The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-07-21

turn over the control Of the to the hands
traitors and their allies and in defeating The purposes
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THE SPIRIT OF PARTIES.
What party will do Il better determined |
by its spirit than by planks or platforms.
For nearly quarter of century preceding
the rebs3laps thN penoxacy deceived the
people by platforms and undeceived then by
its policy. Ths- Art ef-the sophist and the
adroitnessM - jksners fouad scope for
, action E fdsmsss NJ the true spirit Of
the party hA1 10 cete ,Sn in administrative
policy. When that split had its true mani
,festation JIM the. cnorwities Of sleXeyy-Wopa.
y disa 4 Pier4 ladp 3F and
F'tsesson hnlSi BuchdAs j aSl4Sli tdged
it by what it done, judged it by its spirih
caring nothing for What itsaid in State Or
, National platforms. as-c q 4a0
= Whatconld You ten Of what The Republi>
can party would do during that first term
of Abraham Lincoln, by the Chicago plat
form Of 1860? Scarce anything at all. Or
what could you tell of what was going to be
the policy Of the Republican party in rsaon>
ssructinR by cStAaldag the iBalknoref plat
form of 1864? There was nothing, there
could be nothing, of all this in our platforms.
1t WAS the spirit Of the party that determined
everything. From 1860 to 1864 no Republi.
can thought of looking at that Chicago plat
form'd lyeQko t4hst AZ opinion as to what
should be the policy of Mr.. Lincoln. From
= that 10Th day of April, 1865, to this 1resent,
10 Hepublican has been spirited R66gh to
refer to that Baltimore platform Of 1864 to
:, 6nd arpolicy for Mr., Johnson or Congress.
Z ThA Ahi2t he n k1ss ILL., 49,
of loyalty of lore for the Uniou, and of free
government, and Of human rights and hatred
of slavery, and SO it had not to put itself to
the study Of the planks of its party creed,
when in 1861 the slave power raised the
standard of revolt against the just authority
Of the Government. From its very nature
i it'd Splisy wa affirmed and hsc@sitstel That
Proclamation Of Emancipation was as mnch
Republican measure as though it had been
provided for in the Republican national pla.-
, form, J. Ehe, .rscoustruction policy Of this
Radical Congress has been as thoroughly
Republican ~ though every feature and par
ticular of it had been carefully indicated in
the Baltimore platform. s. i ~
So of the Democracy during the war.
There was nothing Of New York riots. And
Of Esisk'se e she daft, and Of conspiracy,
and The other Democratic exhibitions of
dsloyaly, appearing on the surface of their
platforms. These exhibitions grew out Of
the spirit of the party, and from the more
odious and characteristic features of the par
ty'srecord during the war. The spirit of the
Chicago Convention of 1864 was infinitely
worse than ~ PLATFORM And in. our own
kStats hep etAossAcy tAat opr loyh people.
distrusted and hated and voted against,
doesn't appear in the confessions of political
faith that party made when ii met in cony en-.
9 tons. li.ssss itase So saisssa - p
Two parties now claim for their candidates
the support Of the people of Iowa. There is
more Of both these parties than appears in
the platform 81 either. 1t is by the spirit,
manifested by the fruit 1T has borne in the
past, that each of these parties is to be
known. In and with the Republican party
the patriot sons of Iowa have voted and
fought during the years Of the strife for the
preservation Of the life Of the nation. In the
spirit that has animated it in the past that
party proposes ogo on to do its work in the
fuaqrs The Denycrsey has "fruits ~ the
spirit forming its record, and by which,
more than by it, platform it isto be judged
More uncompromisingly than ever, that party
i nov pdts itself npen il past record II has
taken for its candidates men who, for many
years, in peace and war, have been in full
Democratic communion, unswervingly ad-
herring to party principles, and stoutly de-
Tending the ultraist party policy. They have
made splatform, But that platform can but
partially meet, and even thus far may deceit
fully meet, the questions of administrative
policy that srisesin State and nation. fQues-
tions of reconstruction, of matters growing
out of the war for the Union, will arise. All
these the Democracy propose TO meet and
settle in the spirit that made the Iowa D..
= mocssey tpe Allies Of JEFF. Dayis and the
slave power in the years preceding the Re
bellion; in the spirit that made them hostile
to the administration of Abraham Lincoln,
and the side Of the Government during that
struggle. Are the soldiers and loyal people
IF this eouney resdy p Hu>inssate jeff Ds
Wis and the old regime in the South Frank
lin Pierce, James Buchanan, and the old re-
gina y The North? =. Are the psople Of this
StAees a1y ID, csntribpA 70 thn tesalt by re-
inses1 Ckarl0 Mssoa I'D Mold regime
N 1cwG1 Forbid It every 90 Who has had
any love for his country during these recent
anxious and bloody years.
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