Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-04-23


4O4. II. we mistake not. Mr.. Wash. |
burn is now upon Ills third term AZ |
Governor. He is an ahle man and |
ssAunch Republican, aud We are grati-
lied at his election. Undoubtedly The
choice Of Washbnrn Il indirectly Id
condemnation of Ben Butler who had
so bitter contest with him for, the
Republican nomination for Governor.
On the last ballot no votes were cast
for Hoar, while Dawes had Is, and
Adams, Curtis, I.oring, Banks, Wen.
dell Phillips, and Whittier, still re-
ceived their nsusl vote. 1t is
evident, therefore, that all the Hoar
men, and q good share Of the Dawes
men, united to accomplish the result.
REPEATED efforts hare been mAds ID
Congress- Of late years to change thc
Constitution 30 Is TO elect Senators by
direct vote Of the people. Tins far
they have all failed. Tho Hon. Thorn
Is J. Creamer, . Democratic Rspref1
sentative from New York City, ha4
again renewed the subject l,y the fh.
PRODUCTION of resolution into he
House. We have long favored the
measure. and we cannot lei H. pass;
now that tits again enAocted, without
endorsing It anew. We have long
noted, everywhere, Tho very mlny
evil infiasnces which a,ertaip Amosd
Legislators in the choiuesof eenstSfss
Whcnevera Legislature Il close ii It'd
poiitical divisiuns. there Il. 4 wonder
full temptation. 70 men, 10 do very,
mean and very diishonorabie things ID
succeed. SO IT is too, when two can
didates Of the same party seek the
nomination, where their strength ID
nearly equally divided I.egislatures
are not 20 large In esnuMbers but that
they can be tempered with snccessfal.
u. Not 40, with the people, nor IL II
10 WHOM tho delegates 10 the number
of five hundred or thousand come
hastily together inState conversations
70 nominate candidates, 81, 4. tss3'. Il
The experience of ten years past IN
the election of senators byEi Legisla-
lures, has been most shamefnliy reek.
ing with corruption here and there
throughoutthe whole country. Were
the people to elect their Senators di.
rectly, we should rid ourseives, .,
these disgraccfnl proceedings InaA,
dition to this. we believe that il III,
people elected Senators directly, they
would feel = more direct responsible
ty to the people. ss9d sgis nd
one among the hundreds OF howls
set up by soreheads, Liberals, Demo.
Gratis, who in this State congreeate
under the cognomcn Anti-Monop,, sd
long as that name seems most popular,
Ia tho corruption, the tyranny and mic.
rule Of the Republican party In South
Carolina. To cry stop thief IL the
first, last aud only calling At this time
Of the worst element OF society in this
nation, il fromer deeds are any critic.
rion to judge BY. No man inthe land
shouts Of reform 80 Justify, or has so
many tales Of corruption to relate, ID
the man who, once a Republican, and
not appreciated, as lac thought, has
become an opponent Of his old party,
No man rcpertinaciously pleads fol
reformation than the man who took parl
under arms, or through his sympathies
in the attempt 10 destroy the Govern
ment in the great rebellion, It ID trnly
wonderful how with afacc of put ON in
Jared innocence and sham purity, viii
unlimited brass for a back ground
these chaps set themselves up as apps
tlss of reform. The South sCarolin,
late rebels come upin force to Wash
ington and call upon tho President Il
interfere with stste authority TO saw
them - they Gay from the corrnptio,
and high taxas, BE-, which they claim
literally destroying them. They tel
their story 70 the President, and ID
reformcrs throughout tho North, littl
and big, in accordance with the a
ranged programme set up their howl
The President asks to hcsr the othe
side, md Mr.. Elliott member Of Con
gross from South Carolina, .briags %
the fact, TINT aimee reconstruction th
average lax for state and tount,
purposes has been eleven mills, and il
no year ssshas MsAxcoedcd 8 ninetee,
mills. This 10 below the lsvy,We ven
ture 70 shy, q nearly ~ II not I'll III
counties IN this State. He disppoye
tho :coinplaint shont lands being solt
fortaxcs to snch ancxtcnt BY showing
that of the twclvc millions OF acres o
land, only three milliens Ase improved
and that these old Democratic formc
shareholders and rebels, whose law
used 10 provide thst.h no sssea could u
in the State LcgisiAt ntes without 'llav
ing certain property qualification ar
the principal owners of these iiinina
proved lands. and ist them sen bec46i,
they feel that the State can't find ppr
chasers for the taxes even, and % tl,ey
can enlbarass the State in regard St<
her revenues. lie further show thu,
the Judges of the State Of whom ia
much complaint has been madc have
uearly all of Them been those W no are
not Rcpulicans that Of the superior
and Circuit Court judges nineteen on,
of the twcnty-fonr have been natives
of tho State, and are men who former.
ly held high positions in the state
government before the rebellion, Of
were officers in tho Confederate army
Thus IL seems this South CafOlfua del.
egation making complaints to tho Pres
ident come with lies In their mouths
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