Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-08-04

The Davenport Gazette certainly
speaks CONSIDERABLY and wisely when
it says:
"Let us settle that VIC haze Legis.
lature before debating what shall be
done with it; and il there are any
blows to give, let them fall upon the
common foe
That's precisely what we are doing.
We are letting our blows fall upon the
common foe who are trying to defeat
the Republicans in getting Legisla-
ture by representing that Mr.. Harlan
will by any possibility be elected to
the Senate by Republican Legisla-
ture. He will not be. The What.is-its
know he will not be. They should
cease trying to deceive voters by rep
resenting that there is any danger that
he will be.-Gate City.
Our neighbor, the Gate, in defense
of its criticism upon Senator Harlan
says that 1t is constrained to do SO in
order to restrain the What-is-it party
from making capital against us, and
beating us out of the Legislature by
making tho people believe Rcpubli-
can Legislature would elect Harlan
Senator. We confess that the Gate is
entitled to credit for the sinuosity and
far fetched character of its defense.
but yet we must be INDUCED in a quiet
emile by ourself at its intangibility.
II the Gate has taken the job of chok.
Ing the What-is-its from all their sly
and dirty tricks, it has certainly taken
q job that very few Republican journ-
ole have ever assumed, and especially
at the expense of giving left-handed
blow to prominent member Of our
party. Having induced the Gate to
strike . blow against prominent gen.
tleman Of its own party, 1t would be
just like the What.is-its, 80 far as we
know them, to repeat their tactics
and 90 draw the Gate out to hit some
other eminent Republican a dig, to the
infinite delight of the teasers. The
gist of the Gates argument is, If my
enemy Gays am about to take to my
bosom . certain individual, I'll kick
him to prove that l am not going to
do any such thing. We trust that no.
body will, under the tessings of the
What-is-its, adopt the policy of the
Gate, In regard to any other prominent
Republican. 1t seems, however, that
the Gate 10 meeting with very i'll sue
cess in its trial of proving to the
What-is-its that Mr.. Harlan cannot be
in the field for Senator, for immedi-
ately upon the heels of its effort, the
State Register dips in, and IN the same
issue of the Gate from which we quote
the foregoing extract, and in the same
column. there appears the following
eve are sorry to see the Register
"and the Havkeye at cross purposes
AS to Mr.. Harlan. The Ha,ckeye says
"Mr. II. lie not candidate. The Regis.
"ter, however, says:
So, reading the signs of the times as
we see them, aud Judging as much by
what the papers opposed to Harlan
say as to what those in favor of him
do, it is pretty clear case that Broth.
or Harlan is, for fact, one of tho Sen
atorial steeds plainly to be seen com.
ing down the course.
The Gate says that it is sorry that
the Register and Ha,okeye are at cross
purposes but does not seem to express
any sorrow at the utter failure of its
job of PROSECUTING the What is-its into
the belief that Mr.. Harlan is not in the
Senatorial contest.
Now for few words in answer to
the Gate and Register, in regard to Mr..
Harlan's candidacy. So far as we now
recollcct, not . single Republican pa
per in Iowa, friendly to Harlan has an
| nounced him a. acandidate for Senator
or indeed, said anything which might.
according to any candid construction
of language, be tortured into any such
candidacy. 1t is true, however, that
some of Mr.. Harlan's warmest former
supporters long ago expressed the very
decided opinion, without attempting
to speak from authority, that Mr.. Har-
Ian had no idea whatever of being a
candidate, and that there was hardly
the remotest probability that he would
be such candidate. 1t would seem as
though the utter disconnection of Mr..
Harlan with politics at this time, and,
indeed, for sometime past, and his
sad domestic Affections, ought to &c.
cure him from wanton badgering, at
least on the part of his fellow Repub.
licans. ls the candid, clear statement
of such journals a. the Haackeye, q
former warm partisan friend of Mr..
Harlan, touching his non-candidacy.
to have NO weight? IL 1t necessary at
the behests of a snarling, slanderous
What-is-it party, for his own party to
strike at him, and he out of tho State,
where he has been for some time, and
where he may remain during the en-
tire canvass, watching at the bedside
of an only son, to all human ken in the
last stages OF consumption? Sorry,
very sorry indeed, are we that Re.
publican of such distinguished service
to his party and his country, is not
safe from the shafts or the idle pastime
remarks of some Iowa Republicans.
From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW HAS.
SAORE.
Now that the trial of Major John d.
Lee for completely in the famous
Mountain Meadows massacre of 1857
is In progress at Beaver City, South
ern Utah, and fragmentary accounts
of the terrible affair as detailed by the