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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13
REPUBLICAN STATE PLAT,
TORA.lS7S.

We. the representatives Of the Republican party
of the State Of Iowa, in convention assembled, dc
adept the Re declare q p.c es4Ss;
ciple Of Republican faith that the Republic ie Q
nation one and indvisible within which the con-
stitutional rights of the States and OF the people
TO local self government must be faithfully main
tanned.
rency convertible with coin, and therefore advo-
cate the gradual resumption Of specie payments
by continuous and steady steps in that direction,
B. That we are in favor Of 4 tariff for revenue,
so adjusted as to encourage home industry.
L. That the earnest effort of the government ia
collect the revenue and prevent and punish frauds
has our unqualified approval.
3. That we are opposed to further grants Of
lands to railways or other corporations and we de-
mand reservation OF the public domain for set
Element under the homestead laws and for other
bon fde settlers.
g. That We demand such revision of the nat
ent laws AS will relieve industry from the oppres
sion fmonopolies in their administration.
e. That We cordially approve the policy of the
present administration in the settlement Of diff
cuties between ourselves and other nations by ar
bitration instead Of appealing to arms.
g. That the Republican party of Iowa i, oppos-
ed to third term in the Presidency.
o. That we demand that all railway and other
corporations shall be held In fair and Just subjec
ton to the aw-making power
10. That we stand by free education our pub
port and no diversion of the school fund from the
public schools,
ii. That our National and State administration
OF public affairs has our hearty approval.
~. That we cordially invite all who are oppos-
I'd 70 thsppses.SS:tiOn Of the Democratic party to
bower to forget all past political differences and
unite with the Republican PsIx IN MAINTAINING
nacause of true reform.
the and nras1 aed 1
imioastracisms aswIy enfranehised citizens, and
thenEcans OF W. INSCRIPTIONS OF the white Re
ing MA ID void the Constitutional Amendments,
me- sae condemnation Of every honest man.
INK heartily endorse the action Of President
--rm IN enforcing the laws when called upon to
ID O 80 bv the proper authorities Of the State.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

Two hundred and fifty Irish Amer
leans, of Mercer county, Pennsylva-
MIA, heretofore adherents of the Dem
ocratic party, have united in card
with their names attached, which is
published in the New Sharon Herald,
declaring their disgust for that party
and announcing their Withdrawal
from it. The Democratic party has
so long assumed to hold the Irish
citizens as vassals to be led up to the
polls to vote as dictated to by unscru
pulous party leaders, controlling them
by influences and considerations in
sulting to any intelligent man, such
as appeals to national prejudices,
rabid cries of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, &c,
and has become, withal, SO arrogant
in this fancied possession, body and
soul, of the Irish voter, that the time
seems fully come for movements OF
the above character among selfre.
specting Irishmen.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13
State News.

"A soap fat man, in Cedar Rapids, has
succeeded in making whistle of a pigs
tail. Thus, one by one the traditional i'm
possibilities are exploded in the advancing
civilization of this ingenious age.
The farmers of Delaware county are
making extensive preparations tor "Har-
vest Home" at Spring Branch, Friday,
Aug. 9th.
The Lansing Mirror tells of the das-
tardly exploits of the ''meanest man" in
that community. The individual, not yet
identified, slashed and mutilated the leath-
CT work of a number of buggies belonging
to J. w. Bates, of Lansing, out of pure
cussedness," doing damage to the amount
of over 500, apparently consuming sew
eral hours in the operation.
A young man of Cedar Falls named
Richard Nunnelly, attempted, last week,
to commit suicide by taking strychnine,
but was saved by the application of Wig
orous remedies. Mental depression over
discouragcments in business is the reason
assigned by the Gazette for the desperate
act
Hon Schuyler Colfax will deliver the
address at the Fair OF the Mitchell County
Agricultural Society, IN September
Gen Warner Lewis, one of the oldest
residents of Dubuque, has fallen heir to
an estate in England worth millions. Gen.
Lewis is an old man, and his good fortune
comes opportunity, as he has experienced
much of the rough side of life.
The decision of the points raised by
the counsel of Isaac Brandt has been
postponed by the District Court of Polk
county until the November term.
"A couple of men, brothers, named
Barker, living at Summit Station, Van
Buren, county, last Saturday, got to drink
ing at the residence of one of them, and
became so boisterous that the family were
compelled to leave the house. What
TRANSFERRED afterward is not definitely
known, but when the wife returned she
found her husband dead on the floor of
his own house, with the top of his head
crushed in, and a bloody hatchet lying at
his feet. The drunken brother was arrest
ed, and acknowledged that they had been
fighting, and that he knocked his brother
down with chair; but denied that he
struck him with the hatchet. The men
had Il fair reputation, and this quarrel,
the result of whisky, was the only trouble
they ever had.
j. B. Young, leading lawyer of
Marion and independent temperance can
didate for Congress from the 9th Con-
gressional District, failing to secure the
passage of an ordinance by the City Coun-
Gil prohibiting the blowing of steam wills
ties in the corporation, has sued out an in
junction against John Given, of the Marion
brewery, laying his damages at $50, for
allowing the brewery whistle to be sounded
at such times, and the extent As to render
it a public nuisance The trial will come
off before Judge Rothbrock, Aug. 10Th.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

