The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1860-07-19
POLITICAL ITEMS.


Davenport it was resolved to run a
Breckenridge and Lane Democratic
Electoral Ticket. The same determine.
ton has been expressed by some oil the
Dubuque Democracy.
Hy- The Newark Evening Journal
comes out for Breckenridge and Lame,
who, it says, are preferred Ivy large
majority Of the Democrats Of New Jcr.
sey.
Esy- The New York Day Book puts
up The names Of Breckenridge and Lane,
and thinks that ticket can carry the
State.
ILLINOIS Tho State Democra. OF
Spring field, Illinois, has hoistcd the
names Of Breckenridge and Lane.
New JERSEY The Trenton Free
american says that State is safe FOR the
Republican nominees next fall beyond
doubt.
HW- Tho late election in Oregon has
resulted in favor of Shiel, Democrat, for
Congressman, by about 80 majority
The Legislature is composed Of major.
i'y Of the opposition, So that Z. S. Sen
ator Lane will loose his scat.
eG- The very last news from Indiana
is that the Breckenridge men are resolv.
cd to run separate ticket Senator
Bright has expressed himself in favor or
| the clec'ion Of Breckenridge, but prefers
Lincoln to Douglas.
E5- The Breckenridge men or Hi
nois have nominated an Electoral ticket
and State officers and advised all the
counties to . follow suit" in the nomna
ton Of county officers. This certainly
does not look much like Douglas sweep
ing this State Three Cheers for Lin
coin aud IIamlin, and tiger for the
good grit Of the Breckinridsc men.
Esn. The Democratic Convention at Cedar
Rapids, on the l7th inst, nominated Ben NJ.
Samuels, of Dubuque, for Congressman.
G. c. Cole IS the Democratic nominee for
Congressman, in the First District OF this
State.
psa. Senator Bright frankly admits that
Lincoln will carry Indiana by o very large
majority. aud docs not anticipate any change
Of the Democratic programme by which that
| result can be effected.
E1y II . Free Democrat. at st. Joseph, Mo-,
is out for Lincoln and lIamlin.
Atfhc Democratic State Convention, held a,
Des Mones on the 18th inst, the following
Electoral and State ticket was nominated -
Electors al Large-Lincsln Grant and II. G.
| Kcan. (cnyrcssionai---M i. Bennett and &c
Grand Byinglon. Secretary of .s.atc--Joln VI.
Coisc Of Burlington. AupuoR--Gco. ". Max
field. 7reasarer-J. w. Ellis. .Anorney Gen
erdl-Wm. McClin,ock. SUPREME JUICE
James Grant.
Every Democratic United States Senator,
save only Mr.. Pugh and Mr Douglas, indorses
the nomination Of Breckinrdge and Lane, and
will render efficient aid in electing them. In
the House Of Representatives, three fths at
least Of tho Democratic members support the
same ticket.
! New JERsEY-7he nonglasites Of Newark,
| N. j, ut large meeting on Monday week, for
the second time voted down resolutions re-
ported by a committee in favor Of fusion with
The Breckenridge men. Great excitement and
confusion prevailed.
Joe Lane, in his manuscript begins his own
| name with capital letters, and God Almighty $
without.
| A correspondent at Sandnsky writes us that
the breckenridge party in Ohio will poll some
$4,000 votes in November. They mean to run
y straight ticket throughout. The bitterness
between them and the Douglas men is as in
! tense there as elsewhere.
The Cincinnati Commercial has learned from
a Breckenridge man Of kentucky that Douglas
has no strength in this State Except in about
ten countless; and that in the great majority
of counties Douglas man will be hunted out
as II lie were wolf or nigger-thicf."
The Washington Constitution thinks the omis-
sion to indorse Buchanan in either Of the
conventions wns simply an inadvertence. That
is--an accident done on purpose
The Breckenridge party is considerably
stronger taan tho Douglas party in New fiamp-
shire, while the two together do not constitute
more than third Of the voters Of the State.
The Breckenridge and Lane men in Georgia
are burning Douglas and Johnson in etfigy.