Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-15
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Eitz Henry Warren on the
Resurrection.
SHIP. LEFFLER A " MUMMy.n A
PETRIFACTIoN His Party
SHOULD Go TO A "BURIAL
GpnTrNI pEs DpN-r. I,x.. u,

IETRiFACTlON Ills PARTY
SHOULD Go TO A "BURIAL
GROUND OF DoNKEYs.n
Just before the Opposition State
Convention every enterpri-lng DEM
ocratic Journal in Iowa Published and
glorified an elaborate letter written
by Fitz Henry to Hon. Ed. Campbell,
head of the Opposition Iowa State
Central Committee, giving council as
to the policy to be adopted by the
Democracy. Fitz Henry now lashes
the Democracy without stint for its
cowardice in not giving name to
their party, and says, through his
paper, the New York Sta,, of
Shep. Lefiier, nominee for Governor,
that in his most active days ho
was too indolent to brush the flies
from his face The following isa
more extended extract from Fitz
IIenry's editorial in one OF the lea
ding Democratic Journals of the coun.
try:
And now Iowa heads the
Northwestern columns with brill
liant manGuvre. The State is Repub-
lican from outer circle To centre.
With undisputed supremacy for
years, that party has become inso-
lent, and was always intolersnt.
| Weak men are In its leadership.
There is no compaetpess or concert
! In. - 10 IN al ii.in
| But it cannot be conquered in ono
campaign. The sapper and miner
mast do the work in slow and pa
| tent toll. .
AT the Democratic State Conven-
ton, Anti-Monopolists were on hand
in force. "A party founded upon an
| insane crusade against an interest,
which, with all fits evils and abuses,
| has brought immeasurable good to
the country, introduced its disturb
| ing discord. The new bination
needed modern ideas and living
issue; it CROPPED in primeaval darkness
and sought the leading candidateon
a religious dispute. With young
men tull Of life and enterprise, it
| went back to the last glacial period
and brought out a petriticatOu. It's
nominee for Governor is Mr.. Shcp-
herd Letter. In 1916 and iSf9 no
was q member of Congress, simply
because he WAS fair speaker, With il
perfectly negative character, When
the State needed efficient Representa-
tion, he did nothing. An ahiabts
man, and so far rs we know, OF a
faultlrss character, he retired to pri.
vate life, and has lived since in an
0bseurity which no man ltas die-
| tOrbed. Tn his most active Gays.
| he was to indOlent to brush the flies
| from his face. He niade no mark
upon his city or neighbwh0cd. lie
has no quality Of reviviiication.
What dreams OF Rip Nan WinkIo
h0Vered over the Convention VIC
cann8t divine. With a prepoudera.
ting party, this nomination would
have taxed its strength. With nil
nority, 1t will swell the majority
against 1t. FL.
What was needed was a perfectly
new departure, with young men in
the lead. Instead, the Convention
! lighted a feeble torch and unpartii-
ed mummy from the pyramid of
Cheops. Such party and Nach en-
gineers should gonot TO defect, but
to burial ground Of donkeys.
II these ere the sample cards from
| Ohio aud Iowa Of the fabrics we
are to wear, men may we'll hesitate
at the livery. Iowa has two insane
hospitals; let them make an alpro-
ala ftnu ia buitI aunthpr Nit It0tlt tip-
lay