Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
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The State Register, having reference
to our article upon the distribution of
his retroactive pay, by the Hon. NJ. M.
Walden, says;
6 The Courier, with its usual unfair
ness toward all who dare do as thew
!, please and not as it pleases, criticises
Mr.. Walden's actions unfavorably. 1t
didn't want him to accept the pay-and
there it was right enough, for we know
of no one who wanted Congressman to
accept of the doubtful gain. But il
seems the Courier could not be content
: with Mr.. Walden's non-acceptance. 1t
evidently wanted he should ask it what
he should do with it. Mr.. Walden's
plan of disposing of the money voted
into his hands by Congress may or may
not have been the best. But, at any
rate, il was a good way, a manly, hon
orable way. Besides it was clearly his
privilege to so dispose of it. The
Courier belittles itself by trying to
make this matter do service in the
cause of its personal and factional
grudge against Mr.. Walden."
In our remarks we tried to silence
allcavil upon the point raised by the
Register, by simply applying the criti-
cism we had made, upon the method
of distributing this fund among ones
constituents, long before the case of Mr..
Walden arose, and which was called
out by the act Of member of Con-
gress from Ohio. We said we saw no
reason to change our views and so,
simply extended to Mr.. Walden the
criticism we had before made in a
similar case. Howsuch criticism can
be construed as the result of grudgc
(the Register says we hold against Mr..
Walden,) when it, as originally made,
had no reference whatever to that
gentleman, and from the nature of the
case could not have had, we are entire.
ly at loss to divine. Yet the very
fair Register says, the criticism is the
progeny Of our hate and is very be-
!. lifting to the Courier; and certainly
the very honorable, brilliant and pre-
cocious young gentleman who presides
over the Register, is fully cognizant
OF our, motives and ought to know
better than ourselves what they are.-
II occars to us however, that as the
criticism of ourselves follows i'm
mediately upon the heels of our article
is 1t too much to indulge in Yankee
guess, that spite prompts the Register
in lashing us. The ebrasions of the skin
upon the Register man in his conflicts
with the Courier, heretofore, are per-
haps not yet fully healed and the
smarting process MAY have brought
forth fruit in the above quotation.
Since our friend calls it to mind, we
gladly take occasion to say, that we
Heartily commend the distribution
made by Mr.. Walden, as compared
with the pocketing by the Registers
= department Clerk of the gratuity to
put itmildly) he received on a certain
occasion. In closing we will add, that
Gen. Farnsworth, of Illinois, also
distributed his pay among his con-
stituents, and the Intcr-O Ocean said of
his act:
The constituents of Mr.. Farms
worth should spurn such a gift, and
were II directly offered to individuals
instead of to- municipal bodies, this
would probably be the result"
The Chicago Journal said of it:
I've shall next expect to see some
one dividing the proceeds Of his grand
larceny among the people of his village
or county, in the hope that it will con-
done the offense of which he is guilty."
The Chicago Tribune said of it:
eff the several counties of Mr.. Farms
worth's district are entitled to this
money, still more is Mr.. Framework
himself entitled to it. Their right to
the money Is derived from his right to
it. Their right is only an extension of
his right. Mr.. Farnsworth makes a
very good argument to show that
neither he nor any other Congressman
has any right to back pay 4 .Joatiori,
he has no right to give it away. The
proper place for it is the Treasury OF
the United States"
Will our friend of the Register say
that the above papers were actuated
in publishing the above by personal,
factional gradge against Mr.. Farms
worth? The Hon. f. w. Palmer, the
particular friend of the young man of
the Register and his member of Con-
gress, when he was Dept. Clerk, is one
of the. editors and proprietors of the
nter-Ocean. If Mr.. Palmer is an un-
fair man, man of personal spite, we
submit the Clerk ought to know all
about it. Finally, we submit, if it is
not plain where the spite business is
located, and that our friend has faith
fully delineated his own heart in his
TRADE against us.
Charles Francis Adams, on the 18th
inst, at Albany, New York, delivered
a most admirable eulogy upon the life
and character of the late VIM. II.
Seward. It is the production of a |
scholar, a polished rhetorician, and a
fair thinker. 1t gives very good |
analysis Of the political history of the |
nation, commencing more particularly |
with the contest for the Presidency
between his father and Genl Jackson,
and coming down to 1860, when Mr..
Seward retired from public life.
The analysis is a quite faithful de-
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