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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

TIE Fort Dodge Messenger indul-
ges in some rather pointed remarks
for the special benefit Of Senator
Hartshorn, of that district, who voted
against the submission of the suffrage
amendment. 1t says:
The question was not before him
on its merits Mt all. HIS constituents
had right to be heard at the polls
on the question, and in refusing to
allow them the trceman's privilege
of a vote, he has done them great in
justice ard insulted their good judg-
mcnt. Mr.. Hartshorn in this matter
has the equal privilege with every
other citizen Of expressing his indi-
vidual wish 10y his own vote at the
polls; but he has not the right to
attempt to express the wishes of the
thirty-five or forty thousand people
upon question which they can more
fairly and justly express for them
selves. We do not like Representa-
tivcs who make such assumptions of
superiority; and we choose TO say so.
And we are glad to say, farther, that
Mr.. IIartshorn has fallen far short
Of expressing the will Of the pcopl G
of Webster county by this vote.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

THE Dubuque HeraM says that the
local option law, the loss of which in
the Legislature it so lugubriously be
walled, twas got up by Judge Cole,
was advocated by Gov. Kirkwood,
was introduced by Mr.. Graves, and
had as many Republican votes of
Democratic" Considering the char
acter that the Herald has always
given the gentlemen named, their
advocacy of measure should give
ii no comfort. But the truth is that
the Herald's platform has no local
option in it. 1t is for the largest lib.
erty of whisky, and took to the local
option dodge as the best it could do.
But it could not get even that
Hence" the whine.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

Hon. HIRAM PRICE is suggested
by the Cedar Falls Gazette as one of
the Presidential Electors at large in
Iowa. With all our heart we second
the nomination. Hiram Price is one
OF the sort of men whom Iowa Re.
publicans should delight to honor,
and one of the men whose occupancy
of high representative position will
honor the Republican party Of Iowa
He is a man Of clean hands and un
smirched record, and, in our judg
mcnt, the more such men are pushed
to the front, the easier the victory
will be won. In point of oratorica
and other qualifications no man viii
better fill the bill than Mr.. Price.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
Strange Revelation by tho Micro
scope.

There is story that an eminent
microscopic had Il bit Of substance
submitted to him to decide what it
was. To an unaided ey it might be
a morsel of SKIN which a baggage
smasher had Knocked off the corner
of \ smoothly-worn hair trunk. The
savant appealed to his microscope.
Entirely ignorant of this tiny bit of
matter except as he had taken counsel
with his instrument, the wise man
declared that it was the skin of hui
man being, and that, judging by the
fine hair on it, it was from the So
called naked portion of the body,
and, further, that it once belonged
to fair-complexioned person. The
strange facts now made known to
the man of science were these: That,
a thousand years before, Danish
marauder had robbed an English
church. In the spirit of the old
fashioned piety the robber was tlay.d
Qet us hope he was killed tirst), and
the skin was nailed to the church
door. Except as tradition or arch
geological lore had it, the affair had
been forgotten for hundreds Of years.
Time, the great erodent, had long
ago removed the offensive thing.
Still, however, the church door held
to its marks of the great shame, for
the broad-headed nails remained.
Somebody extracted one, and under
meath Its fiat head was this atomic
remnant of the ancient scandinavian
malefactor's pelt-that tair-skinncd
robber from the North.-Prof. Sum-
~el Loch,cooa IN Uhper's Maya'
zine for Apru.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
Sham Retrenchnent.

