Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-08-16
Cooley's Nomination Sure Defeat.

In view OF the closeness of this Con-
gressional District, and the great i'm
portance of electing Republican ma
jority of the next House of Represent
atives. it behooves the Convention that
meets at McGregor next Tuesday, to
act with great deliberation and circum-
spection in the choice of candidate
1t will be an absolute surrender of the
District to nominate Mr.. Cooley. There
are strong antagonisms to him, not only
in his county of Dubuque, but in almost
every county in the District, as shown
by the action of most Of the nominating
conventions and voice of the public
press. Besides this there is general
distrust Of him among the rank and file
of the party, which has been strength
ened by the late exposure of his dishon-
est record, and is only confirmed by the
efforts of his supporters to explain that
record. This will inevitably defeat him
at the polls should he be nominated
Instead of being the strongest candi-
date before the people, as his friends
claim, he is by all means the weakest.
If defensive candidate is weak
candidate, then Mr.. Cooley is the weak
est man in the field.
If man with a besmirched reputa-
ton is weak candidate, then Mr.. Cool
ey is the weakest of all the candidates.
If man, having hundreds of the best
men in his own party throughout the
district in such strong antagonism to
him that they will not vote for him if
nominated, is weak candidate, then is
Mr.. Cooley surely the weakest of the
candidates.
If the man least calculated to bring
back the Republicans who are sympa-
thising with the greenback movement in
this district-he being a banker with a
hundred thousand dollars stock in a
National Banks a weak candidate,
then is Mr.. Cooley most assuredly a
weak candidate.
If the man of whom it can be proven
that he hid his great wealth until thous-
ands and thousands Of dollars of his notes
could be bought from the poor man who
held them,at ten cents on the dollar, and
who for years, though rolling in wealth
and ostentatiously making large dona-
lions to churches, has never offered to
make good to these poor men what he
thus took from them, is weak candi-
date to place before the people in a
close contest, then is Mr.. Cooley the
weakest candidate in the field.
If the man, who is charged by those
best acquainted with the facts, with Sc
cretly boiling an honorable candidate
nominated over him, thus inviting and
justifying others in boiling the same
candidate, by which means he was de-
feated and Democrat elected, if this
is an element Of weakness in candidate
then is Cooley the weakest of all candi-
dates.
If the man, who being charged with
plumber of the government, puts out a
public explanation of the sources Of his
wealth, which upon subsequent exami-
nation is proved to be wholly untenable,
facts and figures showing it to be abso-
lutely false, thus showing him to be
tricky as well as corrupt; if this makes
him weak candidate, then is Mr.. Cool
ey the very weakest candidate on the
list.
If the man who relies almost wholly
upon his wealth to secure public posi-
ton, and who does not scruple to use it
freely in attempts to corrupt the press
and the people, and to purchase his own
political advancement, is weak candi-
date to place before an honest constltu-
ency, then is Mr.. Cooley the weakest of
all the candidates.