ANOTHER Iowa murder reported
this morning-and another whisky
murder. Still, says the Iowa Democ'
racy, we must repeal the prohibitory
law, take away all restrictions, and
SO make whisky free, and murder
more common. Come, good people
of Iowa, the best way to do with this
beast who takes possession of men,
and makes murdercrs of them, is to
turn it loose and lineage it altogether.
More free whisky, more drunkards;
more drunkards;nore murders; Down
with the law, and unshackle the
monster entirely. Week before last
Il man at Independence killed the
best friend he had-or rather the
whisky in him did. This last account
is of man who says he did kill his
brother, but that it was the whisky
in him which committed the murder
-Stute Register 18th.
We rather think the Register is
mistaken concerning the occurrence
Of n recent murder in this city. We
have not heard of it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

The Democratic press are fond of
quoting Mr.. Charles Nordhoff, of the
New York Herald, who for few
months past has been travelling in
the South, and writing up its condi-
ton and prospects. Mr.. Nordhoff
yields a trenchant pen, and he has
not been entirely kind and appreci-
alive of the abuses of the corrupt
bag governments of the Southern
States. These denunciations of abus-
es, for which the Republicans could
be made responsible, the Democratic
press have seized upon with avidity,
and extolled their author in the
highest terms. Here follows, how
ever, from the pen of Mr.. Nordhoff,
a Characterization of the White
League, the same to whom Gen.
Sheridan gave the name of" banditti, -
and for which he was bitterly execra-
ted by those same papers. 1t will
hardly find SO warm welcome to
their columns:
They are gamers and political bum
mers; they drink whisky and swagger in
the bar rooms, armed with revolvers and
knives, and it was for some years their
In, xx,1,o fhavy ,,noInI rs
shoot Niger They are mainly the
descendants of the ovcrseer and negro
trader class in the South, and naturally
despise honest labor and take readily to
brute force. They have often sufficient
education to make political harangue,
and they are curse to the community.
1t was these acretches that Sheridan called
"bandltti." To Aaue hanged them By the
dozen so1alld haze been the first duty Of a
good ral.r in Louisiana"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13
A Hint to Dyspeptics.
Medical Journal

We have seen dyspeptics who suf-
tered untold torment with almost
every kind of food. No liquid could
be taken without suffering; bread be-
came a burning acid; meat and milk
were solid and liquid fires. We have
seen these same sufferers trying to
avoid food and drink, and even going
to the enemy syringe for sustenance.
And we have seen their torments pass
away and their hunger relieved by
living upon the whites of eggs which
had been boiled in bubbling water
70, thirty minutes. AT the end Of the
week we have given the hard yolk of
the egg with the white, and upon this
diet alone, without fluid of any kind,
we have seen them begin to gain
flesh, and strength, and refreshing
sleep. After weeks of this treatment
they have been able, with care, to be-
Gin upon food.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

ant, because he never reads, and is SO
selfish and obnoxious as to presume
himself better than anyone else; 9th
ers who are, perhaps, more charitable,
think that he is almost ready tor the
Insane Hospital. But he is
certainly no gentleman, and has not
the good sense to treat his fellow
men with respect. With the excep-
ton Of this one individual, the little
town of Brandon is blessed with as
good set of citizens as any in the
county, and are deserving of success.
To the end Of which they have the
heartiest wishes of PIERCE.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

