Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-22

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What Came Of It.
The mixed convention has been
called, worked up, has met, made
its mark in the sand and adjourned.
Its ingredients were pepper and
salt. They would mix but would
not unite. Shake them up with the
utmost thoroughness, and you could
see the pepper was black and the
salt was white. They did not look
alike, nor smell alike, nor taste
alike. A few misguided farmers,
who did not suspect they were being
led like sheep to the slaughter, were
there, and they were the salt
though hardly the salt of the earth.
More long-hcaded wiro-pullers
were there, and they were the pep
per. And how the wire-pullers
laid out the farmers, and nipped
their swelling hopes in the bud, and
fooled them and Knocked them, in
the platform and in the candidates,
will furnish an interesting study
from this till election day.
AS last year the same managers
Substantially procured a respect
able Republican for the first posi-
| tion-because he would draw Re-
publican votes-so this year they
have chosen Senator Vale-a Re-
publican-for the figure-head of
their ship. BY way Of parenthesis,
one might as we'll ask right here, if,
with the magic of Greeley's name,
united with the craftsmanship, ex-
perienco and ability of Carl Schurz,
and Sumner, and Lyman Trumbull,
and Upton, and Banks and some of
their co-workers, they made igno-
NOUS shipwreck, low much better
do they think they can do here in
Iowa, with a State Senator and a
President of a projected railroad
for leaders, supported mainly by
the little end of a dishonest Demo
cracy. But they nominated Sen
ator Vale for Governor. In the
main he is no doubt a good man.
His worst fault is conserving to run
upon a platform which his legisla-
tive record proclaims that he does
not believe in. And associated on
the ticket with him is Fred O'Don-
nell. Vale and O'Donnell, that
sounds well enough, almost as mu-
steal as "Tippecanoe and Tyler
too" and under similar event
might turn out as disastrously,) but
there is represented in these two
names an antagonism so high, and
deep, and broad, that no man who
votes from principle can conscien-
tiously vote for both Of them.
O'Donncll is "good fellow" gener-
GUS hearted, honorable in debate,
faithful to his friends, and a magnan-
imous opponent. He is opposed to
prohibitory liquor law, and OPP
posed to preventing unjust discrim-
ination on the part of railroad cor
porations, which is the natural re-
suit of his associations and position,
being representative of the Du,
buque Democracy. Educated as
lawyer, and bred politician, his
sympathies are with the city, and
with money, and with capital.
Mr.. Hall, Representative from
Burlington was chosen candidate for
the Supreme Bench. He is an ed
ucatcd, fastidious, cold kind Of a
man, clear-headc9 himself, and
practiced in the skillful use of Ian
guage, he delights in subjecting to
the cruelest sarcasm the farmer
members Of the Legislature, who
know, and are able to let others
know what they mean, but do not
express themselves In language
quite to his satisfaction. He too is
lawyer, and a politician, and, as
you might expect from his resi-
dence, his position and his occupa-
ton, is opposed to law to prevent
unjust discrimination on the part of
railroads.
These are the candidates of the
new party. How do you like them,
gentlemen of the new party in Bu-
chanan county? Where now are the
promises so freely made from head
quarters that this was to be "peo-
pies movement" that politicians
must take back seat" The three
principal offices on the State ticket
all old politicians, and two of them
ambitious lawyers, and with rec
ords thst no farmer in this section
can approve.
Where, tell me where is ''Ex-Re-
publican" who promised to lead the
weakened Republican grangers
into "green pastures" if they would
but consent to manipulate the Sec
ond violin in the grand Modoc Pow
WOW of odds and ends, to come off
on the fourteenth day of next Oct
ODER?
Where, oh where! is the youthful
"Andrews," all the way from Buff
falo Grove, who innocently assured
us that candidates should be chosen
from the "honest sons of toll" Oh
Andrews, you should have been at
Des Moines, and interfered to pre-
vent the overthrow of your promise
and your theory.
And Mr.. "Crude,' can see what
has become of his senseless gable
that the agriculturists shave never
risen above the level of serfs," that
they are like "dumb brutes," that
"they are harnessed as you would
harness your horse, by the poll
ticians and Congressman, and COM
PEELED to become their supporters"