Prosecuting attorney endorsement

KELSO, BANGS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 5/10/2009 at 00:29:49

Maquoketa Sentinel, July 31, 1856

FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY-

JOSEPH KELSO, of Bellevue, is an old citizen, and essentially a Western man, having an extensive practice in Jackson and adjoining counties, and gifted with extraordinary energy of character, which governs his political action, and bids fair to render his stability and firmness of principle efficient helps to the Democracy in time of need. We know him of old, and his antecedents are national and untarnished. His legal experience is a sufficient guaranty that he will fill the office with marked ability.

FREDERICK BANGS, of Bellevue, affiliates with the Black Republican party (term used by Democrats to identify proponents of Black equality), has allowed his name to be used as a candidate and consequently endorses their platform. Show him in the election of Mr. Kelso that Nationality is a part of our Constitution. That the leaders of the Black Republican alias the Abolition party, have no political existence outside of the agitation of a sectional question, and that this loud-mouthed sympathy for “human freedom” is bounded by the patronage of the General Government.

1856 election results for Prosecuting Attorney:
Frederick Bangs-1047
Joseph Kelso- 966