The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-14
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Sept. I'd, 1871.

EDITORS COURIER:
hand you, below, an
article clipped from the Washington
Sunday Herald, of this city.
The paper I'M question is hybrid
concern with Democratic proclivi.
ties. The article will, perhaps, inter-
est your readers for the following
reasons.
1st. 1t is a pretty fair sample of
the slime with which the anti-Har.
Ian papers here, as well as in Iowa,
befoul our distinguished Senator.
I'd. Nobody here, or in Iowa, ever
saw Mr.. Harlan wearing q moustache
even if that were an important item.
Sd. The man who wrote the article
was known to have been in close
consultation with a distinguished
politician, (who was here recently
from Iowa. for several hours on the
day before the appearance of the
article, and that Immediately after
the secret conclave, the aforesaid
editorial writer boasted that he was
in possession of information about
Senator Harlan, which he proposed
to ventilate in the Herald.
Behold the result of that confab:
SENATOR HARLAN's MousTAcHE."
We have good news from Iowa
this week. It is to the effect that
the good good people Of that State
are beginning to understand Harlan,
the preacher, as he is understood
here in Washington. Harlan's pros
poets for being returned to the Uni
ted States Senate, we are informed,
are very slim; and that his opponent,
Allison, will assuredly be the success
full map. We are glad to hear this,
for various easons-among others,
for the sake Of order, religion, and
good morals. Iowa is gem Of a
State. She has fine climate, great
agricultural resources, and consider
able mineral wealth. She is State,
too, where high morality prevails.
Here in Washington, where Hsrlan's
peculiaritios are best known, (this is
using mild term for thieving0 it
did indeed seem strange that she
should so long permit herself to be
misrepresented in the Senate OF the
United States by Harlan the preach
or. Now, we have no disposition to
go back to the day when Harlan, as
| = Methodist parson, shouted . t
camp-meetipgs and dressed in the
garb Of q Georgia Cracker. He was
in his natural element then, and, ac-
cording to our way of thinking,
should have stuck to his religion and
his preaching. In that avocation
he might have gone on, doing some
good, perhaps, and nobody harm.
But when he set up for Senator,
then for Cabinet Minister, and
again for Senator, the scene chang.
cd, and with it Mr.. Preacher Harlan's
l CudTdCtSI no u puohS u0us W. uo
not know, nor do we care much wha,
kind of character for commercial
morality Mr.. Harlan carried into the
Interior Department. But we Dc
know that he came out of it with .
very bad one. In short, it was charg
ed against him that, il such q thiDs
: could be, he had made stealing re
spectacle by himself setting the ex
ample to his subordinates. Tb'
charges against him then made wer'
chiefly confined to what might b.
called petty larceny stealing-appru
priating, to put the finest point on il
such useful articles as carriage
5 house furniture, penknives, and sta
tionery. Perhaps Harlan though
! he had right to take these, consid
7 ering the valuable services he ha
! rendered tho Government, and til
poor pay he got.
1t was IN the Senate, however, ths
Harlan's talents tor appropriatin
what did not belong TO him shor
out in all their spleDdor. lndee'
o during the last session OF Congress
r. was noticed that Harlan had put II
p, preacher aside altogether and mou
7 ted an extravagart moustache. VIII
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