The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-07-27
TeNnship oenyentien,

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IN thanks. Yours, &c., III
J. M. SHArF&
Township oenventien.
Requested that the Repuh
voters Of Highland Up. meet ins
wise, the KepaDficgn sscbinvs~ q
Democrat, and they both lie down in
the Same bed! Don't you see it ?"-
Dubuque Tines.
Now we will just inform our
friends Of the Times that is Just what
We can't see. IF we may be- permit
ted to quietly hint it, as we do see
il, it is thiswise that our Times
friend, in . very bangling manner,
seeks to avoid the very damaging
fact that, at this time there is hardly
an issue OF any of the leading DEM
ocratio papers of the State, which
does not contain scurrilIous attacks
upon Senator Harlan and which do
not approve and enlarge upon the
charges made by such papors as the
Dubuque and Cedar Rdpids Times.
While this is true 10 regard to Mr..
Harlan, the Hon. WIN. B. Allison
lies as quiet as a bug in rug no
c1pperhead venom makes him a tar
get no more than as though no such
man had citizenship in Iowa; and all
this, too, when it is known and
acknowledged that these two gentle
men arc the men prominent before
the people of the State, as candi-
datcs for the U. s. Senate. 1t is this
wondrous dislike of the same person-
ago that leads former enemies to be
techingly kind and lie down together
The Democratic papers revamp the
Times daily on the Harlan question.
They publish the same extracts from
other papers. They insist that the
Newman letter was = circular ietter,
addressed indiscriminately TO Meth.
odists in Iowa. gust as the Times in.
sists, without particle OF evidence
to support it, and to this end they
and the Times publish the following
portion of an article on the Newman
letter, taken from the Northeastern
Christian Advocate. 'lt will serious.
ely damage him unless he can dis.
"avow connection with it. In our
Judgment it ought to do SO. That
the world may know that the M
"E. Church has no fellowship with
"this kind of political intermeddling
I've thus speak out. Change names
and for DR.. Newman put the name
"of Archbishop Purcell, and for
"James Harlan put Patrick McBir-
"and let the circular have gone to
every Priest in the State, how we
wonld have denounced it'll The
"names unchanged, and the fact es,
tablished, we denounce it just as
promptly and just as severely
"That it was confidential makes i.
all the worse."
We do not say that all papers
which published the above, did &c
willfully, but if they had the article
before them, or had seen it., and
then published the extract above,
they must have known that they
were not doing the writer and Sena
tor Harlan justice. For this purpose
we publish below the article entire
and let the candid reader judge
whether these journals have beer
honest and fair in the publication o
the above extract. Let it be remem
bered, too, that the article was writ
ten Immediately upon the appear
ance of tho great hu.labaloo abou,
the letter in the Herald and Time.
Of Dubuque, and under the supposi
tion that it was circular letter sem
broadcast over the land, when in fac
it was q confidential letter writer
to one or more friends of DR.. New
man. Il, then, with a knowledge o
the entire article, any paper pub
lished the detached extract above, i
did it knowing that it was not con
veying TO its readers the true impor
and meaning of the writer of tn
article, touching the case in point:
4 HARLAN AND THE METHoDIsTs.
i We most sincerely hope that tn
q nletter published ir tho Dubuque He,
Id, signed J. r. Newman, and solic
pg the help of the Methodist clcl
oil nen in the State OF Iowa to secur
mt sn ne-election of Mr.. Harlan to tn
lca a0u !, ~ is misrepresented. We hop
- Not written at all by DIR. New
a % = circv if written, that it was no
,r. somS letter but private not
~ i faividual friend. Mr.. Hal
!" !" na;st -" preAter known to the Mett
lei NJ Ma,vman Ts of Iowa than il ID
en- saryedlv hi3he Senator has d
rig 10th ns a mAace in their esteem
would be simpld statesman.
,acv one out Of tho Apertlnent Tor an
"a Methodists to TO exhort low
A Harlan. No sub or save NJ
hoAo needed or bccominASnortatlon
and test against the uss s'at we pr
fugi- chinery, Catholic Qrgharch u
q re. secure tho political elAestant,
man. - eatsst 8 o. a. a,
Metz