Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
About Our County Fair and the
8landerevs Of Its Management.

agraphs, the first one from the OF
tumwa Democrat of the 14th instant,
as follows, to-wit:
"The schovelty funks of the repub-
lican persuasion who are managing
the Wapello County Agricultural
Society, refuse to patronize demo-
cratic paper, even TO the extent of a
single line, in setting forth the at
fractions which will no doubt be
gathered together at the approaching
Fair. They evidently propose to de-
pend entirely On the republican peo-
pie for patronage, as they did last
year, and we want to see how much
success will attend them in their
mean, contemplate partisanship.
Wapello county to-day, should have
strong and we'll organized Agricul-
tural Society, with Fairs which would
rival those Of Lee, Scott, Des MOines,
or Polk counties, but, indeed, under
the present vicious management, in
ferior counties with one-fourth our
population, are beating MS to death,
and laughing at the laundering eff
forts Of our hobbling and miserly
old partisan fossils, who arc running
the thing into the ground and into
politics"
The other item is from the Ottum-
wa Times of the 18th instant, rs fol-
lows to-wit:
Although the Nabobs that are rum
ming the Wapollo County Agricultur-
al Society did not consider the OF
tumwa Times Of being of sufficient
Importance to do any of their print
ing or even to hold the sack for its
most humble officer, we, for all this,
believe it is the utmost Importance
for county to have its annual exlli-
bitiOn for the benefit of the farmer
and artisan and its agricultural "hoss
trOt" for its more festive citizens. We
hope and trust everybody will come
to our Fair, the first day of which is
on the 10Th inst, and bring with
them something to show to their
neighbors. Ii they have nothing else
let them bring kindly feelings and
pleasant remembrances of their for M
er associations at the successful fairs
VIC have heretofore enjoyed. If we
are blessed with good weather we
hope our citizens will make it a point
to turn OUT
The following are the names of the
officers of the Wapello county Agri-
cultural Soc'ty, who are characterized
by the Democrat as "schovelty funks,
whatever that may be, aud by the
Times as "Nabobs," which is pet
name that every farmer can under
stand and fully appreciate:
OFFICERs.-Henry Garfield, Presi-
dent; w. II. Kitterman, Vice-Presi-
dent; 0. c. Graves, Secretary; N. c,
Hill, Treasurer; L. f. Newell, Chief
Marshal; Chas. Dudley, Supcrintenl.
ant of grounds.
DIREcrORs.-Wm. s. Carter, Dom
inic Schlageter, Chas. Dudley, w. +.
Foster, A. Stuber, w. r. Jones, D. ii.
Michael, A. Il. Burns, William Ped
rick, T. J. Nelson, Samuel Dorr, G..
F. Myers, I. d. Tyler, and James
Burnaugh.
or these men the president, Capt.
Garfield, the yice-pesident, Captain
Kitterman and the director from Adj
ans, Nv. II. Jones, have all been dem
ocratic candidates for Office of late,
and are known and recognized to be
prominent and active, and we may
truthfully add, honest and reputa-
bic members of that party. While
Directors Schlagcter, Pedrick, Myers,
and Bnrnaugh, are known to be
among the most respectable and
prominent democrats Of their respec-
tive townships.
These men, and all others connect
cd with the society, from its inception
to the present, will bear the COURIER
out in the assertion that we have al
ways taken the most lively interest
in its affairs that we have frequently
had our reporter at its meetings, that
we have given the free run Of our col
umns to all persons connected with il,
that we have, in season and out Of
season, given it the benefit Of an i'm
mensc amount Of gratuitous editorial
and local writing, and that its pro-
prietors have uniformly offered and
paid in full tho largest premiums OF
any of its friends and patrons. All
the men, without respect to party,
connected with the society, know that
the editors and proprictors of this
paper, have individually urged it
management, on more than one occa.
sion, to make its appointments SO as
to avoid the appearance Of political
favoritism, and all intelligent and
honestly disposed men of Wapcllo
county know that the foregoing list
of officers is composed rs fairly
towards the parties and Of as honest
men as can be found in the county
and Of men who will resent with in.
terest the imputation that they carry
politics into the management of their
County Fair.
All these people who have from
time to time managed our county
Fairs will bear testimony to the fac
that we have not sought their jol
printing, much less to monopolizc It
and that we have uniformly advised
the officers to divide it up with thu