Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

The Republican party of Wapcllo
county must be hard up for candi-
dates when it selects two renegade
Anti Monopolists as candidates to the
observation-disclosures Democrat.
1t will be news to the Republicans
of Wapello county to learn from the
Democrat that DIR. Hinsey or j. W.
Hedrick were Anti-Monopolists. The
latter gentleman came within very
few votes Of being nominated by the
Republicans two years ago, for coun.
ty Treasurer. Gentlemen like the two
named. who, never during their lives,
voted outside of the Republican par
ty since il has had an existence. have
too good reputation for straight
forward political conduct to be i'm
iured by anything which the Demo
crat can say. II takes brass in too
great quantities for a paper which
has been, in the few years past, blow
ing hot and cold to all points of the
compass, in the anything to beat
Grant" party, to talk about consisten-
cv of action. The brass is i'm sufficient
quantities to vouch for Kittcrman as
a Democrat. who. less than two months
ago, said he could not vote the DEM
ocratic ticket.
Again. the Democrat supports j.
W. Dixon for Representative, who
has most emphatically denied that
he is Democrat, and concerning
whom the editor of the Democrat was
either fearfully mistaken at the time
of the holding of the mongrel Con-
gressional convention here. July, IA,
which nominated L. n. Gates for
Congress, or else he swallows and
masticates with something of the cx-
perience of the Milk snake with the
toad. Read the following from the
Democrat of July Odd, 1874:
81. W. DIXON AND THE "DEMoCRAT."
j. w. Dixon, late candidate before
the Autobiography convention for
Congress, attributes his defeat to the
editor of this paper. In the presence
of three or four gentlemen. on
"Wednesday evening of last week,
Mr.. Dixon addressed to the editor of
The DEMOCRAT, the substance of the
following language:
"Iou have defeated me, but / now
give You notice that l am free am
no longer candidate, and propose
to make it warm fory you. have been
keeping the Democrats off your back
for a long time: now shall let them
loose on You, and they will withdraw
their support from you. have un-
sheathed the scalping knife"
This is about the language, and is
really the substance of the remarks of
the late defeated.
Ii is rich! j. w. Dixon, the old
time Republican, threatening DEM
ocratic paper with the withdrawal of
Democratic support.
Set them on. Mr.. Dixon! Let all
the Democrats you hold under your
VIII laugh YOU in scorn, and fight
You just as we fought You during the
years You was Il Republican,.
You, j. W. Dixon. assume to die
tate what course we shall pursue non,
j. w. Dixon. who loved niggers so
well as to make their August emanci-
patton speech for them; yOu want to
control Democrats, do you? You, a
recently converted Radical.-driven
from your own party because they
failed to elect you to Office-yOu as
sumo to mark out what line Of policy
a Copperhead newspaper shall fol-
low! Come on with your scalping
knife. We have been fighting such
fellows as You for years: we know
your gait: we know just how much
bottom there is in blown animal,
and how much fight there is in dead
cock in the pit"