Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-15
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For the calamity of Tilden's cleo
ton, ifhe is elected, and for the great
reduction Of the republican vote. the
rcspons Utility justly rests with such
sheets as the New York and Chicago
Tribancs and with the republican
leaders of their kidney.
They were not allowed to control
Grants administration, and thus run
it to their own ends, hence they have
been continually showing from day
to day to the best of their ability, that
the republican party was rotten and
corrupt and that it ought to die.
They were not honest in these
charges, their object being to break
down the leading men in the admin
istration and put themselves in their
Iplaccs.
Finally, when it seemed that the
constant iteration and rciteration of
their shameless charges, was aiding the
democrats and making probable the
restoration of that party to power,
they commenced hedging,and during
the last campaign they have done ev-
rything in their power to prove them.
selves liars during the past six or
eight years. But the people didn't be-
tlieve their death-bed repentanees, and
it is questionable now if their late
aid and support helped the repub
lican cause.
1t is difficult to put your hand OIL
one of them who hasn't been abusing
Grant for personal reason.
The Chicago Tribune man, Horace
White, after accumulating enough
money out Of the whisky ring to CHI
able him to buy the controlling inter
est in that paper, demanded the mis-
sion to Brussels as the price of hi
continued fidelity TO Grant and TIN
republicans. He didn't get it, ant
until recent period that paper ha
been abusing the republican part,
with the talent OF a fishmonger.
| Charles A. Dana wanted the collec
torship of New York, and at the mo
ment it was refused, turned upon hi
lparty and ever since has been show
ing it, in his opinion, to be unworth,
to live. And so we might go on in
definitely showing that all the clam
) ors of the soreheads in the party
come from men with personal grew
anccs, and that their charges hav
been untounded and made for tn
purpose of breaking up a party the.
could not control.
If the republican cause has suflere,
disaster, and if the democrats hav
succeeded. it will be the verdict Q
the impartial historian that it receive
the fatal stab in the house of its SUP
; posed friends.
In the meantime. if Mr.. Tilden
, elected by a majority of the electors
college, he should be and will be il
augurated.
}, The republican party is the part
!, of law and order in this country.
always submits to the legally e,
spressed will of the majority. 1t licke
into submission the democratic part
J. when that party revolted against ii
;, election Of Mr.. Lincoln, and to-day
is just as much in. favor of the majo
ity ruling as it was then.
For our part, while we have n
:. gardcd the election of Tilden by
|. solid South as national calamity,w
shall yet nevertheless hope for IL
: best, and give all the just and benii
d cent measures Of his administrator
whatever they may be, hearty an
D cheerful support, only criticising sue
v measures as, in our opinion, jeopar'
ICES our republican institutions.
In any event the Senate is republ
can, while the House will, at the worE
90 be reduced to harmless and sma
n democratic majority. Let us wait an
!; hope for the best.