The State Register says that the
popular sentiment is growing every
where, strongly and radically, in
favor of joint debate between Kirk
wood and Letter, and moves to make
it unanimous. Why not? If Kirk
wood IS the bad and corrupt man the
Democratic papers make him out to
be, and if his public record is so out
rageously indefensible as they aver,
why not let that able statesman
Shepherd Letter impale him before
the public: If their statements have
the least semblance of truth, they
have everything to gain and nothing
to lose by bringing the candidates
together on the stump; yet that is
just the thing that the Democratic
managers will persisto. lily seek to
prevent by all means in their power.
People can draw their own infer
enceS.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

The officers of the Winnebago
county, Ul.,) Agricultural Society
have invited Jefferson Davis, chief
of the late Confederacy, to deliver
the address at the annual fair Of the
Society, at Rockford next month and
he has accepted. AS a financial ven.
ture, the enterprise may pay, but we
cannot say that we admire the taste
OF the parties responsible for the in.
vitation. The broadcast spirit of rec.
onclliation and fraternity does not
REQUIRE that this arch traitor of the
rebellion, in many respects the most
despicable of the lot, who is yet I'M
der Indictment for his crimes, shall
be specially sent for and received as
al honored guest in any loyal com
munity. It is said that the excite
ment at Rockford over the matter is
extreme.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

AT last we have an explicit and
official definition of what the Demo
cracy mean by "judicious license
law"
Shepherd Letter said in his speech
at Council Bluffs: Il am unquali-
fiedly in favor of a :judicious license
law"
And at Atlantic: ga judicious
license law means a license sold for
$1,000"
The Dubuque Herald and Iowa
City Press some time ago gave it the
same Interpretation. So We may &C
cept 1t as the purpose Of the Democ-
racy TO create an arristocratic class of
rich rum-sellers. We do not care SO
much tor that, but what reason has
the whisky press for railing out SO
yiciouslE einst prohibition?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

Hon. SHEPHERD LEFFLEE, next
Governor of Iowa, has returned home
from his brief tour in the western
part of the State, His journey was
an ovation, and his countenance
beams with the confidence of assured
yictory.-Dubuque Herald.
Jess SO; keep up the game Of brae
in the face of forcshadowed defeat
LETTER had an audience OF forty at
Atlantic, nearly al. Republicans, and
this is fair sample Of the ''ovation;"
but face it out with lies ami bolnbast,
the role in which you are unrivalled.
You are never so thoroughly tharac:
teristic as when presuming upon the
Ignorance of your readers, Sir Boab.
dill Ham,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

Hon. HIRAM PRICE and General
Weaver, who have been counted on
by the Democracy as likely to assist
in organizing third party on the
Prohibition issue, have both taken
strong ground against such project,
declaring that the Republican party
is good enough temperance party,
and offering to take the stump in sup
port of it's nominations.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13
More CDzarisln
From Chicago Inter-Ocean.

President Grant has seen fit to
squander twenty-five cents of the
money he has drawn as salary from
the public treasury of the nation in
the purchase of a large rubber ring
for his grandson. Setting aside alto
gethcr the depths of nepotic deprav-
ity this action shamelessly opens to
public view, we would appeal to our
Democratic friends and citizens to
know how much longer they propose
to tolerate in the Executive chair OF
this country man who possesses
no better judgment than to buy den
tai apparatus for the use Of child
not yIt one month old?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13
REFEREES SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF an order Of the Circuit Court of
ID Iowa, in and for Buchanan county, made on
the 18th day of june 1875 the undersigned Referees
were authorized to sell the following lands belong
ing to the heirs Of Aaron NJ Long, deceased:
East half Of southeast quarter Of section twenty
nine (29); east half Of southwest quarter of sec
ton twenty (27) northeast quarter Of north
east quarter OF section thirty 1.-TWO (32l; west half
Of southeast quarter OF southeast quarter of sec
ton thirty two OBJ: east half of southwest quar-
3r of northwest quarter of section thirty three
(33). all in township eighty seven go range seven
ca. west Of 9Th p. NJ, Buchanan county, Iowa.
That in pursuance Of said order the said lands
will be sold at public auction, at the Court House,
in the city Of Independence. on Saturday, the 18th
day of September, 1875 at the hour Of !. P. NJ, to
the highest bidder.
TERMS OF SALE;-One-fourth cash at time of
SALE one-fourth in one year; one-fourth in two
years ne-fourth in three years.
All deferred payments to draw ten per cent. in
terest from date of sale Interest payable annually
and secured by note and mortgage.
PERRY MUNsoN
A. b. CLARKE, Referees.
NJ Ii. SANFORD.
W. G. 6 J. b. Donnan. Att'ys for Plfs
Independence, Iowa, August 18th. 1875. 2w3
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

