Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-06-14
.sTmE DAaK CIRCLE IN POLITICS,

Ems. COURIER II find in your Daily
of the It'll, that which, purporting to
be an answer to my reply to Cald.
wells late epistolary onslaught, is
really an answer to nothing but the
maniacal mutterings of his own dis
trustful imaginings. Hear him -
"He again reiterates his oft repeated
charge that l am interested and assist
in conducting the Adcance." The
answer to this may be found in COL
umn ad. in its first issue and contin-
ued, when not an inch Of space was
or is occupied by him in the local
Republican organ; and especially as
he had personally caHvassed for adj
vertisements to start an opposition
paper in Eddyville. This savors con-
siderably of interest In and assistance
to Democratic paper, when all the
interest he had in the Republican pa
per was to break it down and crush
it out. 1t looked..like inteyest when his
publicly expressed hatred and SLAM
der of an entire sect was seen CROP
ping out in unmistakable footprints
with tracks not to DO covered,
throughout the terribly proscriptiye
articles,-"use every means but force
to put them down"-ground out
through that sheet; besides rumor
has it, and / think correctly, that in
he m idDight "dark circle" he in his
dictHm told "the editor" to "give
them HI" One thing, editors sho'd
be careful to enjoin secrecy upon
members of their household, especial
ly when "dark scances" are being
held.
"Bribed Billy with the post Office"
Does he not remember sending one
of. his servants to "Billy" in January
last, offering him the post office, and
of asking tho removal of the incum-
bent, Ostcnsibly for "nan-fealty to the
Republican party" when really it
was for a matter of religious opin-
ion, and advised in the clark circle"
"The castigation l administered to
Billy" some years since; after send
ing a servant to him asking 80 written
proposition" as TO what he iPalmer)
would do in return for the bestowal
of the post office to him by the said
Hon.( p, who receiving the asked for
proposition, cut OF the heading,
"Strictly Confidential" and treacher-
ovsly used it against "Billy," who did
not bite at second bait from the
Hon.
That Statement in the committee
room" was true, Us verify believed,
having talked with not less than fifty
of the two hundred and fifty Repub-
licans of the township, on the then
issue, instead of one of religious
prejudice aud prescription, melted to
hide the former and real one, with all
religious prejudice left out-not
thought of.
ale thirsteth for an opportunity to
Scratch" as he (CaldwclD did the
Republican Congressman and voted
for the Democrat. That ! scratched a
gentleman whose good moral eharac-
ter and SURPRISING schOlasticism is
scarcely second to that of Bishop Per-
cell, | acknowledge, and would scratch
him or any one however high or
learned who would so alter the
American Constitution as to make
tests in this country. AS to
Hon. Walden, | not only supported
him through the Gazette, hut printed
(gratis) the Republican tickets for the
township, and voted the Republican
ticket.
Gle (Wilcox) gives you the vote of
1873" for the reason that he (Cald-
welD tried to convey the idea that |
Merrill and Sibbercl were scratched |
like unto himself, when figures show
The contrary.