Ottumwa weekly courier., 1876-07-26
FROM EDDYvlLLE.

sauce for the gander." Having OPEN
ed your columns to the "ring" TO
dish ap the Republican township con-
vention, with comments thereon, you
will, of course, allow the "cliquc" a
showing from their side of the ques-
ton.
1t will, doubtless, be conceded by
all, that if one faction of political
party have a right to make and vote
a caucus ticket. so has every other
faction of the party right to do the
same. II will also be conceded that
the ballot is the fairest way to select
delegates, as well as to elect public
and party officials. Again. il will be
conceded that the strapped" p. NJ. of
a fourth class, non-salary Office has
political rights in common with man.
kind generally, including the rich
banker. who may have accumulated
his horde by speculatiag on he labor
| Of tie community, and who, in q po-
litical harrangue at the close of a
township convention, would reflect
upon faction opposed TO one man s
dictotion and leadership, and publicly
boast that ''nonc of them hold my
paper, and, thank God, they are not
able to-" But he, himself, would tear
about like chained bear. upon the
streets, running to and fro, and mo-
tioning to those whose ''papcr' he
''owned and held" to come and vote
the ''ring' ticket, and meet them at
the foot of the stairs, and placing his
hand to their backs, boost them hur-
ricdly up to vote. Strange that Re-
publican tickets should not as well
distribute from post office deliv-
cry as from q bankers board, or
from the hands of banker on the
streets. No organization of the
''ring" till 10 o'clock A. NJ. (?) Does
not your correspondent know that
the 'ringmaster" and would-be party
leader had a secret caucus with his
''pickcd nine" the night before. and
made the ticket they voted Saturday !?
"Old feuds died out" when after he
and his chosen had, ''in the Silly
hours of the night" slipped through
dark alleys and up back stairs to
nominate city ticket, and being
"blowed on agreed to ignore the
night caucus and join with the Re-
publican party as such, in nominating
a ticket, but at the convcning of the
convention proceeded, in unison with
their old caucus, to place in nomina-
ton the identical ticket nominated in
their secret caucus. As they were
upon their promise TO ''ignore," they
were quietly allowed, or rather helped
to run ii in their own way. with what
results the election returns will show.
Fcuds, indeed Let there cease to be
a self-styled leader; let the party
come together without leader, and
stand together upon a platform of
mutual rights and privileges without
any prescription, or ostracism, for
religious opinions sake Gas has been
argued and practiced by the ring) and
all will be lovely once again.
AS to the late ring ticket, none will
say that it was not composed of good
men, but says your correspondent :
'they were opposed by mongrel
ticket" What, call such men as j. c.
French, j. ii. Gish, ST., c. A. Spell
man, f. M. Epperson, James Penick,
c. Heacock, A. G. Olney, and Geo.
w. Stevens, mongrcls? Where are
your good men and staunch Republic
cans of Eddyville? True, Mr.. Schafer
on the same ticket Ga no less good
MANI was a Greeleyized Republican.
Was not Governor Stone the same,
aud is he not now welcomed as of
yore? Thcee candidates on the
clique ticket are possibly part of the
clique of whom bond-holder since
made mention on the street as being
id sons of b-s," perhaps because
they were not able to hold his paper.
This same notable called the Republi-
can Township Convention "Congre-
1 gational Convention" for the reason,
as is supposed, that two or three gem
tlemcn on the clique ticket happened
to be members of the Congregational
Church. The workers for the ring
ticket, in canvassing for votes, unfair
ly represented that the clique were
anti-Sampson, when the opposite was
true. As the election proceeded, the
tickets were opened and counted to
the credit of each respective ticket,
! Il
but when II was observed that the
ring had got one ahead, and the ring
having the advantage in the organi-
zation of the convention, at the sug-
gestion of the ring leaders, the polls
were closed, though three cliquers
with tickets in their hands were as.
cending the stairs 10 deposit theil
ballots. Notwithstanding g all this.
the clique ticket was elected, except
one, since one minor and two Shaight
! Democrats, cf-ochRoWiedged, voted
the ring ticket. j. M. True, who
having received more votes than any
other candidate, was the only ring
delegate elected, the balance of the
clique being fairly elected by two
majority, as can be clearly establish
ed. JOHN WILCOX.
Eddyville, Iowa, July 10Th, 1876.
DAVIS COUNTY News CLEANED from
the Commonwealth:
Judge McAtee is recovering from
his sickness.
Rev. Cox has resigned his charge
OF the Baptlst church III Bloomfield
and expects soon to remove to the
East.
The Odd Fellows of Bloomfield
were notified by telegraph, last Fri
day evening, that Lewis Fierce had
been prostrated by q sunstroke at
Grecnsburg, Indiana. They imme-
diately telegraphed reply request
ing the lodge at that place to take
care of him. His brother, Clark
Fierce, started for Greensburg that
night. AT last accounts, Lewis was
recovering.
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