The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-07-28

elections st4'oclock p. M, on saturday the
Soih day OF July next, and chose i've dele
gates fof each Township to said County
Convention. - j. H. MERRILL
Chairman County Central Committee.
The Pella Blade publishes in its
issue Of the 22d, an attack upon Gen.
Hedrick OF tho COURIER, and char
ges that this paper has outrageously
slandered Governor Stone - and
Furthermore INDUCES in tho gonteel
language, so indicative of good
breeding, that the COURIER man has
lied' and invites him to try his hand
again at another lie. Now let us say
briefly in reply to all this, that Gen.
Hedrick, while he does not shrink
from, or seek to evadc any Of the
responsibility attached TO what has
appeared ie the COURIER, yet the
writer of this article desires to say
that Gen. Hedrlcks did not write
line that appeared in the COURIER
from about tho 10th Of June up to
the 10th Of July, and that ho did not
write the articlccomplainod ofby the
gentleman who wrote the aforesaid
Blade article, as the editor Of that
paper knew, as he was in this city
about the time the article was writ
ten, and knew that General Hedrick
was east, and SO reported to his pa
nor in a correspondence in the
number Immediately preceding the
one before us, in which appears the
article in question.
As to the manner in which We
have treated Governor Stone thro'
oar columns, We submit to our
readers and to any candid, honest
man, whether we have attacked his
personal character, farther than to
intimate in alluding to the vindica.
tive, unprecedented and unfair
attack that has beon made upon
Mr.. toughridge, that those
who live in very transparently glass
houses, should be careful how they
throw stones. If there has been
any slang in this contest If there
has been any charges made upon the
private character of candidates, we
know of no source more prolific in
this regard no paper that has had
more extra issues printed and spread
broadcast through. the district in
this contest, by old and bitter en- e.
mics of Mr.. Loughridge, than the
Pclla Blade. Hardly an issue of its
paper for weeks has contained any
other editorial matter than an attack
upon tho fair name of Mr., Tough
ridge, and either We are greatly mis-
taken, or these editorials appear
even during the absence OF the EDITOR
in another State. The COURIER
made one mistake in saying that it
was q years ago that Governor Stones
speech was made and reported in
Oskaloosa. The author.o the Blade
article says we lied. Tho statement
was not material to our line Of argu-
ment, and we did not intend TO mis-
state it; it was an error Of our recol
lection TWAS q fact, and not a mistake
however, that at the time said speech
was SO reported in the defunct Citizen,
that request was made to Iowa
Legislators, that they should permit
the editor to continue to send them
said paper. That paper which de-
manded the Post Office or fight;
that paper, which about eight
months before it made such demand,
for the first and only time that it
ever did the like, reported in full
Stones speech; that paper which
was tho first and tho only paper in
this district, to charge. year ago,
Mr.. Loughridge with opposition to
tho 18th amendment; the same
charge SO industriously heralded in
this contest by Gov, Stone and his
friends, and the same paper, even
though dead, still under the skillful
manipulation of somebody, brings
forth another wanton attack upon
the character Of o man whose ropu-
tation as citizen, a jurist and .
member Of Congress, has for many
long years beep untarnished, while
somc Of those who defame him, have
in every official position they have
ever filled, come out severely crippled
in character.
The author of the Blade article
puts forth q threat that there is a
future, and we had better be careful,
in other words, Mr.. COURIER muzzle
your mouth and suppress yourvlews
or Governor Stone will be your
enemy, and viii not fai! to bring
down his powerful blows in the
futurcupon you. This is childs play.
Such threats may be effective with
the writer, and he may be so consti-
tuted as to cover to Stones behest,
but VIC beg him to remember that
while it is true that tout Of the abun-
dance Of the heart the mouth speak
eth" it is equally true that oil mon
arc not by nature abject slaves.
~, the writer by said article
ID have it that General II. is