The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-09-01
OTTuMwA, Iowa,
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DEAR COURIER Il find the follow
ing article in the Council Bluffs
NonpareH. 4ss s.
oyERBoARD.
Tho Republicans of the Ivthl
Congressional District ehAvo acted
wisely. For two months tho partis'
sansof 1oughridge have waged per-
sistent warfare against the adhercnts'
OF Governor Stone, and uicc uersd.
These contestants have stopped at
nothing may, they have stopped to
everything, no matter how debasing
in the endeavor to secure the nomi-
nation for Congress. The press of
tho district manifested the same
groveling spirit, and tho respective
organs Of the two named have fairly
reeked with abuse and villiication OF
tho one and of the other. They
builded wiser than they knew. Tho
ISLANDERS SO oft repeated came to be
believed, and when the Convention
met, Stone and Loughridge were
thrown overheard, tho sense Of the
people being that II onc-half Of the
criminality and corruption charged
against the aforesaid intriguing poll
ticians were true, they deserved a
place in the penitentiary tar moro
richly than seat in Congress"
The Nonparea has either a very
short or else an exceedingly troach-
erous memory. 1t is within the
knowledge and recollection Of, all
reading people in Iowa, that there
has recently been sanguinary con-
fict in our Fifth District between
Palmer and Kasson, and that the
Nonparel was the leading champion
Of Palmer, and that that able paper
from day to day, until the contest
was decided, "reeked with abuse and
villification' of Kasson in i more
bitter and unrolenting manner than
has been exhibited on either side of
the Loughridge.Stone fight IN this
District. And now this fact bcing
known and undeniable, we propose
to capture the Nonpare1 BY. a series
of parallels. ,,
suppose that in your Fifth DIS.
trict, the contest between Palmer
aud Kasson had ran along during,
say three or four months, and that
the respective Chairmcn of the
County Committees, had called the
County Conventions along, one after
another, with sufficient intervals
elapsing, 50 that Kasson and all hi
Lieutenants had had fully as much
time as they desired, to canvass
each one thoroughly, At every schoo
house and cross roads, and had re
viled and villified Palmer, (who wa:
absent, as he should have been, al
his post of duty in Washington,) al
libituna, and suppose that aftor al
the questions, personal and political
between Palmer and Kasson, hat
been SO thoroughly argued and VENT
| lated on the stump and in the news
papers, that every intelligent. man
woman and child in your distrio
was perfectly familiar with thei
truth or falsity, and then suppose
that after this long, patient and thor
ough, but erparte discussion on tn
part Of Kasson and his friends,
majority of the counties, and a clea
unquestioDcd majority of the dele
gates were positively instructed t
vote for Palmer, and then suppoe
| Kasson and his henchmen refused /,
abide the action of tho people, on tn
issues they had themselves raised
and then imagine them congrcgatin,
in hungry hordes atthc Congressiona
Convention, and giving out witt
knowing winks and inuendoes tina
the fight was not yet over, and thel
suppose Kasson and Compan.
base enough to 60 to a Paine
delegation, whose county was one Q
the first to openly and unequivocall,
pronounce for Palmer, and thel
imagine them proposing to man Q
that county delegation, who was tn
avowed friend Of Palmer, and VIII
was responsible for the county bein,
instructed for Palmer, that if b
would violate his pledges, persona
and political, private and public, ant
carry his county vote out of the Pal
mer line, that then Kasson would no
be o candidate, and that he, th
traitor, should be nominated, ant
then suppose this juggle successful,
accomplished, and none Of the men
the people voted for, nominated, bu
instead, q creature begotten by Kas
| son Il Co., to override the will of tn
people of the district, and thel
imagine, dear Nonpariel, the CouRIEl
and other outside papers. rejoicin.
over the result and claiming it as .
triumph ofthe people against PaImc'
and Kasson, who both, in your owl
language, "ought to be in the peni
tentiary!"
And yet as strong as this hypoth
elical case is drawn, it is just exactly
the situation in this District, if yot
will but substitute the names O
Loughridge for Palmer, and Stone
for Kasson.
And this result is what tho Non
pariel aud other outside censorioul
and lily informed Journals, cal! "th'
action of the people" and the robuk'
l r. 4 L. T.