Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

/ General Cochran, Of New York, had
rally to rsorgsnize Liberalism recent
ly. They did not rally much. Speak
ing of the old Liberal party on this
occasion, VIM. Cullen Bryant, of the
n. +. Ereniag Post said;
/ ain its birth it was monster, and
its few weeks OF life We're an iniqui.
tons debauch under the assumption oi
political virtue to which it had nc
4 claim. Its very existence was an in
suit to honest people. aud its pretense
Of having survived the indignation
and contempt which overwhelmed II
is, IL we take It seriously, an imperti.
nence without parallel"
Bryant ia one Of those who was op-
posed to the reelection OF the old ad-
ministration, if he could succeed in
obtaining something better, but the
shape Liberalism got into, and the
crowd that run it, cooked him in short
! metre. ifti
1 t4sHkss = s 4 y.{sttgsee !
The dearth of cause for complaint
by Democratic journals induces them,
in keeping with the current Of their
instincts, to startle their readers with
the announcement that Gen. Grant 10
preparing for third term as Presi-
dent. This they will keep up for about
three years to come 10 gull their guilt
BILE readers with. They now say that
the scheme has been fully concocted at
Long Branch. a
This might be denominated the silly
tw sddle Of very silly men, IL It were
not true that it more ltly indicates the
over weening penchant of these jour-
mails for telling falsehoods. Itreminds
us Of the story Caleb B. Smith, OIL Indi-
ana, used to get off on the democracy
when they attempted to rig him on his
taking soap factory in a compromise
Of hard debt due the State. He said
one thing was certain that ii the Slate
could furnish the grease the democracy
could easily supply the lye. iea
Brick Pomeroy's" Democrat ID not
always to be relied upon in political
matters, but here is truth he tells OF
Democracy that should not go unheed-
ed by any Republican with a similar
fault sssa -ak
T. d.
"Why is II that SO many Democratic
politicians are afraid to endQae tenn
perance? Why is IL that Democracy
and drunkenness are 30 generally asso-
ciated Go where yon will, three out
of five Democrats are afraid to be
known az Temperance men, as If II
were q disgrace to be temperance
man, and crime to discountenance the
cause Of nine-tenths of the misery and
three-fourths Of the taxation now curs-
ing this country. The Democratic poll
itician who is up for Office flies from
rum-hole to grog-shop, from saloon to
sample-room, to rally the Democracy.
Public meetings are held in the whis-
key shops, and the very man who
urges reform from Republican corrup-
tiOn, spends for .whiskey the last dol
lar he can borrow, and goes home
drunk, or sees his audience III that con-
dition. Hundreds OF times have we
been severely denounced for defending
the cause Of temperance, on the ground
that without the whiskey vote Democ-
rncy is dead duck.
The republicans of Iowa have held
their State Convention and their ticket
and platform is in the field. The Anti
Monopolists or Peoples party or
whatever name it may be called, have
named the 18th Of August for a State
Convention, but SO far nothing Of life
oppears in the democracy. Mr.. Irish,
Chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee, sometime ago said
Democrats must come to the front
seats, but further than this All remains
hidden in the future. The ominous
silence that reigns suggests a funeral.
These funeral occasions haye become
SO common with the democracy that to
get up respectable one is becoming 8
mighty hard thing to do. The real
question at issue now seems to be
whether democracy can evenraise their
usual funeral procession.
| &s4 s&-+.-4.-- l "t.
Senator Morrill, is one of the few
members OF Congress who voted
against the salary bill but drew the
money and disposed of it by placing it
| in the treasury Of his constituents. The
Dubuque Times speaking Of THIS act Of
his, says:
"The difficulty with Senator Morrill,
is that he is wholly inconsistent. II
the money belongs to himself instead
ofthe General Government, then there
is no pr0priety in the demand that he
should donate lit in any direction, and
he bnt shows weakness in deferring
to such q demand. He thereby confes-
ses thst to appease clamor he viii do
with his own what he would not do
with it where such popular demand
does not exist. The people have no
respect for such weakness. They want
him to recognize the moral right of the
people Of the whole United States to
this money, as being improperly voted
out Of the general treasury, or to as
sert his own right to its possession and
use. There is no mean between these
two positions that 10 at all defensible.' 2
u The Cincinnati Gazette says of the
situation of the Ohio Democracy:
4 The great question that agitates the
intestines of the Democratic party il
whether It will stand the better chance
to come into power by pronouncine
itself dead, or by declaring itself quick