The pretended reforms and ccono-
my of administration proposed by the
Democratic majority of the Hou G
will not bear close inspection. An
illustration of this was offered on
Tuesday in the debate in committee
of the whole on the Legislative and
Judicial appropriation bill, in which
Mr.. Blaine took occasion to show up
the hypocrtical character OF the Dem
ocratic programme of retrenchment.
He showed that the grades of depart
ment clerks had been established in
1854, by a Democratic House, at
$1,000, $l,4oo, $1,000 and $500,
and had never been increased since,
while the pay of members of Con-
gress had been increased from $4,000
to $1,000. Now the Democratic ma
jority, trying to mislead the country
by pretense to rctrenchment, say
they are willing to submit their own
salaries to the same reduction which
they propose for other salaries. They
take 10 per cent. off their own pay
which has been raised 60 per cent.
and apply the same rule to the sala
ries of the poor clerks, which have
never been raised since 1854. Mr.
Blaine showed up this inconsistency
in its true light, and demanded O.
the Democratic majority if they were
sincere, to pnt the salary of members
of Congress where it was in 1854
and then apply the planning machine
Of 10 per cent. upon that, and go be
fore the country honestly.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

The Democracy, finding that they
could not mislead and control the
people Of New Hampshire in the late
election, are turning upon them with
coarse abuse. The Albany Argus
one Of the leading organs of the
party i'll New York, contemptuously
says Of them, that their skulls are
as thick and hard as their own gran
lite hills" The Democracy will dc
well to cultivate the virtue Of patience
under affection, for, unless the signs
of the times fail, they will have need
for it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

"Iowa agrees with Massachusetts in
thinking that the only ballotbox the wo-
men should be allowed to contribute to is
the cradle"
Yes, and Iowa once agreed with
South Carolina, that the only proper
place for man with a black SKIN,
was in the cotton field, under the
whip of brutal overseer. Iowa
grew out of that agreement, as she
and Massachusetts will out of this
latter phase OF injustice and intoler
ance
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

In Belknap's time, as it appears,
introductions of certain kind were
not merely acts of friendly courtesy,
but had a well-defined cash value in
the market. Evans, the trader at
Fort Sill, and partner Of Marsh. tcs-
tilted before the committee on Tu IS
day, that he once paid Gen. Rice, of
Iowa, $1,000 for merely Introducing
him to the Secretary of War. He
adds that the insatiate Rice was not
satisfied with this, but valued the ser
vice at $500. We noticed that the
article did not rate near so high at
the opening of the Legislative session
this winter.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

10. EIBoECK, the personal liberty
fanatic, i'll view of the result in the
Legislature on the local opinion bill
recognizes ga huge grave which the
Republican party has dug for itself.
That is in the true Eiboeck style
which is somewhat fatulent and bonn
bastic. We fear that unless 10 anG
his Democratic liberal-whisky friend
mend their habits, they may not live
to attend the obsequies.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

Ha,per's Weekly extracts the fol-
lowing wholesome moral from the
Belknap business. 1t is good, sound
sense, and political wisdom worthy
the attention of all parties:
The fall of Secretary Belknap is
not party disgrace; it is a national
shame. 1t warns men of every party
that a higher tone of political honor
and morality is indispensable to the
public safety and national life. 1t
points sterniy to the only way in
which political success is possible in
the election ct the year, and that is
the nomination of candidates whose
character and careers are the earnest
of practical faith in an honesty of ad-
ministration that avoids even the ap-
pearance Of evil.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

WE take the liberty to print the
following extract from a private let
ter, received since our last issue. The
writer, if it were proper to name HIM,
would be recognized as one of the
ablcst and most prominent Republi-
cans in Iowa, one who with pen and
tongue and sword has always been
found doing battle for human rights.
His remarks are fair expression of
the prevailing sentiment among fair
minded men concerning the action of
the Senate on the Suffrage Amend
ment:
a. thank you for the copy of the Bull
LETIN sent yesterday. 1t was refreshing
to read paper that can speak out, espec-
tally upon the Woman Suffrage question.
The action Of the Senate on the question
was fifty branded cowardly and mean.
The question was not as to granting the
right of suffrage, but rs to allowing the
people to vote upon it In 1857 the peo-
pie of the State were allowed to vote
upon the question of Negro Suffrage al
though it was well known that very few
persons in the State were In favor of it, as
the result proved. have looked almost
in vain for any expression of disapproba-
ton of the conduct of the Iowa Senate in
the Republican press of the Strte. ] con-
fess did not expect so reasonable prop
osition rs the submission of the question
would be so stability treated by the party
| of liberty"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

