The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-04-11
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ticlc of sSne twenty lines in the new,
type Of e State Register, which ap
pcared ithe DAILY COURIER OF las
week, ds down upon our devoted
heads i,lhe issue Of the State organ o
the 3rdlst. almost an entire column
in whid our friends 60 for us with ,
will. is not often that 60 light /
shottedun calls out . double shotted
blundefuss, but then our friends o.
the Reiter are very particular abou,
editinfhat concern in their own way
and ceIinly we have no objection
We on ask that we may be able te
combshe views Of the Register when
we del it our duty to do so, before
the pd e. We thought our brief ar.
ticle, ich seems to have most won.
derfnI exasperated our friends, wa,
couch In plain and gentlemanly
term4 4hat it discussed = subject per
fectlye Ultimate for newspaper contro.
versyhd did itfairly; but that high.
tonedgnified paper would appear Ia
ny i!a terrible passion at our hum.
bic ticism Of it. It says, without
one lor title Of foundation therefor,
thati are assuming the livery Of good
intetn towards Mr.. Wilson to draw
cdAled rapier against him. It is 4
mo4uthful adsge drawn from Holy
Wrfat tout Of the abundance ofthe
heatthe mouth speaketh." The
couof the Register for the last year,
nalundantly warrant every reader
in {ng to the conclusion that the edi-
tori that paper "know how tits them
sci to assume the garb Of Heaven
to the devil in, and so are wont
to fure out Of Q plain criticism Of
th4Fhich throws them in q passion
be1 they cannot parry II, a secret
attPn the man their own siIIfness
ha$mpromised, in our view
Frs, permit us please to challenge
yolfnd in all the bitter controversy
lOf past nine months harsh un-
ki9ord published in our columns In
eato the Hon. james F. Wilson OF
onhrge Of corruption against him.
| VT nine months because that COW
ere period Of the Senatorial
coFersy. During that period
whas been the course Of the
Rer we will not delineate, for the
dd Of that controversy have passed
inte hands Of the people, and with
therdict we are content. Besides
Will not permit ourselves to be
d1 away by the passionate contor-
tiSf the Register, from the only
: q4n raised by our brief article into
t Q tssion of old issues. We made
n4plaint against Mr.. Wilson, we
hsp desire to make any; we sup
!. pd II Tor vioc President heartily
whe distinct understanding that
Elimination of no man for Vice
J Pint, be he from the east west,
0 nf south, shall be permitted, thro'
a hii or friends, to endanger in the
SLIT degree the nomination OF
n Gtrant, in the efforts made to Sc
o Gu We emphatically understand
Q Mlson to assume that position
Q Wher say that we take this posi-
: tit because we like Gen. Grant
q beSan Mr.. Wilson, but that we are
r mtheretO as vital and control
u liison aside from preferences 8, be-
: cap firmly believe that at this
8, stHhe Presidential canvass, or at
a. let tlate as the 5th of June, when
u thtsidental nomination will be
"a mtith the affections of the great
Of nthe republican party, SO firmly
anriously fixed, and rightfully so,
- uIhnt, 1t will be an exceedingly
Il dans experiment to nominate
nv an else. But the Register in its
re frees outside the record to carica-
=, tuts pompous sheet assuming
or or tout Of the party distinguished
is antlong members of it. This
nat cot argument has always been
" coswith those who have nothing
nj be- use. What did we say to
are wthis very gentlemanly dealing
se. why our friends? We give i,
az allsaid "The fact is a few dis
.ne tiijd d republicans have taken up,
to- olflves through spiteful, selfisf
NJ anSiti0us motives, the job O
out thk the combined and enthusias
It'd of ninety-nine hundredth
oftty to which they belong o.
dig" We styled them repub
oi lich as to their political afiilia
iree ti4they do belong or did belon,
y OF to!ty. Win the Register pleas,
'nbt toi define their position? W.
the do where they are-will tn
,on- Rbll Carl Schurz announce,
may lo1 that he would not supper
II is G40minated pray tell us wher
the he Greeley refuses to sign th
'cna- cafe Philadelphia Convention
osed BUN call IN aid ofthe Cincin
natention, and announces hi
uties PIN What manner ofrepublica
une is he for US or against us P
their ouPes not perhaps, decisivcl
e Of Pueif on paper, but he
ction ihdand front of the gre,
here. sellattack upon the Presiden
mu ,,a antot say amid this unexa,,
! de- pIqt in our party that he wi
final, abiresult Of the COnyentio
WI we place him? We ha,
!, -, not not now say, but is it N
sr;nce logly, he is sort Of in abcyan,
oltke, eitll lout of the party, and 20 v
lcuffel mi4 of others. But we pa
,,.; sac;, frc I'd in doing SO before '
b. yev confher important matter, '
id by vii have nothing to do wi
ington the bn Hascksyc or the Clintt
.J,s nhs;n Hef they should be broug
dearly. rovefsy' beyond donl
in all, then nndantly able to padd
9 the thelhoe nor is Mr.. Harlan
lusaye casd here, he Is found whe
! w.rs he . been, astaunch, abe d
rrharac- fende republican party, Il