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Fairfield, Iowa "Weekly Journal"
Jefferson County, Iowa
Vol. VII, Issue 2
transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall

Friday Facts. (Page 1)
  --John COLETT, of Atchison, Kansas, is here.
  --J. F. KILLEIR, of Durango, Colorado, was in the city to-day.
  --Charles T. DAVIS and Frank WHITIMORE, of St. Louis, were in the city to-day.
  --Hon. John H. CRAIG, of Keokuk, is in the city to-day. He speaks to-night presenting democratic issues.
  --The independent republicans of Chicago filled Music hall to overflowing, last night, to listen to addresses by Franklin MadVEAGH, Wirt DEXTER, and E. G. MASON.
  --Colonel J. G. O'NELL, who commanded a Tennessee regiment in the rebellion and was a leader in the Fenian raid into Canada died in Galveston, yesterday, of hemorrhage of the lungs.
  --The postmaster general has arranged with the Illinois Central road to use a fast mail train from Clinton to Springfield, and to shorten the time to New Orleans one hundred minutes.
  --When you go to the polls next Tuesday don't forget to plump a vote square for Hon. John S. WOOLSON for Congress. He will make one of the most creditable representatives our district has ever had.
  --The vice presidents of the Baltimore and Ohio road have failed to negotiate a renewal of the lease of the Illinois Central tracks for an entrance to Chicago and ajectment proceedings are threatened after Saturday next.
  --Near Long Creek, Oregon, Tuesday, a party of whites stole upon a band of Indians and shot and killed two braves. The feeling against the aborigines is intense among the whites, and an Indian outbreak is threatened.
  --Senator WILSON was in town today and after paying his respects to Postmaster General HATTON, held a reception in the postoffice parlors, where a few of the faithful met the Credit Mobelier states man.--Burlington Gazette.
  --The Woman's Home Missionary Society began its fifth annual meeting yesterday at Boston, an increase in finances and in number of missionaries being reported. The old board was re-elected, and Mrs. C.R. BLISS, of Chicago, was added to the vice-presidents.
  --At Reading, Pa., yesterday, a locomotive and two cars jumped the track and fell through a trestle, the engine tumbling upon the Reading Iron works boiler house and demolishing it. Two persons were hurt, and travel was delayed.
  --Hon. John S. WOOLSON, the next representative in Congress from this district, was in the city today. He spoke at Abingdon last night, and this afternoon speaks at Pleasant Plain. This evening he will address an immense audience at Washington.

Saturday Sayings. (Page 1)
  --Vote for John S. WOOLSON.
  --J. A. BUCKNER, Davenport, is in the city.
  --W. S. CHASE, of Chicago, is in the city.
  --S. W. BRAMHALL, of Burlington, is in the city.
  --Charles F. KRUSE, of Cincinnati, was here to-day.
  --The Rock Island sold 226 tickets to Washington last night.
  --Freights 25 and 26 on the "Q" have changed time. See time card.
  --Miss Dora McVAY, of Danville, is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Lou THOMA.
  --Last night was hallow'een. We guess the boys were so much interested in politics that they forgot the day and date.
  --Oscar H. HERRING, of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C. came home last evening to spend a few days vacation and vote.
  --Capt. BURGESS had good meetings throughout the county, and his speeches are highly spoken of by those who heard them.--Mt. Pleasant Journal.
  --At Washington last night and on the train coming over, we observed that the cheering was louder and more earnest, and the enthusiasm greater for the Hon. John S. WOOLSON than it was for the Plumed Knight.
  --Prominent politicians from Louisa county, who generally know whereof they affirm, told us at Washington last night that Hon. John S. WOOLSON would have nine hundred majority in Louisa county. And the best posted politicians in Washington say that his majority in that county will be at least six hundred.
  --There were very nearly three hundred people from here in attendance at the grand republican meeting at Washington yesterday and last night. The C. B. & Q. Band and the Plumed Knights went over, and the "Silk Hat Brigade," which attracted so much attention, numbered nearly one hundred. Washington promises to return Fairfield's call next Monday, and go us one better.
  --The story that the Tribune gave yesterday that Senator WILSON was in Keokuk fixing up to bulldoze the democrats of that city to vote for WOOLSON, was incorrect. Senator WILSON (whom we don't love even as well as the Tribune does) was in Washington all day yesterday and last night, and consequently could not have been in Keokuk. We don't think Mr. McELROY meant to misrepresent matters, but he was evidently imposed upon. And the statement that Mr. WOOLSON will not be here Monday is also incorrect. Mr. WOOLSON will be here as advertised, and don't any of you neglect to make a note of it.
  --The Mt. Pleasant Free Press (democratic) on the 11th of September, speaking of the noumiuations (sic) of HALL and WOOLSON, said: "Mr. HALL and Mr. WOOLSON are too well known to the people of Henry county as able, upright and reliable men to need any extended notice from us. They are both worthy sons of worthy sires, and are to the manor born. Both respected and trusted citizens of the cities in which they reside. Both have honorably served their constituents as state senators, and each has gained a state wide reputation as an able and judicious legisletor." Now the same sheet cannot say anything too mean and filthy of Mr. WOOLSON. "O, consistency thou art a jewel."

