The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-31
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Mrru wA1D CAuDIDAEDD.


Avord about our Ward candidates. They
srau~ll rood men and true and the city viii
be ,afs "a their hands. Adam Haeny, the
candidate in the First Ward s. 6. Vail, the
candidate in the Third Ward, and John
Waterman, the candidate in the Fourth Ward,
are well known, active, public spirited citi-
Gems, thoroughly practical, ard have good
records. They win be sagaeious and useful
members Of the Council. To them should
be given the hearty support Of al Our people.
Turn ont in your ward and not only vote for
bat work for the success Of our candidates.
The opposition are active; Offset their opera
tons by superior vigilance and activity on
your part. Let it not, BY the result ofthe
coming election, 60 forth to Iowa and the
country that Keokuk has set the stain OF
popular saction Of copperheadism upon her
record. Let our people be true to themselves
and their loyalty. Let them be true to the
soldiers, living and dead, that went forth from
our midst to fight the battles Of Freedom and
Union against Slavery and Disunion. II is
not sufficient that candidate for Mayor is a
good man and good citizen-we concede it !;
that q candidate for Alderman is a good man
and good citizen, we concede it. We urge
no personal objection to single candidate
on the opposition ticket. What We urge is
that those men have wronged themselves, and
us, and the country, and our soldiers, living
and dead, by their political actions, and that
we would be sharers of that wrong by giving
them our votes. What you, Union voters,
should say to these men is not to detract
personally, but to say to them: Gentlemen,
strife came upon the county, imposed upon US
BY traitors, their purpose was to destroy
the government. Then we threw aside party
feeling and ties and rallied to the defense OF
went away to the camp and the march and
the battle field they came back to us main.
ed and shattered and many brought back
dead; still the foe was unyielding IN his
purpose; weeks followed days, and months the
weeks, and those months heightened into
dreary, grief and blood impressed vel rs.-
Other friends filled the ranks instead of those
who fell, and still the contest went on
Shortly after the war cloud burst on us party
was organized in the loyal States to oppose
our government in the prosecution Of the
war; throughout the remaining years of its
continuance that party pursued steadily its
purpose, and, in the last few months Of the
struggle, when the SCARED veterans Of Grant
had fought through those terrible days Of
carnage in the Wilderness, strewing the ground
with the thousands Of their comrades, but
victorious in the end, driving Lees shattered
forces before them into Richmond, settling,
on that battlefield, the fate of the Confede-
racy: when Farragut's gallant tars had seized
the last of the rebel ports; when our un-
equalled Western Army-heroes Of a hundred
battles and victories-had started with
Sherman on that wondrous " march to the
sea- and up through the Carolnas, claspng,
in its giant folds, the dissolving Confederacy
and crushing out the last spark of its life at
this time, when the light of Peace was break
ing upon our war burdened country and ar
mies, then this party met in convention; its
speakers villi6ed our soldiers as Lincoln
hirelings.' and Mr.. Lincoln was denounced
as tyrant and usur. e, and its platform
declared the "war y failure To that party
you belonged with it you voluntarily acted.
You may, thereby, have wronged yourself
if so, it was your fault and your misfortune
not ours. To vote for you, to endorse you
is to vote for and endorse all that party infa
nous record; we cannot doit We have equal
ly good men, equally good citizens, equally
capable men whose records are uns;ained BY
connection with the party of the Chicago
convention and platform. Our duty to our
selves and our soldiers, and patriotism ant
country demand that we shall vote for these. )
Then, if you take this stand you will vote 70
and elect the Union candidates, and polti
cal reproach will be removed from us.