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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

AND now the papers are after Judge
Love of the United States District
Court for Iowa, with a charge Of
judicial nepotism. 1t seems that his
Honor, who is a Bourbon Democrat
of the indurated variety, not content
with appointing his brother, H. X.
Love, clerk of his court, has recently
made an order, requiring that all
moneys paid into the court in the
course Of any proceedings in bank
ruptcy, or received by assignees, shall
be deposited III the Iowa National
Bank of Des Moines, of which his
brother, said II. X. Love, is principal
stakeholder and President. AS the
court is held in four different sub
districts, Dubuque, Keokuk, Des
Moines and Council Bluffs, it would
have been more convenient for the
creditors of bankrupt estates if Judge
Love had designated bank of de-
post in each of those places, and
this the law seems to imply as his
duty. But he chose to regard rather
the charging of the deposit account
OF his brothers bank than the con-
venience or interests of anybody else.
1t is little amusing to see how GIN
gerly papers like the Dubuque Her.
aid, which have said so much about
Grants nepotism, handle this ease
arising in the Democratic household
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14
impeachment.

The House Judiciary Committee
has formally presented articles of i'm
parchment against Secretary Belknap
in the Senate, which has been organ
lied as a court to try them, and Bel
KNAPP has been summoned to appear
and answer the charge of bribery in
office, on Monday mex, April II. The
managers appointed by the House to
conduct the prosecution are as fol
lows: Scott Lord, of New York, j.
Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, w. T..
Lynde, Of Wisconsin, John A. Nc
Mahon, of Ohio, Geo. a. jerks, of
Pennsylvania, Democrats, and Geo.
+. Hoar, of Massachusetts, and +. G.
Lapham, of New y ork, Republicans.
Gen. Belknap's counsel are Mont
gomery Blair, Ben. Butler, Matt. Car
penter and Jerry Black.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14
Gle Bulletirl,
FRIDAY, APRIL IA. 1876.
Republican State Convention.

The Twentieth Annual Republican State Con-
yention will be held at Des Moines, on
Wednesd ~, May 81, 1876.
for the purpose of making the following nomna-
tons:
sional District).
Eleven candidates for Presidential electors e at
large; from each Congressional Districtl.
Two candidates for Judges Of the Supreme
One candidate for Secretary of State.
One candidate for Auditor Of State.
One candidate for Treasurer of State.
One candidate for Register of State Land once
One candidate for Attorney General.
The ratio of representation will be one delegate
Thereto delegate for every 200 votes or fraction
over 100 cast for Samuel j. Kirkwood, for Govern
or, at the general election in 1875.
We invite all to unite with us, without regard to
past party preferences affiliations. who wish to
see the country at permanent peace; who wish to
see the Constitution and its amendments enforced,
and just and equal reghts accorded 10 all; VINO
wish to see corruption and dishonesty punished,
and the Presidents order carried out Let no
guilty man escape;' the affairs OF the government
economically administered and its credit and hon
or maintained; all who wish to the free school
system fostered all who wish to see sectional diff
ferences laid aside but who believe that the war
demonstrated the fact that the blue and not the
gray-the hand that saved and not the one that
would have slain, should govern the land; all who
condemn the recen. reasonable utterances Of
Southern Democratic members in Congress; all
who believe that JEFF Davis has all the rights he
is entitled to while the tales of Andersonvile and
kindred horrors yet freeze the blood OF the listen
er. To all such and all others who feel that the
Republican party is the to save the country in
this ts hour of peril. we bid welcome and ask you
to assist us in placing a ticket in the field that
shall sweep the State. and place Iowa in the Cen
tennial year. where she now stands, the banner
Republican State in the Union.
BY order of Rep State Cen. Com
HENRY C LEIGHTON,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14
Political Items.

