The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-10-07
From the Daily Courier of 5th inst.
Gillaspy Orateth.

hours to exhaust the stock of cast
wind which had accumulated in his
capacious belly, during which time
he bloviated much about the public
and private honesty and morality Of
the democratic party, collectively and
individually, and of the dishonesty
and corruption of the Republican
party, which has by-the-way main
tanned such an unparalleled era Of
prosperity during the past years as
to elevate the aforesaid Gillaspy from
bankruptcy, to be one of the richest
men in Iowa.
When his prospective Excellency
bloviates again, on the comparative
private and public morality ofthe two
parties, we hope he will explain how
one Geo. Gillaspy went into the offices
Of Secretary and Treasurer Of the Des
Moines Improvement bare-footed,
and came out reputed millionaire,
and during whose administration the
finest appropriation ever made to any
State, was frlttered away, leaving
nothing to show for it, but a few
piles Of sandstone here and there on
the river. ........ e..
He will also accommodate many
enquiring friends by explaining the
aaodus operandi of a millionaire, oper-
ating heavily on change in Chicago
and elsewhere, in pork, lard, ETC., du-
ring prosperous seasons, building fine
houses, and living like Prince, and
yet never paying cent of internal
revenue tax, from the day the law
was passed.
He will, moreover, confer last.
ing benefit to the cause Of public
and private morality, of which he
stands forth as the champion and
special exponent, by explaining and
making consistent with his preach
ing, the practicing ola wealthy man
who owns largely in real estate, who
becomes instrumental IN inducing
his neighbors to give their notes and
pay them, to secure railroad, but
who himself, when the pinch of pay
ment comes, and after he has had his
property doubled in value by the eff
forts Of his neighbors, refuses to pay
his own note, and goes into court
and raises all sorts of subtcrfuges,
and finally swears that he can't get
justice done him in his own or neigh.
boring counties, and then gets q
change of venue to a distant county,
having in view the ultimate and to.
tai non-payment and reputation OF
his obligations, after having received
ten times the consideration of his
note.
After having satisfactorily ex.
planned these matters, he might
descanton the official purity Of dem.
osratic officials in general, (when
Iowa had them,) as shown in the
case OF one DR.. J. B. Eads, demo.
cratic Superintendent of Public In.
struction in Iowa, who essayed to
steal all the school funds in the state.
but who got away with only about
$50, 900.
Of course, during the contempla-
tedlachrymose jeremaid over Repub-
lican immortality and general scala.
waggery, he could not fail to refer to
the bright and shining example OF
one DR.. J. II. nt,-for over TWEEN
ty-five years the great apostle Of
Wapello county virtue and democra-
cy.
But the theme expands before us,
and we must close for the present,
without more than merely abiding
to Floyd, Thompson, Toucy, Buch-
anan, Cobb Il Co., as democratic
saints with national regulations,
whom the eloquent George could use
to eminent advantage in pointing his
morals and adjoining his tales, on his
grea. fortes, to-wit: the private and
public virtue and morality of the
immaculate democratic party.