The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-08-04
Kentucky Election.

LOUISVILLE, Aug. This city and Jeffer-
son Co. give the Opposition ticket about j.
100 maj. Mallory (opp.) is elected to Con-
gress.
The returns from the interior are too mea-
gre for any conclusion.
As far as heard from in the Ashland Dis
trict the vote is close. In the Fifth District
Brown, Regular, probably elected over jew
EFT, Independent.
Meagre returns from Second District show
a large Opposition gain. Mallory has 800
over Hope. !,
In omestea Rill--Dodge and Cubn.
1t will be recollected that during the last
Congress an effort was made to pass an act
giving to each settler l60 acres of land. 1t
will also be recollected by those conversant
with the proceedings that the defeat OF the
measure was owing to a Democratic Senate
being arrayed against it almost to man,
Senator Jones, of Iowa, not being an ex-
ception. In the House, where the bill passed,
| out of 100 votes in favor of it, but bare 81
Democrats were found voting for it, and
some of them are now out Of the party. The
States that are most thoroughly Democratic
voted almost unanimo usly against it-thir-
teen Of them that went for Buchanan giving
only two votes for it. The Republican vote,
with solitary exception, was given for the
bill. In view of these facts, how perfectly
ridiculous does it appear in the Iowa De-
mocracy to resolve, in State Convention
that the party is in favor OF Homestead
! Bill!
) Further-it will be recolected that tn,
vote in the Senate against considering TIT
Homestead Bill was also vote in favor o.
taking up the Cuba Bill. Jones gave thu
Cuba Bill the preference. And Dodge, in {
letter in the National Intelligencer of the q
ult., regrets that the Sldell bill, placing
$3O, O0O, 900 at the disposal of the Presiden
for the purchase of Cuba, failed to pass
? He endorses the Presidents policy; thinks i
i. wise and judicious. Here are Dodge ant
!, Jones, the head and front--or the head ant
tail-of the Iowa Democracy endorsing TIL
. President; in favor Of placing large cor
: ruption fund in his hands, to bride some per
q son or persons to buy or steal Cuba for US
. Just $50, 000, 900 to negotiate a purch as
which would require the proceeds OF abou
: 100000 acres of the public lands
8 mere triHing sum And yet this Democratic
r Administration thinks it very unwise and in
III expedient to give the settlers Of the oountr.
!. f6O acres Of the unoccupied land, each, TO
= q Homestead. Millions for the purpose 0
. strengthening and increasing slavery, but no
9 a cent for the poor white men or the coun
y try.
: Dodge and Jones does the Iowa De
mocracy endorse them? II endorses Jones
but the people repudated him, and the Pres
II ident mercifully took him out of their reach
i Dodge is now the standard bearer of th
party in the State. He is intimately asso
> ciated with the very measures that cause
& the overthrow of the party, not only in Iowa
y bat throughout almost the entire North. An
II the only reason, probably, of his being pu
II forward at the present time is because he ca
better afford to be defeated than any othe
y man amongst them. The party can have n
hope of success.
t, In the nomination of Dodge, the Conver
"a ton endorsed Buchanan, with his Cuba an
Kansas policy. And we think it also fa
: to include the bred Scott decision and tt
y action Of the party in Congress in oppos
e ton to the Homestead Bill Keosauqu
). Republican.