The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-11
THE COPPERHEAD NOMI
NATIONS.


About three hundred persons met in Mass
Convention at Montrose, on Saturday last,
under call for q County Meeting Of loyal
meeting did not differ materially from the
Copperhead County Convention held at the
junction year ago. The same leaders and
wire workers were on the ground. and figured
in the proceedings. JOHNSTON, CIAGGErr,
HEDGES and Dan. MILLER controlled the
meeting and the nominations, Saturday, just
as they did last year, and the year before !;
and the principal nominees are as intense
Copperheads as any ticket ever run in the
County. They were compelled to put few
soldiers in nomination, by way of sugar coat
ing to the nauseous Copperhead dose, but the
Disguise is too thin to deceive anybody. Three
out of FIVE of the nominees for the General
Assembly are notorious and intense Copper
heads, and the rest of the ticket was dictated
hy the Copperhead leaders, who usually man
ipulate their County Conventions. HEDGES
favorite was the nominee for sheriff, and Dan.
MILLER's little man Friday the candidate for
Judge.
The animus of the Convention was ex-
hibited in the nomination of DoERR, a dele
gate to the Chicago Copperhead, War Failure
Convention, and upon his declination by the
substitution of still more inveterate Cop
perhead, whose patriotism is of that particu-
lar cast which prompted him to serve his
country in the capacity of SuTLER of the seth
Illinois Infantry. And to sugar coat thai
enormous mass of loathsome Copper, we
have the infinitessimal little BALLrsGER
Then for Representatives we have LowDEN
and HEDGES, two of the most VIGOROUSLY in
tense Copperheads in the county, and Buck
an ex-abolition soldier is sprinked over them,
in vain effort to neutralize the bad odol
emitted by these Copperheads.
J.EGER, Dan. MmLER's little pet conver,
to the Copperhead faith, IT was thought would
be sufficiently sweetly scented by another
soldier aud sutier, BlsHop, for Sheriff. Ant
BowERs, rank and bitter Copperhead, i,
subjected to the honeyfuging process by him
OF the sweet German accent, for Treasurer
This whole attempt of the Copperhead lead
ers to .'cover their tracks" is too clumsy and
transparent to deceive anybody, and only
those will vote for SO weak device who are
already Copperheads at heart. and desire the
success of that party. The soldiers know
that they were sold, and these few who were
put in nomination as " stool pigeons" to
give aid and comfort to the Copperhead ticket,
owe it to their own selfrespect as we'll as to
the honor of their comrades to decline the
position at once. If they do not, they ma,
expect to realize the fate of s'poor Tray
when he was caught in bad company.
How much control the soldiers had owe
the Convention or are expected to have owe
the canvass. may be inferred from the follow
ing Central Committee, appointed by tn,
meeting, which consists of the two suite
nominees and three Copperhead citizens.
The ticket is not wholly Copperhead
though it was entirely engineered by Copper
head interests. Its relative position might b,
emphatically indicated to the eye thus
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
fuses readily ana naturally into pure Copper
head.