The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-09-16
PARTIES AND ISSUES.
Extract from the speech Of Sen.
atOr Wright, Delivered ~
HiilsbOrO, Iowa, sept. Alh,

x Yes, my friends, what we
want is good government. l, is q
matter vastly more important that
we should all act in political matters
with due and honest regard to the
welfare of the republic than that any
man or party should be voted up or
down. Parties, policies, men and
tickets should be used or regarded as
means or agencies to secure or pro-
duce this welf.re this good govern
ment). and those should be selected
or espoused which we, as conscien-
tious citizens-looking the whole
ground over-what has been done
and what has been pledged-honest-
ly believe are most likely to secure
to us this government, and promote
the highest welfare of the republic.
Whenever we select our servants
from other motives, or in SO Gar as we
act with parties for other or less ele-
waited purposes, we are untrue to our
mission as citizens of a land SO
favored, and unfaithful to duties SO
DrOau ana far-reacnlng.
THE GROWTH OF IOWA UNDER REPUB-
LICANIsM.
But it may be that il is due TO you
and especially those who differ with
the party which | here humbly repre-
sent, that | should go back some
w hot op1 not aoc,,vno xx,;<bo,,t ,,roof
this prosperity in State and nation to
which | SO generally referred, for
possibly, in this assumption it may
be said, beg the whole question,
or, in other words, that, as take for
granted the main and principal pre-
mise, my argument or deduction
ought of course to be easy enough.
The point would seem to be well ia
ken, or at least plausible, and there
fore | meet it.
know that Mr.. Letter, the dis
tinguished gentleman who heads the
opposition ticket, said, among other
things in his speech accepting the
nomination, that 'sThe Republican
party has been cloud in this State
for fifteen years, and it is time the
shadow was cleared off," and yet
assume that it will scarcely be re-
quired by an Iowa audience that l
should demonstrate proposition SO
nearly self-evident as that the State
has had prosperity throughout all her
borders for the last twenty years.
You see it in your almost four thous-
and miles of railway ian increase Of
377 per cent in the last decade)-in
your near a million and half of peo-
pie almost doubling in ten years)-
in the 1866 900, 900, as assessed, Of
taxable property as compared with
less than one-third that amount
twenty years since--in the acres OF
enclosed land, not far from l ! 200. 900,
| double that of lS65-in 191 100000
bushels of wheat and corn, compared
with 63,OOO,OOO at the close Of the
war--in the increase Of our manu-
factured products from three and a
half million in 1850 to fourteen mil.
lion in 1860, to forty-six and hall
million in 1870, and now estimated
at sixty million; in the number Of
dwellings, running up from 80, 900 in
1850 to 100000 in 1870, now esti.
mated at $4,000; in the success ol
our schools, the statistics showing ar
attendance in 1850 of IS, 900 and en-.
rolled for 1874 100000, in 5,73s
schools in 1865, and 9,263 in 1874
in our benevolent institutions, com
pairing well with any State; in ou
higher institutions of learning; il
our comparative freedom from deb
as State; IN our credit at home ant
abroad; in the excellence of ou
general legislation; in the genera
intelligence and thrift of our people
in our churches and Libraries; in ou
cities and towns; farms and associa
tions, agricultural, mechanical ane
otherwise, for the improvement 9
society and the elevation Of tn
masses in all pursuits, in our i'm
proved and constantly improving
moral public sentiment. / say in a
these and numberless other thing
we have the demonstration, al ths
anv fair mind would or can ask. tha