CITY COUNCIL. (Page 1)
Regular Meeting of the City Council of Fairfield, Iowa
[By Authority]
Council chamber, Oct. 30, 1884.
  The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
  It was resolved to reduce the salaries and per diem of the Trustees.
  The following bills were allowed by a vote of the Council:
M. ROBINSON, night police ............................................$30.00
R. H. MOORE, printing proceedings and ordinances....$24.95
Judson HIGLEY, street commissioner one month .........$40.00
John MOLLER, running electric light for one month ..$60.00
T. T. HARRIS, marshal .....................................................$30.00
On motion the council adjourned till Friday evening, November 15th, at 7 P.M.
            T.F. HIGLEY, City Clerk.

Monday Melange. (Page 1)
  --Vote for WOOLSON to-morrow.
  --The town will be painted red tonight.
  --To-morrow and the great agony will be over.
  --The "ruling passion" was strong in the rain to-day.
  --D. WITKOWAKY, Jr., of Chicago, was in the city yesterday.
  --Hon. M. M. WALDEN, of the Albia Union, was in the city to-day.
  --Hon. John S. WOOLSON spoke to a good sized audience in the park this morning at ten o'clock. He speaks at Keokuk to-night.
  --Every good citizen, who has the best interests of the first congressional District at heart, will cast his ballot for Hon. John S. WOOLSON.
  --We are having trouble getting reliable boys to deliver our papers, and have been obliged of late to put a number of them in the postoffice. We trust our readers will bear with us until we can get reliable boys.
  --Look out for night before election roorbacks. Don't be bulldozed or chizzled out of voting for the person you desire to support. Assert your independence. Drop a vote for WOOLSON and you will never regret it.
  --We make the prediction for to-morrow the Grover CLEVELAND will be elected President and John S. WOOLSON member of Congress from this district. We have always made it a rule never to say anything we cannot prove or take back.
  --A vote for Hon. John S. WOOLSON for Member of congress in this district, will be a vote for the faithful and honest administration of the affairs of the district. Mr. WOOLSON will make a representative of which his constuents will ever be proud.
  --A very pleasant surprise tea party was given Saturday evening by Miss Myra McCOY, in honor of the birthday of her aunt, Mrs. Joseph McCOY, at her residence. It was very ingeniously arranged to be a complete surprise. The girls sent Mrs. McCOY over to Mrs. J. P. GAGE's, telling her that Mrs. GAGE was not feeling well and desired her to spend the day. When she returned she was almost overcome with surprise and emotion,--the house full of company and tables loaded with the best things the market affords. Among those invited and present were Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah MESSENGER, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. MURRAY, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. RISK, Mr. and Mrs. Perry KING, Mr. and Mrs. L. PETTY, Mr. and Mrs. RICKETS, Clint PRICE of Indianola, Mrs. J. P. GAGE, Mrs. INGALLS and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. MOORE. There were a number of handsome and useful presents left for Mrs. McCoy, among which we noticed an elegant silver tea service and a dozen knives and forks from Miss Myra to her aunt. With Miss Myra and Miss Myrtle devoted, with their uncle and aunt, to the entertainment of their privileged guests, nothing is wanting to the success of a social evening. The girls seem to have mastered the total depravity of inanimate things in the culinary department as the choice selection of "creature comforts" well attested. Among the good things of Fairfield we shall always count the tea parties. May their number never grow less.