The Keokuk Gate City is willing to ad-
nit the ability and integrity of Roscoe
Conkling, but, nevertheless, thinks that as
a candidate for the Presidency, she isn't
quite up to the standard of Republican
demand"
Republican journals are beginning to
mention names for delegates at large to
Cincinnati, and to insist upon it that only
the aolest and most Trustworthy men in the
State shall represent Iowa there. whoever
they may be Hiram
Price will do; and if we have three more
of the same sort, they should be sent with
him We don't want any other kind of
men just now to represent Iowa ut Cincin-
natl or anywhere else.-Grinne Herald.
Judge Newman, of Burlington, is said
to be the coming man for Congress in the
list District, to succeed Mr.. McCrary -
Speaker Gear gives up his Congressional
aspirations, intending to make the race
for Governor next year.
The race for Congress in the 7th Dis.
trict lies between COL DUNCAN, II J. B.
Cummings, Judge Mott and Gen. William
son, the probabilities of the nomination
being in the order named.
Mr.. Tufts will be a candidate for re-
nomination to Congress in the I'd District
The Monticello Express endorses him as
not brilliant, but a safe and faithful
Congressman
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

JUDGE Il. S. WILSON, who at the
late city election in Dubuque, was
the Democratic candidate for City
Attorney, and elected, comes out in a
card in the papers with a solemn
pledge that he will avoid his failings
of the past, and cause no one to re-
greet his election. Said falling is an
inordinate love for whisky, which has
brought Judge Wilson from a high
and honorable position at the bar,
and society, almost, if not quite, to
the gutter. The Times, referring to
Mr.. Wilson's card, says: "The man
who sells Tom Wilson liquor ought
to be indicted and punished" Why
apply this principle to Tom Wilson
alone? Are there not hundreds of
other men in Dubuque going the
same downward course, and still
others stepping in to fill up the
ranks as they disappear in the gulf
of despair; and should not the men
who sell them liquor be indicted and
punished also? Is the Times pre-
pared, can it afford to insist upon 4
policy which is Logical deduction
from the remark above quoted?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

The Charlton Patriot brings for
ward Prot. Wilson Palmer, Of Of
tumwa, formerly of this city, as a
candidate for the Republican nomin-
alton for Superintendent Of Public
Instruction, and says that he Is the
choice of number of leading educa
tors in the southern part Of the State.
If scholarship, experience in educa-
tional work, and intense interest and
enthusiasm in all that relates to the
welfare and advancement of the
schools are qualifications for the place
and they certainly are-the men
ton of Mr.. Palmer's name in this
connection is appropriate and timely.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Palm
er was the second choice of the con-
vention that nominated Col. Aber-
nethy for the position he has so ably
filled.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

THERE is one Office of great import
ance and honor, and involving the
handling of immense sums of money,
which nobody seems to banker after;
and that is the United States Treas
urship. BY the law the Treasurer is
responsible for all mistakes, and re-
quired to make good all losses to the
government from theft in his depart
mcnt. He is not allowed, as former
ly, to select his own subordinates and
employees, but must take such as are
selected for him by the Secretary of
the Treasury, thus enhancing his
risks and Liabilities. 1t is sad that
the present Treasurer, Mr.. New, has
spent more than his salary in adjust
ing balances resulting from such
losses, and that he is very anxious to
be relieved from his position, but
cannot, for the reason that nobody
can be found to take the place and
give the bond of 100000 re-
quircd.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14
Positively, we shall have to revise

POSITIVELY, we shall have to revise
our estimate of Congressman Aims
worth's capacity to endure the kind
of Democracy, now rampant in Con-
gress. A remark is attributed to HIM,
made during his late visit to the
District, which shows him not devoid
of sensibillty. When asked why he
had determined not to be a candidate
for reelection, his reply was, that he
chad rather be III hell without fan
than in the American Congress" AS
Mr.. Ainsworth's experience of Con-
gress is confined to the House, which
has two-thirds Democratic majority,
the significance of his remark will be
seen at once. The feeling expressed
by Mr.. Ainsworth is doubtless shared
by other Northern Repres entatives
of his party, who daily witness the
exhibitions of defiant rebellsm by their
Confederate colleages on the floor
of the House, but they are all too
much cowed by the dominant spirit
to openly denounce it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14
Shipments to the Centennial.
Dubuuue Times. April s.


