The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-10-28
The MIDDLE,

1t is very hard to understand the
Sight that is now going on in politics
IN tho city of Chicago, Ill. The
Tribune comes to us day after day
with its editorial columns loaded
down with caustic articles upon the
subjcc, to the exclusion of every
thing else, and it with the Republican
and journal join hands with Storey,
OF the Times in common fight
The Tribune says: "Citizens Of Chi.
>'cago should bear in mind that the
"presont is the only opportunity Of
<'efiecting official reform in this coun.
'ty that will offer for years. Two
syears hence there will be an cleo
lion all over the country for q new
Congress, and for state officers, in.
''cluding members Of the Legislature
and party lines will necessarily be
strictly drawn"
The cry on the part Of these bolt
ers of the regular Republican nomi-
nccs 10 that Republican officials have
been guilty OF populations and gross
wrongs. On the other hand tho
Post denies these things and calls up
on the Republicans to stand true to
their colors.
Now we say that this is truism
that is too plsin and self evident to
need argument to prove it; that if q
party is worth maintaining at all,
and errors and wrongs have been
committed by any members of ii, the
place to correct those thing. is with.
in the organization.
Either the great mass Of the par.
~ IS wrong and corrupt, in which
event the sooner it is disbandsd the
better; or there is sufficient virtue
lett in the ranks to right all abuses
within the party lines, and there
ca" not be any other safe place to do i,
aud still hare a PARTY that piN l.
uictortous and dgyressicc.
The course that the Tribune and
other Republican journals are pursu.
ing in Chicago in standing shoulder
to shoulder with the Times in an
election involving the choosing of
not only important city officers, but
also men to frame a new Constitu.
ticn for the state, ana dividing those
officers with the Times party, will
never correct the wrongs Gf such
there beg complained Of; but it will
SOW the seeds Of disafiection, espe-
cialIy if successful, in the ranks of
the Republican party Of that city,
from which it may never recover,
aud when the Tribune years hence,
seeks to draw the party lines for
what it may -be pleased to term
state or National contest, it will speak
and teach in vain; for no Republican
who believes that his party, notwith.
standing wrongs have been commit.
ted in its name, has still accomplish
ed and is accomplishing more for the
country, than any other party ever
did do, will forget and forgive tie
bolter and the renegade, especially
when he allies himself with such &C.
aijutors as the Times, than which
no Tory organ Of the old Revolution
was ever more deserving Of the new
eTending scorn and indignation Of q
patriotic people.
The Tribune, with it's allies may
Strike at the Republican organize.
ton to-day, and throw it into disor.
der, but i it be honest and desires to
again rally in the future, the party,
il will find what it ought to know,
and we are constrained to believe
does know. that many will be demor.
allied and lost. We want no such
teachers as the 7,lbune. the Journal
and the Republican amoug the Union
Of Iowa.