It's Different with Scrcggs
Burlington lIaWkeye

The Washington STIR mentions
that Mrs. Jones, wife of the Nevada
Senator, wore pulled tulle train
with an ovcrdress of white satin
embroidered with white silk, thickly
studied with bugles; necklace of soil.
tairc diamonds Of unusual size and
purity; earrings very large and brill
ant solitaire diamonds, and the gold
bracelets were set with the same
precious stones. Well, it's all right
for Jones is able to stand that sort
of thing, hut when the Honorable
Alcihiades Soroggs, the member
from Scroggs' cross roads, attempts
to keep up with this style there is
trouble ahead.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
Tie Pend1eton Case in a Nut She'll.

The Washington correspondent of
the Inter- Oceun thus concisely states
the circumstances Of Pendleton's lit
tie transaction as President of the
Kentucky Central Railroad, which
while it resulted very profitable to
HIM in pccuniary point of view, was
in inverse ratio damaging to his rep
utatlon as n man, and a possible
Democratic candidate for the Presl-
dency:
Pendleton, at once, when he found
that Mr.. and Mrs. Marsh were out of
the way, became very anxious to be
heard, and came here to testify be-
fore the committee. He testified
that he was President Of the Central
Railroad, and was administrator of
his brothcrin-law's estate, which
owned over threc-tifths of the road
He always regarded this as u good
claim, and he, rs President of the
road, employed himself as attorney
for the road, to secure its payment
AS if his position as President did
not authorize him to transact it's bus
iness-promising to pay himself one
half of the money obtained from the
government for his services. After
three days labor he got the bill al
lowed and received $l4s,OOO and
some cents. OF this he took $50,
600 for his services and expenses,
leaving $4,000 for the company; of
this he took three-titths, or S40,SOO
as his share as administrator of his
brotherin-laws estate, leaving S27,-
200 tor the company. From this he
paid a man named Ransom, an Of
ficer of the road, who had spent
much time in trying to get the claim
allowed, SIS, 900, for his services in
the past, leaving $4,000 tor the road.
From this he paid his salary as Pres
idcnt of the railroad company, $4,000
leaving the princely sum of $4,000 to
be divided among the stockholders
of the railroad as their share of the
clam. Was ever more ridiculous
statement uttered by a rational be-
ing? Which is the greater scoundrel
4 man who will receive money for
making an appointment to office, or
q man who will sWlnd!e 4 railroad
company of which lie is an officer in
this manner. Very few people be-
lieve Pendlcton's story. Some sug-
gest that he had the alternative of
proving himself a scoundrel or hog
and preferred to convince the public
that he was hog.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

A Washington dispatch says: cit
is now quite certain that, before the
end of the present week, the inn
parchment articles against cx-Secre-
tary Belknap will be reported to the
House by the Judiciary Committee,
and adopted, and possibly be laid be-
fore the Senate. All the important
witnesses will be here within few
days, to give the required evidence
to sustain them. The testimony of
Marsh can be taken by the commit
tee in brief time. The committee
now have the express-receipts of
Belknap, the certificates of deposits,
etc, in the premises"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

An exchange thinks that the pros
pect now is that the names of the fol
lowing candidates will be presented
before the Republican National Con
vention in June for the Presidency,
to wit: Bristow, Blaine, Hayes, Lo-
gan, Morton, Hartranft, Conklin, and
possibly Charles Francis Adams.
The candidates before the Democrat
ic Convention will probably be Til
den, Seymour, Thurman, Hendricks,
David Davis, Lamar, and John Q.
Adams. The candidates before the
National Grcenback Convention at
indianapolis will probably be New
ton, Booth, David Davis, Peter Coop
er, William d. Kelley, and Charles
Francis Adams.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