DR.. Alexander Shaw, Of Des Moines,
Superintendent OF the State Board of
Centennial Managers, arrived in Du-
buque yesterday morning, and spent
the day in completing arrangements
for the forwarding of specimens from
this part of the State to the Phila-
delphia Exhibition. From him we
gathered some facts, and obtained in
formation as to the proper method of
forwarding, which we are sure will
be Of interest to our readers. Mr..
Shaw tells us that the Iowa Board
have now in transit and ready for
shipment utsixty thousand pounds
of freight. This consists, among
other things, of the following: Rep
reservations of vertical sections of
Iowa soil, for six feet from the sur
face, from thirty-fve counties, exhib-
tied in glass tubes six inches in diam
eter. A full and complete geological
representation Of the State, all the
way from the lowest formation, the
Potsdam sandstone of the northeast
ern part of the State, to the drift at
Council Bluffs in the southwest corn
er - representing three thousand
seven hundred feet in vertical sec
ton. Fifty-five samples of the build
ing rock of the State, to illustrate
their economic use. One hundred
and sixty-fi,e samples of the native
timber of the State, in cross sections
from 6 feet to one quarter of an inch
in diameter; this collection is supple
mented by samples of cultivated
woods, and ornamental varieties; also
seventy-five varieties of timber seeds.
Apples, 3Os varieties, represented by
fac SMILES in wax, 1920 specimens,
reproductions, as to size and color,
of the crop grown in various parts of
Iowa last season. A full line of the
large variety of agricultural imple-
ments manufactured in the State. A
large collection of models of patent
ed articles, illustrating the inventive
genius of the Hawkeye population;
among them several steam engines OF
Iowa invention, and n number Of
boilers manufactured here; also a
handsome display of fabrics made by
machinery, and general assortment
of domestic manufactured goods, and
ladies' handiwork. Some fine sam
pies of printing and binding. These
are but few of the articles included
in the thirty-seven groups into which
Iowa products are divided.
The Managers have decided to put
an Iowa Headquarters building on the
Centennial Grounds-in accordance
with the plan adopted by most of the
other States Of the Union. This will
be a place of resort for Iowans; a
general intelligence office. There
information can be obtained as to the
most notable articles on exhibition,
and hints as to the most economical
way of getting along; there Iowa
newspapers will be on file; in care OF
this Iowa Home" all letters and tel
cgrams will be directed; and a thous
and convenienccs will result.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14
State News.

-Keekuk has a centenarian i'll the per-
son of colored man, Jesse Green, who
is 104 years old. The Conytitution says
of him: "He is at times..a little out of his
head, but his constitution is tolerably Wig
orous fer one of his age. He is very deaf
and his wool is white as snow.
Thirty seven years ago there were
only 1900 school children in Iowa; eight
years later there were $4,000, and now
there are 81 reported, with rising
thermometer
Lambert Brown, of Wheatland, lost
a package of money amounting to $4,000
a year ago supposed 10 have been taken
by burglars from under his pillow, and in
consequence was forced to go into bank
ruptcy. Last week the money was found
in the straw Of the tick from which it
was supposed to have been stolen.
Waterloo has 10 licensed saloons and
3 more in prospect, making %. They
pay into the city treasury 81 800, but
whether this is an increase OF the material
wealth of the city, the Repoater thinks is
a question of doubt.
-Ex-Gov Briggs, the first Governor of
Iowa, is still living and resides at Andrew,
jackson county, in poor circumstances
1t has been suggested that fund be
raised by subscription to enable him to
visit the Centennial
The Dubuque Times says that scarlet
fever has about spent its fury among the
little ones in that city, and is now disap.
pearing. The mortality has been about
pen per cent of the cases.
j. T. Van Schaick, a carriage maker
of Waterloo, made desperate attempt 10
take his own life last week by first cutting
a cash in his throat and then stabbing
himself in the side. The wounds did not
prove Immediately fatal, but the wretched
man died on Sunday, four days after the
occurrence He was well advanced III
years, and the impelling cause of his rash
act was the undutiful and disgracefu
conduct of his children The feelings Of
those children, if they have any feeling
are not to be cnvied. We CLEAN from tht
Reporter.
j. B. Grinnell, who is Receiver of the
Central of Iowa Railroad, reports for the
first quarter of his administration of its
affairs, reduction of six per cent. ex
penses, and an increase of thirty per CEN
in receipts. Which proves that Hon. }
B. knows how to run a railroad even bet
ter than a sheep farm.
| The Keokuk Northern Line Packe
Company on the Mississippi have ordered
all the bars closed on their steamers, anc
no liquor will be sold hereafter. Com
modore Davidson, the chief owner of the
line, is member of the Presbyterian
Church, and stiff temperance man.
Mrs. Bernard McCarten died in Julier
township, near Dubuque, on Sunday last
at the age of 100. She was born in
county Doan, Ireland, in 1776.
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

