Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-16

The greatcs. confession II the age has
Just been made by the Republican thinkers.
The party got beautifully thrashed in the
recent California election. The blow was so
unexpected that it caught them unpreparcd
to assign any reason on the spot. But now
Il comes, and let us see what made 30 many
thousand good. earnest. country slowing,
coppsrhesd hating Republicans kick them>
selves right Of Qua of the lap Of loyalty
whero they nigh, have KEEP, on pap suck,
ing TO their hearts content, and rush head
long into tho ranks Of "tresson." What
earthly consideration could have prompted
such unmit'eated recrcancy. few dozens
IN. hit have done 80 AMI but little would
have been thought of il, but when thous>
ands upon thousands 4 the earnestly
loyal" e; righ, up and flee fom the camp
Of tho gojly straight ~ bee line INTO the
tents Of the Philstiues. good Yeasoners
must entertain the opinion that al unusu-
ally large African must be ensconsed within
the accumulated fuel
The GdSettc knows all about il, and makes
known the facts-so called. Corruption
deep. party chcsnery and uufaithiulncSs
was the canse, says that paper. Honest
confession il good for the soul the soul Of
the Gaz,tts must feel better. 1t brands
Gorham, the Republican nominee. as cor>
rnpt man Very likely We should
naturally supposed such 70 10 the case.
Where else should we look for such ment
Fur,nermore-:he Gderid tells us that one
John Bidwell, very good man, was also
candidate Tor nomination before the Rcpub
icsn Convention, bu, ~ a good man he had
no more show IN that body than cat in a
tophct without claws. The. good was de>
feAted the bad prospered. There were not
good men enough lest in that political So
dom TO save i, the bad men had i, all their
oWn way and the Goinotrah OF Republican,
ism sidslong with its Sodom was swallow ell
down into pcrdition This is the Gczcfte's
theory. Il further leaves us to infer that
al tho good men and true of the Re-
publican party ia California lcf, the ccnven
ton and cast their influence directly in fa>
vcr Of tho unmitigated Copper eads. The
Gd-ettc seems to rather endorse this move,
sucn', from which we infer n partial convers
sion. We should infer that il is rather
pleased than otherwise that So vile Cop
perh,Al Is liaight WAS elected over that
'oniesscdly worse man Gorham. lmporr
tant admission ! The rank and file
Of the en,i,c Republican party OF
California eonlessediy meaner than
the drcxs Of copperhe adsm Wonderful
admission We thank the Gd.cnc for it,
But think you, reader, If the candidate
Gorham- reekng, ns We are told he WAS
with corrup;ion-and b, meath the support
Of the better class Of C.hiornis republicans |
had been elected think you the Gazette
would have thus unfcelinsly thrown the
light OF its dark lantern upon his character |
diformity Poor human nature is frail- l
even in some pats of Iowa-And wc f.as
that the Gosctte. had the result .b-cn o,h>
erwiss, would have cast the mantle Of chars
ity over the politically corrupt CARCASS Of
GorhAm, nay defended him with mi .ht
and main ~ one VI the most pure-an Or
nsment TO his country ard n shining light
within the party fold.