The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-22
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION

We find, in the newspapers, q cell for q
Democratic State Convention in Iowa. 1t
strikes us as both strange and familiar at the
same time. Il smacks of antiquity-of q
resurrection from the buried past. Years
have passed, revolutions in Empires have
been announced, FIVE years war has pre-
vailed in our own country, and swept hun
dreds Of thousands TO their graves, and
peace has returned, and the swords of our
gallant soldiers have been converted into
plough shares and pruning hooks, since the
people have been permitted TO read straight
out call for a Democratic State Convention
in Iowa, Union Tickets Soldier Tickets, .
Conservative Tickets, peoples Tickets, >
johnson Tickets, and all manner of Con-
glomerate Tickets have been put in nomins.
tion by the opponents of the Government
during the war, and since its close, but nary
Democratic Ticket, since that from which
Judge Mason was forced to withdraw his
name.
But row, since it is demonstrated that no
man is to be punished for treason since the
last and Chief Rebel, the redoubtable JEFF.
Davis, has been released, the Democracy OF
Iowa feel encouraged and emboldened, and
once more come before the public under
their true colors, and at the call OF
their old Leaders. The only allu.
sion in their call, from which one
might infer that they had not been enjoying a
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep since the palmy days
of Gen. jackson, is that which bases the rep
resenisuon in the State Convention, upon the
vote cas-, for the "possum ticket or "sol.
diers candidate, at the last gubernatorial
election.
}. NJ. Elwood ''Old Facts and Figures Of
ante-war times, signs the call as Chairman OF
the Committee and, as is very natural ex-
presses the firm conviction that "the integrity
OF the Union, and the perretuity Of free in,
stltutious, depend on the distinctive measures
maintained by the Democratic party
Now those distinctive measures, as most
recently manifested, we're support Of slavery,
aud of slavery extension: opposition TO coer
cion, denunciation Of the war for the Union
and villihcation of its supporters, and uncon.
cealed sympathy for the rebels in arms. And
the final elimination of distinctive Democrat
&c measures in the North, was the declaration
in the National Convention, at Chicago, tha
the war for the Union had proved failure.
We don't believe that the people of lows
regard the measures adopted by jeff Davis
IL
nor the measures of the copperhead Democ
racy at all essential to the s'irtegrity o
the Union or the perpetuation of fre,
institutions" On the contrary the people o
Iowa are firmly and unalterably of tn,
opinion that the Union would hav,
been disrupted, and our Free Institution
would have been overthrow, unless the pa
triotic soldiers of the Union had rallied il
arms, to crush out distinctive Democratic
measures, and unless the people had rallied
10 the polls to defes, the sympathetic Cop
perheads Of the North, who sought to max,
the war for the Union failure. And W,
ventsre the prediction that, however much J
M. Elwood and his confreres may desire to ig
more the last seven years series Of distinct
tive Democratic measures the people o
Iowa will never forget nor forgive the leader
of party which, in their effort TO make 30
htical capital, by sympathy with their South
ern brethren, had well nigh made shipwrecl
OF the Union, and of our Free Institutions