Not That Kind of Patriots

A delegate from Iowa offered a resolution in the Cleveland Convention of factionists, to the effect that the delegates there in attendance shall pledge themselves to accept or hold no army contracts, and no office of trust, honor, or profit under the Government, during the next Presidential term. It was a good test of their vaunted disinterested patriotism and love of liberty, and the result was significant. They smothered the resolution of the patriotic gentleman from Iowa instanter [sic]. A convention of men who have been seeking offices and fat contracts, and who are opposing the present Administration because they didn’t get the offices and contracts they sought would be the very last to take such a pledge. It is offices and contracts they are after and nothing else. [Chicago Journal.

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, June 18, 1864