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
  --We will know all about it to-morrow.
  --C. W. JACKSON, of Galesburg, was here yesterday.
  --Bets were freely offered today with no takers that New York would go for CLEVELAND.
  --We estimate that Hon. Jonn S. WOOLSON will be elected by at least five hundred majority.
  --Mrs. George DOWNS and Mrs. CARMICHAEL, of Brighton, are visiting with Mrs. Capt. BURGESS.
  --A democratic meeting was held at the court house last night, and was addressed by Hon P. G. BALLINGALL, of Ottumwa, and C. E. STUBBS, of this city.
  --That veteran democratic war-horse, Hon M. M. BLEAKMORE, who has been sojourning for some time in Van Buren county, came home last night to vote.
  --The election is progressing very quietly, and a full vote will be polled. Jefferson county will give John S. WOOLSON six hundred majority. Mark the prediction.
  --At the time of going to press there were 968 votes polled here. We understand 1020 is the largest vote ever polled in this township. It looks very much as though our vote would go over 1,200.
  --Just as we go to press we learn that a fire broke out in the residence occupied by Robert CLINKENBEARD, near Mr. TEMPLETON's elevator, and that the house and most of its contents were consumed. We could not learn any further particulars.
  --The republican meetings here yesterday and last night were the largest and most enthusiastic of the campaign. There must have been ten thousand people here. Washington sent over about three hundred, and about two hundred from Libertyville were in attendance. Hon. John S. WOOLSON spoke in the park in the forenoon. In the evening, at the opera house short addresses were made by Hon. M. A. McCOID, Rev. WILLIAMS of Washington, Prof. J. R. WILSON of Parsons College, Capt. T. J. HYSHAM, W. G. ROSS, John M. GALVIN, J. M. HINKLE, Chas. D. LEGGETT, C. D. THOMA, J. S. McKEMEY, S. J. CHESTER and others. Capt. W. T. BURGESS held forth at the rink.

A Letter from Mr. CLEVELAND. (Page 8)
  As is well known the editor of THE JOURNAL has been opposed to the election of Mr. BLAINE, but we have not cared to use the columns of this paper, the majority of the patrons of which differ from us, to the furtherance of our private opinion. Nor did we make up our mind to vote for Mr. CLEVELAND until the 25th of this month. The BLAINE campaign has been conducted so much on the principle of filth and indecency, that we resolved on that day to cast our vote for Grover CLEVELAND. We were sitting at our desk at the time we made up our mind, and before us lay a block of our note-heads. "We took our pen in hand," as the love-sick swain would say, and dashed off a few lines to the great Governor of New York. We told him that we had made up our mind to vote for him, but that we presumed one vote among fifty millions of people, in a State that was sure to go against him, was of very small consequence; yet that was the way we felt, and we had pleasure in communicating the fact to him. We knew that his volume of correspondence as governor of a great State must, of necessity, be enormous, and his personal correspondence as the chosen leader of a great political party, very large. For these reasons we did not ask for, nor did we even dream of a reply. Mr. CLEVELAND has been absent from Albany during the last fortnight, trying to outdo Mr. BLAINE in the "circus" business in New York. Appearances indicate that he has been successful and that the great State will give its reform governor its electoral vote, thus making his calling and election sure. On Friday morning he arrived home from his trip through Connecticut, and on the same day took time, amidst his arduous duties, perplexing cares and great anxiety, to acknowledge the receipt of our letter. The letter, in its entirely, is written by the Governor himself, and shows that he feels keenly the terrible methods used for his defeat. He writes as follows:
        EXECUTIVE MANSION,
         Albany, Oct. 31, 1884.
R. H. MOORE--My Dear Sir: I thank you for your kind letter of the 25th. This has been a horrible campaign, and there have been lies enough told to sa tisfy the needs of mendacity in the nation for all time. Thanking you for your comforting tender of support, I am
        Yours Very Truly,
                Grover CLEVELAND

