Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-15
The Anfi-MOnop. EDITORIAL
Brethren Pail Hair.

Oil hbtA1oboP iucAni baiiNa "a ~
Carleton, who drives a reckless edi.
torial Quill on the StdnoItrd at Oska-
loosa. Thep are all good Anu-Mon'
ops, and Of course Republicans don'i
care how much they pull each 9th
er's hair. The Ledder said that ii IL
was true that Carleton offered
Judge Loughridge $1,000 for the
Oskaloosa Post-ofiice that he ought
to resign his position as chairman OF
the Anti. Monopoly Congressional
Committee. Carleton replied, In
timafing that Porte WEIGH had writ
ten the offensive article in the Lea
der which brought Porte out In the
following cord in the last Leader::
Editor Retorm Leaoler:
In the ,SIofuiurd OF this morning
under the head of "Too Much Edi-
ted" / observe some extracts from
your paper of last week and among
those extracts are your criticisms up
on Mr.. NJ. q. Carleton, editor OF the
,S,apdrd, demanding that il he be
guilty Of the charge Of having once
proposed to buy the Oskaloosa Post
Office, that he resign the position
of Chairman Of the Autobiography
Congressional Committee. In COM
menting upon the matter, Mr.. Car
Teton attributes the writing OF that
editorial to yOnr "Oskaloosa editor"
which by association at once shad-
Gws me, since there once was time
when / owned the Office and wrote
editorials for the reform LeatIet' Of
Abba; but as you know, since the
sale Of the Office to you have not
written nm editorial for the paper.
In the Standard Of this morning,
Mr.. Carleton editorially denies the
charge Of having proposed to buy
the Oskaloosa Post-office. In legal
point OF view this leaves him limo
cent till proven guilty. But, ] am
free to say with you that If Mr.. Car
Teton Is guilty Of the charge named
then every true Reformer I'm the
land should demand that he resign
every position Of leadership known
to d party of honest Reformers.
/ have the best OF reasons for be-
lieving AYE, Of knoUing Mr.. Car
Teton to be politically and personally
dishonest; and as to the charge Of
his proposing to buy the Oskaloosa
fost-ofiice, / can say this much:
About five years ago, while Mr.. Car
Teton was red-hot Radical Republic
can, Judge Lougbridge told me that
Mr.. Carleton did offer him one thous-
and dollars to secure for him Carrie
tom the appointment as postmaster
~. Oskaloosa. So you zee what an
interesting leadership the two par
ties Of Mahaska county have come
u. The new party under the leader
ship Of a man who offered to pay
one thousand dollars for Post office
and could not get 1t for that. II he
had succeeded perhaps he would have
remained q Republican, The Re-
publican party under the leadership
Of the men who bought the Post
office for one thousand dollars, and
refused to pay for 1t after they got
possession.
Let a few more such cases come ID
light, and the people will begin to
understand what / mean when I say
that the new party will fall rs a
means Of Reform unless IL be made
d new party in spirit and truth, and
not an old party with new name."
We cannot organize Reform party
by awarding positions of leadership
To the untrustworthy adventures
that have made bad records in either
Of the old parties, and we must be
ever ready to humiliate the most
exalted leaders whenever they de-
serve 1t. If defeat come upon the
new party this year where we had
fair prospects Of success, then let
blame be upon cliques and rings that
have.attempted to run the party for
their own selfish and devilish ends,
hut lest the spirit Of this article
should be misconstrued, let me urge
upon every true Reforrdet and-new-
party mant0stick to tho good work
and hereafter more earnestly labor to
place the new party under the leader
chip of men in whom the people
have more confidence thut they do
in the leaders of the opposition.
Then, and not till then, we will tri-
uinph, and with victory will come
the good results for which every true
Reformer SO ardently prays.
Respectfully,