Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28
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re- REEF nLICANSl
Our fsli campaign is coming on aud
The work already commenced. Our
Comfy Convention TO elect delegates
10 the Judicial and State Conventions
meets on Friday, 10Th inst. at Ottnm.
wa. We wish only to say at this time
that there are no public duties which
attach to the citizen more incumbent
anon him than to commence with the
the primary meetings, and give his
personal aid to the proper conduct of
the affairs of the party. The great
Republican party which, since the 4th
Of March, 81. has conducted the af-
fsits Of the Nation through such tri
sls--saved il from observation-disclosures
the practical standard Of liberty to Ill
men--pushed tocompletion the grand.
est Of public OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ted and perfected currency alike
good everywhere throughout the
whole couniry--a currency sound
and enduring as the Nation itself--es-
tsblished the public credit until we
have no superior in this regard in the
world, and is to-day, and has been for
years past paying the public debt
rapidly, as well as decreasing taxation
and expenditures-and, finally, which
has with its sixty Thousand appointive
officers collected larger amount of
revenue, and lost less per cent of
The amount collected than at any time
during Democratic administrations
we say this great Republican party is
now composed Of ninc.tcnths Of the
same men that comprised it during
these fourteen years Of its great deeds.
In times past the important questions
at issue, the stirring times that tried
mems patriotism, aud unselfish devo-
tion to the country, brought our poo
pie out, Republicans rallied 10 the con-
TEST, but since the Nation is safely
ncored, and treason is cowed, if not
ersdiested, there is laxity Of atten-
ton on the part OF many Republicans.
q season of rest. This 0aght not to
be, to the extent at least that is now
the case. We know that as we APP
proach the hard pan 0f businsss, cor
ruptien is developed, axis natural in
all cases. Men in business who have
little capital, ride along easily in flush
times; they are eusbled to sbin along
when money is plenty, by borrowing
Of Peter TO pay Panl. but when we get
down TO business. when actnsl sub
stance alone has weight, they go up,
and they are often found not only TO
be lame ducks, financially, but morally
also. as their transactions are uncover.
ed. AS it is in private affairs, SO ii is
in public business :-sthese are times
when no fictitious virtue wins; the
strain falls upon the public treasurer
just SIS ii falls upon the cashier or the
clerk, and we believe the records will
bear us ont in saying that the public
servant stands the squeezing rather
the best, for hardly day passes, but
the telcgraphic reports contain the
news Of some detalcation in The bnsi-
ness community of the country. Then,
sgain, feeling the need Of money now
more than formerly, we are more upon
tine watch. As an evidence Of this,
let us instAnce the fact that in 1866 q
bsck pay bill for Congressman was
passed. as it had been Eve or six times
before, aud the country entered nt
protest, but now how different?-
These are times when We want honest
true men, and if they are mot to b.
found in the Republican party, We
would like any man to tell MS where
they can be found.
We urge, therefore, Rspnblicsns,and
the Republicans Of Wspello county,
especially, to come up to the work lei
no personal duties interfere 10 pro.
vent the proper observance Of political
public dnties. If Republicans do moi
give attention to nominations, they
ought never to complain Of the results
Of the Conventions. The Republican
party of old Wapcllo county we love
I'VE have seen it tune and again d.
noble work--wc have seen it honor
the brave MANNED soldier, we have
seen it honor the faithful, honest citi-
zen, and VIC have seen it elect men al.
ways, and all the time, who have 90
conducted the affairs OF the county,
that not the breath even OF defalcation
or dish0n0r attaches to it, aud her ii.
nancial condition is by tue party's eff
forts proud one, her orders par and
all her obligations met n presented.
JOURNALISTIC CHANGES.
tits announced in special dispatch
in Saturdays Chicago Tribune, that
Frank Hatton, late of the Mt. Pleasant
Journal, has purchased DIR. Charles
Beardsley's interest In the Burlington
,Hasck-E and on the LIST proximo
he aud Mr.. c. Y. Wheeler, heretofor
connected with that paper, win enc
coed to it's ownership and cditoris
management, Messrs Acres, ;Blackma
s. Co., the other proprietors Of III
concern, also retiring. Mr.. Hatto
has been heretofore principal owne
and editoro the Mt Pleasant JOsr11
and he IL well known az one Of tn
most sprightly and promising of til
young men OF the Iowa Press. H
will have an opportunity for worl
and for distinction now, second t
no one in Iowa.
Doctor Beardsley was editor ant
proprietor of the Oskaloosa Herald TO