Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-07-22

trade, and an Office seeker by practice,
but unfortunately for its candidate, he
10 too we'll known - money broker
and professional politician, to be
palmed of Is . supplemented tiller Of
the soil. The lions skin with which
the Republican attempts to cover him,
does not conceal the length Of his
ears, nor the well defined outline of
another part of his person. The Re
publican is perfectly we'll aware that
We did not say one word in disparage-
ment Of the neat but simple habili-
ments of our farmers; what We COM
planned of was not that kirkwood was
clothed like farmer, but that he was
dressed like . loafer-we say dressed
like q loafer, for we believe he takes
especial pains to fix himself up in the
dirty style in which be appeared be-
fore the people Of Davenport. Had
he been in the plain but substantial
dress Of an Iowa Farmer-we who
sprang from the soil ourselves,and who
have worn Kentucky jean an home
spun for many vear-would have
been the last to note or censure the
simplicity Of his attire; but when he
came to address the people Of a res
pectable city in dirty shirt, and with
four or five inches Of dirty leg protrud-
ing through used up pair Of short
pantaloons, and when the odor arising
from his sweaty carcass revealed that
his person was stranger to soap and
water-we deem it due the dignity of
our people to administer to him such
rebuke as his filthy habits deserved.
Indeed, the Republican admits the
Justice of our structures, for it does not
pretend to excuse Kirkwood's dirt and
etiIuvia-it lodges out charges, and
falsely, but Enthusiastically, says that
we complained because kirkwood ap-
peared "in a neat but plain farmers
dress"
1t bases its apology for Airkwood on
the ground that he was dressed "neat-
ly, but plainly" and admits hereby
that if he we're not dressed "neatly and
plainly, in farmers Dress it has no
defence to make for him. 1t does not,
however, venture to denythe correctness
of our description of his slovenly and
dirty costume; why then does it pre-
sumo to apologize for or defend him I!
When the Republican admits that
Kirkwood should have been dressed
clearly and properly, it admits all we
ever claimed. That he was net so
dressed and washed. is what every
body in Davenport. without regard to
politics, fully declares. 1t then be-
comes Kirkwood's duty to offer some
excuse for his filthy person and habil-
iments; but let him not presume, in
his own defense, to SANDER the farm
ers OF our State by saying that they
arc as dirty and odoriferous as he is.
We know they are no such thing No
class OF men understand the proprie-
ties of life better than our farmers, and
therefore, when they 90 to church, or
come to town to sit on juries, they al
ways have the the good sense to "slick
up little" They do so because they
want to show some respect for their
fellow men, aud observe the decencies
of civilized society. But kirkwood
reverses the whole thing, and when he
comes before the people to make a
speech, instead ofdoing as real farmers
do, like sham as he is, he overacts
his part, add saves all his worst clothes
to wear on public occasions. The Re.
publican men tell q story of Silas
Wright, which will serve our turn a
little better than it did theirs. They
say that Mr.. Van Buren, once called on
Silas Wright, at his home in St. Law
renee county, n. u, and found him at
work in the barnyard, and that Wright
and he sat down on dung-hill togeth-
er and talked for two hours. From
that they draw the conclusion, that
Wright was the right kind of man,
and a sound Democrat. We believe
Gov. Wright was all that, and more
ont ne was very different from Sam
kirkwood. When Silas Wright went
forth to address the people, did he 60
with his shirt tail ont and smelling like
apolecat! Never-there was no such
paltry bidding for votes about him.
lie never addressed the people but in
apparel at once neat, decent and be-
coming. He always, on public occa-
s'ons, looked the gentleman. In his
barnyard, he was plain farmer-on
the rostrum, he was a well-dressed
gentleman. How is it with Sam Kirk
wood--in his barnyard, be is sham
farmer and . mo ney shaver: in nnhl;c