The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-07-23

The Consultation says Of the financial plank
OF the Republican platform:
Though purposey framed so as to be suseepti-
HE of a double construction, the press and the
leaders Of the party, less than the action Of the
radical majority in congress, have given the piat
form the Interpretation which it must bear through
the canvass. That Interpretation is that the hse-
twenties shall be PAID IN GOLD.
Now that is an immeasurs BIZ he y 2 can
state the case much better than that, tell just
the simple truth Of the whole financial ques-
tor.
CIagett and his party, the unhung sympa-
thzers with rebellion and traitors, are mad
because the Union Republican party put I'M
der that pet Of the democracy-the Southern
e,nancipated slaves will not bepaid. Since
Confederacy.
They are mad because the rebel debt and
the price ofthe this Democratic debt, the price
Of the rebel effort to destroy the government IS
not to be paid, they are determined that the Re-
publican and Union debt, the price Of eaying
the government, shall not be paid. For that
purpose the Pendleton greenback policy
which Clagett and the Democracy are so clem.
orous for, was invented For refusing to pay
the debt at all and paying it in papsr rags
without value amount to the same thing. Let
| this purpose Of the Democracy be we'll I'M
| dcrstood. They claim that their greehback
policy is for the interest Of the laboring
classes. This is SO transparency false that
any man with three grains of common sense
can see that that policy would utterly lmpov-
erish the laboring classes, and the crippled
soldiery and the orphans and widows OF sol
diers that live upon pensions. Here IS the
difference. The Democracy propose that the
debt shall not be paid at all, and to this end
/ they propose to make the currency OF nc
| value. The Republicans are not pledged te
pay in gold-they havnt put any such con
struction on our platform. They propose &c
make the currency as good as gold and ther
/ it will make no odds whether debts are paic
| in specie or in paper
One error prevails throughout the West al
most universally and is made the basis Of {
vast deal Of very bitter partisan abuse ans
| misrepresentation Of New England. II i
usually understood that the New Englanc
States are almost exclusively Interested IL
manufactures, and that the great bulk OF th'
manufactures Of the United States are pro
duced in New England.
Now the truth is, as verified by official sta
,isties, that New England does hut one-tourtl
of the manufacturing Of the country AM
that the two States Of New York and Penn
sylyaaia produce from thirty to fifty per cent
more manufacturing per annum than al NeE
England combined.
Political.
The anagram of the words :" Vote f
II oratio Seymour il TOR you 10 have NOR
riots The one contains the other exactly
nothing more or less.
"A fair reply was that made by Pitts
field Democrat, whose sympathy with th
war against the rebellion was not excessive
TO the question, !" How do things look q
New York;" ~ -Seems to me it look
damnaby like another lost canse !"
The Cincinnati Commercial calls Sey
mour the = Great Decliner.'
The New York correspondent Of tn
Philadelphia Ledger says: Mayor Hoflma
will unquestionably be the Democratic can
didate for Governor. Things are taking tina
shape
The Upton Times, the most inhuentia
Democratic paper in he, is,h Congressional
District Of Indiana, has renpunced Democ
racy and taken an independent position. 9Th
New y ork infamy. as it terms the nomina
ton OF Seymour and Blair, caused tn
change.
Hon. James l.. Seward, ex Member G
Congress, made strong Republican speec
in Atlanta, Ga, on the 10th inst r. sal
the present ruined condition of Georgia wa
the result of the teachings Of such men a
Toombs, Cobb, Ben. Hill, and Andrew John
son.