarcely be anticipated 9TH
erWise than that, among all the
agents employed i'm the administra-
ton of the government, one would
not occasionally fall out by the way
--betray himself and betray his party
and the people. But, If such inen
are not endorsed and their delinguen-
cies pallated--if the party, as mass,
and through its delegate conventions
repudiate and condemn those who
have betrayed it, and drive them
from their places of power and re-
sponsibility with a whip Of scorpions
it cannot be held responsible for their
misdoings.
We are told that new issues are be-
fore the people, and that new polite
al combinations will be required to
settle them. What new issues are
referred to? These labor questions,
and questions as t0 the rights and in
terests of productive industry, con-
stituted the very foundation princi-
Piles Of the Republican party, and its
framework, from foundation to cor
nice, has grown up out Of these ques-
tiOns. Its first platform set forth
that the existence Of human slavery
in one half Of the States of the Union
which was being pushed forward
with the hope Of making It legal
everywhere, was degrading to hu-
man labor and should therefore be
restricted tn the territory 1t then Oc-
cupied. But what was the position
Of those gentlemen who are now SO
much exercised about the rights Of
human labor, in this .cGntest with an
Institution, that tended more than
all others combined, to degrade and
injure the position of the laborer ev-
erywhere? They believed then, it
was once mans right to naonopolize,
not only mans labor, but to buy
and sell him as a chattel. When the
Emancipation Proclamation of Abra-
ham Lincoln was uttered 1t did more
to lift up and dignity labor than any
other act of human authority.
Against this proclamation which
closed In these Solemn and dignified
words, commensurate WI tn the great
ness of the OCCASION: Upon this
act / invoke the cOnsiderate judg-
ment Of mankind and the gracious
favor of Almighty God;" the whole
Democratic party set up q howl Of
rage and threatened to defeat its en-
forcement by violence. Pretty men
these to talk about forming new COM
binatiOns to aid and promote human
industry!i As fast as any question
relating to labor or industry has aris-
en-, since the Republican party has
administered the Government, 1t has
uniformly sought its solution In the
Interests Of the masses, and has NOV
ed forward to the settlement Of all
such questions against the protests