The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-04

Inc Republicans or Iowa are getting to be
very fastidious for men who are willing to
put negroes on an equality with white people.
Ii appears the Democratic State Convention
of Iowa pat on the ticket, AS one Of the elec-
tors at large, farmer by the name of Henry
Clay Dean, citizen of unimpeachable in
| tegrltv and morals, and of unusual power on
the stump. lie is real Democratic Boan-
| erges, and a very stubborn customer TO deal
with in an argument. He has challenged the
leading Republican speaker in the State TO
debate with him, before the people, the live
| issnes OF the day. And shat do the Repub~
/ licans answer ? ~sHe does not appear in pub
Ito in clean shirt I" We suppose no one,
except he be ''olotbed in purple and fine lin
en-" will suit the fastidious tastes of Iowa
Republican speakers. The people, however,
seem to have taken great fancy to Mr..
Dean, and, with or without clean shirt,
| they tnrn out in droves to hear him speak
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Evidently the Enquirer spoke at random,
taking its cue from the Locofoco sheets of
Iowa.
The Cincinnati Rail Splitter, however, RE-
plies TO this, and speaks from intimate per-
sonal knowledge The description is very
III
the writer don't seem to have been aware
Of the depth of infamy TO which Dean has,
at last, sunk. The Raj! Splitter responds
This fulsome prelate and disgusting dem
agogue SIS real Democratic Boanerges ~
Now, with all due regard 60 the Enquirer, we |
lay claim to some personal knowledge of the |
above gentlemen, and without hesitation, |
declare there are one hundred Democrats iu /
the city of Cincinnati who would "fog" their /
boys three times day for speaking TO him /;
and would kick him into the street If they I
found him IN their parlors conversing with |
their wives or daughters aThe people .
have taken great fancy to Mr.. Dean !"-
''Fancy !" oh yes We would like to know
what kind Of people; they fancy some curl
Gus things sometimes lying may be com
mended with little truth-blaokg uardism
modified by an occasional observance of de-
cency-profaDity repent of it's wide spread
emonism-vulgarity chastned in the pres
ence Of a weman-brutality soften when il
reaches the last round of unmixed degrade
tion, but nowhere IN the vide world can as
much lying, without any truth--as muca
biaokguardiem, unmodihed by the claims Of
decency-as much profanity, unrepented of
AS much yulgarity unchastenad-as much
ptutaaiby eofteneu. Dc IOunu, uOuDlv feHned,
distilled, and concentrated, as in the compo-
nent parts or elementary units of the afore-
said Rev. Henry Clay Dean! A Jacobin of
the worst stripe, his manners are obscene,
disgusting, and lioentiousl A frothy ranter,
DIS example before the young men Of the
country Is leveling and vicious A gangreen-
ID traducer, his stupid harangues lead to re.
Toit, characterization and riot. relgonist
n feeling, and church burner in morals
Pieblan in appearance, and a rowdg in &C.
non dogmatist in persuasion, and cut
hroat In politics; defender Of the Bible and
siaVerer of ali virtue; apretender 10 moral
tv, and slanterer by vocation; an aspi-
ing priest, and hyproorlte bv nature;
noral monster-a harlequin "A slovenlv
,iaekguard: the people of Iowa abhor aud
ispise him as they would an Arab or q Le- ,
'ita, and would hound him from their door
tfpsand bs yards as they wo'd any itinerant
agabond who goes ronnd the country belch {
ng forth his fool monthed profanity and {
mocracy, bardened with ribald slang, OBJ :
Gene Jokes, and yelping blaokguardism.l