The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-07-23
Truth before fiction, gentlemen,
truth before fiction.
MANNING & Owens.
EDIroR PLAIN DEALER:

EDITOR FLAIN DEALER;
/ heartily concur in the action ia
ken by the National Greenback Con-
vention which was held at Des Moin-
es last week, aud especially do / full
~ endorse the able and sterling res.
olutions which were reported by the
committee Of which you were q men,
der and which I believe were unani-
mousIy endorsed and adopted by the
convention. The sentiments ex-
pressed in the main resolution have
often been foreshGdowed in the
PLAIN DEALER, and no one can read
them without bringing you to his
mind IL he has had the good fortune
to read your valuable paper as long
as l have.
But I did not intend either to COM
pliment the convention or yourself
as / know my inability properly to
do justice to either. Ny sole object
was to suggest through your paper
the name Of u suitable person to be
placed In nomination for the Office
OF governor OF our state by the DEM
ocratic state convention which is
fixed to be held at Cedar Rapids
about the 10Th or Goth Of next month.
Such suggestions have been made in
other papers OF the democratic party
and I do not see any improperly in
my doing SO at this time. The fact
is that it is very proper to bring the
names Of the men who may probably
be brought before the convention
before it assemblies in order that the
delegates may have time for refiec-
ton and II necessary to criticise the
persons who may be brought before
the convention and the measures al
so.
/, therefore present the name OF
Hon. VIM. G. Stewart, the president
OF the Dubuque County Bank here
for the candidacy for the office OF
Governor at the approaching state
election. I knew VIM. e. Stewart
when he came across the Mississippi
river to make Dubuque County his
home Immediately after Black Hawk
was captured at the Bad Axe battle,
wwhich th;ast1 great eIt war ia Chief Brought
upon our country without any rea-
sonable pretext whatever and IN
which he shed the blood OF innocent
men. women and children and de-
stroyed their property.
WILLIAM G.. STEWART,
came here very poor man with his
pick and spade on one Of his shout
ders and his Ox-whir in his right
hand. knew him we'll us the cut
ter of cord wood for our log and ash
furnaces, / have often seen him
driving five yoke OF oxen as hired
hand to work by the month, as he
did as a teamster (ox) recollect a
miner and wood chopper, such work
us VIM. Allen the afterwards great
Statesman, Of Ohio did in that Buck
eye Commonwealth. Such work as
have often seen Augustus G..
Dodge. do across the river, in Iowa
County then Michigan Territory,
now Wisconsin. Such are the men
who deserve to fill the offices Of
honor, trust and profit in a Dem
ocratic government.
I knew VIM. G.. Stewart rs, our
Sheriff, as County Judge, County
Treasurer and as one OF the most
influential members OF our State
Legislature in each and every one
Of which positions he gave univer-
sal satisfaction. And so he acts as
President Of a peoples Bank, not
National concern which gets bank
notes at one per cent, loans them
out at ten or upwards. Make Mr..
Stewart out candidate and victory
will be ours. SENEx.
July Goth 1885.
The foregoing communication from
one Of the oldest and best known
Democrats IN Iowa, has our hearty
and unqualified endorsement. We,
too, know VIM. G.. Stewart, knew him
thirty years and more ago, in Du-
buquc, and know that the kind words
Of our correspondent do not exager-
alto his qualifications, fitness or
merit.