Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-08
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he improved 50 well that he unanag,
10 pick seine fifteen hundred acre:
of Jasper county Swamp lands, y
Sl - per acre. aud n much more iol
ais brother, y nonresident capiI@lisf
50 that when the boys who lived II
come home. would Guy few acres
Of land on which Ia make q home
they could go to NewDraska, or pay
Mr.. Gates or his brother ten OF
twelve dollars an acre for part o.
their FIVE Thousand acres OF jasper
county land. bought for speculation
and not Improvement
Some OF goa may say that Samp'
son has been In oiiicr all this time
aud so he has; but ii is an otfice OF
great and trying labors aud ysoOr poy
Mr.. Gates, though qualified by m.
long practice ut the bar, would not
accept the office with its labors and
responsibilities for twice the salary
Three or four months in year OF at
tendance at Washington City, foi
5000 aud travelling expenses from
home and back, will do, but to hold
court eight months in the year, and
employ the balance OF the time In
deciding causes that have been sub.
mitJed 10 him, and for themo-t OF the
eight years at 81 500 a year, would
be no temptation for an Antl-Mon-
opoly reformer, you see.
Which then, of these gentlemen
IL the most likely to be in full sym
pathy with you? He who in all the
experience OF boy and man, soldier
and citizen, has grown up among
you and OF you, or the man who
sought your State after he was OF
middle aye, the better to employ his
surplus wealth in speculation?
Then as TO the manner they have
been brought forward, the contrast is
just as great. Sampson, after five
years OF entire absence in the army
and eight years of partial absence
from his home in trying duties OF
his office, desired to be at home with
his family, declined positively re-
nomination for the office he now
holds and forbade his friends to men
ton his name i'm connection with
any Office whatever. You must all
know how frequently the wish was
uttered by men Of all classes, that
if Judge Sampson would but run ;
and this, while other men were ex-
hausting all the arts of the pOliti-
clans to secure their own nominal
tions, and when the Convention as
sembied, it was found that Sampson
was the decided choice of that body,
and they rendered him its m,dsai-
mons nomination, thus seeking the
man.
Not so with Mr.. Gates, who was
early in the field as II candidate,
watched the selection of delegates
with intense interest and allowed no
one to be on the ground ahead of him
when the convention assembled, and
when after more than thirty ballots
he was nominated. he had a neat lit
tie speech ready. full of surprise, un-
honor, etc, and he is now
industriously stumping the district
trying to convince the people that
the thirty-seventh ballot Of that
Autobiography Conve ntion at OF.
tumwa, was dictated by wisdom be.
cause it resulted in his choice.
You can all see that the nomina-
ton of Judge Sampson, was ver-
diet of the people against the pOliti-
tians while that Of Mr.. Gates WAS
and is the same old story of a politi-
clan shrewder and more fortunate
in his plans than some others, and
able to carry majority Of conven-
ton.
/ might allude to the fact that no
Anti Monopoly pa rty exists outside
of Iowa, and that if elected, he
would from choice as well as necessi-
ty, affiliate with the Democracy of
other States. But it is useless to
pursue the subject further.
And now, have the ties that bind
you to your new party already be-
come so strong, that you are ready
10 forget all your pledges and pur-
poses in leaving your old associates
and because Gates is the nominee of
your convention, vote for him rather
than for one who owes his nomina-
ton to a spontaneous uprising peo-
pie, man fully identified with you
in every interest Of an Iowa citizen,
from his early boyhood
Your old political associate hopes
better things of you, and will fain
hope that 1t is principle, not preju-
dice patriotism and not blind party
feeling that will control your politi-
cal action. s. n. LINDLEY.