Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-27
Tally Another Tor Burdick,

dendent paper, has come out strong
for Capt. Burdick. We give few
extracts from the paper, which we
commend to the Independent voters
of this county as worthy of their
earnest consideration:
1--WE have noticed the insidious at
tacks on Capt. Burdick's characterby
persons devoid of honor or the first
principles of gentlemen, and only a
few days ago, when the vile SANDER
in connection with the Manning note
was openly retalled by pair of mod
ern reformers (?) Messrs. Wellington
and Brown, we deemed it time for
every man who has any respect for
the commonest decency, to take a
bold stand in vindication of truth
and fairness, and against trickery
and falsehood, used without stint,
in hopes of thus defeating an oppo-
nent against whom truth was power
less to raise charge or create sus-
picion. Hence it is that we, with
great reluctance, once more enter the,
to us, unpleasant field of politics,
and do battle, as best we may, for
the same old cause that few short
years ago, on the bloody field of car
mage, conquered peace and preserv-
ed intact our grand confederacy of
states.
Aside from these local considera'
tons there are other, and really
more important considerations, Of a
national character, that are daily pre-
senting themselves with greater and
weightier force.
The elections just held, even in
Democratic states, indicate a deter
mination on the part of the people
to wrest the Lower House of Con
gress from Confederate CONTROL
Hence we see in Indiana and Ohio
large Republican gains of Congress
Citizens OF the Third District OF
the banner Republican State oflowa
shall we pass UNDECIDED by the shout
that comes to us on the autumn
breeze from Indiana and Ohio, telling
us OF a gain of nine Republican
Congressman in those States? Ought
this not to inspire us with fixed
determination to redeem the only
District in the great State Of Iowa,
which for two years has lain PROSTATE
at the feet of the confederate branch
of Congress?
The country needs just such men
of stamina and solid worth as Capt,
Burdick, to meet the rebels in Con,
gress, as he met them on the field OF
battle, hand to hand and steel to
steel. IF elected you can rely upon
it that while he will concede to the
South every legal and moral right
they are entitled to, no rebel claim
for damages growing out Of the war,
nearly half million dollars ofwhich
already lies in the pigeon holes OF
Congress, will ever be disturbed from
their repose, except to be committed
to the flames.
And who have we in opposition to
Capt. Burdick? Mr.. J. M. Griffith,
of Dubuque. A man who admits
that he never took any interest in
politics, and who, although conceded
to be one of the best advocates IN
the bar of the state, never made a
political speech in his lite until since
be was nominated for Congress, and
certainly his chances OF success
would have been largely enhanced If
he had not made one since! Cold,
calculating and mercenary, his en-
tire energies have been devoted to
accumulation OF great wealth, which
has left him no time nor inclination
to say a word for the salvation of the
country during its darkest days, or
to exercise sympathy for the down
trodden or oppressed.
Such are the men, fellow citizens,
whom we are to choose between to
represent us in the Forty-tiIth Con-
gross. The voices in the air. yes,
the atmosphere we breath, assures us
that the intelligent, loyal people of
this District will vote for the man
who, in the multiplicity of his duties
not only had time to sympathize with
the Broken Union, but time to throw
himself into the breach and fight for
its perpetuity, and the supremacy of
the old flag, which, through the he
roic endeavors of such men as Capt.
Burdick, came through the struggle
without the loss of single star"