The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16
Political Items.

1nC AHtl--uOuOp. pidtlolH ID VI OOlItC
material. If you don't believe it, ask
Bill Stone, who made it.
Orwig, Of the Des Moines Record, says
the epitaph of the Autobiography party
will be, killed by Stone
The farmers of Hardin County are
abandoning the Autobiography ranks and
returning to their first love, the Republi-
can party.
Joe Eibnck's paper, the Des Moines
Stats Anzeiger, calls on all Germans and
liberal Americans to hold themselves aloof
from the Anti Monopoly party.
1t has been changed little 1t reads
Of the Iowa Ants since their State Con
vention something about a Bill Stone
being hanged about their necks and they
cast into the swamp lands OF Iowa.
David Morgan, Anti Monop. candidate
for Secretary of State, is an ex-railroad
President, and lives on 40 acre farm
worked by his son. 1t is surprising how
this anti-railroad party runs to monopo-
lies
If the Republican State convention may
be taken as a criterion in the politics
Of the State, unprecedented harmony and
great enthusiasm will characterize the can
vass, and $1,000 to &C, 900 majority will be
the result
Judge Thayer, Of the Clinton Age, who
is still in favor of the old Democracy, and
who doesn't care who knows it, reluctant
ly gives in his adhesion to the temporary
Democracy, saying: For this year give
us the Anti Monopoly ship"
The Autobiography papers have been
cracking up their candidate for State
Treasurer, J. W. Barnes, as farmer
But it turns out that he is ''bloated rail
way contractor" OF course he is Anti
Monop." and lie has got it bad.
Hon. NJ. E. Cults, Republican candidate
for Attorney General, is now attracting
the fire of the Democratic press. The
reason is plain. lie has given their party
harder cuts, and more of them, than any
other Republican stumper in the State.
A special term Of the District Court for
Clinton County is being held by Judge
Brannan at Clinton, for the trial of James
III. Bryan, whose career as the Democrat
ic Treasurer Of jackson County and de-
falcation of $40, 900 have been mentioned.
The new Commissioners for the govern
ment of the District of Columbia have
gone to work in earnest They are liter
ally tearing up the rotten foundations of
the late ring rule, and clearing out the
noisomc stables of the Boss Shepard
dynasty. May they hold out faithfully to
the end
The Stafe Register speaks in high terms
Of the new Chairman Of the Republican
State Central Committee, Hon Geo. G.
Ueberling, and intimatcs that his head
quarters are likely to be located at some
political center, and probably at Des
f,x, L. \,
point than Sabula, his place of residence
There is mourning among Washington
clerks, Il thousand or two Of whom are
being dismissed under recent law re-
ducing the appropriations. These fellows
ought to rejoice. for AS clerks they are
little clsr thsn imbccic, depending on
some member Of congress IL keep th"H
in place. and paying him b. fulsome puts
sent TO theii home papers.
The excellent platform adopted bv the
Iowa Republicans is the way the Chi ago
Ir76une heads it and elsewhere adds that
If the utterances of political conventions
might always be accepted with implicit
faith, the Iowa Republicans would be en-
titled to very strong commentator for
the position assumed The Tribune Of
course speaks from conviction, not from
good will.
The leading Radical politicians and
business men OF Burlington have united
in IA request to cxspeaker John II. Gear,
asking that he become candidate for
Congress in the First District to succeed
the Hon. George W. McCrary, declined
Mr.. Gear is well known in the State as a
man of correct principles, Industrious
habits and good information. The posi-
ton in which he has served the people
of Iowa have been satisfactorily filled,
and there are the best of reasons for be-
lievng that he would prove worthy sue
ccssor to Mr.. McCrary whose distinguish
ed services in Congress have stamped
him as Il statesman of the first grade.