Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-03-10

ordinate places, give good tickets and good
officials in the State and Nation. Prosper
ity and good administration at home in
counties and their Subdivisions, will very
certainly insure like results in the wider
and broader field Of the Nation and State.
/ repeat, therefore, let us give the voters
good candidates men Of unquestioned ex.
c.llence and worth OF home, and we shall
enter the contest with victory already well
assured. The people have no wish to repu-
diate the Republican party. The elections
last fall are not to be thus construed. The
party, or the politician who thus calculates,
sadly misjudges the temper or purpose OF
the people. The rejection Of men, or the
condemnation Of evil practices, here or there,
must not be mistaken fora disapproval OF
Republican principles, or the readiness Of
the people to place in power party which
has been SO sadly unfaitl'ful to every trust
reposed in 1t in the past, by generous and
not unirequsntly forgivipg people. The
people do not intend to turn the govern.
mont over TO the opposition. They are as
truly attached to the principles Of the Re-
puslican party now as ever. And this at.
tachment they want to, and will evince, if
we are true to ourselves and the plainest
teachings of the past and the present. AL
ready il is plainly discernible that they are
arousing to the dangers threatening on every
side, and the very possibility that those who
lately sought to destroy the government are
to control Its politics and administration, is
leading the best and most discreet men Of,
not the Republican party alone, but Of ali
parties to inquire whittier we are tending,
and what they shall do to strengthen our
columns and give us still the control Of the
government. Each day each act OF the op
position, each word declarative Of their plans
and purposes, all but serve to intensity this
feeling and crystalize in acts this resolve.
Let both sides be we'll understood-all we
have done and are doing-all that the op-
position have done and Enthusiastically pro-
pose to do-all the spirit actuating them,
and the danger has passed. The people are
right--will Judge correctly-and the result
no one who reads well the signs Of the times
can possibly mistake.
|. But have written more than intended,
trust shall be pardoned for saying SO
much. ! feel the dangers plainly surround.
ing us, and could not say less. must
however, desist, for the pressing work Of
these closing days of the session imperative.
~ demands my attention. trust our labors
here for the present may soon bs brought to
a close, and that l may get back to Iowa
the place love best. / feel the need oil
rest. feel that l owe it to my family tc
be with them more than has been possible
in view Of my official engagements, for the
last twenty years. feel that official lite
here is beset with untold perplexities, with
but little to lead any one to struggle to keeI
in it. / feel the absolute necessity, too, Of
so directing my energies as to save at least
little money for my family, duty which
may say to you, l have thus far, to great
extent neglected. This, four years expert.
| ence satisfies me, / cannot do from my pres.
ent salary, feel that others can better dis.
charge tho duties of my present position
and more acceptably meet the wishes Of the
people. feel that the place, though ever
| so honorable, las it is, TO be an American
Senator is to my mind the highest of earth's
political honors), has no such charms as te
lead me to struggle for its retention. II
many respects know I shall regret leaving
the many, very pleasant associations here
formed, feel truly that no man ever had
truer or sincerer friends than have in the
body / shall leave. Not for slight or in.
considerable causes, would l, as I do. upon
my own motion, and as the result Of my
own reflection, leave il. have, however
duly consider, d the whole matter, and
repeat that shall not be candidate fol
re. election.
In conclusion, / again express my thanks
for your kind words, and return, to the PEG.
pie of ny own State, with whose interests
have been closely identified, as a citizen
and in places of high trust, for some thirty.
five years, my expressions of gratitude fol
their many favors, and the acknowledge.
ments that have received at their hands
more, far more, than ever deserved. ]
shall hope to continue to deserve your and
their confidence and kindly Judgment. And
assuring them that l shall in the fu.
ture. as I have in the past, labor, in my
humble way, for tie States prosperity and
! advaucemcnt--to which end nothing l,
more conducive, in my judgment, than thu
triumph Of those principles which oul
party was formed to maintain and defend
am Very truly yours,
| GEORGE g. WRIGHT.