The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-02

cratic organization, and openly avows the
hostility of the party and its platform to
the war, which it holds as unjust IS we'll
as impolitic on the part of our Govern
ment. 1t confesses the truth that there
is no middle ground for party action be-
tween the support of our Government
and the war and opposition to both.
From the Dubuque Herald
Tho Issue IN Iowa, and what Came
of II.
We think that our readers and cotem-
poraries will bear us out in the assertion
which Gen. futile was placed before the
public by the Democratic Genital Com
mttee, not one embarrassing word was
uttered by this paper. And for the pur-
pose of having our position clearly under
stood, we wish it remembered that not
until he pas candidate were we respon-
sibe for line that appeared in the Her
aid respecting him. We proposed, as we
said, to let him find what entertainment
be might. and to reserve for an hour when
impossible disadvantage could result there
from, our opinions of his nomination and
of the character of the men mainly instru-
mental in placing him there.
We went to the State Convention and
opposed the nomination of Gen. futile
fairly and persistently. We were not
credulous enou h to believe that we could
carry the State, but we did believe it
possible to earn the respect Of our oppo-
nents and preserve our own by taking a
bold and manly position. We could have
adopted an unequivocal platform Of prin-
ciples, We could have placed upon it can
didates of acknowledged ability and worth
and consistency, and we could have fought
enthusiastically, although certain defeat
awaited us as an organization. But the
schemers Of the party declared otherwise
Ed. Johnstone. rho forced nnnn tho na-,-
ID. Eads and Curtis Bates-the former a
very bad and the latter a very weak man
Johnstone, who helped saddle upon us a
constitution especially framed for the pur-
poses of James w. Grimes, and who be-
came the barrier to our assaults upon Re-
publican extravaganza by being connected
with every enterprise that party devised
demanded Tuttle, and refused to be
coutented either for himself or Lee coun-
ty or any other.
Judge Trimble, who had been in the
war, and wished an endorsement through
the nomination of futile, demanded him,
aud could not be prevailed upon to take
up another ID. @. Finch, who at the
commencement of the war, was about az
bitter an enemy as we had, simply because
We stood firm from the commencement
against the suicidal policy of war, also
manded futile and refused Fisher or Ma
son. Hornish, who two years before had
voted for an Abolitionist for Congress be-
cause Democrat was not loyal enough,
clamored for Tuttle. The southern por.
ton of the State, with but few excep-
tons, asked for Tuttle, through its dele
gates, while the people, assembled By
thousands, demanded a representative
man. The committee on resolutions, of
which We were one, brought in platform
on which no General in the army could
with the least consistency stand. 1t was
as unequivocally opposed to the war, as
conducted, as a platform could possibly
be formed to be, and it especially denoun.
ced as official perjuries acts of the Admin
istration which every General in the field
was bound to sustain and carry out.
The resolutlons-not up to our stand.
ard in all things. and yet accepted by US
and thought as we did, for the sake OF
harmony-were unanimously adopted
whereupon the friends of futile, regard
less OF the anomaly, attempted to place
him upon them. We all fought over the
attemp. for five hours. We exposed the
inconsistency off Brigadier General upon
declared anti-war platform. We exam.
ined his record, and appealed to the con-
vention, and the result was that he was
beaten for the nomination by thirty-four
majority. 1t is useless to say that at any
one time he was nominated, for it is no.
torlons that there was much irregularity
10 voting, and if his friends had been in
majority once, they could have easily
shown it on second trial. We pomipa.
ted good ticket, appointed an efficient
committee, and came home to labor for
the principles Of our party
But the uneasy politicians, defeated
fairly 10 Convention, set to work to demon
aiize the party by procuring the with
dfaWai OF It's nominees. BY misrepresen-
tatlon, by personal appeals, by promise OF
great maJorities for Tuttle, Mr.. Fisher was
led to decline. and then came the demand
for second convention. The committee
was known to be against futile as orig.
iually made up, and every futile paper
in The State declared it bad not the least
power to fill the vacancy. Il was advised
in oracular phraseology not to attempt to
dictate to the party by nomination, but
when it did nominate, and nominated Gen.
futile, not q word Of dissent was heard
from those who had argued u into :