The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-01-26
GAZETTE CORRESPONDENCE.
Iowa CITY, Jan. l4th, 1854.
Friend SASDERs:-

. Friend SAEDERs:-
The Democracy ar
in trouble-much in the same fix in regar
to the future success and prosperity of TIL
party as a man would be whose body wa
covered with the fuz Of cowhage-consMer
ably irritated. The same spirit which wa
SO strikingly manifested in their county con
vention, strongly tinctured the late Stat'
convention. The anti-Dodge faction wa
beyond all doubt in the ascendency and tht
bitter feeling engendered by the respective
factions was carried to very exciting pitch
The rupture which it caused will require a
stronger cohesive power than has ever be-
fore bound them together, to make them ac'
in concert.
After the nominations were made, and
the resolutions, as reported by the commit.
tee, appointed for that purpose, adopted
resolutions were offered commendatory OF
President Pierce and the present State Of
fcers. Immediately following these there
was one introduced Of a like character to our
U. s. Senators, and vote taken upon it
and evidently lost, but before it was fairly
dec ided by the President, motion was
made to lay it on the table, which, with
original motions, at the earnest, beseeching
request of the particular friends Of these
gentlemen, were withdrawn.-What is the
inference and how must Genls. Dodge and
Jones look upon these proceedings!
On the one hand Prest. Pierce and the
State officers are highly complimented,
while on the other there is nothing to show
that they were spoken of and in reality SO
left, because, had the assembled wisdom of
their party spoken out their true sentiments,
they would have been condemned.
The inference then is clearly, that they
have been weighed in the balance and found
which decision commends itself to
the common sense of every sensible man,
when he places these gentlemen beside the
brilliant stars Of America assembled in the
U. S. Senate. Their places could be filled
far more honorably to our growing and en-
terprisng State-and 50 It seems a good
portion OF the Democratic party think.
The nominations ofthe convention having
been brought about by s.ratagem and the
endeavor of this and that clique to gain
power, has wrought many OF the ilsappo'nt-
ed ones to perfect frenzy, and am satisfied
many of them would rejoice over the elee-
ton even of Wings to fill these respective
Offices. The man heading the list, Curtis
Bates, Ga man who thinks he never was in
toxcated but once land then caused by riding
over the bung hole of a whiskey barrel from
this city to Council BlnfsD cannot. judging
from the irritation NANTES ted by the friends
of the other candidates, unite the party
They think him stick and bass wood one
at that.
The gentleman nominated for Auditor.
Mr.. J. l.. Sharp, is the same person wha
took such highminded, enriabie course IN
our last legislature in reference to submit
ting the bill, entitled "a bill to suppress
drinking houses and tipping shops'-ma-
king splendid effort in its behalf, an effort
which was by both parties acknowledged to
be the best effort made for or against it,
Upon him every lover of good order, every
advocate of temperance looked as its true
friend, but they mistook their man. When
it came to voting, without expressing a
reason for so doing. he showed his true Po-
si,ion by rotiny 10 lay the bill on The tble, there
by hoping to throttle and virtually kA the
bill, without voting directly against it. LIN,
nedately after, upon Mr.. Haun's substitute
for the biIl-introduced for the purpose oil
killing the other-which, if passed, woult
permit any man to sell liquor by taking out
a license and paying to the county Judge
sum of from one to two hundred dollars
with this officeDand executing
a bond for 5000 that he would keep an or
lerly house (Which experience has proved t.
be impossible for any man to do), Shar!
yoted NO, and the same hour when the ques
ton was taken on engrossing the origna
bill for third reading, which would b
to its passage, this consistent gen
tleman voted against it-making it a tie vote
(3l TO 3I). The bill being lost, therefore,
by his vote, what have the temperance anc
men of the State to expect
from such a man! At one time making .
brilliant speech in favor Of temperance re-
form and the bill, at the next voting against
it. At one time voting against bill which
would meet the dram. .drinker and seller.
and, at the next, dashing to the ground the
hopes of the advocates of this cherished
measure, by voting against it, when his vote
would have saved the bill and when he hac
given every presumptiye evidence that he
would do so.
Sharp was beaten last spring in his own
district for Judge for this reason, and that
they never knew where to find him on any
subicct.-A district which was created
through his instrument ality and for his es-
pecial benefit, causing to that portion oil
the State from IL to Ii hundred dollars extra
expense.
This gentleman also voted against the
people of the State being allowed to call Il
State convention to alter the constitution
This act, as well as all his others, plainly
EI ,v,t he