The honest citizens Of Chicago are
very much excited over the frauds
upon the ballot box in that city; the
immediate occasion of their wrath
being the shamefully outrageous
manner in which the votes were tam
pered with at the recent town cleo
tons, whereby men were counted
into Office who really were defeated
at the polls by large majorities. A
mass meeting of the best citizens was
held on Saturday evening last, which
was addressed by such men as Leon
ard Sweat, Rev. David Swing, 1t.
Gov. Bross, and others, and at which
the determination was expressed to
maintain honest voting, even at the
cost of armed interference and blood.
shed.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14
The Man Needed.


Among the names of prominent
men mentioned rs one of the Presi-
dental electors at large for Iowa,
none is received with more favor
throughout the State than that of
Hiram Price. He represents Il class
of men, whose influence is greatly
needed in politics at the present time.
A man Of strict integrity and ac-
knowledged ability, who has gained
not only Il State but national rep
utation, by:his straightforward course
in every public position in which he
has been placed. We know of no
one in this part of the State that
would prove more acceptable to the
people than Mr.. Price. He would
add strength to the ticket.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

Dom PEDRO, Emperor of Brazil,
with his family and suite, are daily
expected in this country. The EN-
peror, who is thoroughly educated
and intelligent man, comes to attend
the Centennial and to spend few
months in travelling in our country,
with view OF studying our institu-
tons and taking note of our progress
as nation. Like sensible man, he
desires to avoid all pomp and parade,
and to meet our people simply as a
private gentleman. His warm friend
ship for our country, and his fame as
a wise and humane ruler, will secure
for him a warm reception from the
people of the United States.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

IT is reported from Washington
that Secretary Belknap has plucked
up courage wonderfully since the
high-priced lawyers engaged to de-
fend him, have, after labored effort,
convinced him that he is innocent
But for his skilled counsel, it is pro-
bable that the poor man would have
gone to his grave with the conviction
that he was a great rascal; and it is
not unlikely yet that he will require
considerable bracing up to prevent
his relapse into the conviction that
to sell fat positions right and left,
and pocket the money, was not the
most legitimate and honorable trans
action in the world.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

Senator Allison made good rec
ord among the minority, on the pass
age by the Senate of the bill to adj
nit New Mexico as n State. He had
only IA companions, the vote being
35 yeas to Is nays, but if he is anxi-
Gus for a more numerous body Of
supporters he can find them at any
town meeting in Iowa, on that ques-
ton. a population of Mexlcans,
halt-breeds, 'greasers" and Indians,
knowing nothing about self-govern-
ment, are not just such as should be
constituted with political power as a
''soyereign State" -Daoe"port Gu
zette.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14
The Fayette Union, a Democratic

organ of the rabid sort, says:
What Godsend it would be just now
if some Democrat would so far forget his
duty to himself, his country, and his party.
as to tell a lie, ETC., as a means of divert
ing public attention from Republican
frauds and corruption in the highest Off
cial circles.
We know nobody better fitted from
experience and practice to furnish the
"Godsend above indicated than the
Union man himself. The only troub-
lie about it is, that his political I'M
truthfulness is so common as to have
long ago ceased to engage the "pub-
lie attention"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

