The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-12-14

Tns xrTennN nUst0ns1
The keokuk Gate C,ty,a paper as
nearly neutral on the Senatorial
question as is possible for a paper TO
DO and not,ignore it altogether, cop.
the following from the Pella
Blades Washington Correspondence !:
erhe private residence owned and
occupied by Senator Harlan in this
city is said to be- valued at forty
thousand dollars, exclusive OF furni.
tnre, which is said to be worth
twenty-five thousand more"
And then adds this word of manly
and sensible comment
Now all this stuff about how SEN.
ator Harlan lives is poor stuff to yet
into the newspapers. We don't aee
why the public should be treated TO
these periodic inventories of his
household goods. As it is done.
however, to prejudice him in public
estimation, We surrender our sense of
propiIety TO our sense Of justice, and
say that il struck us that Senator
Harian's Washington residence was
furnished, when we visited him, in q
very plain and unextravagant way.
indeed and that the house itself. il
1t were in Keokuk, would DO valued
OF from five to ten Thousand dollars.
Ihere Is more than y score of much
hAndsomer houses in Keokuk than it.
Mr.. Harlan is getting along in years,
and If he has ordinary business sa-
gacity, should have made some for.
tune. The question il not what he
is worth, or how he lives, but is he
honest or dishonest. IF he is dis.
honest, show it. and let him meet the
condemnation he deserves. But il
he has made his money honestly, let
there be no crawling into his back
kitchen to Q how his family lives"
The Allison papers have done
themselves and the cause they seek
70 serve, great discredit BY revamp.
ing those old c~opperhead ISLANDERS,
and the dirtiest of all OF them is this
one about his house and Kitchen
The truth about the matter is tina,
Senator Harlan aud family had lived
IN hotels and boarding houses, al
Washington, in . very unpretentious
not TO say shabby ~style-for many
years, until he was appointed Score.
tary OF the Interior by Mr., Lincoln.
II then became absolutely necessary
Tor him 70 open an establishment Of
ms own, either by buying or renting
After consultation with many Of hit
Iowa frieuds, he finally bought q
house and fine LIT on "Hn street 70,
$50, Ooo, which was generally consid.
cred = great bargain, ct the time, and
which was just at the close Of the
war when prices were depressed al
the Capitol. He was TO have si1
years without interest to pay this
amount in. paying i've Thousand dol
lars per annum, which amount was
about equivalent 70 the rent he other.
wise would have paid annually. Since
that time property has greatly up
prcciated in that neighborhood, III
we'll as in the city generally, go tina,
this property is perhaps worth double
the amonnt paid tor it, even had the
Senator met all the yearly payments
out Of his. salary. And this 10 the
sum end substance Of the story, from
cellar to garnet, OF bis "palatial o.
adjustment at Washington through
the bsckwsys, sinks and vaults o
which, his democratic trad ucers have
been crawling for years. to blast the
character of the man in the lows
delegation, whom they hated snd
feared the most because he had struck
them the heartiest and heaviest blows
OF oil. II this is d~isgraceful to ever
Democratic guerilla warfare, VIVA,
shall be said OF Republican papers
which driven to desperation contin.
ue, Apache like, to fire their poison.
ed arrows?
In the meantime we are interested
TO know what new story about MI
Harlan, tomorrow may bring forth
At first he was charged with hostili.
~ to maDhoodsuffrage, on account OF
his vote on the Naturalization Bill;
but We speedily knocked that lie so
effectually in the head that it has
never even squirmed since, except a
slight wiggle in the Nashua Post, Of
which Andy Felt, doubtless, felt a.
shamed at the time. Then came the
Pension fraud story from Boynton;
bnt we at once scotched that snake
by showing Boynton's order q for
gerry, and disproving his premises
md charges from the man who knew
about them than any one else
to-wit: the Hon. J. r. Barrett,
The then Commissioners OF Pensions.
And now comes this last feeble, dirty,
into his kitchen, which we think
Is quite effectually disposed of by
what the neutral Gate Oity has to
say Of it, even if the silly, unmanly,
oanard required any refntstioD.
In view Of all the stories about
our Senator which have been effectu.
ally silenced, may we not be justified
in applying TO his traducers the
tern old Latin maxim: Hhlsus in
uno, .falsus in omnibus.
TslsgrapAie 0asanings.
The International Society OF New
York, denoance Mayor Hall for no.
fusing them the privilege of parad.