The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18

ceptionally good candidates, Iowa Will
dive us q larger majority than ever be-
fore in the history of the party. There
is no denying that everywhere the people
are demanding that good men shall come
to the front, and bad men take back seats.
Acceptable local tickets in all Offices, the
highest and lowest, acceptable because
the people have faith in tie integrity Of
tho candidates and their ability to dis
charge well their trusts, and not simply
because they are the candidates OF the
party, local tickets. repeat, thus acccp-
table, will do more to unite and strength
en- us as party, and give us grand
and long to be remembered victory, than
all other things combined. To let down
the standard Of excellence and worth
in county, municipal and town candidates
is The sure precursor Of ultimate defeat.
This the people see and feel. Good
tickets and officers at hJme, in subor-
dinate places, give good tickets and
good officials in the State and Nation.
Prosperity and good administration at
home, in counties and their subdivisions,
will very certainly insure like results in
the wider and broader field of the Nation
and Sta G.
repeat, therefore let us give the voters
good candidates-men of unquestioned
excellence and worth at home, and we
shall enter the contest with victory
already well assured The people have
no wish to repudiatc the Republican party.
The elections last fall are not to be thus
construed. The party, OF the politician
who thus calculates, sadly misjudges the
temper or purpose of the people. The
rejection of men, or the condemnation OF
evil practices, here or there, must not be
mistaken for disapproval Of Republican
principles, or the readiness Of the people
to place in power a party which has been
50 sadly unfaithful to every trust reposed
in it in the past, b. a generous and not
unfrequently forgiving people. The peo-
ple do not intend to turn the government
over to the opposition. They are as truly
attached to the principles of the Republi-
can party now as ever. And this attach
ment they want to, and will evince, If we
arc true to ourselves and the plainest
teachings of the past and the present.
Already it is plainly discernible that they
are arousing to the dangers threatening
on every side, and the very possibility
that those who lately sought to destroy
the government are to control its politics
and administration, is leading the best
and most discreet men Of not the Repub-
lican party alone, but Of all parties to in
qure whittier we are tending and what
they shall do to strengthen our columns
and give us still the control of the gov
crnmcnt Each day each act OF the oppo-
sition, each word declarilive of their
plans and purposes, all but serve to in
tensify this feeling and crystalizc in acts
this resolve. Let both sides be well I'M
derstood-all we have done and are doing
all that the opposition have done and
Enthusiastically propose to do-all the spirit
actuating them and the danger has passed.
Tie people are right-will Judge correctly
and the result no one who reads well
the signs of tie times can possibly mis-
take.
But have written more than l intend
ed trust shall be pardoned for say
ing 50 much. feel the dangers plainly
surrounding us, and could not say less.
! must however, tlesist, for the pressing
work Of these closing days Of the session
imperativelv demands my attention.
trust our labors here for the present may
soon be brought TO Il close, and that /
may get back to Iowa-the place | love
best feel the need Of rest. | feel that
owe it to my family to be with them
more than has peen possible in view of
my official engagements. for the last
twenty years. feel that official life here
is beset with untold perplexities, with but
little to lead any one to struggle to keep
in it. feel the absolute necessity, too,
OF SO directing my energies as to save at
least little money for my family, a duty
which may say to you, / have thus far,
to great extent neglected. This, four
years experience satisfies me, cannot do
from my present salary, ! feel that
my present position, and more accepta-
bly, meet the wishes CT the people
feel that the place, though ever SO honor
abe, las it is, to be an An erican Senator
is to my mind the highest Of earth's poiit-
ical honors,) has no such charms as to
lead me to struggle for its retention. In
many respects know shall regret lcav-
ing the many, very pleasant associations
here formed, Ifecl truly that no man ever
had truer or sncercr friends than ] have
in the body shall leave. Not for slight
Or inconsiderable cause, would !, as do.
upon my own motion, and as the result
Of my own reflection, leave ii. l have,
however, duly considered the whole mat
ter, and repeat that shall not be a can
didatc for re election.
In consideration, | again express my
thanks for your Kind words, and return,
to the people Of my own State, with whose
interests / have been closely identified,
as citizen, and in places Of high trust,
for some thirty-fve years, my expressions
of gratitude for their many favors, and
the acknowledgements that ! have re-
ceivcd at their hands, more, far more,
than ever deserved. | shall hope to
continue to deserve your and their conf
dence and kindly judgment. And assur-
ing them that shall in the future, as
have in the past, labor in my humble way,
for the States prosperity and advance
ment-to which end nothing is more con-
ducivc, in my judgment, than the triumph
Of those principals which our party was
formed to maintain and defend / am
Very truly yours,
GEoBGE G. WRIGHT
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