The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-08-24
PETER q. DAl.ylNGAxt.

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ate, and our readers will pardon us
for giving this gentleman some prom
inence just now by using some space
IN our columns in his behalf, because
there seems to be propriety in it,
since no has had published in the
democratic organ of a ncighboring
county puff we gave him in July,
1870. That immaculate democrat, M.
M. Bleakmorc, editor of that delecta-
bic sheet, the Democrat, of Fairfield,
Iowa, published in his last weeks
weekly thispuff handed him by Peter,
and he, Peter, has obtained some five
hundred or thousand copies of the
Democrat, and on last Saturday was
spreading them broadcast through
the county. The Democrat says will
the COURIER now go back on Peter
after having said SO much for him,
and that our readers may know just
what we did. say about our friend
Ballingall in July, 1870, we publish
the article:
"PETE BALLINGALL.--An irrepres.
sible, slashing, dashing, energetic en-
igma. Has more vim and persever-
ance in him than any other man we
know. 1t is as impossible for him to
let dollar lie useless as it is to get
along without breathing. Here,
there, everywhere at the same time,
the nearest an omnipresent entity
that can be reared in this imperfect
world. II Pete had the means he wo'd
build the whole face of the globe
over, and sigh for more ground. His
first great ambition is to do good and
DO accommodating, and to accomplish
this end he permits no surmountabie
obstacle to block his pathway. With
an indomitable will and plenty of
ncrve to back it, Pete is de-
cidedly a man for the public; no
demonstration of a public kind can
be set on foot, but that he is in the
front with CHEEKY voice and restless
soul, ready, anxious to do some
thing. With persistent energy, amid
trials and vexations of no mean kind,
he has constantly kept line of
coaches running to the end of the
N. NJ. r. r. through sunshine and
rain. and when that treacherous
stream, Big Soap, swelled up with
pretentions and overflowed its banks
in order not to stop communication,
Mr.. B. built pontoon bridge across
its bosom, during the darkness of the
night and polling of the storm, SO
that passengers should not be de-
layed, and that thcy could pass hith-
er and thither on time and in safety.
He has coach lines running all over
this country superintends tho de-
pot hotel, and VIC know not what all
else, beside holding the most thank
less position a man was ever placed
in--democratic Trustee in repubIi-
can City Council-whero the same
spirit Of unconquerable business pro.
clivitics marks his proceedings
And with all his idiosyncracies, he
is always the Same affable, genial,
whole-souled gentleman, one wc cod
lily spare from our community, and
whose fame for his business peculiar.
tiles is one well merited and won. -.
Fave la Ballingall!"
Now the fact is, Peter has looked
over our shoulder several times whom
we penned for him nice notice, in
deed our editorial brethren in many
parts tho State have noticed in
him that irrepressible, slashing, dash
ing, energetic enigma, we spoke of
in the article, and they make note
OF Peter, as an active hotel keeper,
and hack line proprietor, &c. Now
the fact is all this is of course not
dlsagreeable to our friend, and it Ger.
tainly is quito proper in us to note
this active spirit of Peters, and when
he tears down one very good i'm
provement made six months before
and replaces it with something new,
unique, and costly, though it may be
quite questionable economy,yet, as it
glitters and shows we'll in the public
eye, however it may be as a matter
of economy with Peter, we can't help
but notice approvingiy these i'm
provements. The tact is, it sort of
necessarily comes in our line, and we
do now believe as We said
in the article aforesaid over q year
ago that "If Pete had the means he
would build the whole face of the
ylobelover,andsi sigh for moro ground"
and. furthermore, we say again, as
We said in the above article, that 'sthe
anne unconqnerable business procliv-
ties mark him as democratic
member of the City Council" Ifnot
restrained by his co-members, how
ever, he might gild the city with
beautiful and artistic workmanship.
but we would not answer for the
plethorism of the city treasury. For
our lives we cannot see how the pub
ication OF our article Of a year ago
ioes Peter any good in the senatorial
ace, and we would say that we are
,lad no hasuneartEcdit, which we had
ong ago forgotten, if it were not that |
s we have said before, we are sorry
Or Peter that he permitted himself
. run this race as the supposed
valuable candidate for the democra-
y. If anything we have said Of him
eretofore, has induced Potter to be-
eve, we think him proper and
nltabie person for State Senator, we
re very sorry, for certainly the
characteristics we have commended
i'm for, belong wholly to Il horse of
mother color. The Democrat pub.
shes the article aforesaid as annaar