Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-10-19
SENATORIAL.
(Chapter KILL

ant township, WinneSheik county,
June 2S, 1856. He has passed his life
in Winnesheik county. He received a
common school education; was for two
years student of Prairie Seminary, a
Baptist institution i'm Richland, Mich.
In 1875 he took the second years course
at the State Normal School at Cedar
Falls, Iowa. He began teaching in his
eighteenth year, teaching in all nine
teen terms of school in Winnesheik
county, in country districts and in the
towns of Freeport, Conover and Frank
vile. DR.. Daubney began the study of
medicine in 1880, and took his degree
from the regular medical department
of the State University, of Iowa, at
Iowa City, March 7th, 1888. He i'm
mediately opened an office at Frank
vile, Iowa, and practiced his profession
very successfully for four years, when
he sold out his practice to give further
time to his studies. He entered the
Post Graduate Medical School and
Hospital of New York City, from
which he took degree March 3, 1888.
Then he come to Decorah, and has
since conducted asuccessful and rapidly
increasing practice.
Politically he has always been re-
publican. In the spring of 1895 he was
urged to accept the candidacy for
mayor of Decorah and accepted more
from sense of duty than otherwise
and in spite of the opposition of the
press and the ring who had controlled
city affairs for years was elected, car
rying every ward in the city by decis-
i've majorities. His administration
has been a progressive and satisfactory
one, more city Improvements having
been perfected than at any former
period in the history of Decorah. and
last spring, in spite of the most bitter
opposition of the DecOrah Republican,
he was reelected by the largest major
ity ever given a mayor i'm this city, de-
feating G. N. Goddard for the second
time. He owes the position which he
occupies in society and his high stand
ing in his profession entirely to his
own efforts. He is a progressive man
iii every sense of the term, and Is in
line with the best element of the COM
munity.
Dr. Daubney this fall received the
nomination for state senator upon the
republican ticket. The contest was an
open one, there being three able candi-
dates in the field. He did not make a
thorough canvass of the county, there
being ten townships which he did not
enter during the campaign, but he re-
ceived the solid support of his own Sec
ton of the county and had a decisive
majority of delegate votes over both his
opponents on the first ballot, and was
declared the nominee of the conven-
ton. This nomination was ratified by
the district senatorial convention at
Calmar, by reclamation. Since receiv-
| ing that nomination he has been as
sailed and unjustly accused by A. X.
Bailey Of the Republican, about private
affairs which do not concern Mr.. Bailey
or the public; and which were he not a
candidate for office would never have
been mentioned. This has been done
because the doctor refused to make
promises to Mr.. Bailey to support
Harry Goddard for postmaster of De-
corah. Bailey offered his support per-
sonally and through his paper, provid-
ing these pledges were made; failing to
secure the promises he wanted, he has
trumped up charge after charge, SLAM
derous and libelous, about things that
do not concern him, the people, or
politics, and has slanderously pub
lished them through the Republican.
and democratic papers of this district,
openly trying to elect free silver dem
ocrat to the office of senator, by making
false and scandalOus charges about the
republican nominee, who refused to
buy Mr.. Bailey's support. Had the
doctor made the pledges required he
would not have been fit for the senate,
but because of this, he has been tried
each week in the Republican, the editor
preferring conjured charges, unknown
and unheard of before, pleading the
case to suit himself; and renderingjudg-
ment likewise to suit himself, without
any proof except his own assertions,
and without granting any hearing to
the man whom he hates because he
cannot control him.
Mr.. Bailey assumes the duties OF in
former, attorney, judge and equaliza-
ton boards to create prejudice and, if
possible, defeat the depublican party,
SIMPLY because the people made the
nomination i'm spite of Mr.. Bailey, and
nominated man whom he could not
dictate to. When Mr.. Bailey advocates
the election of democrat to the senate,
as he now does, he becomes an enemy
to the party upon which he has lived
all his life, and from which he has re-
ceived every favor. His Judas like
course i'm this affair is humiliating to
his party, and shows his prejudice and
hypocrisy. His great moral weekly is
now working desperately for the demo-
cratic party and by the position he has
assumed he antagonizes every honest
republican aud is earning the contempt
of the democrats. Had he made his
attack prior to the nomination it
would simply have been termed per-
sonal spite. After the majority of his
party made their nomination, if he be
q republican,, he should accept the
ticket and bury his animosity.