Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-07-30

with the self dubbed honest mems
party. 1t is assumed by the heterogc.
nious mass constituting the opposition
to the Republican party, and paraded
by them before the people. In every
community there are those who are al
ways preaching about their honesty,
and ss rule mankind keep one eye at
least open to watch all snch chaps. A
man or q party may pirate till dooma
day Of his or Its honesty, but the best
test and The only one applicable, i the
one the people Invariably apply, viz,
the deeds OF the man or the party
Apply this rule then to the practice Of
this new party In the matter Of letting
the Office seek the man. viii the
reader run over In his minds eye those
within his acquaintance among the
Anti Monops who let the oflce seek
them. Upon investigation we rather
think twill be found that Office seeks
the most Of their candidates with i
peftinacity truly wonderfoI Il .,ap.
pears to be their willow O. the wisp
that continuously flits across their Wis
ion. II creeps upon them like vermin
over : lean Lousy calf In spring time,
Just look about and ssee. how this Jack
o'lantern pcst worries the life out of
many of those fellows whose righteous
souls waxed wroth st what they
deemed the corruption OF their former
associates In the Republican party
What is again wonderful this Same
phantom used to haunt these fellows
In their old party until their hearts
sicksned within them because IL eter-
nslly frieked about them but never hit
them. Now there Il the whilom law
yer and present former. e. N. Gates,
Anti Monop candidate Tor Congress
in this District, . gentleman farmer
with bis thousand acres and his
many stenants-the stock broker far
mer-a high priest Ia the Grange who
says this great Anti Monop party was
raised mp BY the Almighty to set right
this ruinously governed State and ma
tion, As being the Moses Of 1t. This
jack o'lantern got after him-it fol-
lowed him into the State Convention
june Ath last, and 40 allnred him into
the bogs that hs fell short Of having
his name Shine on the Antl.Monop
ticket for State Treasurer. In twenty
days thereafter, July 18th, it haunted
him all the way down to this city and
through seventeen ballots in the ANTI
Monop Congressional Convention, and
finally just before tho last ballot was
taken It pushed him forward to- .
front seat In the Convention that the
Convention might see this wonderfully
modest man whom this ignns ia t.is
had enchaincd in the horrors OF pur-
gatory.t It is . most alarming disease
among the ANTI NJ Monops--this chasing
down of candidates BY the Offices Of
the country. We trust the lAth of
October next will furnish q remedy
for this dreadful immolation OF our
Anti MOnop friends benesth. the
wheels OF this merciless juggernaut.--
The news from Mexico gives MS intel
ligence thai. . most terrible disease has
appeared in portions Of that country
which is called"the bursting sickness !"
the taking off of the patient is very
sudden, the head bursting, and the
brains oozing out at the moment of
death. There is extreme danger, we
fear, that ii the dreadful nervous irri
tation consequent upon offices follow
ing Anti iMonop candidates - they
now do, 10 not checked, this s'bursting
sicknessY will early make its appear
ance here. 1t may take on little diff
ferent form, which might properly be
termed abUst-head," but however this
may be, we earnestly call upon the
people to apply the remedy and pre-
vent the ravages of this pest among our
ANTI -Monop friends.
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