A CORRESPONDENT at Niagara re-
ported a shower of goose eggs the
otherday, explaining the phenomenon
by saying that they probably tell
from flock of wild geese that had
become bewildered by the storm and
were unable to reach their laying
place. Then, as if this assault upon
the credulty of his readers was not
enough, he gives the tough yarn an
other twist by saying that the eggs
were not broken by the fall. "Lord,
how the world is given to lying"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

Mr.. John Mahln, of the Muscatine
Journal, thus sums up the results of
his observation of the political situa-
ton of the South wherein he has re-
Gently made an extended tour:
And now one observation as to
political matters and then / am done.
[ am satisfied that the South has no
disposition to attempt secession
again. Secession is forever dead.
The attempt cost too much to be re-
peated. But the South hopes, in the
Union, and by means of the Dem
ocratlc party, tc accomplish these re-
suits, viz:
Indemnify for losses sustained
by the war, by the pensioning of
soldiers and the surviving relatives
of those who died in the war, by the
payment of claims for loss of prop
erty Slaves included) or by the re-
funding OF the cotton tax. One or
all these means Of taking reprisals
upon the north will be insisted on
whenever the South sees the way
I.
open for it.
2-Congressional non interference
IN the purpose limited at by Gov.
Smith in his Atlanta speech, to make
the negro subordinate to the white
man. This is to be done by State
laws requiring property aud intelli-
9cnce qualifications for voting.
am fully satisfied that it is the
determination of the white people OF
the South to put the colored race
practically under their feet. OF
course this cannot be done if the
Constitutional amendment require
Congressional enactment to make
them effective. The triumph of tho
Democratic party at the next Presi
dental election is the one great de
sire of the people of the South who
have these ends in view.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

Iowa OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Trea-
surer Christy returned from Phila-
delphia Sunday morning, where he
has been completing the arrange
ments for Iowa's exhibition at the
Centennial During his absence he
let the contract tor the building to be
used for Iowa headquarters. The
building will be 364 $50 feet, built
OF pine, with many handsome adorn-
ments. From the plans which Mr..
Christy brought with him, we Judge
that our building will be very neat.
1t is to be two stories high. Each
floor will be divided into four rooms,
two of them Is X20, and two of them
Is feet 9 inches by Is feet 6 inches.
1t will cost, when completed, $4,000
l.. ID. Burton was the architect, and
Thomas Leaning has contracted to
finish it by the 10th of May. The
location is considered very favorable.
as it will stand near the japanese
building, and in close proximity to
the judges hall, and only short dis
lance from the main exhibition build
inr.-St0te Re1iste7. Nh.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-14

The investigation, by a Senate
Committee, of the charge made
against Senator Spencer, of Alabama,
that he corruptly secured his election,
lis ended. The investigation has cost
$4,000, and the result will be that
Senator Spencer will retain his seat.
The evidence against him was so
weak and unsatisfactory that it was
not deemed necessary to introduce
any testimony to rebut it. Forty in
vestigating committees are at work
in the House, the purpose of the
greater portion Of them being to fur
nish political capital for the next
campaign. Many Of them are likely
to cost as much OF more than the
Spencer investigation, and prove as
barren of results. The manner in
which they are being conducted is
most scandalous and contemplate
They are unfair and one sided, the
testimony being often taken in the
absence Of the Republican members
of the committees, and the witnesses
dismissed without giving an oppor-
tunity for cross examination. The
character of many Of the witnesses
and their testimony afford good
illustration of the zeal of the Democ-
racy in making partizan capital
Thus crazy man was summoned to
defamc Quartermaster General Meigs,
which caused Holman, of Indiana,
who is not enthusiastic over these
wholesale investigations, to remark
that it would do the Investigations
no good to makes acquisitions upon
insane asylums. In another commit
tee, when the proposition was made
to summon n woman Of unsavory an
teccdents, member protested, that a
definite statement Of the facts to be
proved should be made, before intro.
ducing infamous witnesses. He insist.
ed that the committee should not
search the brothels and mad houses
in order to make Democratic Presi
dent.
Thus, these Investigations seem to
be conducted, not for the purpose OF
bringing to light all the facts, but
only SO far, and in such manner as
shall establish a pre-arranged theory
of Republican corruption, and furnish
campaign capital for the Democratic