INDEPENDENCE wants base ball club.
What pity she didn't speak sooner
Ke0kuk has just disbanded one that she
would nave sold for whatever it would
bring,-Burlington Haaskeys.
Come now, that's thin. Do you
suppose Keokuk could have unloaded
upon US platoon of her multitudin-
Gus candidates for Office, in that way?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

After the nomination of Gov. Kirk
wood, no response being received,
Gen. Ed. Wright telegraphed him,
"Why in thunder don't You accept?'
The Governor replied, eff Unjust, say
yes for me-" Here is case where
the office was seeking the man.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

Gov. HARDWOOD will open the Re-
publican canvass ut Des Moines on
the 10Th. The Dubuque Times say
he will speak at Dubuque, Clinton,
Davenport, McGegor, DEBORAH, indie
pendence, Waterloo and Charles City,
the dates to be published in few
days. We suppose it is hardly nee
essary to suggest to our County Cen
trail Committee that they make pre-
parations for a big meeting here
when the old war horse visits us.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

The Conservative says that it sup
ports Mr.. Knight, the railroad attor
ney and friend of monopoly, notwith.
standing it's former loud professions
ofapposition to monopolies, because
he "stands on the same platform with
the balance of our ticket" &C., said
platform ignoring the farmer entirely.
If we had no other evidence of the
charge that our contemporary is a
demagogue sheet, the above answer
would prove it conclusively.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

pleted its labOrs last week Tie total as
sessment of the State figures up in round
numbers $4t0 ,500,O00. The value of
stock, cattle, horses, sheep and swine
amounts to $40 919. 1874.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

TIE Herald IT Liberty, Joe Eli
boeck's Personal Liberty slosh-
around, is nothing if not logical-as
he believes. He puts in interrogative
form the statement of Republican
paper that "the sale of beer and wine
is not involved in the present CAM
paign," and asks, by way Of argument
in denial, "Why didn't the great Re-
publican party say so in its convcn-
tion?"
A parallel argument might be put
thus: The question Of the best
method of sucking eggs is not in
volved in the present campaign
Why didn't the little Democratic
party say SO in its convention?
Great is Logic: and Joe j. it,
prophet--Dmb"I"e Times.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13
Was it a ''Stcal?"

A question arises, which, in its clu.
cidation, may call for all the fine dis
elimination and hair-splitting skill of
that portion of the Democratic press
now denouncing Gov. Kirkwood as a
"salary grabber." 1t is, whether a
member of Congress who receives
more mileage than justice and the
law entities him to, may with pro-
priety be termed a "mileage grabber."
Mr.. Shepherd Letter, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, served three
terms in Congress as a Representative
from Iowa. During his term of SER
vice Horace Greeley was also men,
Der Of the House, and made his
famous onslaught upon the mileage
abuse, after severe investigation of
the facts bearing upon it. Among
the developments produced by the
untiring industry of the great jour-
nalist was something about Mr..
LETTERS mileage account. The facts
stated in Mr.. Greeley's published re-
port the State Register has hunted
up and reproduces IN its issue of the
9Th. We copy:
Mr.. Letter took his seat in Congress
during the winter of ls46-47, upon
the admission of Iowa into the Union.
For his mileage at that session he
received LAO, being eighty cents a
mile, forty cents each way the then
legal rate) for 1900 miles. For the
second session OF the Thirtieth Con-
gress. and the first Of the Thirty
first, he received S1,464 each-the
distance having been stretched thirty
miles since he first took his seat.
Now the distance at that time from
Burlington to Washington City by
the shortest post route was 81 miles
as shown by the official records in
the topographer's bureau of the Cen
eral Postoffice. According to Gray's
Atlas, it is l,o49 miles, counting Bur
lington to be "a miles further from
Chicago than Davenport. Mr.. Letter
received pay, as we have seen, for
much more. Let us look at it. Com
puted by the distance given in Gray's
Atlas, Mr.. Letter was entitled to re-
receive, for each of the FIVE sessions
he sat in Congress, $s39.2o by way
of mileage, or $4,l96 in all. He
actually got 81, 44O for one session,
and $1,464 for each of two others
or $4,36s for the three. OF the
other two sessions we have no report,
but he doubtless received the same
amount, say $l,44O for one session
and $1,464 for the other-making a
grand aggregate of 1922, when he
was entitled to 81, l96-a trifling diff
ference of S3,O76; almost as much as
any one of those thirty five crops of
corn" brought him. Is Gen. War
rem right in saying Mr.. L. amounted
to nothing in Congress?
Now, supposing the Registers re-
production Of Mr.. Greelcy's figures
to be correct, the question naturally
arises: Is this a creditable record for
candidate whose supporters are with
SO much recklessness bandying the
cpithets 'thief," "robber," ''grabbcr,"
Sc, as applied to the opposite candi-
date? Is the glass house in which
Mr.. Letter resides of such tempered
material as to warrant his friends in
throuinr Sfnnoc2
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13
New Advertisements.
MAYORS PROCLAMATION.
MAYORS OFFICE,

