The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-02-28

Our most venerable neighbor Of the
OeMocrat yesterday morning in search OF
political game, got entirely on the wrong
sceat He had understood some excitement
existed among the Germans relative to u
qaor act, and as he and his party are border
ing on poii,,csl lnsaatty telst,ve 10 the loss
Ut the Gcrmsn vote In this State, our good
neighbor taeuehi he could gam isvor BY
pitching into The Particular liquor act. Unit
fortunately, he entirely mtsioak the sci 10
which such serisus objection is made, AMI
made furious onslaught on The License
Law. The Germaaa do not Ike The License
Law, but ~ thy knew they had the choice
between II aud The dead letter Maine Law
hey have net hcen at oil disturbed by the
License Act. Bat cur nesh6or aud al
Democrats snould recolieet, that in abuslng
The License Law they are condemaine
their own progeny -that which they eooagh
into the ~vrld, nursed into strength, and Of
tered TO the people Of lows as something
,nsaiiely better than all other liquor laws,
and prssminently calculated 10 llesse tn
people. This License Bal y as introduced
INTO the Legislature BY Democrat. it was
sustained BY Democrats, aud not I'LL the
last moment ~hcn they found that whal
they in'ended - party trick, to be used
70 cass the Republicans refused to vote fol
the bill - an elsctioneering hobby. wa
likely to asss, did any Of the Democracy
oppose IL, But their votes helped make the
Law, aGd wthou, their votes il could nc
have become law. As many Republican
opposed H. Our Iowa City correspondent
thus wrote about the passage of this law a
| the time, and his statements were not con
| tradic,ed here nor 81 the Capital. We max
the following extract from his letter dates
the 24th Of last January:
"The license bill was framed by ;eoud b
leading Democrat efthe House. lis prov
sions were made by him Intentionally stria
rent, that alter its defeat they might pom
70 it's perfection and tell the Republicans u
ace their cad havoc. When il became evi
dent tina. The bill would pass. il was ANU
| sing to see the Democrats" down" iron
| their lofty positions. Provisions which the,
| had lauded 10 the skies al once became od
Gus, and the poor fellows begged Ike whip
ped dogs TO modify their own osiI! On It's
third reading, after i was too late toamend
hey fairly besought the PERMISSION 10 q
amendments 20 "plaee themselves right ot
The record And " hen il became evident
that they could not carry their own party II
body 10 lie support, they we're the ~ors
vanQuished set oi men that ever beheld -
| Utterly confused leadng Democrat Offer
I'd an amendment which was adopted, pro
sidng that in those Counties where the II
eense la9 shali M, b adopted by a vote D
the people, the Maine Law shall be il
rec, thus en- iorsipg that measure which
hey have - O ten pronounced uncoasti II
tionsl LIS, Monday the Democratic Stat,
| Convention mandsd The Pfuhibtd tory L,s
to-day the ID .tnprrats oi the III pu,s "t Rep
| re.enra,ises ehdo,s il in those couu,ie,
| where the license law shall not be adopted
They NOW have stiHg n license laN
| which their ua n frisnis II not thank then
or, ard Their % aieai ,ahy 10 gone. fRu
= their eec5nd experience in -'dangitng up
on the galinss ~nleh they nad erected ~
some poor M3rdecaI."