Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-03
What They Think Of It.

What They Think Of It.
1t is amusing as well as instructive
to read the comments of the more
out-spoken organs of the Anti-Monor-
oily party, upon the performance at
Dies Moines last week, and the plat
form framed by the eminent swamp
lander, Ex-Goy. Stone. We append
few extracts from leading papers of
that ilk, just to show with what grim
aces they take their crow:
Iron the Dubuque Hcrala.l
The Autobiography State Convcn-
ton on the 25th, was one that meant
all right, but had queer way of say
ing it. The tendency of its platform
is in the right direction, but what
havoc did it make in telling it. A
resolution to this effect, resolved
''that the Kings English is a good
thing, and we will try to use it cor
rectly," would have been good thing
for the platform committee, for their
production is not commendable as Il
literary and grammatical effort. They
reatfirm a good many things in which
there is no longer any dispute, inclu-
ding several things borrowed from
the Declaration of independence.
Grants administration being dishon-
est is denounced as it should be.
And the plank on the currency hits
not far off the mark; it denounces in
tlation and tavors the resumption of
specie payment; it wants enough cur
rency with which to do business and
no more; and a fair distribution to all
the States is obviously fair. The dec
laration on the control and regula-
ton of railroads is about right. But
the silence on the liquor question
is too obvious. The convention
should have declared itself unequiv-
ocally for license, for that is the only
end that will win. That plank should
have gone in.
[From the Dubuque Telegraph
The Autobiography Convention of
Iowa, while doing well in some re-
spects. the work it undertook to per-
form, failed in the more essential
things it was expected to do and
ought to have done. The Anti-Mo-
nopoly party, if it be so, has not as
serted its right to be so called, even
by declaration of sentiment on the
most vital interests between popular
right and corporate power. The con-
vention, as such, is entirely silent on
the tariff question, and it would have
done better to be silent on the cur
rency question than to have so ex-
pressed itself us to be in antagonism
to the sentiments, us well as to the
interests Of the people, as its resolu-
ton on the currency does, if there be
any perceptiblc meaning in it.
The party is not yet organized that
embodies in it the political rcformcrs
of Iowa. We had hoped that the
Autobiography party, SO called, would
feel that it was called into existence
to be the reform party Of this State
and nation, but we are disappointed
in this hope, judging by the work
done by it at Dcs Moincs on Wednes-
day last.
AS we do not find in the creed of
the Autobiography party those doc
tTines Of popular right and sound
government which we believe to be
essential, fundamental in theory, and
necessary in practice to the well-be-
ing OF the people, we cannot give our
adhesion or support to that party as
it is made to appear by the convcn-
ton Of Des Moines. There is little
in its doctrines more than there is in
the Republican party that commands
the respect Of political reformers,
and we shall not be surprised to find
the Republican party.of Iowa, profit
ing by the want of fidelity of the An
ti-Monopoly Convention to it's trust,
taking advantage of the opportunity
left unused by the Anti-A1onopolists,
and identifying itself with the people
i'll their aspirations for political re-
form which will boldly declare at the
outset what reforms the people de-
mand, and then take measures to Sc
cure them.
[From the Clinton Agc.l
The platform accepted by the An
ti-Monopoly State Convention is u
good thing Of it's kind. That is, it is
cunningly and shrewdly drawn as
those documents usually are. How
any mortal man, possessed of his five
senses, can help finding something in
this platform to admire and approve
Of we cannot understand. 1t is a
sort of a universal net, with the holes
so arranged that nobody can escape
it's mcshcs. 1t is the best political
document we ever saw. 1t has a sin
gle plank, which standing by itself is
sufficient to hold up a party twice as
large, and it has other planks which
mean anything person wants them
10; it has got the best currency idea
ever advanced, while the reproduc-
ton of a portion of the Lincoln plat
form of 1860, upon States rights, is
5he best thing Of the times. The re
of certain truths Of the
Declaration Of Independence, is OPP
Fortune and full Of meaning.
The crusade against unlicensed
liquor dealers has again commenced q