The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-04-12


Oh Democratic influence, 10 now breaking
forth to gil the general atmosphere with its
stencil. The Democratic STANDARD Of Knox
vile pitches into the leaders Of the party in
that county, and especially into our old WHO
FRIEND, who has been doing IN extensive
banking business on the Eads' school fund
loan. We never could do Justice to our
quondam Wing friend, and cannot, therefore,
but feel grateful to the Democratic Standard
for the following graphic pom sketch Of this
now burly leader of Looofocoism
Then a. to who We mean, when We say
there 10 selfish, covetous and unprincipled
CLIQUE in our party, We mean Neol,-Jarius
e. Neal, that prince OF political demagogues
and pirate upon private morals, and his hire
linos, let lose to prey on honest people at his
bidding. He, and his equally selfish and am
bilious confederates, are the men who make
up and compose the clique. That man, who,
. few years ago, came here oil covered, rolled
in and saturated with abelitionism,-fou
sinking Giddingtonian abolitionism, --is the
leader Of the faction to which We allude, and
who has heretofore, and 10 now, engaged in
reading men out Of the party, who have new
Ct spoke, acted or voted with any other than
the Democratic party all their lives, because
they viii not pandcr and truckle to his polit-
icAliy low-bred and unprincipled desires
He has talked against US, ard acted against
ne, because We would not stoop to become
his mouth piece and organ, and parade him
and his acts before the world ~ something
wonderful and Herculean- like. For not do
ing this We have fallen under his displeas-
ure, and his dogs have been let lose upon US,
and heralded over the county that We are
anti Democratic in principle, and conducting
paper detrimental to the best interest OF
tho Democracy Of Marion county. Whenever
an opportunity has been presented, We have
paid that attention to his talent and efforts
that We thought justly due, and took pleas
ure in doing so, but We did not consider j.
our duty 70 s.puff and Blow him every week,
however necessary his friends may have oOn-
sidersd it. We know be 10 greedy for Office,
and that he has grasped for it with tho avid
| tty Of . glutton, and an unholy consciousness,
bat still We do not believe that he 10 Justified
in thinking that party organizations and par
~ presses weae established TO advance bis
interests alone, regardless Of those Of other
men. We have no confidence in him moral
~ or politically. As . man, he 10 turbulent.
1
void Of respect for his companions, and nc
affection for the party Of which be claims to
be part. He 10 ambitious, and solely actu-
ated BY the desire Of lucre, and whom this il
placed out of his reach, always ready to re-
vol. We know him. We have studied him
and re- perused him time and again. He il
factious and politically licentious; criminal
in his partisan ways, and tyrannical in his
opinions. Dishonest in every particular, en-
vious a. . Carthagenian and false ~ . Tar
tar.
In 1857, when the Neal clique was weak
and had no more to say than other men about
political matters, the campaigns were plan
ned and fought on principle. Wethen boast
cd OF 90 average majority OF three hundred
and fifty. In 1853, when the Neal clique had
exclusive control, and planned the battle on
some miserable side issue, our majority is
| reduced to an average Of one hundred -
Neal had comparatively no influence then,
and now he and bis tools control the party.
His influence is not confined to the narrow
limits ~ his Office, but extends even 40 far as
the Court House, where he can control mat
tiers and things to suit himself, and as he
used to do under the old Administration. -
| Then he commanded the treasury, and assist
ed, ~ We verify believe, in robbing the peo-
i pie, and now the treasury 10 empty and
SCORES OF outstanding warrants unpaid
The old treasurer proved default in the sum
Of $4,000, and Neal's banking books sho~
| deposits to nearly that amount from this sell
same thief. We do not say he took the mon
~, but We do say that If man, holding q
post OF honor, will knowingly and willingly
appropriate, out of the public treasury, mile.
age for six hundred and eighty-seven mile,
when be has TO travel but one hundred ant
twenty at the farthest, unlawfully Above,
him, IL none too good to take and use none,
stolen from the honest taxpayers of Mariol
county.
After that blast, we take it that Neal stand
rather slim chance for Supreme Judge
ship, for which position he has been regard
. ing himself US peculiarly qualified.
CO Buchanan and the Northern advocate
OF the acquisition Of Cuba urge the mcasur
on the ground that the possession Of Cuba b
the United States will put an end to the Al
rican slave trade. 1t is somewhat singula,
in view Of this fact, that every friend OF th
: African slave trade project is . jealous sur
| porter Of the scheme for the purchase 4
Cuba.
{ IL good, clever, honest old Buchanan d.
. ceived, or is he simply trying to pull the wo,
over the eyes OF Northern Democrats?