Year: 1865

dicste that the BENTON dodge of the Copper
head leaders is about ''played OUT At the
opening of the compaign few soldiers pitch
ed in here and there and made good deal of
noise, but the mass of the soldiers throughout
the State saw through the arrant humbug and
in league with the Northern friends of the
Southern rebels. And in one-half the coun.
ties of the State it has been impossible to find
a sufficient number of soldiers to fill up their
county tickets. Even in such county as
Van Buren, the Copperheads have been una
BILE to induce any soldiers to stand nomina-
ton at their hands. and they have only one
or two candidates in the field for county Off
ces. And such is the case in many other
counties while in many counties of the State
no effort has been made to get up BENTON
county ticket and no effort will be made for
BENTON.


There are but four counties in the State so
far as we know, that our friends expect to
lose at the approaching election; and if any
others do go against us on the Legislative
ticket, our calculations are greatly at fault
and We shall be much disappointed.


The so-called soldiers movement was start
ed in this county al the suggestion Eof Judge
Mason, the chairman of the National Dem
ocratic Association, at Washington city. 1t
has been regarded as much stronger here
than in any other county of the State, and
yet the Copperhead leaders dared not, and
did not trust soldiers to fill the chief positions
on their ticket, and the soldier element in
support of the Copperhead manipulated con-
eern has gradually "played off " on it, and
are protesting most vigorously against it


There were a few MAHoSy and MCCLELLAN
sohers from Iowa in the field, and they still
stick to the Copperhead creed and the Cop
perhead ticket and make a great parade over
the matter. But we know very few soldiers
who have heretofore acted with the Union
party that have gone over to the Copperheads.


There are other causes that will doubtless
reduce our majority somewhat in this county,
but unless our friends stay away from the
polls, it is hardly possible for the Copper
heads to overcome the 500 majority cast for
LINCOLN by the citizens and soldiers of Lee
county.


Let the people of keokuk come up to the
work and elect our county ticket and the
Union candidates for the Legislature Our
county and our city will have favors to ask OF
the Legislature, business to be done in our
interests, measures of general and of a
special character that we shall feel deep in
terest in Is it wise or prudent to send Cop
perhead members to constitute portion of a
lean and despised minority in a body over
whelmingly and enthusiastically Union. Why,
the few Copperheads and BENTON soldiers
who will be returned to the Legislature, will
. find no favor and have no influence in a Leg
islature of which at least nine tenths of the
members will be intensely hostile to them po-
htically-


Suppose now our citizens wanted to accom-
plish any thing of local or general charcter,
and should meet in town or county meeting
to appoint committee TO 60 to Des Moines,
would we be so stupid as to send leading Cop
perheads to influence the Union General AS
sembly and Governor SroNE in our favor.
Let our people then act sensibly now, and
elect permanent committee OF Union men to
the Legislature who are friends 0f the con-
trolling party in the legislature.