The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-08
The Same Old Party Leaders.

JoHSsoS and CLAGErr run the Copperhead
party in this county during the war; they
made peace speeches, published peace edto-
rials, advocated and adopted an armistice
platform and rendered themselves thoroughly
odious and despicabe in the eyes of Union
soldiers and loyal citizens. CIAGETr was SC
venomous against the war, that the soldiers
in the hospital proclaimed that they regarded
it as an imperative duty to destroy his press,
because it discouraged enlistments and gave
aid and comfort to the enemy. JOHNSON was
the President of the Lee county Copperhead
convention which endorsed the Chicago plat
form declaring the war a failure. These two
Copperhead leaders were the chief fuglers in
the party two years ago, in getting Gen. TuT-
TIE on to the track for Governor, with view
to drag them and their party out ofthe slough
of infamy into which it had sunk. And they
are the same persons that started and origin
ated the soldiers ticket the present season.
The press which was destroyed, by the SOL
diers during the war on account of its disloy-
atty, is now the chief organ of the so-called
soldiers ticket in the State and the county
and the chief Copperhead Of Lee county,
who has manipulated its conventions for
years, we mean Judge JoHssQh. is now
around as usual manipulating the del egates
for the convention at Montrose tomorrow
He was in our town on his rounds yesterday,
and spent good deal of his time instructing
the stool pigeon soldiers, whom he selected,
how to operate the concern at Montrose to-
morrow Whether he can trust them. or will
feel constrained to attend in person and give
his orders through the window as he did at
the soldiers meeting at Charleston. remains
TO be seen.
1t is shameful that men who fought rebels
down South, should come home and make
themselves the mere tools of the Copperhead
friends of the rebels It is infamous that
men who have marched to glory under the
lead of GRANT, sHRBNAs, CRoCKgR, and
other heroes Of the war. should come home
and enlist under JoHSsoS. CLAGErr, JOKES
d Co.. the champions of the peace party in
time Of war, and the real friends of the
traitors now, while they are pretending to be
the friends vi Union soldiers only that they
may Use them TO reinstate the rebels in pow
e. Ii is not likely that many soldiers will
be fooled by such shallow humbuggery as
even the most ignorant of our Irish popula-
ton pronounce mere blarney. These Irish
know their leaders. and they will follow them
Just as they have always done. end when they
find soldiers voting with them they recognize
them as of the SANE patty wIlh themselves
and under the same leaders. and they regard
them as new converts to the peace party and
The four years oi war failure platfarin and
Vallandigham party; and 80, by the way,
will they be regarded by the rest of mankind
in spite of all.the miserable shams that they
attempt to play of to humbug the public.
The few soldiers that support Benton, the
corporals guard that oppose the Union ticket
IN this county will be absorbed and lost in the
mass of the Copperhead party uuder the lead
Of Joyrs and MAHosY, JOHNSTON and
CLAGETT.