Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-08-14

We suppose that after tr,.day's work
at Des Moines, DEMOCRACY. win get
up the courage OF a sheen and saw
whether they win go into winter quar-.
ters and suck their claws for a twelve.
month, or whether they will try and
copy after Ohio and Indiana and
nominate a ticket. II the anti-monop.
oily c"nvention sitting in Des Moines
To-Day shall, through its wire-pullers
and the Democratic chiefs there as.
sembled fix things to suit them. we
suppose Democracy will keep mum
and vote anti-monopoly ticket, but If
all things should not he arranged sat.
isfactoriiy Democracy will have a
name in Iowa this fall.
Throughout the State of Iowa the
Changers see in the plain, nnequivocs,
resolves of the republican party in
State Convention assembled Tune 95th
a clear guarantee of all they can ask.
Read that platform and see how the
republican party Of Iowa near sixty
days ago took the most advanced
ground. and which the anti-monopo
lists and peoples party are forced now
to copy after.
Above and beyond all this look at
the men who make these resolves :
scan the men who make up the repub-
lican party take them and Judge them
by their deeds. and not by their prom
ises. What party in the last fifty wears
has kept better their pledges, than the
republican party! Ii has actually
showed forward the dial of progress
until the old world has catched the in
spiration of our good deeds and the
elevation Of the whole civilized world
is the offspring of our advancement
AT this juncture those who have been
thought unworthy by republicans to
lead in the column of progress have
sonred at their discontinue and want
to gather together the discarded elc-
ments of the old rebel democracy to
run the country with them. They will
fail as they should; they will fail ss
they have always failed thus fsr.,
l cool, G
Dar friend. OF the Wapello county
peoples party have no confidence in
"old platforms cmblazOned with gilt
tering generalities and ambiguities.
concocted in rings and cancnsses. for
l special occasions"
This appears as the handiwork OF
one J. W. Dixon, Peter Knox, and two
or three others, which was all prepared
beforehand by the aforesaid parties,
and after having been appointed on a
committee, each by the other they re-
tire, and in about fifteen minutes re-
port az the ofl-hand corruscations OF
their brilliant intellects. Connected
IN rings, indeed; that is 4 brilliant
idea tor men who, at the very time
they pcnned it. passed judgment upon
their own acts. Their distrust Of plat.
forms is SO violent. it is a wonder thew
veutured on one. 81; ~
Then again is il not SO singular
that the great talents of these pure re.
formers Of the morals of people did
not, as if by inspiration, produce 1 sec.
ond sermon on the mount, with which
to astonish the civilized world. What
pity 1t is that since they have no con.
tdence in old platforms. they Dor.
rowed so many of the ideas of those
same old platforms Some Of tha,,
we venture. they would never have
thought OF, if they had not read Re
publican platforms. Thou there is that
elegant Dix0nian saxon in the third
resolution in speaking of demagogues,
Whose only intent is to make bread
and butter, and steal the public reve-
nues." Stop that mouth with bread
and butter, and we will venture that
ninety-nine In every hundred of our
citizens who are best acquainted with.
that Dixonian growl will go their last.
dollar that it will be as meek as its
cross-grained nature will possibly adj
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