The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-09-19
The Crow-Eaters and Succotashers
bv EMPLOYING Schwabkeys' Band and

building q big bonfire, raised crowd
last night at the lst National Bank
corner, of perhaps 100 Democrats, Is
Republicans and about as many boys,
TO hear Mr. H.sB. Fouke, Greeley cleo
tor OF large. AS we, nor nobody else
in this vicinity, had ever before heard
Of such a parsonage as H. d. Fouke,
we had some curiosity to sec the man
and hear what he could possibly say,
in regard to tho questions at issue be-
tween the Republican party on one
side, and the malcontents and effete-
Democracy OIL the other. Mr.. f. was
introduced by Uncle Dan, manager
general of the Chow Chow meetings.
Mr.. Fouke, then mounted the rostrum
and commenced his school boy effort
with fling at the Tanners, who had
just marched by on their way to the
Court House, to hear M. III. Jones, the
Republican speaker of the evening, by
saying, that, that thing had played
out, and the people were not going to
stand that thing any longer, they were
going to rise in their might and elect
Greeley" He then proceeded to say,
he would not assail Gen. Grant; per-
sonally, he was a good man, he had
saved the country; grateful people
had showered honors and presents on
him, all of which he deserved, &C., SC.
This, Mr.. Fouke, soon saw did not
suit his Democratic hearers and he
| changed tactics and pitched into Grant,
q Ia Dana. miscelianeously. Grant had
appointed his brother-in-law Cramcr.
to a South American Mission, the
Senate had rejected him; Grant had
renominated him aio another place in
South America and by dint of bully
ing aud dogging Senators had secured
his confirmation, and Cramer was now
q Minister of the U. S. in South
America! We did think thai man
who was so ignorant of facts, as to not
know that it was Pile of Mo-, who was
nominated as Ministerto South Amer
lea, and his nomination withdrawn by
Gen. Grant; and Cramer was now and
has been Minister to Denmark, instead
OF South America, ought to be pitied
for his ignorance. Further than this,
Mr.. Cramer was Consul at Leipsic, APP
pointed there by Andrew johnson,
and transferred to the less lucrative
Office of Minister to Denmark, at the
suggestion, and on the special recon-
mendation Of the great reformer Chas.
Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts,
because ne was very fine linguist and
eminently fitted for the position. Mr..
Foukes' managers had better Withdraw
him fromthe stump and put him thr'ugh
course of reading. We listened to
him near an hour, and the whole of his
speech was made up of exploded
ISLANDERS, such as the Leet & Stocking
general order business, as retailed BY
the New York Sun; the San Domin-
go matter, etc.,-every one Of which
have been investigated by Congress,
and refuted. He did not allude in any
manner to the platforms Of the parties,
did not tell what his party proposed,
if successful, to do, financially or any
other way, but like all the other Gree
ley orators, we have heard, he was
for anything to beat Grant" The
more such speeches that are made here
the better for the Republicans, and we
hope Mr.. Fouke viii speak three times
every day until the election, as he only
succeeds in disgusting his hearers.
The whole affair was tame, vapid,
and did not elicit one single cheer
while we were present, and at the end
OF his harrangue the crowd was re-
duced by constant dropping of. until
there were not over one hundred pre-
sent. The last we saw of the illus
trlous Fouke, he looked like he had the
fevernager" and he was warming
his gable end, at what be said was
"the first campfire erected by them
(the Greeleyites) in Ottumwa.'
Judge Trimble, after Mr.. Fonke had
said his piece, "rose to explain -
Some Democrats in this city, had
charged him with being collogued
with the st. Louis s. G. r. Railroad
Company; that he had feathered his
own nest, and never paid his stock !;
but had been prosecuting other stock
holders to make them pay. He said
he never got dollar of money as an
officer of the road" That he prosicut.
ed stockholders as an attorney, and if
he had not done SO he would not de-
serve their votes he did not ask them
for their votes. He had been impor-
tuned to see these Democrats person.
ally, and explain, SO as to get their
votes; he wouldn't sink his manhood,
If they wanted to vote for him, they
could, and if they didn't, they needn't
etc. etc. He then retailed the story,
that Loughridge had sold the Oska.
loosa.. P. O., and that Loughridge had
admitted that he had done SO, and
after again saying, he didn't want any
body's votes, unless they gave them
without his asking, ard inviting those
present to come and hear him at some
future time, he subsidized. Jim Waugh
then proposed three cheers for Greeley
Il Brown, which was'responded to, by
perhaps dozen present, in q very
feeble manner, and the crowd quietly
dispersed. Eceaat, Fouke g Trinble.
LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the
Post Office, at Ottumwa, Iowa, Sept.
10, 1872:
A-Vick Arthur.
B-Wm. C. Brown, Lenora Barker,
Bell Barton, VIM. III. Bivins.
C-Kate Campbell, B. j. Carpenter,
Mary Clark, Mrs. Christ. Connolly,
Robert A. Carter, Robert Cunning
ham.
Geo. Eslinger, Nathan Fisher,
Chaty Fisk, John Funk.
G-Marcus Golding, VIM. II Gard
ner, Albert Garvey.