The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-17

Al tnat IL HeeOeu now 10 10 adopt
Grants tactics in the field-fight it out
on this line, and pound steadily in the
same place, till victory perches upon
our banners. But over-confidence will
not answer. It is never safe to UNDER
rate the strength of an opponent
Rather give him credit for more force
than he really possesses. When you
have got him down, stand prepared for
the last desperate tricks to which he
may resort, and be ready to give him
the coup de grace"
From the Pittsburg Commercial.
"The great victory won by the Re-
publicans Of Pennsylvania on the Sth
inst, may be summed up as follows:
President OF the United States.
Governor.
Auditor General.
Legislature.
Judgf of Supreme Court.
Majority in the Constitutional Con-
vention.
TWENTY-FIVE possibly twenty-three)
members of Congress.
United States Senator.
And over 10000 majority on the
popular vote,
A greater triumph never crowned
the efforts ofany party"
Forney, who in conjunction with
Curtin, exhausted himself to beat us
in Pennsylvania, thus fashioned comes
down in the Press
General Grant has always been
stronger even than L.. party. Strong
himself, he has made weak men strong.
Deserving himself his reputation has
been welded as q weapon to elevate
and strengthen the undeserying.-
Brave and good, he has been success
fully quoted to honor the corrupt and
the bad and now that the men who
have seized and manipulated the Re-
publican organization of this State to
their profit, the sequel of October in
Pennsylvania is the conclusive initia-
tive of great and enduring Republi-
can triumph in November. We believe
now, as we have always believed, that
if we could have purged away the bad
material once more elevated int0. high
position in this State next month
would have registered 8 jackson ma
jority for Grant. Now that event is
made SO donbly sure that Mr.. Greeley's
friends will simply perform the routine
duty of minority in casting their
votes at the approaching election"
The Journal at indianapolis, State
organ of the Republican party, thus re-
joiceth:
"The Lord reigns, let the people re-
joice." The elections of Tuesday have
resulted, as all good men hoped and
believed they would, in substantial
Republican triumph. PENNSYLVANIA
and Ohio have both gone Republican
W n~..s 10000 W 1J,vuo ...t.Jvrtty.-
Nebraska gives an increased Republi-
can majority. The District of Colum-
bia goes Republican by large maiori-
ty. The local elections in New Jersey
indicate large Republican gains. This
makes the election of Grant absolutely
certain. The result in November ia
placed beyond a preadventure. Gen.
reral Grant will be next President
Greeley is dead. The corrupt coalition
| of Democracy and recreant Republic
canism has come to naught. Mr.. Gree
ley is shelved, and his followers are
turned out to grass"
The New York Herald which has
been, for the most part, Democratic,
during the campaign, but which has
as long and as acute nose for scent
ing results as any paper in the world,
says:
"The Republican party, in short, from
these October elections of 1879 holds
substantially the ground and the same
advantages which it commanded under
General Grant, after the October cleo
tions of 1868, and SO far, the consc-
quences to Greeley and Brown in No
vember are foreshadowed in the defeat
of Seymour and Blair. Whatever the
shortcomings or the mistakes of Gen
eral Grant in his great Office, and not
withstanding the assertions from him
Of such conspicuous party leaders as
Sumner, Trumbull, Greeley, Brown,
Schurz, Fenton, Curtin and Mcclure,
the American people still gratefully
remembar the incalculable services Of
the great soldier who extinguished the
Southern rebellious Confederacy and
restored the Union and still remem-
Der, too, the condition of the national
treasury and its administration when
turned over to General Grant, and the
practical reforms and retrenchments
which have followed under his honest
management. But above all consider
atoms, no doubt, which have operated
in Gen. Grants favor in these recent
elections, is the consideration that
while the financial and business affairs
OF the country will suffer no disastrous
shock or revulsion from his reelection
we do not know what might be the
consequences in 1873 of a political rev.
olution in 1872. y
1t is apparent, at all events, from the
suggestive figures of these October
elections, that hardly doubt can be
raised of the reelection Of Gen. Grant
in November"
The New York and Chicago Tys-
Dunes, The Springfield (Mass.) Repub-
lican, and the Cincinnati Commercial
are the only reputable Republican pa
pcrs in the country which Greeleyiz.
cd. The following from the CONNER
cial gives its opinion of the Confeder-
ate collapse:
.'Taking the elections altogether.
the conclusion is forced that the luck
of General Grant in politics, as i'm war.
is likely to be confirmed BY his re.
election to the Presidency. The Lib
sral and Democratic organization is