The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-11-07
THE FUTURE.

1t is quite likely that we have nau-
seated many Of the non-partizan read
ers of the COURIER during the past
Year with orerdoscs Of politics. Pub
fishing a political newspaper seems to.
make this course an almost inevitable
necessity. at least. forthe year previous
to presidential elections.
And after all we doubt if the people
get any too much poliiicsm their news
papers, because under our system every
maj is a popular sovereign ; every man
is to the extent Of his vote and influ-
encc responsible for the election Of Of
tlcers, and the good or bad government
ofhis 6mtry, so that after all, his pol
itics is his business, and his business is
his politics. and no man can separate
them, and no man can know too much
about them. Besides the time has
passed which The itinerating stump
speaker is the fellow who goes al ound
to tell the people how to vote. That
function is virtually assumed by the
daily and weekly newspapers, which,
after making all due allowances for
lies and misrepresentation generally
give the attentive and careful reader
the best and most reliable information
of the me and measures of the day,
sought to be thrust upon the people for
their suffrages.
But now that We have again gone
safely through the pains and perils of
another national election now that the
great majority of the people have de-
elarcd for Grant. and honest, economi-
cal government, for another term, we
can afford TO give a truce to a great
extent to political warfare, and devote
vastly more of our time to the devel-
opment Of our i~nexhaustible
aud matters of reading which tend
Ior to amusement and to the devel.
opment of legitimate newspaper liter
atare.
Recognizing these demands and me-
cessities, the COURIER, while not aba
ting n jot or title of its fidelity to
the cardinal principles of the Rcpubli-
an party will, in the future aim to give
its readers a much greater variety Of
agricultural, manufacturing; religious
literary, scientific, and miscellaneous
reading, adapted 40 all shades and
classes of its patrons. We are the only
paper taking the regular and latest dis
patches, and as a reliable market re-
porter, and in q word in everything
else which distinguishes Il first-class
family newspaper, we shall aim to
make the COURIER Indispensable.
We take this occasion to especially
thank the patrons of our paper for their
confidence. and for the rapidly increas-
(. ing subscription lists, which we have
received during the past year, and
hope that every reader of our campaign
edition. Will agree to stay as perma-
nent members Of the COURIER family.
-------. e.
After Summer, Schurz, Trumbull.
and Fenton. and the lesser Iowa lights.
Bill stone, Grinnell, and Stubbs. who
will next year be tread under foot bv
the great Republican masses of the
nation! Another example has been
given of the folly of a few undertaking
10 put ring into the proboscis of the
many and tWeak them about at will.
Another example has been given of
the grand stern virtue Of the Ameri-
can people, showing that in keeping
with their courage, their patriotism in
crushing out treason at the point Of
The bayonet, they now leave the ma
tional flag in the hands of the men who
never pulled ii down. About the only
body of men who stood solidly by the
Democrats nominations, are the SO
called Liberals. Like the Irish wit
ness they said the horse was seventeen
feet high. and they are bound to stick
to it.
The arrest of the notorious courte-
ans Woodruff and Claflin for public
ly and outrageously traducing the
character of the most eminent divine
in America, and their incarceration in
the common prison, proves that there
is yet public sentiment for common
deccncy, even in tho city of New
York.
GooD.-Wm. A. Nye. ESQ, of Cass
township, with his five boys, polled six
votes for Grant, Tuesday. Well done
for n family.