Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-06-01
"spiking a Republican Cum"
CEnARFAILs- MAY 2s 1854,

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CEpAR FALLS, May 2s, 1850.
Ed HERALD: see by article in the Cedar Falls Ga
charge Of spikng laid to the Democracy
Of this place. Now for the facts in the case
the news Of Lncons nomination was received the Lincoln
men to the number Of two assembled near the
carpenter shop Of IT, W. Turner for the purpose Of hold
ing jolacasion, holding the full quantity Of
oneh half pound Of powder in hand and bundle Of
Stewards Rochester speech in the other wherewt to wad
the cannon, when 10 and behold among this mighty
gathering of rail riders not single could be found
sufficiently sklledn gunnery to load the monster when
by request wag Of democrat the relief OF the
mighty crowd and fred Shots when cheer after cheer
went up for Douglas and popular sovereignty Soon after
this the crowd retired to the school house for the purpose
OF forming Lincoln club, rail society After going
through the ceremonies of nominating for the club the old
Colonel was called upon to give full particulars of the pro-
ceedngs ut Chicago The Colonel made excuses as
to his inability to do justice to the Of Repubcans
Lager beer and whisky ran as free as water in
the Cedar River" He finally wound up by saying he
would vote for Lincoln Il It bnrsted him. IN the mean
time son'e 81 Me Serdrdites hunted up rat tail fie
ana spiked the cannon. Now sir it would have done
you good to have seen and heard what followed The
Incolnes swore and raved; they damned the Dutch the
Irish the lacofocos and Seward men, but finally concud
ed to take some warm milk and retire.
tell You, sir II Douglas nominated at Baltimore on
herself. CED IN FALLS
The above canard we take from the Dubu-
que Herald Of yesterday morning. Oh ye
gods, what an imagination must the author
possess. Genius for preyarication shows
itself in every line, and distorted truths stand
out in bold relief from every paragraph. The
Democracy should raise subscription and
present their worthy mouth piece with SER
vice of tin plate, bearing some appropriate
device, and dedicated to the biggest liar in
Black Hawk County.
In the first place the Gazette never laid the
act of spiking the cannon on the Democracy.
We made use of the terms, some low mean
despicable wretches," but the writer admits
that that is equivalent to using the word
" Democracy But really, when we penned
that article we did not intend to carry the
idea that these terms were perfectly synony-
nous with Democracy; but the author ad-
mits that they are, and who is a better judge
in the matter than he? If the coat fits put
it on.
The spitcful fling of his Democratic venom
atthc "Old Colonel" is perhaps the most fool
ish thing in the whole article. Here he makes
up some fabrications out of whole cloth. The
Colonel at the meeting referred to, never used
any such words as the writer imputes to him,
or any thing that could be construed that way,
and hundred men can be brought forward
to prove this. If the writer's silly twaddle
is any index of hi7 oratorical ability, the Old
Colonel or any other man, need have moth
ing to fear from an intellectual collision with
this Democratic author
Where he speaks of the 'cheer after cheer
given for DoUGLAs, and about the Sewardites
spiking the cannon, prove that the writer has
no qualms of conscience, and considers it not
in the least derogatory to his character as
Democrat, to tell deliberate falsehoods. But
the closing paragraph caps the climax If he
really believes what he intimates he must
either be possessed Of very meagrc supply
of observation, a strong penchant for telling
what he knows to be untrue or else he is a
natural-born fool The best answer that can
be given to this portion of his choice epistle
is the following item which we clip from the
Chicago Press d Tribune of May 9th:
Not One to be Found-In the town Of Cedar Falls,
Iowa. containing about 800 inhabitants there are not
over twelve or fifteen Democrats and among this number
not one competent to manage the post office of the
town. Democrat was therefore imported iron. d.
bu2ae and duly installed in the Office
In fact the entire article, from beginning to
end, is mere tissue of falschools, unrelieved
by single sentence that will allow it any
claim to beinga "good yarn well told" being
witless and pointless, and only serves to
show the rather peculiar taste the author pos
sesses for stating what he himself, as well as
this entire community, knows to be without
foundation in truth or reason Il NAV hn a