Wednesday Wanderings. (Page 8)
  --"I told you so."--McCOID.
  --A. G. HAGUE, of Libertyville was in the city to-day trying to get some comfort out of the returns.
  --GARFIELD, without a plume, carried Jefferson county by 750. The Plumed Knight is obliged is obliged to accept 321.
  --327 majority for BLAINE in 1884 against 750 for GARFIELD in 1880 don't speak well for Mr. BLAINE's managers in this county.
  --BLAINE's majority in this county is less than 225. GARFIELD four years ago carried the county by 750. Evidently under the management of such bosses as the WILSONs and the JUNKINS the old time republican majorities are a thing of the past.
  --Mr. WOOLSON's small majority is largely due to the influence the prohibition question has had on the republican vote. WILSON's pet prohibition project has cost Iowa half of her congressional representation. And it will finally cost the republican party the state.
  --List of letters remaining in the postoffice in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, Nov. 4th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster: Frank ABBOTT, W. H. COPELAND, Callie E. BEANS, Mrs. FITZPATRICK, Mrs. H. A. DuBOISE, T. D. JAMES, H. W. STRINGER, John THOMAS, Mrs. Sarah A. L. WRIGHT, ULM & VANCE.
  --Died, at his residence in Abingdon, Iowa, after a protracted illness, Nov. 1st, 1884, Charles H. McCULLOCH, aged 62 years, 1 month and 26 days. He has been a resident of Jefferson county thirty-nine years, and by his upright deportment and correct business life, he has made many friends. His funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Banner MARK, Nov. 2, to a large audience of old neighbors, relatives and friends. He leaves a wife, four children and many relatives and friends to mourn his loss. But they sorrow as those that have no hope, for having sought and found the Savior, he died in great peace. J. G. T.

THE ELECTIONS. (Page 8)
The presidential election yesterday in the nation was one of the most hotly contested national contests in the history of political parties, yet it seems to have passed off quietly in all parts of the United States. As to whether Mr. BLAINE or Mr. CLEVELAND were yesterday elected is still an unsettled problem. The probabilities are that Mr. BLAINE is elected. At both headquarters they are claiming the election of their presidential candidate.
  In this district Hon. John S. WOOLSON is surely elected by about 200 majority, although the democrats are claiming Mr. HALL's election by about 100. Mr. WOOLSON's figures are, as given us by telephone: For HALL, Des Moines 1510, Lee 617; total 2127. For WOOLSON, Henry 612, Louisa 695, Jefferson 331, Washington 386, Van Buren 200; total 2224, making WOOLSON's majority 97.
  In this county a fuller vote was polled than ever before, and the republican county, state, congressional and national tickets were elected by majorities ranging from 321 to 331, Mr. BLAINE only receiving 321. Four years ago Mr. GARFIELD carried the county by 750. This don't augur well for the republican management. The people getting sicker and sicker with bosses and boss rule from year to year.

  --The bosses were not pleased with the nomination of Mr. WOOLSON, yet he ran 28 ahead of the Plumed Knight, the candidate they were pleased with.

The Election. (Page 8)
  Of the presidential election the Chicago Herald (independent) this morning has the following:
  As The Herald goes to press with this edition the result of the Presidential election of Tuesday is still in doubt. Everything depends upon New York state, where the vote cast for the BLAINE and CLEVELAND electors is so close that the official canvass will doubtless be necessary to determine the choice with anything like satisfaction to anyone. The indications are that the plurality for the winning ticket will not much exceed 1,000 votes. Both sides claim the state and will doubtless continue to do so until the official count is made.
  As New York goes so the Presidency will go. CLEVELAND has carried Connecticut by about 1,000 and New Jersey by about 4,000. This is not disputed. The 15 votes of these states, added to the 153 from the South and the 36 from New York, give CLEVELAND 204, or three more than are required.
  The Republicans have not succeeded in carrying such states and would make it impossible for CLEVELAND to win with New York. Though they claimed Virginia, the latest and most trustworthy accounts are that the South is solid. As to Indiana there is grave doubts, with changes favoring the Republicans, but Indiana and without New York CLEVELAND cannot win. The Democrats have had hopes of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nevada, and California, but these states have all chosen Republican electors. The contest thus narrows to New York, with a paltry thousand or two ballots marking the advantage of one party over another for supremacy in the nation.
  The latest and most reliable accounts from New York are that CLEVELAND'S chances are good for a plurality of from 1,000 to 2,000.
Later--2 p.m.--We just had a telephone talk with Mr. HUTCHINSON, of the Burlington Gazette. He says 1847 precincts, outside of New York and Brooklyn have been heard from, which figuring in the two great cities, give CLEVELAND a plurality of 1,000. He says from private advices received, the state is conceded to CLEVELAND by about 4,000.

