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

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Jrpo1 +. 81. TxAYrR, ofths Clinton
Age is and was democrat. He was .
of the committee on resolu. |
tons in the recent Anti onop State
Convention. He reported through |
the columns of his paper. 81 its issue
following the sitting Of The Convention |
tha, he Kind Of liked the platform and |
he kind Of didn't. But finally he said |
"For this year give us the Anti-Monop
ship" Some considerable comment has
been mads by tho press upon this re-
mark Of the Judge, and he comes back
In his last issue in further explanstion.
He says:
Our position is just this: We like
the name Democracy. We zee moth
ing odious in the name.
- 49, - No one
claims that the Anti. Monopoly orpani-
cation has In Il the seeds Of perpetuity.
Soon . National campaign Win be
upon us. Isthere an d.1fonouoly
party in any other State IN the Union ?
Do We expect every other Staff to
adopt our name Ii mot, we must
consent to 80 into the fight with the
same principles, but under some other
banner. 1luS ss&ss' N
The Judge il right; there 10 not an
ANTI Monopoly Organization In any
other State, and we are glad 10 see our
friend letting his readers know II.
But there 10 ) Democratic organiza-
ton, and the name democracy, the
Judge likes. He has liked It . good
while, and to this organization, he
Invites those former republicans, who
now alRliate with the SO called
Anti Monop party. He suffers him.
self 20 b called IN aAntilAfonop fer
ttnIS yesr, ror instancs, IL. srslsr thsa
his new allies may have anopportunity
10 be democrats next year. He always
thought the democratic party ought to
control the government, even when
the last Democratic administration Let
rebels get possession of the money,
the ships and the arms Of the govern
ment that they might pet up in one
half Of the union i government for
themselves. He still thought with The
democratic party. that the union was
not worth preserving, after four years
Of Wat. and that we ought to quit
sighting, let the South 60 and stop
whipping rebels. He still thinks that
same old Democratic party il the one
to bring about reform, and the one to
rnle the nation properly, II 20 be, re-
pnblfcan Anti Monops sulElcient, can
be gsthered into It, to gain . victory
b. his present method Of stepping
aboard the Anti Monop ship for this
year. Itmay. be that the country will
believe that that party h likely to most
faithfully administer the government
II the ways Of reform and to pay ~ the
debt created BY their treason may
be that, they have ell been converted
into saints, so ~ to outstrip the pstri-
otic people 81 party, which opposed
them In rebellion, bnt really we can
| not thus reason. We know that ia
this imperfect world there il no society
of Individuals however prsiseworthy
their aims, or however good az q
whole, but that very many bad ones
creep minded some of those who
are good at the outset, fall in the race
and become bad-but We have never
| yet observed that an association of bad
men. banded together for confessedly
unholy and wicked purpose, have
been considered fit by the people to
disposscss the good association, in the
interest of reform aud the betterment
Of society. So il 10 that the democracy
are striving 10 lead ON former republi-
cans. to become in the next Presiden.
tial race the one or two hundred
thousand more democratic votes need
ed by that party 10 place that old hulk
and its old leaders again in power,
when another national sacrifice may
in time be needed to prevent ita parti-
Fans from trsmpling beneath their feet
the national ensign.
A marble statue Of the msrtyred
President Abraham Lincoln, has been
| for long time in coursA of cOnstruc.