Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-01
For the Bulletin.
Tho Autobiography Resolutions.

late Autobiography Convention In
this county did very much less of
the ridiculous than some others of
it's kind have done before it. In
deed, most OF the subject matter was
taken from the resolutions of the
Republican State Convention, and
so far as these were strictly follow
ed the anti-monopolists trod on toll
erably solid ground, but just as
soon as they undertook TO do lit
tie tinkering on their own account,
having no sufficient actual existing
grievances TO complain of, they
manufactured straw grievances and
then proceeded to demolish them,
with all the gusto of Il three-year-
old boy knocking down his cob
house.
The doleful piece of work in
these resolutions shows most con-
clusively that the experienced Dem
ocrats who concocted them
were sadly at Il loss, and were
deserted by their accustomed
shrewdness as soon as they began
to babble of a subject SO utterly new
to them as the subject Of reform,
though in very truth it was not re-
form they were after at all, but on
ly the loaves and fishes.
The second gem in this string of
pearls states that ''every depart
ment of the Government has been
permitted to fall under the control
of dishonest and designing men,"
Now there is such a thing as sue
cessful Misrepresentation, but it
must be INDUCED in discreetly, in
order to succeed, or it must at least
have some resemblance to the truth.
Unfortunately this sample possess
es neither of these qualities, but is,
in fact, an instance Of the most
groundless and gratuitous falsehood
that party hate has ever given rise
to. This resolution of course must
be understood as harmonizing with
the call for the organization Of the
Anti Monopoly party, and that ex'
pressly stated that the abuses ex.
list in the National, State and County
Governments, which the new party
is to correct. Now let us see
"every department Of the Govern
ment." That includes the Supreme
Court of the U. S. Has anybody
charged, or do the authors of this
foolhardy resolution charge that the
Judges of the Supreme Court of the
q. S. Tor of this State either) are
"dishonest and designing men," L
necessary, would admit that wher
that Court was in the hands Of the
party now engineering this Anti
Monopoly movement, it did by the
mouth of its chief, decide that ;
"Negro had no rights which whit.
man is bound to respect" but those
were the days Of Democracy ant
darkness, and the Supreme Court
was naturally slave institution
but in the free air of Republicanisn
it has become an institution of Free
dom and no effort Of the old slave
party even assisted by a few
thoughtless Changers can restore
that dreadful condition of things il
that department of the government
The present Supreme Court has de
cided that all men are absolutely
equal before the law, that railroads
are common carriers, and therefore
amenable to the law; and every one
of it's general decisions since the
Democratic Judges have been il
a minority on the bench has been il
the interest of the people. hope
and trust that the Judges of the Su
preme Courts will never learn thai
the Anti Monopoly party of Buchan
an county, Iowa, in convention
assembled, solemnly resolved that
they, (the Judges aforesaid)are eds
honest and designing men," for ii
would cost them anxious days
and sleepless nights; and how GLAD
every humane man must be that the
late Chief Justice was permitted tc
die before this dreadful declaration
went forth from our court house
that would have blasted all his
hopes and driven him to despair
And how about Congress. The
measure now so justly condemned
was purely a Democratic meas
ure. I refer to the law increasing
the salaries. If there had beer
nothing but Republicans in Con
gress that would not have passed
for there was Republican major
ity against the law in beth Houses
and a Democratic majority in .favol
of it in both Houses. In fact, it wa.
Democratic law, and no one cal
sufficiently admire the audacity o
the remnant of the party which i'm
posed the law upon the country;
remnant so insignificant that it wa
overlooked in the general overthrow
which the American people visited
upon that party-now that remnan
proposes to break down the Repub
lican party by accusing it of tn
base act of its own party.
And how about that faithful oil,
servant, Gen. Spinner. It. S. Treas
urer, and Belknap, Secretary o
War, and Richardson, Secretary o
the Treasury, and the Postmaste
General, and all the other Secreta
ries, and coming within our ow
State, how about that staunch oil
Scotchman, John Russell, cur Audi
tor, and Young and Christie, gu
f Secretary and Treasurer, and tn
9 ten thousand other quiet, faithfJ
Dublic SERVANTS: what have tn