Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-30
THURSDAY MonsiNs. OcroRER 40. 1873
Perhaps one Of the Nest egotisticai

Perhaps one Of the mess egotisticai !
snd disgusting political fanisronates !
ever delivered IN this conniry wss
that by Andrew .lohnsun the other !
night to a lot If Washington bumIneis |
from the balcony I'll ih- Metropolitan
hotel Hr SPOKE for Two mortal hours !
10 thu effect that everything has been !
going 10 the bad ,iuc. he LETT ria !!
White iI"nsr. II" was Particularly I
severe an the lyraany OF rnaiori,ics.
aud loY his p-ri would prefer good
mild hammered prince 10 ,nch gov |
,rnmen, A. nav existed.
We Vb-cvsc that hi> speech has
created universal disgust among The
papers which formerly defended Mr..
Johnson. they for lh. most part re-
qnc>t;ng him Ia 60 back I" hi hole in |
lernessee aud pull il in after him
The following from the Chicago |
Times which ha- heretofore been an !
cbsequious defender Of his Ex-.tcci. !
dcnry will give = pretty good idea of !
thc universal nanscau which this !
speech has created
Citizen johnson seelucd 10 appre.
bend that there might be people who
would cal! him crazy for talking in
this way. 1t in reality he could have
been proven q lit subject Tor COM
mission oi iunsry seven or eight years
ago, common charity nigh, have
shielded him from much Of the public
contempt which bis political gyratinns
have excited. But unfortunately there
il too much method in his madness
Ii is not iunacy. II is the
very rational and natural on,
cropping of the pure, unmitigated po-
itical BnurhOnism in which Citizen
johnson was bred, and in which be
has ever been an apt scholar. In his
singulariy persistent disposition 10
Inagnify the presidential Office fron
that which il truly il, the mere serr0at,
ar head policeman, Of the sovereignty
represented in tho legislative assem-
bly,, Ia that of the sovereignty itselt,--
converting The servant whose function
is wholly obedience into the roy al mas.
ter whose function is wholly command
he has ever been. and still is. one of
tho best living exponcntS Of the old
pro-slavery democratic party,s idea of
popular representative government.
Probably the greatest mistake in orr
history was made when the federal
senate refused 10 depose Mr.. johnson
from the presidential Office, upon the
impeachment of the representative as.
sembly. SGch deposition would have
broken doHn 1t once The steadily
growing habit OF popular thought.
which for three quarters of century
has tended toward change in the
character Of the presidential Office from
that OF n seTsdnt of The people 10 that
Of sovereign ruler over the people
IT would have established a precedent,
hardly less important in lis salNtary
consequences than the popular revo!u
ton 81 lSt'S IN England. serving 20 in
,ticate the trne theory aud meaning OF
eur representative system and deter
mining the true constitutional reia :.
tons of its legislative and executive
divisions.
This is another Of the political end
less sommnrsanlts Of the Times. Il, WAS
The paper edited l., The same man
who now runs the concern which be-
rated the Republican party 10 the eX-
tent OF its ability for its attempt to itp-
peach \. Johnson. As The Times
never had an aspiration Or sentiment
founded on principle, il il Guided A.
rhe weaihrrcock ise. ~ il think-
the popular wind blows o. when thrift
follows iawning.
Heretofore those eminent Apostles
Of Reform, tewit: Storey Of the Chi
cago Times, ana white Of the It'ib,1e,
have been hunting in couples, and
working check by jowl in ushering in
the Reform millennium. But now we
regret TO observe tia, ihr firm of
Damon and pytbias is busted. Judging
from the following items which we
take from the last Times.
The dacadencc of the Chicago iti-
5Vne is one OF the most notable facts in
modern newspaper history. \ few
wears ago that paper posse Ssed the
whole field of morning journalism in
Chicago. II led in circulation by tens
of thousands, whereas. to-day, it does
not aggregate ten thousand circulation
Then. i, could boast Of the largest
newspaper circulation IN the north.
west. Now, there il not prominent
newspaper in the northwest whose cir-
culation does not exceed it. lis santie
nP 1ifn I'm ~ hppu rupninO ont very fast
and il j. only question Of tiinc. under
Its present management. when they
viii have run out entirely. The mat.
ter with the poor old concern is wholly
in its management, the dung-hill fowl
at the head OF it being au uncommon
iy inferior animal Of his own sort,
See. again. ,hc creature White, the
mushroom growth of a Social dung
hesp, stimulated into larger growth
by the compost of whisky, bribery aud
legislative corruption (; posted AS II liar,
branded as dirty dog, and accepting
All with the meek humility Of an in.
effsble aneak. --and yet after all, essay
ing to be the exponent of "dcenncy.
she champion nj morals J"
\ Nes~rss~r GavHe ~ Gries.
Two years ago the Republicans OF
New York. elected one Rains for State
Treasurer. but latf yesr-perhaps feel
ing the need OF it himself, he went into
the Reform business, aud wae Que Of
the late lamented Horace Greeley's