Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-02-20
POLITICAL DOxY.

OFFICE.-On the Corner Market and Sec
Ond Streets, over the Post Oufce.
Il POLITICAL DOxY.
N One Of tho numerous editors Of the
h Ottulnwa Courier presumes In recen,
issue of that sheet to give the Regsste,
and - editor lecture on party mat,
ters. About this time all the editors
wearing the label that the editors Of
the Courier wear, have no other de.
fence for themselves or forthe man on
whose grace they have fattened, than
70 turn preachers, and by assuming
robes OF virtue, preach to other men
what they, as Republicans, should do.
ferhaps we sneed exhortation; un.
donbtedly We often do. Still, ever
sinners may choose their own father
confessors, and select for themselves
the preachers who.sll administer to
them The true faith.
Pleading the sinners right, we re-
'apectfuliy decline to cit at the feet oil
the Ottumwa C0a,Teu for instruction
In politics, or for correction in politic-
81 doxy. five need ccnsllre, and must
have castigation, We shall not accept oi
either at the hands or any of that
gang. To mend "a scandal in the
party" we would not go to the Office
In which the plot for the defeat ofGov.
Walden, for Congress, two years ago,
was concocted. and planned. Nor
would we like to take as infallible, in a
party sense, the word of the editor,
wh6ewhen he was chairman Of the Re-
publican County Committee, ordered
the wOrkT1en in his own Office to print
on large numberof the bona .yale Re.
publican tickets the name Of the DEM
ocratic nominee in place OF that OF
Gov. Walden, ,-and who as the official
head OF the party, sent these spurious
tickets into several townships in the
county, where they were voted by un-
suspecting Republicans. We do not
lay 80 much stress on the course of the
Courier, as a paper, in editorially and
boldly deilouncing the nomination OF
walden as an unwlee one for the party,
for we believe that is the duty of even
party paper when honesty demands
It. Wedid not think at the time, nor
DO we think now, that honesty de-
manded the Courier to vilify and abuse
Gov. Walden as il did, when he stood
the nominee of the party; but still we
did not blame it, for we believe i'm an
editor speaking his own and not any
;. other man mind. But the action of a
man, elected by the party to the head
OF the party organization in the coun-
ty, deliberately and officially betraying
the party into the hands of the enemy,
is q different thing. From such con-
vertible man as that we desire no party
tnstruction.-Des Moiaes Register.
Wepnblish the foregoing in full that
I our readers may know from HIS own
language, how egrcgiously easy. it is
for man who stands a self-confessed
plunderer in ono ssnse, Of the public
funds, to add thereto malicious falsi-
fcation of facts. The Register, which
from its locality since its existence. has
been fed at the public crib of the State,
until it has grown large and has an
extended circulation, seems to rely
upon the fact that its readers are many
and that it can do much injury to any
person, by plain, unvarnishcd lying.
II does not attempt as all will see in
the foregoing article, in q single word
or line to disprove the charge against
theseaior editor OF that paper, of vir-
tnally plundering the treasury Of hum
dreds of dollars, bnt in reply says: we
OF the CouRIER, attempted The defeat
Of the Republican nominee for Con-
gress in this District in 1870; as much
- to say, II I did go down to WASH
ington, and in order to make a dishonest
penny, gotmyself appointed a Depart
ment Clerk to meet expenses, and
/. come home with fat pocket book,
without any adequate recompense
therefor. on my part, you numerous
editors Of the CouRrER' didn't exactly
getmoney in this way, but you print
ed bogus tickets on a certain occasion.
Upon the supposition that tho Registe,
mans premises are true, the defense is
his own damning condemnation.
This is common line of defense
rthose proven guilty. The present
senior editor Of the Register, however,
was in the Fall of 1870, when the Hon,
M. M. Walden was electedto Congress
also then editor of that paper, and we
then showed by the most incontestablt
proof that the printing Of certain
tickets in our Office, with Mr.. Walden's
name left out, was done without ths
consent or knowledge Of either an ed
itoror proprietor of the COURIER tina,
while the editors of this paper com
planned for thetbest of reasons ofthc
manner In which Mr.. Walden wa
nominated, they supported hin
throughout after his nomination. w,
showed this SO fully aud. completely
that the Register exonerated us unso
liclted, through its columns completed,
In the mouth of October, 1870. w
have not a copy Of what the Reqiste
the0 said, but We challenge 1t to turn I,
its files and publish what 1t did So,
about eur complicity with the bogu
tickets. We cannot now be drove in
to an extended calculation Of oil tha
matter, in order to hide the deformit,
of the Regis ter man. If his own tes
timony is worth fig, which is ques
tionable, save by its contra
dictory character, TO prove anything
, he may say worthless, his fun cxoner
alton of us at the time of the Waldcr
canvass would be all that is necessar.
to clear us from the charge he nov
makes, In the minds Of the genera
public but we will add here, to b
brief, simply the statement Of one par
~ made through our columns at tn
time, as follows:
ITO THE PuBLIc.-Some complain
having been made about the Republi
can tickets in circulation yesterday, a
this and other precincts In this coun
ty, having the name of M. M. Waldo