Thursday Transpirings. (Page 8)
  --A. B. OGDEN, Denver, is in the city.
  --W. H. CHESTER, New York, is here.
  --Are we to have a repetition of the contest of 1876?
  --Ed H. LANE, of Cleveland, O., was here yesterday.
  --Jefferson county has too many mugwumps for comfort.
  --Mr. WOOLSON ran 28 votes ahead of BLAINE in this county.
  --As the election is now over let us pay our foolish bets and go our way.
  --The next republican campaign will not be one of slander. Stick a pin there.
  --If the republicans had nominated ARTHUR the contest would not now be in doubt.
  --The dude, the pharisee and the mugwump were important factors in this campaign.
  --Do you still think that BLAINE is the strongest candidate that could have been nominated?
  --Mr. WOOLSON's vote in this county was 2,015; Mr. HALL's 1,707, leaving majority of 308 for Mr. WOOLSON.
  --Hon. James B. WEAVER is defeated for congress by a majority of 56. This isn't a very good year for majorities.
  --Mr. SIPPEL received a majority of 160 more than the man with a plume in this county. Charley got the mugwumps.
  --Another campaign such as just closed by those played out political bosses, the WILSONS and the JUNKINS, will produce enough mugwumps to give this county to the democrats.
  --Joseph LYMAN is elected to Congress in the ninth district over W. H. M. PUSEY, the present incumbent. Thus have the republicans of the ninth redeemed themselves.
  --The sturdy republicans of Jefferson county will now doubtless awake to a realization of the fact that the sooner they bounce their political bosses the better it will be for the party in the county.
  --The Washington Press, in its headlines, says "We crow while we can, anyhow." That is about the principle of the BLAINE press. CLEVELAND is elected, and they might just as well admit it first as last.
  --GARFIELD's majority in Jefferson county was 750. BLAINE's majority is 283. From this it would seem that our woods are full of mugwumps. The campaign of slander and indency injured their candidate.
  --The Chicago Herald has a telegram of the 5th from Augusta, that Mr. BLAINE took dangerously ill at his home yesterday morning after securing the returns during the night. His family physician was at once summoned, and he ordered perfect quiet for Mr. BLAINE.
  --The total vote in Jefferson county for President gives BLAINE 1,987 and CLEVELAND 1,704. In Fairfield township BLAINE received 621 and CLEVELAND 448, making 283 majority. In the townships outside of Fairfield the great magnetic man has but 110 majority.
  --It was a mistake that one of the political bosses in this county was intoxicated at Washington the other night and during the pow-wow in this city election eve. He is a teetotaler (?) and don't drink, yet he was as crazy as Guiteau all the same, and just as dangerous.
  --We notice by the Davenport Gazette that Miss Florence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. KECK, well known as former residents of this city, was married at the KECK mansion in Davenport, Wednesday evening to Mr. Stephen W. HOOVER, of Rock Island. The affair was a brilliant one, and the presents numerous and costly, as well as elegant and useful.
  --It is idle to say now even that Mr. McCOID would have been a stronger candidate that Mr. WOOLSON. Mr. McCOID couldn't have carried this county at all, would have fallen behind Mr. WOOLSON's vote in all the counties of the district. In Des Moines county as against Mr. McCOID, Mr. HALL'S majority would have been 2,500. Mr. McCOID would have been beaten at least 1,500.