Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-12
Cooley's Organ Displayeth Zeal.


The editor Of the Dubuque Times has
been reading the last issue of the Bull
LETIN. Though the perusal does not
seem to have pleased him, perhaps we
ought to express our appreciation of his
condescension in again recognizing the
existence of our paper, and we do. He
gives us the benefit of nearly column
of his swelling rhetoric, and all apro-
pos of little paragraph of seven lines
in the BULLETIN of last week bearing
on Cooley. The Times prefaces the ex-
tract by solemn homily, conceived in
true Pecksniffian style, about party
comfy" party usages," "presumptive
falsehood," ''the gall of license &C., in
tended, doubtless, to cripple us by a
bombardment of set phrases, prelimina-
ry to the actual assault. The paragraph
referred to as it it appeared in our pa
per,is as follows:
"In common miM at least oae-haT of
the Republicans IN the District acho
kuoo him, we regard him Cooley as an
utterly INSCRIPTIONS man, who, by the
aid Of wealth dishonesty acquired, is
endeavoring to corrupt the Republican
party to serve his ambition
The above is the original paragraph.
Now mark the action of the paper that
assumes to lecture us upon fairness
and decorum." The Times leaves out
that part of the paragraph we have ital-
icized, thus prefering to evade fact
that it cannot deny, and intending to iso-
late us as the only person in the dis
trict who challenges Cooley's honesty.
Is it not pretty monitor? But there
is another significant thing in the Times
article. 1t concentrates its attack up
on the words wealth dishonesty ac-
quired," and says nothing to the other
charge, of it's corrupt use. 1t says:
Does the BULLETIN know whereof it afiirms?
How does it know that Mr.. Cooley acquired
his wealth dishonesty" Does 1t knO0 TINS
assertion to be true?
The Times is continually making
charges that it cannot prove. For in
stance it has said hundred times that
Tilden sent money to Louisiana to bride
electors. and do other corrupt work.
The charge is undoubtedly true, and
yet it would trouble Mr.. Woodruff to
actually prove it. Our reference to Mr.
Cooley's wealth was intended to ex-
press our convictions, and that it coin
cides with the opinions Of Republi-
cans all over the district we have had
ample occasion to know since its
publication. We hold to our
original proposition, that at least one
half of the Republicans of the District
who know anything about him, believe
that Cooley acquired his sudden wealth
by practices that will not bear the light,
and the fact that absolute proofs are
not right at hand does not weaken that
conviction particle. Indeed, one gen
tleman to whom Cooley attempted to
show the manner in which he did get
his riches informed us that the explana-
ton made the matter very little better.
And now, in this connection, we are
forced in very self-defense to make
mention of fact that we would rather
have left unsaid. We remember con-
versation we had with the editor OF the
Times in his office shortly after the
Congressional contest of four years ago,
upon this very subject. We distinctly
remember that Mr.. Woodruff, in that
conversation, very unequivocally ex-
pressed his opinions regarding MIR.
Cooley. 1t is sufficient to say that
these opinions were identical with those
held by ourselves, and certainly were
as emphatically expressed as ever we
were capable of doing it. Our first i'm
pulse was to quote the actual language
in which our mentor of the Times couch
ed a peculiarly trenchant summary OF
Cooley's character, but as it is not nee
essary, we forbear. To show that our
recollection of the purport Of that con-
versation is not at fault, we will say
that leading Republican in Dubuque
told us short time since that the
Times editor had said the same thing to
him hundred times. In the light of
these facts, the Times hypocritical
shifting about partisan warfare assumes
very contemplate aspect.