Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-30
WAR TO TUE Hit.


Of season, waking aud sleeping they
luam aal fret, curse and rail, at their
opponent in al! possible ways with.
in their reach. This phrenzy of pas.
sion increases in frequency and de-
gree as the efforts Of the mailman
fail to iujurc or destroy the object OF
his hate. II very often occurs indeed,
that In the course this passionate de.
mea'ia runs, the patient inflicted with
il, cries out often and vehemently, tina,
he has slain his opponent; has stretch.
ed him out, stark and cold, ready 10,
burial, and even in cases OF political
phrenzy, that he has not only killed
bis opponent. bu. has also buried him
ont Of sight forever; notwithstand.
ing all this, however, lie abates no,
one jot or little in striking out right
and left in wild fury at the ghost o.
his deceased victim, as though tn,
battle had not ended with the deatl
of oAe Of the contestants, but hat
rather increased in violence. If W,
do not greatly err in Judgment, thii
| mania has had signal demonstration
! in the Senior Editor of the Iowa STATE
Register, for eighteen months past
against the Hon. James Harlan. Dur
ing that period, the food gates Of Blk
aud venom, against Mr. Harlan, which
| has poured through the columns o
that psper, have never been shut down
| Even in the editors coolest moments
every tit bit Of scandal, every thing
that mendaclty could torture into sus
picion has been seized upon aud con
7picuously inserted in that paper.
First: The Register, hypocritically
prepared the way to enter the arena
with democratic papers, In charging
uponi Senator Harlan, dishonesty in
connection with Indian affairs, and
finally, during the two weeks before
the sitting Of the Legislature last
winter, rained down in torrents, the
vilest SANDERS upon Senator Harlan
out-He,roding, Herrod, by distancing
democratic journals In their charges
OF the same things against Senate,
Harlan two years before, when this
same Register, with the same principal
editor, defended Mr.. Harlan agains,
these charges. A new regime requir.
ell new convictions in regard to the
same thing, Of the versatile young
man, aud be readily sunk to the emer.
gency, the necessary ballast being ap.
piled. Now for the fret time In all
this TRADE against Mr.. Harlan, the
Register has become possessed Of a
club which can be used before the
people to some effect.
The ghost Of Harlan slain still
waged an effective warfare; he must
be slain. The Credi. Mobilier com.
mlttee looking after stock of that con-
Germ, among Congressman, opened the
way. DR.. Durant, shining light
among rsilroad men, it was found,
could tell something, not about Credit
Mobilier stock, but about his giving
money to 60 into al election fund,
in Iowa, at the time Harlan was re-
elected Senator in 1866. At this
iuncturs, tho Hon. VIM. +. Niblsck,
democratic members from the State OF
Indiana, was employed to call out in
formation. AT Last q fair shot was
made %, Harlan. True, not like some
members, has Harlan been found max
ing one, two, three or fifty thousand
dollars out of Credit Mobilier stock or
Pacific railroad stock, or the stock OF
the Sioux City connection of the u. r.
road; on tho other hand he is found
never 70 have had any stock at all, but
Darant says be gave money to assist
in his reelection to the Senate. This
was at q time when we were all proud
OF the great achievement OF spanning
the plains with the iron bands. The
whole nation had been loud in their
praises of the scheme Of connecting
the two oceans by rail, and the people
had seemed to care little as 10 the
means used or rather canvassed, but
cursorily, the means used. Senator
Harlan had deep interest in the COM
plstion Of the work, AZ all his con.
stitucncy had. and he iabored well and
faithfully to forward the enterprise,
though he took no pecunisry interest
in the enterprise. On account of these
labors be was deemed friend OF the
enterprise, and money was donated,
as Mr.. Durant says, to aid his friend's
reelection. We coufess to the very
patent fact that snch transactions can.
not be justified; We are sorry that such
was the case, aud yet this is just what
has been, and is being done all over
the land. It is not shown however,
nor can II be, that Mr.. Harlan, at any
time or place, forgot the interests Of
the country in caring for the progress
OF this great iron shoroughfare.
We cannot think that it is proper OF
that il looks right, that man like
Mr.. Dnrant, connected as he was, with
the Union Pacific Company, should
thus aid In the election Of any particu.
lar man; still !: might be done with.
ont any corruption attached thereto
nor do we believe that in the case oi
Mr.. Harlan and through Mr.. Harlan,
there was any corruption or improper
thing connected with the receiving o.
the expanding Of the money given
At oil events, it seems that Mr.. Har.
Ian was soon superseded in the regard
Of NJ. Dnrant and the Union Pacific
Company by other parties. 1t may b.
that Mr.. Durant expected Of Mr.. Har.
Ian dishOnorable action as q Senator