The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-07-16

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BHlck PomERoY on THE NOMINEES
TIE LaCff6ase Democrat OF the 9Th has the
Editors opinion ofthe nominees Of the Con-
eerntbh' fof tresdent and We President.
TO be sure these opinions we're uttered !
acoa Nd. dJ4 before the nomination. u Seys
mouEand Blair, but then, Brick expresses
shinseif 70 hdAfsiy that his-dpiniuss onght to
stand good even since the parties he de.
mguDces have bee ONE lbe peu ocrstic. stand
ard bearers. Here is the article
ssg.eps<.sErAouR Still. Al woHk.
Ne notice fhat Governor Seymour made
speech in New York city the 25th Of June, in
which the Telegraph Gays, he 'proeeeded to reite-
rate his views prnerly expressed on the ipaocial
question. Wat those views arc, as contained In
his Albany SPEECH, our readers are fully informed
precisely thoic affirmed b. the -Jaeohins at their
Chicago Convection gold for the bondholders..
Iags for he people.
II is well known that Governor seymour is OPP.
losed TO touching the financial auestion--wants
10 leave II stan rs il is all in favor Of the bond
holders. and against the peeple--gold, and 70
taxes to pay, fob the former, and rags, aud nlihe
taxes to pay, fof the latter
With characteristic sophisiry, he rays that '.our
debt Is not due nntil fifteen years from this time.
Therefore he saFs its present DISCUSSION is useless
Iii is not q practical question. How false.
Though the bonllholders not eah for payment
under fifteen yesrs, the Government bag a right
tonaks payment Of all the five enthusiastically
iwn7thirds Of Ihs whole debt, atany time after Ave
years from their date, which period has already
elapsed on large share Of them, and viii SOUP
expffcUn them Nh. $50,
Just SO fast as Any u those bond. arc ralruned
with gfesnhssks, the gold iasstxN Which q esting
out the tubbtancs Of the peopls. ceasea, and e
burdens.
OF the fearful consequences Of following Cover
nspseyyYrs Ars ~ aa~c laetdors ~
r&ssse1 but view 3sand vc ios rspot ttheAs on the
eve ofSvhcsgreht event which r 70 determine the
destiny of the AafericaH people.
Governof Seymour II trying to put the public
mind asleep upon the bond question, and leave
the plowholders Y sweat and staSger, and starye,
under The load offtaxatiun, ~ RAJ lhya bondholl.
erltbct3A nt , niual iuterat hs44 md thsir
ftaes - bdH6lsli,y telling M rsanty thit the
ansncsaf que sion shdalfd not'bo brought into the
cansas4 this YEAR, that everything well enough
as it u, II Won Win only make tho Government
eeonom II II its expenditures. and that a genera
ton hence viii Be tifae enovsht 10 talk about the
national debt
How false and deceptive.
Ii takes enc hundred and twenty i've millions
in gell-say oneI hundred and seventy five mil
lsens in greenhacfss, at present dcpreciation-to
pay she interest IN the s,oads. This load upon
ildustry--this dtain upea the resources Of tbs
piowhohlers- d5ynfror ST ymour pro poses tor con-
tinue without chhn.s Tor a generation or more.
Why
Because he has NOT courage to grapple with the
question AAasa state s,pan aad aparlot. sa A.8
And iecanse the hondholders have got him in
their tolls. and ARE using him to uphold their ia
terests IS ~
IsroLHRABLE--rnE nLAIEs.
III isSreporteIi that Montgomery Blair say.
that THE candidates NOW DreminentIv
aained willIeceiHe the Democratic soninaiion At
New York, and TIA. the party can only be nated
u bri1gipg fexwdtsi ne mes. K~eaaew. r.
isnah shf 4 shs above n3uoD tAap DEMOCRATIC
natnrsScsW bess. / To have one 81 thafpestilent
clair family talking thus oracuarly about tllc af.
fairs Of the Democratic party is the mos, impuk
dent thing Of the day.
What have the Blairs in common with the Dem
acsatic party thld Blair has been virucntly
working agairst il, and doing il all the harm in
his power, for moro than twenty years. and during
all this titneembtadhg The whels Of their poiti-
cal Ewes = the youHg Blairs have been ready and
astiye eo-workcfs With teer fnther in feeding his
hate aud minister1g TO his thirst for vengeance
aga rs. the Democratic party.
They all contributed, TO the extent Of that,
ability. 10 widen the gulf and increase the bitter.
ness bstwcen the Nprth and ths South, which led
70 the hate tremendous convu lscns They were
III every mosemcnt Nor the promotion Of sectional
division and hostility from the Freesoi detection.
under The y an Barensy in leI6s7sS--mainly insti-
gated and engineered by old Bair-until the cleo
lion OF Lincoln. and the Inauguration Of cbolition
dabelism in the capitol Of the Union
tine 81 the young Blairs member of Lincolnss
Cabinet, the other dne Of his military tool, --,he
CIVILIAN damning himself forever As public man.
and placing an imfassable barrier between him
self and I'll true dshocratic fellow ship By hold
violation Of law. ahl audacioua defiance Of the
Constitution, in excluding from the mails All
Democratic papers which con spiciously differed in
opinion from the policy and measures Of the LIN.
IN admnlsfration, land when respectfully asked
by the fsftief aggrieved why, apd by what an
ihority such action vas taken against them. inso.
ensiy assyesc4 as would letelant boy, thsn
queAisnei Why Ac had been guilty of certain mis-.
L conduct, did it because had a mind 10 =,
and the military member of the Blair family ma
king his first demonstration in the Reld bv lea,jin
bis regiment of brutal rufians against the un
armed popuaee of st. Louis, indiscri,ninateI,
shooting down in thefrowded streets men, women.
and children, murdeFing By Wholesale an nnof
isnd,ag population. land submitting deed Of
frueity htacEer ana more objectionable than any
4 q Nhtch the infamous Suwarrow wa. ever puiItv
+ anu, N contrast VITA which, the acts of woman
"li?pihs Haylaus whom the sturdy aud indie
hahi brewers OF Londs,n 20 mcrcilessly booted and
Pehea, appear decent and humane. And this he
TOO, did 'becanse be had mind to =.
IN thus Hair family, whose history i Inn.
fru,htois sKetched which now claims position
anu voice IN the Democratic party, and even A.
sames 20 diotate fss nomination for the Presidsn.
81 - sacs y fia. thf modesty TO claim the nom
NATION iof one OF its Own members--the butcher
Of St. LOUISE the MOE youne ..ntl.s.,- - -
aalols,y ea.sncsa nsiwesn the speakerrhip and !
blieaaief aensTA.enip and to whom Lincoln SO
kina'y sossed ING iaffef when The fosmst was not
Has the Democratic tarty fallen ~ Il. !.
used by such creatures1 Is it so craven :. - X
low sucn ieliowsto say What it shall do or what Il
shall not do sv.ass :
1t is possible, indeed, it. Is mora than rroh
abs Ihas bfack foIpefoy viii not OILY sup
poe. Seymour and hlhir. but that he will be,
lubfass and sflumphhnt over their nomina.
tions<s bsf, sssssAeie we have above, his
81 opinion Of them. - $
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8Tna Sevguh ktdlS, Abs beswind4.ans
this coupAluts1S ahaa ~ tie nomination
of Seymour tbs DensssAstc parsy have elect
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