The law passed at the recent
session Of the Legislature agains,
tramps, authorizing county authori
ties to arrest them as Migrants, and
to fine them not to exceed $50, and
to compel them to work out the fine
at the rate Of rs cents per day. A
rigid enforcement of the law will les
sen the number of thieves and muir
derers at large, and give the public
q sense of security.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

The Chicago Times says that the
recent rain of flesh in Kentucky was
a dispensation of Divine Providence
"to coax the population from an ex.
clusively whisky diet" AS the Dis.
trict in which the phenomena oc-
Cured can always be relied upon for
a strong Democratic majority, it re.
quired a miracle to change the regu
lation diet, and even that means is OF
doubtful efficacy.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

CALEB p. MARSH and wife, the
main witnesses against Belknap,
whom Clymer fastened off to Mon.
treal, for fear that they might give
testimony duplicating Pendleton and
other prominent Democrats, have
been induced, by offer Of a free par.
don by the President, to return to
Washington, where the testimony
before the committee was resumed
on Wednesday.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
WE regret to observe that the

WE regret to observe that the
State Register deems 1t appropriate
to deal Secretary BristoW sundry foul
blows in connection with the men
ton OF recently trumped-up charge
against him. Secretary Brstow may
not be the Registers choice for Pres
ident, but he has approved himself a
faithful officer and an honest man,
whose record of integrity has not
been successfully assailed, and as
such, he is entitled to fair treatment
and truthful comment upon his &C.
tons from Republican papers at least.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
Woman's Rights in the Sonata

We ihSt week characterized the ac.
ton of The Iowa Senate, III refusing
to submit the suffrage amendment to
the vote of the people, notwilhstand-
ing the fact that it was demanded by
the popular vol ;e, as cowardly AMI
III an. In view of the SUBSEQUENT
action OF that body on a matter of
similar import, we are impelled to
add to our former characterization of
the vote on the suffrage resolution.
that it was contemptibly inconsistent
and peurile. When the resolution
was pending, Senators stood up, and
IN grave protest against its passage,
reclted the familiar argument about
the harm and degradation which
would come to woman as a result of
her contact with politics; declaring
that a sense of duty to the sex and
society impel cd them to resist the
effort to contaminate woman with the
ballot. Although everybody could
see that this assumption of high
principle and conviction was but the
cropping out of individual prejudices,
it might have passed without special
notice but tor what came after. At
the close of the session, a bill, of
which the following is q copy, was
introduced in the Senate:
Sec. THAT no person shall be deemed
ineligible, by reason Of SEX to any school
office in the State of Iowa.
SEC. mo person who may have been
or shall be elected or appointed to the
office of County Superintendent of Com
mon Schools or School director in the
State of Iowa, shall be deprived of office
by reason of sex.
Now, the reader will suppose that
the majority in the Senate, having
taken SO positive and unyielding a
stand in guarding against the posi-.
bility Of woman becoming corrupt,
and coarse, and unwomanly, by the
possession of the ballot, would en-
phatically set the seal of their dis
approval upon law allowing her
to enter the arena of politics as an
office-seeker. But, alas, for the rarity
of average Senatorial consistency,
the above bill received every vote in
the Senate; not dissenting voice,
and is pow the law. Thus, the Sena-
tors who voted against the submis-
sion of the Suffrage Amendment, de-
clared that, while they would siren
uousiy object to and obstruct any
exercise of the popular will in regard
to proposition to allow woman to
walk up to the ballot box, once or
twice a year, and quietly deposit a
ballot, they are unanimously in favor
OF a law that not only allows, but in
vites, women to set themselves up as
candidates for public Office, with
whatever of contamination that stu
alton implies. This is sample of
the juggling inconsistency displayed
by the august Senate Of Iowa upon a
question, upon which the people de-
mand an opportunity to be heard,
and which will not be thrust out of
sight by the efforts Of demagogues
or timid timc-servers. Is it too severe
to characterize it as we have, peurile
and contemplate?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
i WORD Of Joy.
FROM TIE hon. JAMES ROSS, GRAND
LECTURER 1. o. G. T., WIS.

