The Tipton advertiser., 1876-05-11
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g orItr q tie pap@rs n tEs Dastrlct
hare expressed themselves decidedly J
Id f2Tor o- ex.e11i1g TO the gentle.
ran WHO LA hc1rzbly and cre5its-
by represented - in Congress :
srgie term tae customary cempli-
rr@e. e-f ; rer.oro 'nstioa. aside from
the=e, tie I.yo1s -Ytyror alone has
h28 tie grace 70 come Out plainly
al advocate, for stated reasons, the
caIdijscg Of person naued-Hon.
1. A. Ellis, who has since, as We are
credi5ly informed, declared hi. inten-
tioa Il 70 case to become candidate,
Tie otheE papers in the minority
above indicated have nothing posi-
tiYe oE tangible to offer, and dish up
instead cod meal Of abstract areu-
mentation and either negative conclu-
s5c1s ~ none 81 all. OF this class,
tie Davenport Gaz<tts is a conspicu-
Gus example, and the Clinton Herald
Is its almost exact, IS it is It's only
foilowcr. These papers read you
sermons oa tie great necessity for
making . strong and worthy nonina-
tioa, but give yo1 no inkling of who,
ii their estimation, is the man of the
hour. "Mr. Tufts is An homes. and
" worthy man azd has faithfully exc.
" cGted ali his official trusts"-oh,
yea, they admit ali that, shut" and
'ii ibid @pcrEaps:" "tbe District
" beng close, some grea. man, some
" intellectual giant, some mountain oi
personal magnetism, alone will be
" abe 70 carry the day" Iadeed.
their oily anxiety would seem to be
for the success .. the party; and j!
that wGs really the case, the pl4.i.
tudes 10 which they indulg. sbou
the magnitude CT the interests in
vo.ved and tie necessity for grea
AMI good men would sound quit,
grand. But when it comes to b,
known that this Is wholly disingenu
Gus; that it is all for effect-the De
sized effect being to clear the wa,
each foF a particular candidate il
whom strong personal interest is ia
ken, the gfsndness disappears lk
mist in the morning sun.
The plain fact is, Mr. Russell, edi
tor of the Gozett1, is himself a can
didate for this nomination-in viev
Of which the lofty assumptions OF hi
paper at once remind one Of Scroggs
who in the early times wrote tn
Governor to appoint some GOOD ma
Justice Of the Peace in his locality
adding that "there were but two mel
in the settlement fit for the place
"hifngelf and Jimmy O'Brien, anc
/" Jimmy wouldn't DO at ALL"
Under the Clinton Ueraia8 hay
seems to be hidden Mr.. Aylett r.
Cotton, whom it has announced as a
candidate. and whose cheek in allow
ing himself to be SO announced afte.
running tire N2usnn1 yotes behind
his ticket only four years ago, and
during a Presidential election al
that, ought to reconcile all those who
vo.od agaiust him then if nothing
else ever did.
Out upon such scheming; such
hiding Of the pins and wires Of the
political game under cloak Of high
and mighty aspirations for the party
veal, trimmed aud lined with serene
unse,hshneas. We, too, are in favor
Of the nomination Of he among the
eligible candidates who seems to be
the best AMI strongest. Who is the
man: These great objectors have
named no one, aud We are left with
the Muscatine Journai, Monticello
Lyresc, and a dozen other papers
we might name, to see no course Sc
plain, straightforward and likely to be
crowned with success as for the
Second District TO follow its long
established precedent and renominate
the man who has in one term oi
faithful and unimpeachable service
gained the knowledge and experience
necessary 10 greatly increase his sse-
fulncss in the future.
The extracts from exchanges be-
fore referred to as published here
with, completely demolish the con-
elnsion sought by the Gazette's stats
les. Mr.. Tufts overcame a con-
siderable greater majority two years
100 than is before the nominee of the
republicans this fall--and while we
elieve that any competent and clean
anded mar whom they may nomi-