Burlington Tri Weekly Hawk Eye

Tri-Weekly Hawk-Eye.

BURLINGTON, IOWA:
Wednesday Evening,

"Common Justice!"

We were reluctantly drawn, by the reception of favors from correspondents, into a very few words in reference to Mayor Hudson and his management of the late celebration. We then said that we did not approve of any discussion of the matter through the public prints, not because we lacked the nerve or the requisite materials out of which to manufacture a nice quarrel, but because all the facts were well understood here, and their publication could only scandalize our city. But the Gazette meets our forbearance with nearly half a column of controversial matter—shows an evident anxiety to "pitch in," and courts a controversy.

It is but justice to ourselves to say that from the first we have been disposed to be lenient and forbearing towards his Honor. When he took possession and control of the whole business from the invitation of the guests to the inspection of the wine, we knew he had an opportunity of redeeming himself and softening down much of the feeling that existed against him here. By discarding political and personal considerations, holding himself above petty animosities, he might have challenged the admiration and secured the universal good opinion of the town. Whether he has or has not done this we shall leave others to decide.

We disclaim anything like censure upon the various committees engaged in the celebration or upon the city fathers. We did not in what we before said and do not in what we now say, intend by direction or implication, to cast censure. The principal reason for dissatisfaction was the mode of distributing invitations for the Banquet and the Excursion. The omission of the Directors and officers of our Western Road and public spirited and enterprising men of Burlington, while tickets were tendered to and used by residents of foreign birth, who in some instances had not been in the city or State three months, was a matter to create dissatisfaction. Old citizens feel indignant that the courtesy of the Railroad Company should be thus abused.

In speaking to this subject the Gate City has the following:

The Mayor of Burlington had neither the "horse sense," nor the "sense of decency" to invite the directors of their own Western Railroad to participate in the festivities of the recent Railroad Celebration at that place; and therefore the officers of the Keokuk Railroad and the editors of our City have no special ground of complaint that they were not "honored" with an invitation.