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

tablished in 1840.
THAT Po1.lT1oAI ooIUslM.
Tho State Register has vory
facetious article entitled political
Turkey Stufing.Y It is Of the cutie
tish style of warfare belching forth
fume and smoke to blind the behold
er., 1t was intended doubtless as a
reply to an article appearing in our
columns in regard to tho publication
Of q letter purporting to havo been
written in Washington, d. G., on the
22d Of July. and published thirteen
days later in the Register, and which
was headed by the editors Of that
paper with the caption "Another out
slider takes o hand" This communi.
cation claimed for itself to be the
production Of s friend of Mr.. Harlan
when the fact was, tho Register folk
knew from thelow fiings against Mr..
HarIan made in the letter, and its
whole tenor, it was bat cowardly
attack upon the Senator by his
enemy knowing this, they admit
ted it into their political
column" without comment. We
thought this lending of the columns
Of the Register savored Of q neutrality
not exactly neutral, and would not
be likely to allay the contest, senate
rial. We were led the more TO 60
think when that column political
was loaded down with extracts from
other papers nearly all derogatory to
the interests of Mr.. Harlan. In this
article our friends Of the Register do
not hint at the said Washington let.
ter which called forth our article,
and which letter We published in
connection Herewith that all might
see whereof we complained. Only in
one instance, and that very briefly
and incorrectly is what we did say
in our article alluded to. In addi-
tion to saying that the said column
political contained "a rehash and COL
lection Of what the press generally
said upon the senatorial question:"
which the Register quotes only, we
said further, that this rehash was cat
least Of what was said upon one side
ofthe question" Now the impress
sion which the article referred to,
would give Of the course of the CouR-
IER on the senatoria. question would
lead its readers to suppose that we
had been attacking Mr.. Allison, and
filed our columns alone with the
praise of Mr.. Harlan. The article
does MS injustice in this. What we
have said in the contest has been
every word oft called out by sstacks
made upon Mr.. Harlan or growing
ont Of such attacks. A deep laid
scheme was laid to weaken him, po-
litlcally, as we tAought, and almost
simultaneously Herewith his person
al charsster was attacked by journals
supporting Mr.. Allison, and being his
friends, We have defended him in
our feeble way as common justice
demanded ofus. We have said MOTH
ing BY way ofattack upon Mr.. Allison.
We have, on the contrary, defended
his character when assailed. Our
friends Of the Register, on the other
hand. have dished up extracts from
the Harlan opposition press, reflect
ing upon the Senator, including the
insinuating, puerilo, hypocritical let.
ter referred to, giving it prominence
By the offensivo caption above named.
Our Register friond is in funny
mood. He likens newspaper readers
to that favolite domestic fowl, tho
turkey, and, as the turkey is fre
quently stuffed before Christmas, to
increase it's fatness and sleek appear.
ance, 80 the dear people are stuffed
BY the press. Now it often happens
that young men get a touch Of vanity
and really como to the conclusion,
If they publish an excellent news-
paper, that they stuff the craniums
of their readers with all the brains
they have; that they are like clay in
their skilfully artistic hands, or that
the people arc like the sheep led up
by the shearer to meekly stand and
be shorn OF their feeces, viz: their
common sense. Our friend of
the Register, from the character Of
his article, is possessed of this phan-
tom, this hallucinstion, but evidently
has not yet proceeded SO far with the
stufling process as to be satisfied, in
his own mind, whether the Harlan
or the Allison kind Of food is best
adapted to the purpose, or we might
say rather, he may have made up bis
mind fully which food is the best and
which may be entirely different from
that he is At present using, but 10 moi
ready yet TO announce his prefer
ence. 1t may be, TOO, that our frient
would await and ascertain. which
kind Of food the most Of tho people
of the State use in the stuGing pro
cess 80 that all things may be lovely
| in the outcome. Sinoc, however, W
called attention in our article to thoi
mode of stufiing, we desire to cOnurat