Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-03

"A CIRCUMSTANCE was tOlu uS INC QUIET
day which well illustrates the idea of fair
ness and tolerance which animate some
of the men who have Joined the ranks of
the new party. In one of the townships
of this county q man who was last year
a Republican, and the chairman Of the
township Republican committee, is now
a candidate on the Anti Monopoly ticket.
Upon his stepping out of the party an
other member of the committee assumed
the responsibility Of calling caucus of
the Republicans of the township, to
choose delegates to the County Conven-
ton, when the man who was so intensely
opposed to monopolies that he could no
longer act with old political organizations,
loudly protested against the invasion of
his rights as chairman Of the Republican
Committed! In other words lie wanted
to illustrate his anti-monopoly principles
by monopolizlng the control Of the Re-
publicans of his township, while he was
the candidate of the enemy. Another
thing illustrating his tolerance was the
reason he gave for such desire, and that
was, that he wanted to prevent his town.
ship from being represented in the Re-
publican Convention. We have always
supposed it to be principle in politics
that any American citizen, however OBJ
scure. or any number, however few, are
entitled to the privilege of tue expression
CT their views and wishes in any proper
way, but it seems, according to the the
DRY of this representative and candidate
of the new party; that the rights of all
other parties are about played out.
OUR contemporary down the street
writhes painfully under the exposure of
its demagogueism and hypocricy in our
columns last week. AS usual with it, it
seeks to evade the issue, and labors,, through
a column to prove what we have never
concealed or denied, and which we do
not now deny, that we have also. been in
favor of the publication of the laws in the
papers, and are willing to receive COM
pensation therefor. But we do not pro-
pose to let the Conservative fog the issue
in this way. Our point against it was
not that it took pay for publishing the
laws, though considering the fact that
it made about double the profit from said
publication that was made by other pa
pers, we think that it had splendid OPP
portunity for taking "the burdens off the
shoulders Of the over-burdened tax pay
ers' if it ever was stirred by such a de-
sire. The point that we did establish
against the Conservative and its editor,
and which it cannot evade by any Jug
glery or pettifogging, was that it was
willing to take large price, considering
the work done, for publishing the laws,
out of the State Treasury, and now, when
a political point is to be made thereby
rolls up its eyes in holy horror at the
enormity of paying for printing the tax
list the price fixed by law. In short, it
finds the prices fixed by law none too
large for doing this kind of work when
it can have the privilege of doing it, but
when rival in business is likely to get
it, out of pure revenge and low rivalry, it
rats" the price down to a low figure, and
then hypocritically goes before the public
assuming that it has done all this out of
pure and unalloycd regard for the PEG
pies interests.
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