Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-08

Several weeks or months since the

Several Weeks or months since the
Wide Awake Club Of Iowa CITY, anx-
'ous to display their ignorance of good
breeding or want Of rules OF proprlety
we don't know that it makes any dit
ference h'ch-ofered prize OF one
hundred dollars for the best Wide
Awake display by any company, from
any point, to take place at Iowa CITY Oh
the last day of the State Far. mat
| time for making the trial was thus an
uonuced In order to foist a poor poiltl
cal demonstration upon large agricul-
tural gathering and claim the honor of
making an immense show. AS much a.
we admire the principle Of non-inter-
vention We cannot but interfere with
his matter little and show it up. In
order to do justice to all concerned we
will state that many leading Repuhli-
cans Of Johnson county and elsewhere
IN the State deprecated this movement,
which found its inauguration at no more
important source than in a WldeAwake
wigwam where one Penn Clarke figured
largely. A great hue and cry was made
over this announcement by the Black
Republican papers of the State, and as
piring w. AS sworc by their buggy
aprons" that they would 90 in to win
that prize sure. The Wide-Awakcs Of
Iowa City, who by the way, and contra
ry to statements made in the Republi-
can prints, were to make up the purse
out Of their own pockets, resolved that
they would go into vigorous drill and
put themselves in such condition that
they would not be called upon by any
outside parties for 50 large purse;
consequently they turned out almost
nightly-heads Of families who should
have been at homo, or else laboring to
provide bread for their hungry children;
boys who should have been at home,
abed and asleep, away from the evil in
iluences of bad company-all turned
out TO the number Of some hundred or
more to protect their own purses.
We'll, the grand dsplf y came of, and
We were there to see it. Out Of the
number of companies accepting the
challenge, only one poor apology came
forth to the field Of trial ,-one poor,
miserable affair from Williamsburg, In
lows county; one dirty score with black
eapes, mounted with brass buttons, with
greasy black caps, around which was
tied dirty strips Of red and blue rib
bon,-these fellows, most y under age,
were the contestants for the grand W.
A. State purse. And the Iowa City
Wide-Awakes, made up OF tag-cnds-of
boys, OF strikers, small fry, haugers-on
and understrappers, to the number Of
seventy-five or eighty, marshalled them
selves with the Williamsburgcrs afore.
said, and promcnaded through the
streets, followed by a rabble Of dirty
faced urchins. The display was about
as big farce as we ever read OF. The
more honest Republicans were ashamed
of it, and would have given their best
"ten spot" to have been relieved from
the odium which that meagre display
imposed upon them and their party.
After the farce of trudging through
the streets was over Penn Clarke, and
man known in some parts Of the State
by the name of Kasson, inflicted speech
es upon the udicnce, which rendered
the show still more farcical and rdicu-
lous.
The Wide Awakes who sent out the
challenge expressed themselves as being
highly gratiticd that they were not call
ed upon to fork over. All the glory
gained by this display the Republicans
are welcome to. We will say nothing
of the improperly Of intruding such
display upon people attending the State
Fair, as the etfec. was anything but
creditable, and the result nothing less
than positive injury to the Republican
cause.
Let us have another Wide Awake
demonstration. They make Democrat
ic votes.
Has Breckenridge Changed his Position.
The following will be examined with
much interest by the personal admirers
of Mr.. Breckenridge, if there are any
such people, as showing his remarkable
consistency
BRECRINRIDGE IN 1856 BRECKENRIDGE IN 1850
Upon the distracting Our Union is CON-
question OF dones TIC sla- ederacy of equal sover-
very their position Is eign States, for the pur-
clear. The whole power poses enumerated in the
OF me Democratic organ Federal Constitution
izauon IS pledged to the Whatever the common
ioipwlng propositions government holds in trust
ma Congress shall not for all the States must be
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lect IN the States in the II coufrJs tbf I.rr,,.;
Territories, in the Dis In tryst for ri ~ S,,
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