Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-12-16
aWha. Does II Meant,

Gov. kirkwood has written a let
Ter, under date or the 18th ult., from
which the following is an extract;
hrst published in the Sioux City
Jo,iynai.
"Iou think / am losing groun-
Dr the Reason that i have not worA
xr~ out cultivating the ground.
NAY be that / am losing for that
reason, and If so, must continue TO
lose. | cannot make a dog fight of
this matter. The position of senator
sa highly honorable one, and one
~ which a man may make himself
useiul To his Safe and the country;
bs,i If il has to be procured by the
Wcrifice of mans seif-respect, il is
npt worth the price. / think |
know myself pretty well, and feel
sure that tc0tttd not tctoR the position
&c i did not think The Republicans Of
fRe State desired me TO hare IL. If
1fs+y 50 desire. they can make their
wishes known 10 their Representa-
tiSf's; and sa, also. if they desire
al,ane one else. The belief that con-
assis for Senator have been decided
An this State, or other States, on other
Haunds and for other reasons, has
hnrt our party here and elsewhere;
ntd, u1ieSs sttch belief can 5e remored
from tie public miad, the tigae Is not
.Er distant ,ehen the election VI Repu5-
fsctn Senator'S ,citt be less frequent Man
" has Geenr'
I1nder the above heading the Bur-
Hnetnn Hu,ck. Eye, supporter of
Mr.. Harlin in his Senatorial cauudai-
cy, quotes rs above from this letter,
and In rather capitioas mood com
ments thus;
The Governor emphasizes certain
points in his letter by placing the
Mards ia italics. He would not
want the Senatorship unless he
thought the Republicans Of the State
desired him To have il. Ii Is we'll
khOwn that the Governor does want
the position OF Senator, and therefore
Inecord!ng to his own words he
.thinks" the Republicans Of the
State desire him to have IL. This
being so, the conclusion ncsSariiy
fellows, ii any other person than
himself Is nominated 10y the Repuh-
iican caucus il will be against the
wishes of the Republicans of the
State, aud this heing SO the Cover.
| ner tells Us i'm italics aud with AN ey-
aamaion point added, that ''hte time
h not far distant rleatae election ~
ReguJiicda Senator's triH be iess .fre-
qae,a than they hare been" .
What does the Governor mean
by this? Is ii n prediction merely,
~ both prediction and a threat? 1t
II il good deal for any man to assume
s.lgl he il IL choice OF majority Of
| az lhe. Keplilsiicans af the state, for
aity atiicu before the choice has been
expressed, and Ii becomes quite
ave matter when he either predicts,
threatens, or even intinates that he
must be elected or no other Repuhii-
can shall be. We are surprised that
any man honored by the Republicans
OF Iowa ~ Governor Kirk wood has
been should express himself rs he
has dome in this letter. He throws
out the suspicion that the Republi-
can members OF the General Assem-
bly, will not, or mt least may not,
choose the man for Senator that the
masses of the republicans desire they
should choose, and thereupon pre-,
dicis, ii lle does not threaten that the
election of Republican Senators will
become less frequent than II has
been. Did The Governor have the
Republican bolts I'm Connecticut, In
Michigan. and In some other States
in his mind VIXEN he wrote the above
letter and does he therein apprise the
people of Iowa that iu "A certain con
tingeney the saine rote Will be
played 10 Iowa.
A few weeks since the Keokuk
Gate City and several other excellent
aud generally good-natured Republi.
can papers scoIded the KNOXVILLE
JOURNAL roundly for having said
that "if Gov. Kirkwood did not in
tend to serve as Governor he should
not have accepted the nomination. "
We were accused OF injustice To Gov.
kirkwood, though our language was
mlSe0nsfrued 10 make ~ appear uh-
just. Now let us see If the cute and
other papers which manifested SO
much courageous concern over the
JouENAI'siun9cent remark viii have
the bravery To open their batteries
upon the Un,ok- Eye, which, a. 1t APP
pears To our vision gravely mis"op-
strues Coy. Kirk woods language IN
order 10 make II point against him
and indirectly for its own candidate.
We attribute to the language quoted
from Gov. Kirkwood very differ
ent and much more creditable mean
ing ihan tiat given to IL by the
Hdpk-Eye.
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