Orange WtUidDas:.
DEAR SIR From Il feeling of
gratitude, | take great pleasure in
giving this voluntary testimony to
the efficacy of Halc's Cough Cordial
in easily and pleasantly curing per
siStent cough and catarrh. For 4
month while engaged nightly in pub
lie speaking, l had suffered with an
annoying cough which Stubbornly re-
sisted the various cough remedies
that | had taken. Through the adj
vice Of friends fortunately gave
Hale's Cough Cordial trial, when
my coughing ceased at once, and the
following day it had done Its work
completely and felt all right. The
first dose went directly to the cold
spot in my lungs, and in the midst of
general warmth and perspiration
the stubborn cough seemed to dis
solve. In gratitude and esteem, l am
Yours truly,
JAMES Ross.
Sold and warranted by Tabor q
Son. 4W32
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

ABOUT half the Democratic papers
in the country think that Dana, OF
the New York Sun, is the newly APP
pointed Minister to England, and are
sending him marked copies of their
papers congratulating him upon. his
elevation to respectable position in
the world,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

The Centennial Exposition.

"The Chicago North Western
Railway will, on and after May LIST,
1876, have on sale in all its coupon
ticket offices, (including its two tick
ct Offices at Omaha), round trip ex-
cursion tickets to Philadelphia and
New York and return for Centennial
visitors. These tickets, for the round
trip, Will be sold at one and one'half
the usual rate for Il trip one way.
They Will be of two classes, but will
be sold ut the same rates. One class
will be good east of Chicago, going
and returning by the same route, and
the other class will be good east OF
Chicago going by one route and re-
turning by another, thus Offering to
the purchasers a choice of routes
and chances to see various parts OF
the country.
Neither cars nor trains will be
chartered for excursion parties going
to the centennial by this or any 9th
er road, nor will rates be less per
person for parties large or small.
Every person going will have to pay
the same rate as is paid by his neigh
Dor. No other road will be permit
ed to sell round trip tickets for the
centennial at any less rate than is
quoted above. Reduced rate tickets
reading only to the exposition will
not be sold, and the rates made are
all for the full round trip. All agents
for the Chicago North Western rail
way will, in due time, be fully adyis
ed as to rates from their stations fol-
these centennial tickets, and will
after April LIST, 1876, be glad to ans
wer all inquiries in regard to them
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

Fiftyfive papers in the State of Iowa
hoist the name of H. D. Moore as a can.
dldate for State Treasurer.-Er.
The above item will be rather un.
comfortable for the fiity-fve papers,
if Mr.. Moore should not get to be
State Treasurer, for it will seem to
prove that their influence is not of
the potential sort.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
STATE observation-disclosures Y

STATE TREAsURER.-George w
Bemis, Of Buchanan county, is prom
incntly mentioned III connection
with the Office of State Treasurer
From what we have heard Of him
we are inclined to think he is q good
man tor this place. The support h,
is receiving by the press of the State
indicates his strength as formidable
-Iihiu WujOU.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
The Quincy Win saws of the dill.

The Quincy Wing says OF the dill.
emma that Mr.. Clymer is IN: "Mr.
Clymer in his refornatory zeal, APP
pears, unluckily, to have got himself
between the devil and the deep sea.
Whenever he undertook to shear a
Republican hog, he finds it emitting
Democratic squeal and yielding
rather more Democratic bristles than
Republican wool. Nevertheless, Mr..
Clymer, proceed with your shear.
;ngr'
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

The New York Republican State
Convention met at Syracuse on We'd
nesday, to elect delegates to the Ma
tional Convention. A resolution was
adopted, presenting Roscoe Conkling
as the choice Of the convention for
President. The next President, how
ever, will bear no resemblance to Mr..
Conkling.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24

A CABLE dispatch brings intelli'
gence of an unprecedented snow
storm in England and Scotland in
the first part of this week. The snow
was twenty feet deep on all the rail.
roads north Of the river Tay, and
trains were blocked and telegraph
lines buried at several points.