Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-17

IS Ouc VI Suo u0kucet Aeeuos tuo aver"
age democratic mind had to tackle dur
ing the late campaign was the rapid
approach to Imperialism which the
country was making, because the
Presidents daughter had gone to Eu-
rope and WAS being rsspectfnlly treated
by all classes Of people, crowned heads
included. We can all remember how
the poor girl was bounded all over the
country as the "Princess Nellie" and
how she was going to marry some i'm
pecunious scion Of an cffete despotism,
and how the American eagle was go
ing to droop his tail feathers in disgust,
and how the Fourth Of July, the Star
spanglcd Banner and the Great Re-
public werc drifting to the everlasting
demnition bow-wows thercat.
Woll, the crisis has passed, the young
Miss, with . respected and honored
family, completed Just such tour Of
Europe ~ every father would desire
his daughter to make, provided be had
the shekels to foot the BILL She re-
turned to Washington, and by her
suitability and good conduct IN socie-
" there, last winter, disarmed criti-
cism and extorted praises from the
pens Of even the Bohemians who re-
tail scandal from Warrington for the
dslectation Of provincial readers.
For while the forebodings Of dis
aster were quieted In the patriotic
democratic breast, and the country
seemed safe and on the highway to
prosperity; but suddenly we are men,
aced again, and again the cause of Gil
our woes springs from the loins OF
Ulysses Simpson Grant; again the
spectre Of dire disaster hovers over
The cradle Of American liberty, and
everything seems to be going to pot,
because Sheridan hss appointed Lieut.,
Fred Grant on his personal staff
No government has ever shown such
eIasticity and strength as ours. 1t has
survived even q decade or two OF
democratic government with its slave
breeding and whipping post concom-
itants. II worried through . gigantic
.ivil war, precipitated upon US on &C.
count of tho treason and iniquity oi
modern democracy. It has measura.
by recovered from tho effects of the
European raid Of tho "Princess Mel.
| lie.~
And now let us hope aud pray thai
our good luck may not desert us IN
this last extremity, and that the gov
ernment may mot be tumbled into I
wreck of shaps,ess matter because
Phil Sheridan has made tho son Of tht
greatest soldier Of the age, subalterr
on his personal stan.
Lyman Trumbull, the pre-eminen
Reformer, who reformed the Govern
ment out Of . 10000 fee in the Nc
Ardle case, and later voted for, ant
Immediately drew his 5000 rc-troact
i've back-action steal, has shaken tn
dust or OF his virtuous feet and dc
parted from Washington.
| He will Immediately enter upon tn
practice OF the law in Chicago, wher
he may be addressed by persons in tn
Reform business.
/ In the meantime look out for Ly
man Trumbull renting farm, an,
! like Bill Stone, trying to palm himsel
OF on the farmers as An A No. farm
er, and Granger without guile,
The result in Connecticut Is namc
by Democracy as crumb Of co,nfor
and forthwith they cry dissoluto
Of the Republican party has begur
Local differences and the late Senate
rial fight, which resulted in the defes
Of the Republican caucus nomine'
Hawley, and the election Of Ferry b
q union Of Democrats and Republica
, boilers, defeated Haven, the Republ
can candidate for Governor, but til
Republicans have reelected all the
old members of Congress by increase
maiorfties. The maiOritv in the Stat
on congressman y 1000. Their msjol
ity on Congressmen is an UNUSUAL
large one in any other than Pres
Dental year, and h the only test {
parties at the late election. The defes
Of the Republican State ticket wa
caused alone by local issues aud pei
sonal quarrels.
i John Mahin, editor Of the Muscatiu
Journal, has been appointed Postmas