The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-03-26
The State House Once More.
From the State Register.

~ 0U0uESTlON.-DE0T uSgSN6.-l
notice my good friends OF the HACK
eye and Ottumwa Courier are down
on the bill for the appropriation to
build q State Capitol building. ] am
sorry for this, and somewhat surpris
ed att. When these editors were
at the Capitol some three months
since az candidates for State Printer
they had some personal friends here.
abouts who were also friends to the
Capitol building and who heard moth
ing then of their opposition to this
measure. The boy who conldn't.lick
the other boy but took his revenge
by making mouths at the other boys
sister never grew to be great man.
merely wish to say az . friend to
the Hdrkeye man and the Courier
that l hope they will not weaken
their future prospects in life by slop-
ping over about this appropriation. /
still believe there is q culture" for
Iowa, for the Republican party and
for the He.ckeye and Courier. The
great State of Iowa can build State
Capitol building ana the "people"
don't feel as sore as my good friends
do about this little 'unpleasantness''
of the State Printing. The Republi-
can party has made itself what it lie
by "doing something" for the State,
by building monuments to her great
ness, her enterprise and her service
Of humanity.
A REPUBLICAN TAX PAYER.
REMARKS.
The editor Of the Courier has to say
in reply to this anonymous scribbler,
who has ambuscaded himself behind
acatch penny signature, from which
to discharge his harmless paper pei.
lets, that he opposed this State House
swindle at its inception, and has done
90 up to the present time in all its
phases, that ::the statement that he
kept his hostility in allegiance during
the fight for State Printer, in which
he had the effrontery to allow his
name to be used against the heredi
tary State Printerringat Des Moines,
is wiltul lie, that for the simple in
discretion Of presuming to be a can.
didate for that Office he is duly peni-
tent, and that he now favors the cleo.
ton of the publisher of the Register,
or some other convenient man around
that concern, for State Printer dur
ing their natural lives, and after
them in the regular order of success.
sion, their male heirs, assigns, and
administrators forever.
We furthermore desire to give no.
tice to tho personal friends" who
pretended to favor our nomination
for State Printer-because as this
writer intimates-that it was un.
derstood that we at any time, or for
any consideration, favored this ini-
putty, that those friendly relations
are hereby dissolved by the mutual
consent" of this writer.
As to the Courier weakening itself
by shopping over" on this question,
we have to add that we can afford to
take on: chances with the entire'press
ofths State, not livingunder the shad-
ow of public buildings-sustaine as
we are by thealmost unanimous voice
of the people, and shall try and wor-
ry along without the drippings from
these public tables, or the salary as
one Of the Commissioners of this
State House grab, which was recent
" rendered US by party claiming
authority from the ring to act in the
matter, in consideration of q cessation
IF hostilities on our part.