The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-06-30
THE HIGH AND MIGHTY ooscLAvE.

There was twenty-five Of them Falstaf.
fan brigade. Five Of them were from Lee
and FIVE from Scotland all them, q greater
proportion than the Virgins of Parable,
were foolish. Polk county alone Of all the
9th District turned out wax fgger" spec
linen. The lean -stomached corps(e) Of
bread-and butter politicians, hungering and
thirsting after official pabulum, and being
sweet upon Andy because they think Andy
will fill em met in Des Moines on Wednesday
The Kangaroo possum-wax-6ggers, mar
shaled by Thomas Fl. Brigadler General
Breves Junior, with his political grave clothes
about him and In very Obi how doleful
manner, organized. Cof~ G. H. MCKAY, Of
Lee county was chosen Chairman We
hsvn't met anybody that knows who the said
MoKAr is. J. W. STUART, Of Scott, and
JAEGER, of Lee, we're made Vice Presidents,
McK1NSIE, of Clayton, and BARrLEE, of
Polk, Secretaries. Then a platform was
manufactured. It is big Whereas proan-
ing under twelve resolutions.
The meeting then proceeded to nominate :
ii. D.. VI.
Anda, of Delaware county. for Secretary OF
State; Brevet Brig. Gen. Thomas Hart Ben
ton, jr., nominated Gen. Geo. A. Stone. of
Perry county, for Treasurer of State; John
r. Secon, of Polk county, nominated Capt
Robert w. Cross, Of Polk county, for Audi.
tor Brevet Brig Gen Thomas Hart Benton
jr., nominated L. P. Mckenzie, of Clayton
county, for Register of State Land Office,
and said he had been in McKennie's shop in
Clayton, and he was q good man; Edwards,
of Lee county, nominated Webster Ballinger
of Lee county. for Attorney General; Ed
wards, of Lee county, nominated Capt. ]. w
sennett, of Jasper county, for Supreme
Court Reporter John R. Lyon, of Polk
county, for Clerk of Supreme Court.
All the gentlemen nominated ware de.
clared nominated by accamation.
After some talk. the Central Committee
was appointed by nomination. Brevet Brig.
Gen. Benton, jr., nominated Mr.. Chase, o1
Fayette, and Stewart, of Scott county; as
members Of the Central Committee Mr..
Edwards. of Lee, nominated Brevet Brig
Gen. Thomas Hart Benton, jr.; Lauren
Dewey, of Henry, John n. Lyon, of Polk
and ]. B. Atchison, of Marion county, were
also placed on the same committee, and the
committee empowered to 6ll vacancies.
Then the wax-fgger show petered out, and
there won't be enough Of it left by fall ,o
require burial.
We publish in another column an editorial
from the Chicago Times on the new political
programme, which contemrlates the fusion
Of Copperheads aud rebels under the had OF
renegade thimble.rigging Republicans. The
Times don't like the programme, SCOTS at the
puppets put forward to introduce it to the
people, snubs T. W. and the artful dodgers
who finger the wines, but after all does no,
boldly denounce the scheme.
The truth is the editor has latent suspicion
that VALANDIGHAM is in the "ring' as well q.
THuRLow WEED, and he fancies he hears the
faint tinkle of that bell Of SEwARD's, which
performed such wonders during the war
And above all he sees in the distance tn,
form of A. j. looming up over the heads o
the signers Of the call, and bearing on BIZ
shoulders and in both hands large bundles Q
appointments and commissions to fat office.
tor the leaders Of every stripe who will rail-,
under this call of KNAPP / Co., and form
new party to elect the said A. j. President
The scheme is too wide spread for the ed
tor Of the Times to resist, and he will not on
ly suocumb. but will ere long enter into
heartily and advocate it enthusastcly. Hi
old leaders, JEFF DAVIS and VALAxDlGHAM
as well as his new leaders, A. J. and T. w.
are in the plot, and the democratic party
will be sold out by its leaders to the new con
cern, and the editor of the Times will sig
the transfer for q consideration, notwith
standing he fights shy now.
The Constitution would absolve the Cop
perhead Democracy from completely with th
rebel Democracy, and would deny the exis,
ence Of treason in Mr.. BucnAsAS's cah;ne
because "Gen. DIX, Jo. Holr and the d;