Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-27
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$i.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
80. o~d Of SIX M0mths.
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We notice our opponents are put
ting in few licks, in lack of some.
thing else to say, on the congressional
race in this district. 1t would seem
as though a slight detection in Davis
and Appanoose counties against
Judge Sampson, has awakened hope
among his opponents that it may pay
to lie about and abuse the Judge.
Then Conley, it hoped, may in his
peregrinations, find some foolish re-
publicans who can be induced to pull
chestnuts from the fire for Judge
Hendershott by voting for Conley.
This is no time for foolishness, and it
is not time when republicans are to
be gulled into any such trap. Judge
Sampson is gentleman of excellent
ability, man who for eight years on
the bench ofan adjoining District won
as golden opinions as any man ever
did in this state. So universally was
he liked, SO faithfully and impartial
ly did he discharge his duties during
his first four years on the bench, that
he was reelected without opposition.
As an honest man, o faithful man, and
an able man, we have yet to hear the
first man who knows him best and
most intimately, either democrat or
republican, who does not voluntarily
and cordially bear testimony to his
remarkable worth.
In the counties Of Mahsska, Jasper,
Marion and his own county, where
the people have had the most ample
opportunity to know him, he is not
only free from all complaint, but is
universally respected. He has now
been one session in Congress. He is
no blatant forward man, and yet his
worth and ability has been recog-
nized in Washington, and he has uni
yersally been found on the right side.
Judge Sampson, whatever be said to
the contrary is, and always has been
opposed to the demonetization of sill
yer. We know his opponents polit-
ically and few boilers in his own
camp, strive to place him in false
position in this matter, hut it is who'll
ly dishonest on their part as he has
fully shown through his home paper.
The detection among republicans
had its inception from an unworthy
ambitious source, and we regret it
most in behalf OF those who did such
a thing. II will in nowise trouble
Judge Sampson in his onward march
to a splendid triumph this Fall.
+. s. Sampson, young lawyer,
poor in purse, but rich in energy, in
dustry and patriotism, at the first
sound of the rebel-democratic treason
entered the service in the Fifth Vol
unteer Infantry as Captain of Co. r..
commanded by Col. VIM. II. Worth
ington, who met an carly and un-
fortunate death at the hands of
one of his own pickcts in the dark
ness of the night. Mr.. Sampson's fine
soldicrly qualities and excellence and
ability as man, gave him in the
death of Col. w., the rank of Lieut..
Colonel, and with Gen. Charles L..
Matthies as Colonel, that regiment
did some Of the most splendid fight
ing performed by Iowa troops during
the war. Col. Sampson bore con-
spicuous and honored part in the
magnificent record made by his regi-
ment, retiring at the close of the
war universally beloved by his COM
mand. Then followed his distin-
guished service upon the bench.
We will not speak at length now as
to the position occupied by his oppo-
nent, Judge Hendershott, during the
time that Sampson was doing gallant
duty in the service. His conduct dur
ing those years, and his steady adhe-
sion to the democratic party ever
since, is notably before the country,
and especially before the people of
this county. Judge Hendershott has
always been known and recognized as
occupying extreme grounds in oppo-
sition to the war for the Union, and
in all that makes one the strongest of
partisans in the interest of the eX-
tremc Southern democracy. No man
in the state of Iowa could be selected
who would in the halls of Congress,
be more devoted to, or be more will
ling to act at the behests of the South
ern wing of the democratic party than
he would. His whole life attests
this. His associations, his predilec-
tions, his steady adhesion to them in
the darkest hours of the nation, in.
dubitably point to where he would be
found. OF course the people Of the
Sixth district will never think of sup
planting Judge Sampson with Judge
Hendershott. The republicans of this
district know the great contest at thi'
time rests in defeating the ex-rebe
element of the nation in getting pos
session of the government, and to dc
feat them, necessarily involves thu
defeat of the democracy. tits just a
necessary almost to carry the lower
House of Congress as it is to elect ,
President. We want republican
President and a republican Congress
least of all do we want to elect
Northern man to Congress whose
whole record has allied him in stron,
and unmistakable terms as the warn
friend and co-worker of Southern
democracy. Happily for the country
happily for human rights and human
progress, the people of this nation Sc
the danger menacing the countr.
from triumph of the so-called dc
mocracy, and the election of Haye
seems assured while the triumph q
Sampson is certain.
The National Republican Commit
tee are determined to put into th
canvass in the Southern States EN-
nent republican speakers from th
North-most of them ex-union of
GERS Of our armies which conquere
rebellion. BY all means this shout
be done. There are thousands upo
thousands Of good republicans, bot
black and white, i'm the South, wh
need aid and encouragement fro
their friends in the North. They al
not able to Withstand the shot-gu
and bowie knife arguments employe
by democrats. The democratic par
South have, ever since the states we