The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-09-07
HARD AT WORK.

The Democratic mountain is laboring. A
miserable, pitiable, little mouse, will come of
it. 1t is enough to excite the profoundest
sympathies Of every well disposed person to
note the agony of effort with which the party
of great Immoral Ideas aud Disloyal Practices
Is manufacturing its usual minority in Iowa
an this present campaign. An unconsciona.
BILE amount of democratic breath, windy
speech, falsehood, rhodomontade, bad logic
ard worse grammar is poured out upon the
enduring public, and especially upon the pa.
tent faithful of the household of Charles
Jefferson Davis Mason forty thou
sand Republican majority will come of it, Of
course, when the voting is done in October.
From democratic standpoint, we take IT,
that looks like " ow er muckle work for
over little pay
Charles Jefferson Davis Mason Of the Dis.
srict of Columbia is pleading the cause of
the rebels, in the upper part of the State.
We apprehend he will make little impression
upon the radical souls of the radical people
who yearly give radical mejorities in that
section. Charles J. d. can return to
bis home in the d. Z. with inten-
SIZED disgust al the logged immoveableness
OF Iowa loyalty. He will emerge again,
however, when the Iowa Democracy want to
make sacrifices of candidates, Henry Clay
Dean is dividing the labors Of Charles J. D.,
and has the Southern part of the State for his
field Of operations. Since his regular itin-
erancy, and his being sent to yellow
Springs he has never bad q worse paying
circuit At most CT his appointments the
faithful turn out well, and when there ism t
Circus or original . Fat Man show, else.
where on the grounds, as ut keosauqua re-
Gently, and offering greater attractions to the
Democratic sovereigns than Dean com bined
IN his exhibition, he takes the crowd. He
d'sgusts 1t, too, We are sorry to learn. In
fact ne is less blackguard aud talks more
deeently in this campaign, than is his wont,
and he has fallen in Democratic. favor &C
ecrdingly. He is cnlighte ming the I'M
reconstructed sovereigns of "Stumptown I"
about this time, its euphonious and elegant
appelatiou is high proof that it is a proper
place for Dean to be. IF the inhabitants of
that borough think this Islander on that mu>
niepaiity they can consider it retfac,ed
Besides these, there are hosts of candi>
dates, and small fry politicians, inside Of
each county, iustilling aud distiling at town
ship cross roads, the spirit of modern De,
mocracy. We fail to find that they are ac-
complishing anything by all this work. We
don't hear of loyal man whom they have
seduced frou, his integrity. We don't learn
oil anybody who has marched under the VIC
ferrous colors of the great loyal National
Republican party that proposes to fall into
the ranks Of Charles Jefferson Davis Mason
Co., except as an assailant. They have
shown that their past profession of love and
sympathy for Union soldiers, was bosh and
humbug, by their State and county nomina.
sions Of straight>out, original, anti,coercion
Democrats of the Vallandigham stripe. In
consequence Of this, many too easily per,
suaded soldiers that had been taken in Dem
ocratic snares at previous elections, have had
their eyes opened, their backbones stiffen.
ed, and they will not act further with the
Democracy.
So will the latter have its pains for it's Ia.
Dor. Its elaborate and wearisome haraneues
in defense Of State Rights, make no impress
sion upon the public, whose reader and cor
recter intuitions tell them with convincing
force, that all the fne>spun arguments Of
Democratic logicans on this score we're ans
wered by the rebellion. and are as idle aud
useless now as defence of the Pharaohs for
the oppression Of Israel. Its insdious talk
about tayatien Of Bonds, and covert counsel
to Reputation, is understood by the people
in its TRUE rebel character. They understand
that. stripped of its specious coverings. 1t is
black, deformed, odious. yet genuine Dis.
LOYALTY, which prompts the Democracy to
the stand Il takes on this subject. They I'M.
derstaud that, as thro' love and sympathy for
treason and rebellion, the Democracy didn'.
want this debt contracted BY the var for the
Union. So, nov. through continuing love
for treAsoo and rebellion, the Democracy
does not want that debt paid. 1t1ao~V that
debt is the price paid TO loyalty for putting
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