The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-08-23

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/ EDITORS GATE Cry L bad the pleasure of
hearing Curtis and Cole open the Congres-
sional campaign, on Tuesday. Cole was
represented a. great man, "a great orator
making the argument and wearing the dig
fiity OF a statesman,--And be vas expected
to demoish bis adversary with the FIRST breath
Of his nostris. He came; he talked be
went, and bis fame went with him. His first
speech was fair his last was the merest
specimen of a lawyers pettifogging. This
was nothing new to those who knew him, for
at the bar he has always developed the same
means Of accomplishing bis ends. have
frequently heard him address courts and ju-
ries, and never heard him address himself
TO the great truths involved, but always to
the clap-trap and humbug that candid, great
men discard.
Col. Curtis made straightforward, manly
speech, full OF good sense, and we'll adapted
to enlighten people on the issues of the Pres
identisl struggle. Cole spent bis half hour
in attempting to ridicule Ourtis's connection
with the Des Mones River Improvement and
with the Air Line Railroad. His great wit
as to the River Improvement provoked rounds
Of laughter and can anybody see where it
bit? All round the crowd Democrats were
saying that Cole was hitting III. w. Sample
worse than Curtis, and they appeared de-
lighted. Sample sat just behind the "good-
for sharp" orator and grinned and bore all
he said with the meekness OF lamb going TO
slaughter.
pie was. Sample was the first President of
the Des Moines River Improvement; Sample
went to Ohio and brought Dol. Curtis to
iowa; Sample projected the work; Sample
was President of the Improvement, and Dol.
Curtis mere Engineer. When Sample went
out, Gen. v. P. Van Antwerp became Super
intendent, only a new name for the Presi-
dent. All the time, up to the collapse Of
the scheme, or nearly SO, Democrats, as
Sample, Patterson, Van Antwerp, Charles
Cookery. Paul Britten, nj. Nj. Hay ien, Guy
Wells, &C., had complete control of the I'm
provement. All these Presidents recon-
mended the Improvement to the Legislature,
and all seemed delighted with the prospect
and progress of the work. Col. Curtis was
an Engineer, and was removed for political
and Guy Wells substituted
Dol. Curtis never handled the funds; the
Democratic Office holders did handle them,
and vhere are they? The whole Improve.
ment in It's beginning, in it's progress and in
it's melancholy death, was, body, soul and
altogether Democratic.
What was Coles wit to the Air Line Rail.
road? That somebody told him ~ AdeI,
and somebody at Winterset, and R. d. KEEL
logg, of Leon, that Col. Curtis said the Air
Line road would ron through each Of those
places. Now Cole will never run any rail-
read through any one place. He Is not bad,
h ososper. al running gas pipes, but they are
not needed In keokuk. Who is Cole |? He
10 a Yankee that went to Kentucky, married
q wife and got lot OF negroes, sold them,
and now be lie in Iowa enjoying the spoils.-
He is nice man to represent great and
glorious free people in the national Congress.
Who nominated Cole? T. ". Ciag EFT
vac candidate for nomination, but he was
thrust aside. Hugh w. Sample went for
Cole and defeated Clagett. Sample was un-
der pledge TO support Cole, and be did it
we'll. Sample controlled the Des Moines
Convention, and be bad more influence than
any ten men in il. Sample 10 an excellent
manager be can beat, in State Convention,
fifty Clagetts and any Of his former political
rivals who are now buried out of sight,
Sample not only controlled the Convention,
but he SLAPPED the Democratic editor at Des
Moines, who was suspected of hostility to
Douglas, and when be heard that Cole was
not just right on Douglas, he compelled him
to speak out Sin meetin." Cole got fright
ened and wrote Sample-not the Cow ention
"A letter, in which he declared that he was
for Douglas, and that he had proclaimed his
doctrines on hundred stumps in Iowa. He
further declared that he had no connection
with the Journal at lies Moines. A Demo-
crst who read the letter made this statement
to me. Sample, then, was the Convention.
ard Sample was Cole. Sample was Coles
chairman yesterday. Did Sample prompt
the Des Moines River attack on Gurtis9
SOJOURNER.
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