The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-05-12
Congressional States.

THURSDAY,.... 5, 1870
Congressional States.
In our first district the Committee
has called the Convention at the
premature day of June l, to meet at
Fairfield, which will nominate the
present very abe and faithful men,
Der, to-wit, Hon. Geo W. McCrary
by acclamation, even if he did get
fined the other day for boing absent
without leave during one of the
pigheadod Kelley's, pig iron diatribes
In the Second District, Col. VIM.
Smythe of Marion, LINN County, is
serving his first term. He was d
prominent lawyer and jurist before
the war. and during it was Colonel
of the 31st Iowa, and has served his
District to general acceptance, if we
may be allowed to except the turning
out of q disabled, invalid comrade
from the best office in his district
Hon. J. T. Lane of Davenport, is
mentioned as his competitor, as well
as Lawyer Ellis and Spea ker Cotton.
The custom of the tines, the servi-
ces of Col. Smyth for the party and
in the field; his highly creditable
record in Congress, with the above
exception 'only) renders a re-nomi-
nation due him, which We imagine
he will secure without difficulty, and
which we shall chronicle with pleas
ure.
In the Third District, Hon. VIM.
B. Allison, one of the ablest and most
influential members of the lower
House, is serving his fourth term, at
the close of which he proposes to
rest upon his laurels, at least so far
as that body is concerned. He
made magnificent run for the
Senate last winter against Judge
Wright, ard is the only politician
we ever knew who came out stronger
and with more friends after defeat
than he was before he went into the
fight.
With the entire northern part of
the State unit tor him, he will make
a Senatorial foeman in the 14th
General Assembly worthy of the
steel of any and all the knights who
may be pit.ed against him.
Couch, Larabee, Donnan, Vandev-
or and Oily Cannon Cooley, are all
willing to be sacrificed on this
altar, but we are not sufficiently well
posted to venture an opinion as to
which one of them will be the victim
In our own 4th District, Judge
Loughridge, Ex-Gov. VIM. M. Stone,
Col. John Meyer of Jasper, and Hon.
Rush Clark of johnson, are all being
urged by greater or lesser number
of admirlng friends, the principal op-
ponent to Judge I,ough,idge, the
principal candidate, being however
his ex-Excellency, who is going
through the District in an uncom-
monty lively manner and whose in
domitable, and untiring energy,
makes him an antagonist not to be
treated with impunity.
We hear that Gov. Stone is urging
the two term argument against
Judge Loughridge, in oil parts of
the District, with pertinacious vehe-
mence, but this point, if there even is
any point in it, falls to the ground
without weight, whom it comes frc m
the lips of a man who has just
emerged from the occupancy for two
terms of an Office higher than q
Congressional one, and who has held
acivilor military position, almost con-
tinuously since the Republican party
has had offices to dispose of.
The COURIER don't propose to
make any personal raid against Gov.
Stone. Its editors are his friends,
and they have proper respect for
his undoubted talent and admiration
for his political and military services,
but when called upon to support a
candidate for Congress outside of its
own County, and it finds itself COM
PEELED to choose between two of it's
personal friends both representative
men OF the District, prefers that pub
lie servant whose experience, habits
of business and status already ac-
quired, will render his services valu.
able to his constituents, and in
whose public record there is so much
to commend, and 80 little to defend.
A great majority of the news
papers in the district have already
pronounced for Judge Loughridge
and so far as we are able to Judge
from our standpoint, we should say
that nine-tenths Of the people of the
district are ready to crown Judge
Loughridge with the cLaplet "wel
done thou good and faithful servant,
and are prepared to triumphantly
renominate and re-elect him.
In the Fifth District, Frank
Palmer, the Schuyler (,olfax O.
Iowa politics, is being supported By
all the Republican newspapers in hi
district, with one exception, and il
evidently tho choice OF all his consti