Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-22
MISSOURI, ron sLoop.

Inc attentlOn OF the readers OF the
COURIER is called to q lengthy dis
patch to the Chicago Times from its
st. Louis special, which we print to-
day under its own caption. as above
written.
The Chicago Times is an utterly
disrcputablc, dishonest and menda-
cious sheet; nevertheless it is the
principal organ of Samuel J. Tilden
and his followers In the West. Since
the dead lock, caused by the close
vote in South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana, it has persistently melted
the people to revolution unless its
own candidate is counted in. 1t has
daily suggested the bowie knife and
revolver as the proper agencies 10
settle the question. While its testi-
mony, ordinarily, ought not to have
any credit, yet, in this instance, where
ii has deliberately sent its own COM
missioner to st. Louis to feel the pub
lie pulse, there can be but little doubt
that the article in question correctly
represents the sentiment of nine
tenths Of the butternuts of Missouri.
Moreover, one Joseph Pulitzer, of
st. Louis, who was prominent Til
den canvasser during the campaign,
and who cssaycd Immortality by
barking at the heels of his illustrious
countryman, Carl Schurz, has written
a long constitutional argument to the
st. Louis Times, in which he declares
it to be the intended policy of the
democratic majority of the House
to count in Tilden in any event, and
that the democratic Governors around
Washington, to-wit: of New York,
New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Vir-
ginia andW. Virginia will pour troops
enough into the Capital TO see TINT
their man is inaugurated, even if they
have to wade through Pennsylvania
Avenue in blood. The letter Of this
incendiary blatherskitc derives adj
ditional importance from the fact
that it is quite generally appearing in
orr democratic exchanges.
The intelligent reader will not fail
to notice that all these REASONABLE
and revolutionary threats, coming, as
they do, from such various democrat
ic quarters, are caused by their appar-
cnt failure to carry South Carolina,
which is as strongly Republican as
Iowa on fair vote, and which State
was never claimed by them prior to
the election, and because it seems
that they are not likely to get the one
vote necessary to elect Tilden by fair
or foul means from either Louisiana
or Florida, two Republican states
with Republican state governments
and which were not claimed in
advance by the democrats, and ut the
worst put in the doubtful list by the
Republicans. In all these states the
drift of the reports and the prcsump.
ton has been in favor of the Rcpub.
licans carrying them, yet before tho
vote is counted, these democrats pre-.
pare to 60 to war again, unless thcil
man is counted in, right or wrong.
Upon the contrary, VIC have yet IL
hear the first Republican paper OF
Republican citizen claim tn,
Inauguration of Governor Hayes
unless he is elected by fair and hon
est count. In our opinion, the mel
who fought in the late war are not, a
a rule, in favor of any more fighting
Neither do we believe there is mucl
danger from the other sort, who ar,
snutiing the battle from affair off. l
is the duty Of all good citizens to aii
in allaying bad blood, and it is at tn,
same time their duty and privilege tt
observe which is the law and order
party in this land, and which on,
of the parties is in favor of Mexican
izing the country every time it hap
pens to be beaten at the polls.