The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-11
TEE HAPPY DAM1kx 0P1t4N0

TEE HAPPY DAAItH oP1k4anA3
0v1R. II
The Philadelphia Convention, which pr
formed Tor the amusement Of the public, M
der rims. master RANDALL, Chisfof The Bread
and Butter Brigade, out-did BARsuAs' ha1-
py family. Rebel Generals and Union q
erals, politicians Of the JsvY. DAvispersaa-
sion, and aboltiouists Of the WARD BEscHEl
school, he aaaassins Of President LlrcoLs,
|xadWsnAsWyfstigzoglll1sllg.ellIIsls.4.
the pnaes pens Of Andsrsonvills md Sails
bury, an tnbh wAIeAsa suffered the horrors
sfjupsnsnsnAyuAhaaav-iAisrAla ina1 szMAsAl
al represented and embraced most lovingly.
An sousk CiRSHsss IA tAa pDu4gh
a. Yarn /. ssm.n But he enthusiasrlf winch
marked that occasion was caused BY more
bountiful supply al Bead. and Butter dele
gates and more abundant Infusion of rot-
gut than can always be obtained = tassa
~ paien.,,' aad hence thesis 4oN ed
80 Ack af such truly shfyhg 64au,
g &as exhi6ssdat tAe6 '8tS0diy
love-
An instance in which the programme was
somewhat married occurred recently in
Indiana. BRIck PonrHY, It seems, has been
employed by DooLlrrLE / Co. to stump the
stats u Iplisnt for thd fDe4osraef He
wks selected for ths pnrpose ID view Of the
fact that be had boldly advocated Snd urged
on the assassination of LlScoLs in sons nest
|estist (1dS6sst90 2aplAlS no iaass
drought that his antecedants ~ well his pres
emit senamspts would just suit the Golden
Circle Copparhsed Democracy Of Indiana
AT ops Of their saaSxsp GAS6ral STACK
and JIM Ryan, both renegsdes from tn
Union party, were called on for speeches
SLACK insisted that H. Presidents p>licy, Of
admitting Southern traitors 70 Congrsss, wss
all right snd VS. nothing mere than fair, for,
said be, tits wen known that the leading
'Coppsrhesds Of IndisnA were asltr,itorq9s =
heart, Is we'll a. 10 tseir conduct, = the seseh
of the South, and no movement IA pade y
exclude them from Congress. II was doubt
less . random shea Of "a half drunken my
Policy" orator, but it told very effectively
snd produced quite . scatsssmest anougss
the crowd of sympathizsrs
after Shack hsd concluded, the inevitable
Dick Ryan took the stand, in obedience TO .
request from W. H. Talbot, ESQ. Dick j
quite sh.sssass i pd.s.p9; s s, E..
i III Il ssss4 IL rsssdS snd 1 'gSa |
can t INK that name with the immortal Lin.
coin $, J in 1854, and Va for time quite
sincere in the Rsdical faith. But the nomi>
nation Of his brother Jim, for he oloe Of
Treasurer Of State, on the BnnsFnst icket,
and the blandishment Of sons of thdslrens
in the pay Of Noses, have been too mach for
him, aud he has gone over 70 the enemy.
Well, Dick was called upon FOR . speech,
aud, bsing pretty full Of corn juice, be grew
truthful, and aid some unpleasant things.
Col j. w. Blake, {oh what Colonel
the President of the concern, attempted TO
rule him or, bnt Dick would not ~ rpled
of, and proceeded vish bis speech, So Blake.
and the other strsightoats on the stand Jeff
in disgust, and Dick, cheerea on by the
crowd, was master of the field. He sSx biz
chance and went 10, in about this style: To
think ofsuch chaps - this Blake, and these
ing at q Johnson meeting. No little one
horse club, led on by Houk Talbot, can
choke me Of.
why, not one Of them ever voted for
johnson in their lives, and voted for him
in 1854 am An original johnson man,
simon pure, and as snch DONE wantto
speak from stand that has been pollnted by
the presence Of sGcb wretch as Brick Pom
eroy. spit upon Brick Pomeroy-l spit
upon this stand, and upon oil such Johnson
men as this Blake
with such select sentences as these did the
irrepressible Dick resale the Democracy, the
crowd cheering him at the close of nearly
every period. The affair was q farce from
beginning to end, and the Democratic cam
paien is in bad way. The extremities Of
Ehs1fsstg are becoming numb and cold, nofs
ti6cat,0a 10 at work upon its ,innards, aud
the corpse will be ready for the grave which
is TO be dug on the 9ih Of October"