The Mineral argus., 1884-09-18


At the Iowa Democratic State Convention
James Dooley of Keokuk county was nom
mated for secretary of State; for state treas
urer Hon. George Derr of Union county Was
nominated; for auditor of state, j. L. Hen
riques of Marshalltown; for attorney general,
NJ V. Cannon Of Scott
At the Massachusetts, Democratic State con.
v%ention, William G. Endicott was nominated
for governor, receiving 3o5 votes of the I'll
cast, or forty-four votes more than necessary
to a choice. The nomination was made I'M
animous and the ticket completed as fellows:
Lieutenant governor, James S Grinnell; Sec
rotary of state, jeremiah Crowley: treasurer
and receiver, Gen. Charles Maish; auditor,
o Hopkins; attorney general, John W..
Cummings. The convention then adjourned
The Rev. Edward Eggleston, the well-known
writer, who was for some time pastor of the
Church of Christian EndeaYOr, Lee avenue.
this city, says in a letter from Lake George:
"No reasonable man not blinded by party yea.
can doubt, il seems to me, that Governor
Cleveland is the man most likely to adminis-
ter the government in such a way as to leave
it better and not worse than it is now. To put
the administration of a reform civil service IN
to the hands of the Republican nominee is to
set an experienced fox to watch the poultry
yard"
Hon. Sidney Clark Of Kansas has the cour.
age of his convictions and will not vote for
Blaine. Mr.. Clark served three terms in con-
gress, and was six years che House with the
Republican candidate, including the Mulligan
period, and knowing him as he does says he
cannot and will not support him. AS he is in
favor of Honest men and Honest government
he will vote for Cleveland and Hendricks, as
tens of thousands of Republicans will do.
Respecting Blaine, the judgment of Mr.. JUL
an (whO has had good opportunities to study the
magnetic" politjcian) agrees nearly to that Of
Mr.. Pound, of Wisconsin, who says he is a
Spectator that has acquired a vast fortune
without a min ~ and n 1anannurra Gf,aas,1-
distinguished for a kind of declamatory and
pugilistic statecraft" But it is to the
light that Mr.. Julian has turned upon the char
acter of Blaine as a pretender to the role of
political moralist and refOrmer that public at
tenton is more particularly invited
In the existing situation in Wisconsin the
announcement Of Hon. Thad @. Pound that
he intends to support Gov. Cleveland for
President Is an event of no ordinrly signiti-
canoe. EX-Lieutenant Governor Pound has
been for years one of the most prominent Re-
publican leaders in Wisconsin. He served
three terms in Congress, and in the Forty
seventh Congress ne was Chairman of the
Committee on Public Lands. He was an init
mate personal friend of President Garfield
He has numerous friends in Wisconsin, and as
his present coursei is dictated not by personal
pique or disappointment, but by a enuine
distrust of the character of Mr.. Blaine, his in
auence will be strongly felt in the election in
that State.
Mr.. Depauw, the plate-glass manufacturer,
of New Albany, Ind is trotted out again by
the protectionlsts as a boiling Democrat In
1880 Mr.. Depauw served in this capacity for all
he was worth, but the Indiana Republicans
have set him up again. Ia the enjoyment of
duties ranging from 81 to 123 per cent, the
noisy beneficiary of protection is afraid the
wicked Democrats when once in power will
makea horizontal" reduction of the tariff that
will touch his enormous profits. Hence his lus-
ty squeals. The consumers who have so long
been plundered for the benefit of the Depauws
are not saying much, but they will be heard
from in November.
Benjamin +. Butler was the most violent and
unscrupulus of the impeachers of Andrew
Johnson in 1868. There was nothing to which
this malignant demagogue did not resort in
order to procure the removal of the President
He hired spies to dog the steps of President
Johnson's friends and invaded the sanctity of
the mails and the telegraph to accomplish his
desperate purpose. At last his colleagues in
the trial were compelled TO protest against his
brutal and villainous methods. Andrew john
son was emphAtically a man of the people.
During his service in congress he accomplished
more by his advocacy of the Homestead bill
and other measures in the interest of the work
ing people than the whole breed of Buffers.
President JOhnsOn's close sympathy with the
cause of the people was one of the reasons why
he was so remOrselessly prosecuted bv such
men as Butler, who sought to usurp control of
the government to promote their selfish and
corrupt ends. Now the chief prosecutor of
Andrew Johnson parades before the country az
the friend of the peoplel