Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

Governor in 1875. This will entitle the several
sownsAiye 10 she number Of delegates indicated
BY the Following table:
Aaans. ............, & Highland.
rrecs. IA Keokuk ............. 6
M 49," fuik ........s......s.. |
..s... Pleasant. .....,.....
ASS. ...-s..... 49,. KtchtMnu ,...,..-."...
.-.,..... Washington. $
Totsl. ITO
The Republicans of the several townships are |
eaaested 10 meet AT their several places of of vot
ing on Saturday, the 2Tih of May. at q y. M, and
elect delegates to the County Convention.
HI WATERMAN, |
Chrm'n Rep. Gen. Com.
Ottumwa, Nay 16, 1876.
ASSASSINATION MEANS USED BX
DEMOCRACY FOR SUCCESS.
Though of an older date, vet cs-
pecially since the murder outright
of President Lincoln. there has been
a systematic continued series of muir
ders, now numbering well mp in the
thousands, of both blacks and whites.
springing from the same cause as did
that act which paralyzed the nation in
the death of its Chief Magistrate.
The internal work still progresses in
many States of this Union, and the
murdercrs are not only always MEM
bers of the Democratic party, but it
is patent, though gricvous fact, that
the controlling influence of that par
ty, imbued with the sentiments
that prompted it into overt treason or
sympathy with treason. is to-day such
that there is no hearty. active con-
demnation on the part of that party
of these monstrous deeds of butchery.
The utmost that can be obtained from
the Democratic party in these cases is.
to say these murders are wrong, in
cases where denial of their exist
ence cannot possibly be made, but
immediately they make spccious pleas
in behalf Of the assassins that they
are robbed of their liberties Ga most
nnwarrantcd assumption), and in all
possible ways make excuses for them.
and interpose no means to put
stop to such atrocities. If in the Re-
publican party there is protest
against these things and anything
done to stop them, the Democratic
press cry out against it as an invasion
of State sovereignty, and Haunting
of the "Bloody Shirt"
Recently, our readers will rccollect,
our Geographic report gave an ae-
count of the murder of Senator
Twitchell and Tax Collector King at
Coushatta, Louisiana. Twitchcll, as
State Senator, held the balance of
power in that body and hence his
murder. The killing was most afro
cious. The murderer lay in wait and
found them in row-boat. i'm COM
pany with ladies, unarmed and de-
fenceless, and standing upon the
strand deliberately fired from Win
chester rifle, throwing sixteen shots
without re-loading. As Twitchell
foated down the stream MORALLY
wounded and drowning, colored
man who undertook to rescue the
body from the water, was also fired
upon and wounded. The murderer
then deliberately turned and went
leisurely through the village near by
and escaped. Such is the condition
of Louisiana Democracy that he will
never be found.
The German Gazette, a paper pub
lished at New Orleans for the last
twenty-nine years, and an organ of
the German element in that State, in
speaking Of this last brutal outrage,
says:
That the Democrat really assumes
the role Of the first speaker for the
party at large, calling things and per-
sons by their true names. not afraid
to open its mouth, abhorring all n.y.
pocrisy, and frankly endorsing every
thing which the more bashful organs
of the party with show. of moral
indignation seem to censure. is clear
ly shown again OH the occasion of the
last bloody deed at Coushatta.
In q conspicuous part of its leading
editorial column one of its associates
takes open part for the masked muir
derer of State Senator Twitchell and
State Tax Collector King. On the
receipt of the first news of the cow
ardly deed the Picayune exclaimed:
1.-The moral sentiment of the commu-
nifty has been shocked
The writer in the Democrat denies
that, and declares that, at most, it is a
pity that condition of things exists
RENDERING NECESSARY THE COMMISSION
OF SUCH DEEDS.
According to the Democrat, politi-.
cal assassination is a means permitted
to change condition of things that
years of agitation and rebellion
could not change. The late crime at
Coushatta is. therefore, anyhow to be
traced back to
POLITICAL MOTIVES.
although other papers take great
pains to prove the contrary. The Dem
Ocr0t says so, and for the reasons Civ
en- above, that paper is to us much
better and more reliable Democratic
authority than the Times, Picayunc
and bulletin ''put together
This throws some light already on
the political situation, and we now
know for a certainty what till now
has only been presumed and feared,
viz. "That certain class of pOliti-
clans will not hesitate to employ
ANY MEANS WHATEVER,
assassination even, to make harmless
and remove, as obstacles to suprem-
acy all those whom they suppose have
been the cause of the present condi-i
ton of things
"Audaces fortuna juvat!' If a SUI
periOr power does not take control of
this matter to prevent the carrying
ont Of such tactics during this years
political campaign, then il can and
will have, as a matter of course. but
one result. viz; The unquestionable
victory Of the Democratic ticket on
the entire liae, from Caddo TO Or
leans and from Madison to Tcrrebon-
ne Parishes. How Congress at the
counting Of the electoral vote i'm Jan
nary next will dispose of this matter. |
and whether then both houses will
without further ceremony. credit the
eight electoral votes OF Louisiana to
the Democratic Presidential candi-
date, is an other question.
just now, and since nearly two
months, the United States Senate is
debating the possible and serious
that case of that ma
ture might give rise to in the absence
of every and all provision in the Con-
stitution of the United States bearing
upon such subject.
THE Chicago thieves, who proposed