independence, Aug. 1Uth, IS
The qualified electors of the Fourth Ward of the
city Of Independence. Buchanan county, Iowa,
are hereby notified that on Tuesday, August Gath
1873, there will be held special election in said
the City Council for the Fourth Ward, to fill the
unexpred term Of Mitchell McGowen resigned.
Said election will he held in the Burr block,
Chatham st.
The polls OF said election will be open from 9,
A. NJ. to II o'clock, NJ. and from 1. p. NJ to 4
O'Clock p. NJ d. d. HOLDRlDGE.
MayOr
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

the late enumeration, will probably
show an increase IN population in
two year of 100000. Seventy-six
counties already in, show an increase
of sl,7Oo. Three counties, Johnson,
Blackhawk and Emmett, show a
slight falling off. All the others
have grown.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13

SENATOR THURMAN, Of Ohio, is the
latest illustration of an aspirant for
the Presidency, shelved by his own
act; by stepping down fromthc high
plane of craftsmanship on to that of
the demagogue. In his recent speech
at Mansfield he made a melancholy
spectacle of himself, by declaring his
continued adhesion to hard money,
and at the same time attempting to
palliate the Initiation doctrines of the
Ohio Democratic platform. He is
compelled to say that the platform is
not exactly what it should be; that it
is liable of construction as against
gold and silver, and for an irredeem-
able paper currency" He catches,
however, at the idea that it may be
interpreted both ways, and in this
feature of it apparently finds his only
excuse for swallowing it himself, and
advising his hearers to do likewise.
No more pungent statement OF the
inherent dishonesty of the Ohio plat.
form has been given than that from
Mr.. Thurman's own lips in this
speech, as follows:
To him who believes that the present
volume of the currency is sufficient, il
means no imitation, for in his mind it is
already quite equal to the wants of the
trade" To another man who thinks that
more currency is needed, it does mean ex
pansion; and SO, whether it means the
one thing or the other depends upon the
preconccived opinions of every one who
reads it.
Yet, upon this thimble-rigging de
vice one of the most able and hon
ored of Democratic statesmen is will
ing to lin his faith.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-13
REPUBLICAN, COUNTY CON-
VENTION.
Saturday, Sept. 18th, 1875.

"a delegate Convention Of the Republicans Of
buchanan county Is hereby called, to be held at
\ Re Goart House, Independence. on
Saturday, Sept. 18th, 1875.
at O'Clock, P. NJ, for the purpose Of putting in
nomination candidates for the following offices,
to-wit: Senator, Representative, County Auditor,
County Treasurer, Sheriff, County Superintendent.
! Coroner, Surveyor, and three members of the
Board Of Supervisors, and changing County Cen
trail Committee.
The ratio Of representation will be one delegate
for each township, AMI one for every forty votes,
3nd fraction over twenty votes cast for Josiah L.
Asung for Secretary of State at the October cleo
5tion, 1874; in accordance with which the several
.townships will be entitled to delegates as follows: