Anti-Monopoly Party of Jackson County

GUILFOIL, FRANKS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 7/31/2009 at 16:21:46

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, August 20, 1874

Anti-Monopoly Party Convention

The first regular convention of the Anti-Monopoly Party of Jackson County at Andrew last Saturday, was the largest political convention held in the county, whether Republican or Democratic, no less than 123 ballots having been cast. It was chiefly remarkable, however, for the fact it embraced all the hitherto discordant elements of the opposition to the Republican Party. First and foremost was the old guard of the Democratic Party, who had carried the old flag to victory on many a hard fought field, especially in the last county campaign; next the remains of the “Farmers, Mechanics and Laborers’ Party,” which supported the third ticket last fall, and lastly the handful of Liberals who shook hands with the Democracy over the “bloody chasm,” and bathed lovingly together in the great “tidal wave” of 1872. Composed as it was, of such hitherto antagonistic elements, it is surprising that so much harmony should have existed throughout this convention, and argues well for still greater victories than the Democracy unaided have hitherto been able to secure.

The nominees of the convention are representatives of both Democratic and Liberal Parties, and we believe it is not disputed that they are both thoroughly qualified to perform all the duties of the respective offices for which they have been nominated. Mr. Guilfoil is a young man, a resident of Sabula, and by profession a lawyer. Although but little known outside of his own section of the country, yet he has the endorsement of his friends and neighbors as being all that the party of Reform requires of its candidates.

L. C. Franks, the nominee for Recorder, was for many years identified with the Republican Party, and is a German by birth. He has resided in Farmers Creek Township ever since he came to this country, we believe, and has held several township offices. We are not personally acquainted with him, but his own townsfolk speak of him in the terms of the highest commendation. Having always been identified with the temperance cause, in fact, being now the presiding officer of a lodge of Good Templars in Fulton, he should receive, as he deserves, the solid vote of the Temperance Party in the county. In that event, his success is assured.

The ticket is a good one, and should it receive the united vote of the new party, of which there seems little room to doubt, it cannot fail to be elected by a large majority.