Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-08-18
THE EDDYvILLE ADVANCE AS A
GAY DECEIVER.

Speaking of the Bourbon Democratic
victory in the State of Kentucky, q
State always true to the oily pro-slavery
party, In or out OF rebellion, We said
that common schools ought to flourish
more in that region In order to regen-
crate the State. From this the Ad-
Vance rightly infers that wo claim
Republicanism grows with of com.
mon schools and Democracy the re-
verse. From the action of the two
parties in regard to these schools we
would suppose that the case was clear.
The Advance, however, undertakes to
Tefute this proposition, and though it's
argument is so spurlously false as to be
evident to almost any reader, yet we
deem it best to point out simply the
fraud the writer has plainly endeavor-
cd to palm of on the public. The ar
ticle has been labored one and we
shall only quote portion of it, suf-
ficient to show the drift of the whole
fallacious argument, as we desire to
be brief. The AdUance says:
Let us 60 farther, and place the names of the
twenty States whose present Governors are DEM
ocrats, alongside of the seventeen whose Govern
ors Republicans and then let us institute more
perfect comparison. The Democratic States are
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware,
Georgia. Indiana, Lentncky, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York. Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia The Repub-
llcan, are California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi. Nebraska, North Carolina, Pennsyl.
vania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and ver-
mont According to the census of 1879, the whole
number Of Common schools In the former, the
twenty Democrssic states. was. in 1872, s7 ,762,
while the whole number in the seventeen Repub-
lican States was 81 ,039, adherence of sS,723 in
favor OF the Democratic States. Again the average
number of Common Schools in each Democratic
State s .SSS, while the Republican States average
but 3.7s8. q difference in fauor Of the Democratic
ofl ,l22 schools to the State. In this estimate,
however. the Republican State OF North Carolina
and the Democratic State of Tennessee are left out
ofthe calculation for the reason that there are no
available data from which to compute.
1t 10 not necessary to the point We
are making, viz: To show the plainly
designed unfairness Of the Advance
to say that because Massachusetts,, in
temperance muddle elected DEM
ocratio Governor for the first time in
the memory Of most men, that she
should be counted among Democratic
States,o or because New York controlled
by tho city with Democratic diver
sion Of the school fund among par
rochial schools, ought to be test in
estimating the intelligence of the two
great parties, but the point is, that the
States numbered by the Advance
Democratic, contains in round num-
bers 23.5OO,0O0 people. while those
counted Republican, contain q popu.
lation In round numbers of l3,5OO,O 1000.
Wisconsin 10 not named In the article,
but II the Anti-Monop Democratic
Governor, Taylor, of that State, has
been considered by the Advance in its
calculation, - we presume it has, and
unintentionally omitted by name, then
we want to add to the population of
the Democratic States another million.
making the excess in population OF
the Democratic States eleven million.
or nearly double that Of the Re.
publican States. II then, there -. ro,
somewhere about double tha
number Of Common Schools amona
the Democratic States of twenty.foul
and . half millions Of people, thar
among the Republican States Of
thirteen and half millions, 10 NO,
your argument of the boomerang kind
shooting ct the breech2 Examine tha,
b'underbuss . little, Mr.. Advance, and
see II tho muzzle 10 not in the wronp
end. The article Of the Advance. i.
brim full Of "lame ducks," but We
cant afford to enlarge farther. II 4,
proper for us to say that We have taker
the Federal census of 1870, for ouI
data on population.