The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-07-16
Republican State Ticket.

For MEMBER OF Congress.
Fourth District VIM. Loughridge.
Their Platform and Candid.
The nomination. Of Horatio Sey.
mour over Pendleton and all his com
potitors, seems now. in the light Of
recent events, to have been . fore
gone conclusion, determined on BY
the Copperhead leaders from the
start.
He was the choice Of the leading
monied men east, Of the party il
1864, and was only abandoned on &C
count Of the supposed necessity Of
heading their ticket during the war
with q quasi military man.
He is the special pct and protege Of
August Belmont, the American agent
of the great European Rothschild's
who hold in their different Houses in
Frankfort, Paris, London, Berlin and
Vienna, over i've hundred millions Of
American securities.
In view Of the alacrisy with which
he has accepted the nomination, and
jumped aboard their platform after
his avowai that he could not do &C
without dishonoring himself, and en-
dangering the ticket, the conclusion
is irresistible that he was all the time
in the hands of his bondholdinp
trainers to be sprung upon the Con,
vention at the appropriate time, after
the other candidates had cut their
own throats, and that his prudish
protest was but repetition Of the
old story,
"A little still she strove, and much rs.
SIS, pented,"
Sand whispering I will ne'er consent,
Y consented"
Democratic platforms are notori-
ously like pie crusts-made to be
broken-and with his antecedents
before us, and knowing that he was
nominated by the money, and thro'
the influence Of the great American
king Of Bondholders, August Bel.
mont, tits fair and legitimate to con-
slider Horatio Seymour as standing
by bis own platform as promulgated
from time to time to the American
people within the last few months,
and to regard him a. loathing and
splitting upon thsj uggle that waa
gotten up blythe Pendlston manipu.
iators upon which no now pretenda
TO stand to secure tho Presidential
bauble.
We prefer, therefore, to Judge
Seymour by his own platform, DELHI
erately made rather than by the la
test New York Confidence gam q
which be is now playing.
March 18th last he spoke in TIL
Cooper Institute as follows:
H IT is a mistake to suppose that III
interests of the bondh0lder and the ia,
payers are dntngonistic. = Tn,
national credit can't DO bought at
profit unless the nations character il
dishonored. zoe come into pove
there DiU be no diseredit on our cuyyen
cy, no speculation In paying our bond
III paper. = Our friends forge,
the force of their own argument
When they show how the debt viii
J be paid and taxation lightened, By
economy and honesty, they will show
how our paper money will be made
asgood az gold. The downward course
Of men in power admits of traf8ckina
in tho honoro the country. They
con sink it to that point that the pay.
ment Of tho debt will be an easy mat.
ter, but will be ut the cost of the hon
or, the peace and welfare ofour land
While, therefore, we may differ as to
the construction Of the contract with
the public creditor. we must not con.
found the position ofthosc who think
it right to pay in paper, but ,oho bat.
tie TO make tiat parer as good as gold,
with the position ofthoae who mean
not only TO pay ii paper, but who are
also destroying the value of that pa.
per. That is Reputation. There is
nothing to fear from those who think
BY the contract you should take the
paper, if they take course which
will make that paper good as gold
There is everything to fear from those
who ere driving on to. bankruptcy,
and it matters not what their pro-
LESSONS may be-"
June 2eth only few days before
his nomination he spoke as follows :
"Of alytAe devices to cheat honest
ta5or, to paralyze industry, to degrade
public morals, and to turn business pur-
suits into rechless gambling, none has
been so huytful as a shifting standard
Of ualue, a debased and lying currency.
: = = The labor of the West
put its earnings in a large degreeinto
lands, which are tax burdened. Tho
labor OF the East puts it's earnings in
to a savings banks, life insurance, or
IN other forms of moneyed invest
ment. Thus they are deeply inter-
ested ia Government bonds.
All Of the funds Of savings banks and
life insurance companies are not put
in Government bonds. but they hold