Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22


A Few Facts.
We are not in the habit of sounding
our own praises or Of Dragging of the
amount Of labor we do for the Demo
cratic party. 1t is our good fortune
TO reflects the sentiments Of our party
so clearly, and to advocate its princi-
plea 80 we'll that the Democracy real
ICES the value Of our services, and
stamps our executions with the seal OF
its approval. Not so is it with our
poor neighbor, the Gazette. The ex-
perience of the last Presidential cam
paign taught the Republican leaders
that they would expect nothing from
that feeble and insipid sheet. They
accordingly looked round for an Editor
to take charge Of aew paper which
they proposed establishing, but so
scanty was the material among the
piles Of human timber in their party
that they we're unable TO find man
to whom they dared entrust the man
agsment Of an organ. The Gazette felt
keenly the contempt which its party
entertained for it, and from that time
it has pursued persistent cause OF self
laudation, or more properly speaking
b'o~'ng, hoping by frequent repetition
10 make the Republicans believe that
1t really WAS "de la merie au baton" az
ter oil. 1t claims the credit of "ovcr-
throwing" the Democracy Of this coun-
ty, and says that the Democrat has in
jured its party. Let us see which has
done the most within the past year, the
Gazette or ourselves. All the abilities
which the Gazette possesses were de
voted to this one object above all 9th
ers-the reelection of Nicholas J.
Rusch. Not solitary number Of that
journal appeared during the late can
vass which did not applaud the match
less talents and urge the superior claims
ofthat beer drinking legislator. What
did oil its fnlsome encomiums amount
to? Rusch ran behind his ticket in
every town in the county, and even re-
ceived fifteen votes less than Fremont.
Notwithstanding the large increase of
population since last fall That is the
way IN which the Gazette shows its
influence. Now, look at the influence
OF the Democrat. Last November the
Democracy pollcd but l,lI9 votes !;
last week, they poIlcd l,4oo. votes, a
gain Of 800 in the past year Figures
cannot lie; if the increase of votes
proves the influence of a journal, which
is the most influential in this county.
the Democrat or the Gazette! The
Democrat wont boast 1t only points
to the figures. Now, one word res
pecting the Kansas election. We have
compelled the Gazette to Withdraw the
charge that We claimed the election Of
Parrot as n Democratic victory, and
driven it to despisable attempt at
pettiiogging. 1t now admits that we
made no such claim rs it had imputed
to us, but says we meant 10 inSinuah
that the Democracy had triumphcd in
Kansas Every one save brilian,
luminary like the Gazette would sup
pose that We meant what we said. That
would be honest, but honesty in the
expression Of opinions the Gazette is
utterly unable TO understand. For
every statement VIC made in relation
to the Democracy, Parrot and Ran
som we have the very highest author
ity. That Ransom was Free Soiler,
the Gazette does not deny; that Parrot
was an adv scate Of the Nebraska bill,
it docs not dispute that many Of the
Democracy voted for Parrot is vouch-
ed for by the New York Times, a
Black Republican sheet, and by many
other sources equally authentic. We
gave the reason why SO many Demo
Gratis voted for Parrot; it was this,
the success Of the Black Republican
ticket in Kansas would stop the howl
ing over her "bleeding wounds" and
wipe the black republican party out of
existence. That such would be the et-
feet is proven by the recent elections
in California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Iowa. Had Kansas continued to fur
nish capital for Black Republican spec
ulatorA does any man suppose that
the Republican majority in Ohio would
have dwindled from sixty thousand to
one thousand that the Democracy
would have gained nearly six thousand
in Iowa in one year that Pcnnsylva-
MIA would have rolled up her sixty
thousand for Packer Kansas, Bleed
ing Kansas was all the Republican par
ty had or has to support it, and by the
we'll directed stratagem Of giving the
Republicans an ostentible victory in
that territory, the Democracy has
given Black Republicanism its death
We repeat that is the reason why the
Democracy voted for Parrot. No man
will suppose that they intended there
BY to sanction the hypocrisy, the cor.
ruption and the shames of the wretch.
ed faction which he represented. They
raised the Black Republicans high in
the air that they might give them a
fatal fall. Such are the facts and W.
challenge any Black Renphl;cor o.