Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
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FROM a KANSAS D0Y ~ UkUE.
WICHITA, Kan, Oct. %, 1876.
EDITOR COURIER pear Sirs-I
believe I have not written anything
for the COURIER, since my article last
spring in reference to our crops
Although our wheat crop did not
turn out as well as We anticipated,
yet VIC did not foolishly blame Grants
administration for 1t. This seems to
be quite a prevailing idea among
democrats and sore heads, that hard
times and everything else that goes
wrong in their business affairs origi-
mates from 3 republican administra-
ton. Now it would be strange
indeed, that after having easy times
for successive years past, that reac-
ton would not follow sooner or later !;
and it happens that we are just pass.
ing through one of these reverses in
the way of money matters. But my
democratic friends If this thing had
never happened before we might can
vas the matter seriously. But we
find that these things have occurred
before, and that too, under demo-
cratic administration. A worse time
than this comes almost within the
scope of my memory, when II was al
most impossible for the people to pay
their taxes; when hogs sold for tl.4O
per hundred lbs, wheat sold for Is
and SO cents per bushel, corn and 9TH
er produce was almost worthless
This fact is well known to the older
citizens of Wapello county. And all
this was under q democratic admins
tration. And yet these are hard times
and the republican party must be
blamed for it. This is foolishness,
and is only pretext for faultfinders
and fools.
Again there IS an other argument
that our democratic friends have
largely INDUCED in, and that is, that
the republican party cannot reform
itself. How if this be the case, that
political party can not reform, ! ask
in the name Of God when, and where
did the democratic party reform it.
self? They have been souring, fer
menting and working off for the last
twelve years, and have they worked
out any reform? If they have, it
certainly got away before anybody
saw it. Even Themselves did not get
q peep at their child. / find in can
vasing q portion of our county, SOL
dicr now and then, that ia hating
between two opinions, bnt thank God
we have not got many of that kind of
boys, and while / make mention Of
this, 1 have understood that few of
the boys of the old Seth Iowa, have
folded their colors and are hosting
their hats for Tildcn and Hendricks.
Is it possible that men can become so
lost to honor and patriotic principle
az to cast their vote for q masked
traitor? Boys that shouldered their
muskets and marched to the front !?
Men that made q drcary march to a
prison hell, and there for ten months
dwelt beneath the frauds of rebel
guard, and under the sound Of the
blood hound. The same element con-
fronts us now. The same principles
of 1851 are their principles to-day and
now you want to 60 back and help
maintain them. Although some Of
you may be my comrads, yet I shall
make the assertion, that if You were
right then you are wrong now. But If
right now you were wrong when you
shouldcred your musket in defense
of the Union. The man that you wish
to support is masked rebel, he has
been under sneak's cloth ever since
the rebellion and If half the reports
are true concerning his character, it
is enough to damn nation. Sup
port him if you wish, but l prefer
loyalty in mine. Yours truly,
+. M. DoFFLEMYRE.