Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-03

oAsroN w. sT4wART AGAIN.
4 OTTUMwA, October l, 1877.
: To the Editors Of The Courier:
i SIRs Permit me through you
columns to pay : parting compliment
to my friend, DR.. ID. w. Stewart (ol
: rather Mr.. Burton and his associate
: counsel) in reply to what purports t
! be the answer I'D. w. Stewart, pub.
! lished in your issue of the 2Gth ult.
Il The answer itself, when viewed In
the light of legal document, and
construed by the rules of pleading
needs no reply, as tho real and sub.
stantial charges against the Doctor
are either unanswered or passed over
with q casual notice.
i The first thing | find in the answer
4 which seems to me to be worthy OF
notice, is that am accused Of being
actuatcd by malice towards DR.. Stew.
art in arraigning him before the pub
| lie on the evidence of parties totally
unworthy of belief.
j In answer to the charge Of malice l
repeat what 1 before said, that in
prefering the charges against the
Doctor, I was neither influenced by
malice, hatred, or i'll will, nor by fear,
favor or affection, but was prompted
solely by the duty and every other
good citizen owes to his country and
to his fellow citizens, viz To use every
tatgful means within his power to pu-
rify the arena Of politics, and elevate
none but the purest and most worthy
to positions Of honor and trust. 1t in
discharging this duty, it may seem to
some that l manifest more zeal than
lshould, can truly say that it is an
terror 0fthe head and not of the heart.
| Now as to the character Of the evil
dence: The writer of the answer is
entirely mistaken when he says that
l arraign him upon the affidavit Of a
man unworthy of belief. The only
weight l attached to the affidavit Of
L. 4. Edmords was. that where it is
corroborated by other facts and cir
cumstances, which are undisputed,
the public should give it that weight
to which it is entitled by law.
Again, find in the answer this
language: "Mr. CASTOR when he
wrote his article against me, had ev-
cry reason for believing that such
charge was false malicious and SLAM
derous falsehoods; he knew then and
had known for years, that with all
his efforts he had never been able to
secure q particle of reliable evidence
against me-" That is yeyy emphatic,
and, II taken literally, is a more seri-
GUS charge against DIR. Stewart than
have yet made against him, for three
of the most important facts connect
ing DR.. Stewart with the transaction
of O. w. Lyman y Co., is founded on
the admissions of DR.. Stewart, viz
writing the letters of credit, getting
fifteen barrels Of the whisky and not
knowing when, where or how he
paid for it. Now if these statements
of DR.. Stewart, made under oath, are
unworthy of belief, truly the Doctor
has reached state Of depravity
greater than any thing l have charg-
ed him with.
Again the writer of the answer
seeks to make it appear that in 1873
Judge Love decided that the evidence
was insufficient to connect DR.. Stew
art with the firm of O. W. Lyman & |
Co., SO as to have him adjudicated a |
bankrupt. The truth is that Judge |
Love never decided any such thing. |
Judge Love did decide that the APP
plication to have Stewart and Clark |
declared bankrupts upon the sole |
ground that the application was too
late, moro than six months having ex-
PRED before the application was
made, hence barred by the statntc of
limitations.
pass over all that part of the an
swer claiming to impeach Edmonds, |
because it is side issue and has moth
ing to do with the real merits of the
case.
Again the writer of the answer &C.
cuses me with being unfair in not sta
ting that Byron Clark denied having
written the letters I published pur-
porting to have been written by him.
1 may say, that did not think it nec-
essary to mention SO frivolousa claim |
as that, especially when DR.. Stewart
knew and tho writer knew, or ought
to have known, that two juries, one
of Wapello county and the other of
the State of Iowa, on their oaths, (af-
ter hearing all the evidence that By
ron Clark could produce) found by
their verdicts that the letters were |
genuine letters, written by Byron
Clark. But need not take further
time in replying to the answer serid-
tam, the leading thing to which wish
to call the attention Of the writer, the
Doctor and the public, is that, not
mrs. "a c,,ll xI
asked the Doctor to tell us, achen,
schere, and how, he paid for the -
barrels of liquor he got from O. w.
Lyman y Co., he yet fails to answer |
that question. That is the substance |
tor and myself. m fact I have r..
peatedly stated to the Doctor himself
and to his Attorneys, that il Doctor
Stewart could show us by satisfactory
proof that he had fairly and honestly
paid for the 10 barrels Of whisky he
got from the firm of o. w. Lyman e
Co., that we would dismiss our suit
against him and never say another
word. duplicating him in the transac-
ton. But he has persisted that wei
should take his naked statement "that |
he paid for it, without any satislac- |
tory explanation of when, where or
how, it was paid. On this important
point he now says 81 did purchase
about Is barrels of him." "For these |
liquors now state, as have repeat |
eddy said, paid o. w. Lyman & Co.
in full and that is all there was of |
that transaction. Not quito ALL
Around that payment evolves tai,
and that tail has a sting, sharper than |
q serpents tooth. In view Of all the |
suspicious circumstances of the pur-
chase, the letters he wrote, the state
ments of Edmonds, Lyman q Clark,
whether true or false, entitled the
creditors of O. w. Lyman & Co., to
q full, fair and satisfactory explana-
tion, from the hands of DR.. Stewart,
before they could cxhonorate him
from all responsibility in that matter i
and, rs he is now seeking high posi- |
tion Of honor and trust from the vot-
ers Of Wapello county, they have a
right to fuN, far and satisfactory
Explanation at his hands, of all the |
facts and circumstances attending the |
purchase and payment for these liq-
uors, and, as he did not recoIlect what |
he did pay at the time his deposition |
was taken, some of the voters of Wa
pello county arc afraid that, if they |
should elevate him to office, he
might again forget how he paid such
little triffes as eight or nine hundred |
dollars.
As to the manner in W hich the Doc
tor disposes of the charge OF being |
engaged in the sale of intoxicatin g |
liquors, think he will find before |
he gets through with this canvass that |
there are q great many persons whom
he denominates biyots, who think
their views are entitled to q little
moro respect than to be dcnominated
Jigots. Think of it, voters of Wapel-
10 county, when you go to the polls,
if any Of you are striving to save
your sons from tho terrible conse-
quences of intcmperance, this man
has the effrontery to call you bigot;
| if you give any weight to charge Of
having been enOa ped in ael lin0 intOx-