The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-09-05
SENATOR GRIMES.

| 01NA4O1 ONAM1O.
Under the caption Of '.Iows Mat.
tors the ricketty and timber legged
Chicago Republican proceeds to read
Senator Grimes ontof the republican
party. Alter referring to the well
known desire Of the Scnatorto retire
at theclosc Of hispresent term, the Re-
publican jumps at the conclusion that
his proposed retirement is on account
of the disapproval of his constituents
of his action on the Tariff Question,
when if it desired to be fair, or hon
est, and was we'll informed it should
have known that Mr.. Grimes an
nouncement, of his intention to re-
tire from political life, was made be-
fore his speech on the Tariff Bill Of
last winter, and that the people of
Iowa have not had the opportunity
or the inclination toexpress anything
else but their hearty approval of the
course pursued by their distinguish
ed Senator in Congress during a peri
cd approaching twelve years But
hear him: "No Western man is more
responsible for the harm done West
ern manufacturing interests by car
rying out the designs of the British
FREQ Trade League than Senator
Grimes. It was his money that was
used to divert the Chicago Tribune
from the true Republican ground,
and it could have never been forced
from the Chicago platform had it
not been for his Jealous and direct
moneyed insturmcntality."
That is decidedly cool, especially,
when we consider that it comes from
an infantile wheeling concern that
has not "tarried in Jerico until it's
beard is grown and that vascitated
between '.my policy and Repnbli-
canism until its editor got snuffed
out in his official aspirations, and that
is now supported by rich capitalist
at Springfield, and the subsidies Of
New England manufacturers. Again
it says: at is rare that any public
man has SO emphatically passed a
wet sponge across his record of rcali-
lty meritorious public service as has
Senator Grimes, oSIowa. His place
| in the Senate, Iowa can and should
| fill with a man WHO will remember
the industrial ialerests OF his State,
and what wilr foster them, and who
will not measure vast State policy
against the weight and price of Eng
iish railroad bars. There will be many
political obituaries yet to write of the
men WHO are false to the people OF
the West at a time when Of all 9th
ers they claim the aid of legislation
TO develop their vast material re-
sources. Senator Grimes politicrl
grave-stone should warn others not
TO follow in his track.
| Senator Grimes led the first col
umn that broke the enemies seried
| lines In Tocofoco Iowa, in 1854 and
as Governor and Senator since then,
has always been true to the avowed
policies and principles of the Rcpub-
lican party, as announced in its
authoritative conventions. No man
has oone more for, or better under
islands the industrial interests Of his
own State and the whole country,
and when he most eloquently and
effectually protested in his place last
winter against imposing any add.
tional burdens, upon an already sore
ly oppressed people, under the spec
ious pretcxt of encouraging home
manufactures, but which really
meant to give the screw another turn
to extort more taxes out of an agri-
cultural people to goiinto thepockets
Of rich manufacturing New England
nabobs, he met with the hearty ap-
proval, in our opinion, Of four fifths
of the men in Iowa who. voted for
Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ard 1864,
and when e'retires from public life
at the close Of his present term. he
will do SO with the welcome plaudit
OF "wcll done thou good and faithful
servant " from the lips Of grateful
constituency, and Iwo imagine be will
not be greatly annoyed at the snap.
ping ours, who follow his heels, and
vent their foul spleen upon him be-
cause he would not consent that the
great republican party shold be diver.
tod from it's true mission, to become
an instrumentof personal aggaandizc-
mcnt in the hands Of an oppressive
and msnopolizing manufacturing
interest, to the detrimcnt of the 9TH
er great interests Of the country.
There is a farcical side to this
obituary notice of tho latc J. w.
Grimes, which makes one feel like
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