Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-12
STUBBORN FACTS
About the Greenback, Labcring
Mems Candidate for Governor.
From The Fairfield Ledger.

About the Greenback, Laborins
Mems Candidate for Governor
From The Fairfield Ledger
, The article written by us few
weeks ago in relation to Hon. d. r
Stubs, the Greenback candidate fol
Governor of Iowa, has stirred up s
: breeze. We stated that Mr.. Stubb
was a railroad attorney, and was now
engaged i'll prosecuting one or more
eases for railroads: that he was Al
invctcratc office seeker, and that he
was dealer in taX-titlcs. We do moi
charge that any of these things arc
wrong: but what his friends con.
denim in others is certainly not com.
mendablc in him We have al WasS
esteemed Mr.. Stubs rs gentleman
and a citizen, an able lawyer--one OF
, the bestin the Statc-and an eloquent
speaker. lie has his joyial moods
and can tell an anecdotc in the mos,
inimitablc style, and if You don't
} laugh at the joke you will n, him.
But all this docs not prevent It's from
seeing in him what his friends con
denim in others.
Before our article was written Mir.
Stubs wrote a letter to the State
Register, in which he said emphatic
Tally: II represent M railroad com.
Ipany as lawyer, or in any other ca.
pacity." That letter we did not soc
until after our article was written,
and if we. had it would not have de-
tered us from furnishing the proof
we did that he was railroad attor-
ney. Facts are stubborn things,
which the most righteous of us can
not jump over or crawl under. We
mus. face them, and we ask Mr..
Stubs to face this one: John Leeny
sued the e. II S. w. II. ct 'al.--the Ell
al. being the g., II. 1. Il P. II. Rim
the district court of Jefferson county.
MIR. Stubs has appeared for the e..
4 S. w. and Slagle & Acheson for the
e. II. l. Il p. The case has been con-
tinued from term TO term. On the
22nd of February, 1877, new suit
was commenced by Leeny, but too
late for trial at the March term. In
this case Mr.. Stubs appeared for the
&. & S. w. and Slagle, Acheson 81
McCrackin for the c., r. |. & T.. And
Mr.. Stubs is the attorney yet, unless
he has very lately resigned. He is
now having republished an article
from the ledger of 1871, in which he
Is defended againstthe charge that he
sold himself to the railroad company
for 81 900. The facts upon which that
defense was made were furnished by
Mr.. Stubs, and while we did not
then and do not now believe he sold
himself, we stated this: Gle stated
that such arrangements could be
made, and they did give him $1,000
to take no more cases against them"
He is welcome to all he can make out
of that defense. His peculiar state
ment of that $1,000 transaction was
what defeated him, and he knows it.
Mr.. Stubs made speech at Mt.
Pleasant on the 23d ult. We are
now looking at the report as we find
it in the Free Press, a paper which
comes nearer eingpolitically friend
ly to him than does the Journal.
He takes strong ground ON the tax
title business. lie says: II never
bought a tax title in my life. nor do
own any to-day BY the tax sale
record of Jefferson county we learn
that man named ID. z. Stubs,
bought, February 26, 1863, for the
taxes of 1862, the NV 4 NV a, section
81, township Y, range lilo acres,
for the sum of $299, and that the
treasurer made deed to ID. z.
Martin dealt in tax titles in lS6O-'6l.
He sold from 100 to $50 certificates to
ID. p. Stubs. and number of deeds
were made to 1.-THE latter by the treas
urer for some of this land, and y. T..
Stubs receipted for much of the
money that redeemed some of the
land. The sc Il, l5-73-lO-l6OI
acres, was sold to McMartin Jan. Ii.
1861, for 5000. Jan. 26, 1864, the
treasurer made deed to ID. P.I
Stnbbs. Dec. l, 1871, d. p. Stubs
sold this same land to Peter Smeaton
for S3,400, q fair per centage on his
investment. Mr.. Stubs says sit was
the republican party that had so leg
SLATED asro make it impossible for
men to pay their taxes" We would
like him to cite an instance where he
attempted q reform in this matter
while he was State Senator.
Mr.. Stubs says: 81 was a repub-
lican up to 1861 We believe Mr..
Stubs commits very grave error.
We hardly believe he would act the
hypocritc and remain in the party for
nearly four years after he ceased to be
republican. We all know that it
was in 1871 he was so badly beaten
for the Legislature on the republican
ticket
Some good friend has been kind
enough to copy and send to The Peo-
pie several extracts from the Leaqe,.
during 1869, 1870 and 1871. These
extracts were sincerely written and
evidenced more faith in Mr.. Stubs
than he has exhibited in the republi-
can party. We have not a word to
retract in our then estimate OF Mr..
Stubs ability, but we cannot say
now, as we did then, that che is a per-
pcndicular, radical republican, and
we don't believe he would want us to.
The extracts sent The People are four
in number, and each one of them only
proves our assertion that he is an in
veterate office seeker for they present
him for T.. s. Senator, Congressman
Mt large, Governor and Representa-
tive. Mr.. Stubs is not the man TO
let his friends hide his light under Il
bushel If The People wants any
more extracts about our friend hiding
from office. the files of the Ledger are
at its service. We like him, and hope
he'will get more votes than the dem
ocratic nominee. We want it under
stood that Mr.. Stubs has the right to
act as attorney for railroad, to in
vest his money in tax titles-first or
second hand-and to run for Office
but he has no right to deny indul-
gence in these little pleasantries, espe-
cially when the proof is so handy.
The latter is one of the inalienable
rights of an American citizen, and il
our friend has not exercised it suffi-
GENTLY, we would like somebody to
trot ont the man who will beat him
in a competitive examination.
BUSINESS, COLD AND GREEN
BACKS.