Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-07-23

The Cincinnati Enqxsrer, which is
acknowledged to be the accredited or.
gan OF the bona fide Copperhead De.
mocracy of the Buckeye State, is ont
square and fair against Senator Thur
man az Q Presidential candidate. 1t
says: "The man who goes 10 Q dele.
gate to the convention % Thurman Q
friend, who refuses to vote for the res
olutions that do not sustain him. ID an
enemy of the Democratic party, and
we shall 90 denounce him whenever
he appears"
The Enquirer states its opinions
very plainly, but that makes very it,
tie difference with the result. It should
remember how the east floored the fA.
vorite of the western Democracy, viz. /:
repudiating Pendleton, with Seymour,
of New York. Now the Indiana De-
mocracy have placed Hendricks on the
reputation platform, while Thurman,
as Senator has elected to do tho bid.
ding of the Shylocks of the east.
Thurman or his pap-in-law, Allen,
will therefore, run the race and secure
the Democratic nominations. West
ern delegates went to New York city
In 1868 enthusiastic for Pendleton, but
they simmered down and became a.
pliable - wax when they saw the COT
fers of Democratic money changers.
So twill ever be. Money will always
hush the enthusiasm and make dull the
activity OF Democratic delegates to
national conventions, 40 gorge Of
fresh meat would make stupid q pack
of hungry wolves. Thurman holds
the cards. In proof of this read the
following editorial from the N. Y.
Herald.
The democracy of indiana, who
held their State Convention ON We'd
nesday, adopted platform which
should fill the wise men of the party
in other States with profound appre-
hensi0n and misgivings. The Indiana
democrats have revived, indorsod and
promulgated the reputation doctrines
on which Pendleton made his unsuc.
cessful and inglorious canvass for the
democratic nomination for the Presi.
dency in 1868. II would have seemed
incredible, previous to the fact that q
body of sane men, assembled Coz open
ing political canvass, sh0uld pick up
the dead horse ofrepudiation, set it ON
its legs by party propping, and grave
ly mount it In the expectation Of win
ming the race. How lie It possible that
they could SO misconceive the public
sentiments of the country? The as
sembled Indiana democrats have the
amazing folly to declare that eve are
in favor of the redemption of tho i've
twenty bonds in greenbscks; !" that
I'VE arc in favor Of the repeal of the
law of March, 1869, which assumed
to construe the law 20 o to make such
bonds payable exclusively in gold =
and that 1--WE ere in favor Of the repeal
Of the national banking law, and the
substitution of greenbacks for the ma
tional bank currency" We can con.
ceive Of no greater blunder which the
democratic party could perpetrate in
the present state of public sentiment,
than to unbury the Pendletonism OF
1868 and present its corpse ~ . candi-
date for reception in living political
society. This issue killed Pondleton
asa candidate, although it received Q
trimming Endorsement In tho national
platform. The platform defeated the
actual candidate, who had made able
and vigorous speeches against ito prin-
ciple, and was as strongly committed
Is a statesman could be to . faithful
payment of the public debt. II the
people ever decided anything in q
Presidential election, and decided II
irreversibly, it was the greenbacx con-
troversy in 1868. When the republi-
can Congress, in the extra session Of
March, 1869, enacted the law of which
the Indiana democrats now demand
the repeal, it merely gave legislative
expression to the popular will 40 then
recently declared by an Overwhelming
popular vote. The democratic party
discreetly acquiesced in that verdict
and have never sought to disturb II
until now.
Nothing is more certain than that
the Eastern democrats will never
countensnce this revival Of defunct
population, which they rejected when
it was fresh and had the seductive gloss
| of novelty"