The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-09-26
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In our issue Of Friday last We gavs j
lille prominence 20 he fact, thai ~,
Is. Clinton, Of this CITY. was I earsslitlAta
for State Senator rom this District g
Saturday, We again referred e The sub;
|ject, and propoundesl ! few questions g
the nsw hedgsd candidate. ssssrdas
we had the pleasure Of placing betors
..many citizens, without Distinction q
party, 4 response from Mr.. IS Clinton.
| n this response. Mr.. 8. Clinton writes
himself down q falsifer and q qnibbler--
two qualifications not TO be dispensed
with in candidate on the "Copperhead
tieket. He came intot the field as q can
didate, with the pleasing "fiction" IN ms
mouth, that he WINS urgeatly requested 70
do 50 by 'snnany citizens, without distine-
ton of party. I'VE asked him to verify
this statement, by namiag many citizens
Of the Republican party, who had hrgea
him to this step. He names them not,
but says, that he was urged by Douglass
Democrats! That's number one. Next,
he saws, that in our issue of the 18th. we
called him j. 'copperhead. " We did no
such thing. We said he was tho Cop
nerhead candidate, and that if he would
lie still and Be q good little copperhead,
he might run for Office again sometime.
He does not deny that he Is the copper.
head candidate. He viii not, he dare not
deny it. With the paper before him, ne
knew that we did not call him q copper
head. and hence we have fiction" num-
Der two. He next says, that we have
called Gen. Tuttle a copperhcad, and
then flies off in tangent, and pays
nerrited compliment TO that brave 0eh-
eral, every word of which We mos heart
lily endorse. We never have applied the
term Copperhead to Gen. Tuttle, and -
Clinton" knew we never had, when he
penned the article we published yester-
day. That's Fiction" number three, OF
the would-be-Senator, and with its expo
sure, falls to the ground that pleasing
copperhead ''man of straw" through
whom he yesterdayso dexteriously sought
to convict us of Copperheadisn.
In view of these pleasing but fragrant
'totions," we think it i'll becomes the
to say that zoe "have no
tegard for truth" What think, you, ma
ny citizens, without distinction of party"
Mr.. IS. Gil, ton" says he is willing to
stand by his record. That's all right
We guess he will stand by his record
He made record" last fall. He was
recorded as secodd best in the race for
Judge. He will undoubtedly stand by
tbs record this fall--second best for
Senator.
The would-be-Senator here puts in a
plea for ''peace," and says that pure un-
adulterated party ar imosity, party intol-
erance and feeling, has been carried too
far by extremists, that the peace Of soeie-
~ at home may sccN be said to be in jeopar-
dy." That's refreshing, coming from IS
man In bed with the only
class of MEN that has ever made or threat
ened disturbance at home since the out
break of the rebellion. The men who
support Mr.. IS. Clinton" are those ones
who have placed the ''peace Of society at
home" in jeopardy, if it is truethat it has
ever been in jeopardy. This Mr.. Clinton
knows. and will not deny. He will be
by every man in this District,
who has threatened the peace of society
at home, and by very few others. In
fact, he has been pledged the votes of
these men, They are to vote for him en-
n,asse, without any effort on his part-the
understanding being, that he is to ride
the war-horse" strong enough. to catch
assgnautwa sgbIcH suckers" to elect him.
If we read the signs of the times a right,
the copperheads have caught the onH
sucker" running. and Mr.. rs. Clinton"
thon art the man!
Many Citizens, without distinction Of
party" have doubtless read his answer"
to our questions. They will have MOTTO
ed that he does not deny that he is in bed
with the copperheads; he does not say,
he will not vote for Winchester, Dun
combe and Mason; he does not say, he
would not have taken nomination from
the convention that nominated Mr.. Dews;
he does not say he would not have been
a candidate If Mr.. Dews had not declined;
he does not say he does not endorse the
Copperhead platform Of 9Th of July; he
does not say he ,ciA vote without an if
for man who will support the Admins