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

The Cincinnati Enquirer says Of the
Ohio Pharisees:
The New party is fiat failure. It
has no backing. Where is the man,
Democrat or Republican, who has
given in his adhesion since the 3Oth !?
The platform and the ticket have been
In the field almost a week and there
is no response. Is this Il revolution ?
The Cincinnati (Ohio) Gazette says !.
The advertising agent of the What
ls-It party's exhibition puts to the
front the tail Of the eleventh rcsoIu-
ton as the pith OF the platform. It is
this: "That 1t 10 the dnty Of the gov
eminent to repeal all laws that favor
capital to the prejudice of labor"
Certainly it is. A government which
cnacts laws to favor capital to the
prejudice of labor is unfit to exist.
Will the speakers at the meetings be
good enough to specify the laws that
favor capital to the prejudice of labor !?
We want to Ego for" those laws.
The Detroit (Mich.) Post has found
the name by which the new Ohio party
will eventually be known:
The new departure faction in Ohio
has no name. The Columbus conven-
ton did not adopt Groesback,s sug-
gestfon TO -cssss-sase now party liberal
Democrats, and the Liberal Repub-
licans' formally disDandcu. In tho
speeches at Cincinnati it was called
the sspeoples' party the s'new depart
ure," the "new movement" the "inde-
pendents," ETC., according to the sever
al fancies of the several speakers.
Some of the papers dub it "The Phar-
asees." But the election will furnish
1t with name, probably, if it fails to
find one earlier. 1t will appear in the
returns as "The Scattering"
The Henry Nl.) Republican calls at.
tention to the conspicuous lack Of q
certain jewel among the wire.pulling
politicians:
The consistency of certain persons
who are down on party, who have had
enough of party, who denounce all
parties as corrupt who hate the name,
the smell, the association of party, is
seen by the fact that these same per-
sons are clamorOus for 9 new party.
A closer observation will also reveal
the fact that most of these parfy.haters
are old, worn out party hacks, who
having failed Of success or forfeited
respect in old parties, now seek to
get up new one for their personal
benefit.
The Pittsbuag PENN Commerci&,
says:
True to the fourth resolution of the
"What.Is-It" platform, the Commercial
and the Tolksbldtt, of Cincinnati, take
strong ground In opposition to the
Improvement of the Ohio River by
the general government, or the OPEN
ing OF any other channel of commu-
nicatiOn for freight between the Mis-.
sissippi and the ocean. AS this policy
is the one great remedy TO which the
farmers oranges look to deliver them
from the monopoly Of the railways,
the leaders Of the new party must
either have made up their minds to do
without the farmers, or think they can
tool them into opposition to their own
AhtCAVpbos AhC, " 1AVlG UabkS Vi LIS ~
ricultural struggle in the West ie IN
direct conflict to the fourth resolution
we have referred to. .ls s,
The Davenport 1owa) Gazette says
of the so-called anti-monopoly move
ment in this State: "a
The people are not to be deceived
by lond Boosting or profuse promises.
Under all this Nanti.monopoly' meal
the head and tail, the form and fea-
lures of the Democratic cat arc plainly
visible. The same party which
sought TO betray the government into
the hands of rebels, which supported
slavery, which favored reputation,
which gave the country o Buchanan
and New York . Tweed, which saved
the ssback-pay" salary bill, and which
has always opposed internal improve
ments. the best protection against
monopoly, this same party, lacking the
courage to appear in its right guise, is
now seeking to worm its way into
power under q new name and by
false pretenses. Such dishonesty cam
not win. The more complete and NOR
tifying defeat than any the Democra-