Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-12
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Stubs Speech.
The City Hall was we'll filed, las
evening, to hear Hon. ID. p. Stubs
the Grecnback candidate for Cover
nor. lie, dcmagoguc like, in his pre-
Jude, attempted to prejudice the la
boring classes against capitalists b,
saying that in old times eve said on
hired man, our hired coman, but nov
1T was our man serrdnt, and our wo
man servant" and il the money pow
or was not checked we all soon woul.
be yassals and slaves. From this III
branched on to the finance question
and said that the Republican Con
gress, by the act of March 18Th, 1868
had made the bonds of the United
States payable in coin when ever,
dollar of it was contracted to be pait
in greenbacks He denounced IT,,
Resumption act as the sum of all In
Equity and charged the Republican
as being wholly responsible for thu
demonetization of silver (wholiy for.
getting that it was not Il party meas
ure, and that the Democrats general
| ly voted for iD. He wanted to wipe
out the National banks, withdraw
their circulation and compel them tt
take grcenbacks or silver in rcdcmp.
ton of the bonds held by them, but
did not, as we understood him, pro-
pose the issue of any more green.
backs to supply the place of the ma
tional bank currency destroyed.
lie had a good deal to say about
Republican extravaganza in the adj
ministration Of the Government sing
ling out the postmasters of Dubuque,
Davenport, Burlington, Des Moines,
Keokuk, Ottumwa and Fairfield,
saying they had exorbitant salaries,
and said he could find a hundred COM
petent men in Ottumwa who would
take the Office. pay rent and all the
clerk hire for $1,000 per annum,
while the p. NJ. gets $1,000. And
here we might rs well say the post
master at Ottumwa gets $500 sala-
ry.l
Mr.. Stubs statement in this re-
gard shows how patriotic a man
could be, for if he did as he propos-
ed (run the Ottumwa Office for 81 200
per annum) he would come ont at the
end of each year, for rent, stationary,
fuel and clerk hire, not less than
1000 minus. There are none so pat
riotic, however, as those who sooat an
Office, and that kind of people, after
they get an Office, are like the Demo-
cratic State Printer, of Indiana, who
got into the State some $4,000 to
$4,000, and when charged with the
POPULATION, replied that "achen he got
black cat he skinned it clear to the
tail"
He had a great deal to say about
the 'bloody shirt" and finished up
on this favorite Democratic topic.
He held the audience pretty we'll for
near two hours, and told good many
anecdotes to keep them in good hui
NOR. 1t was fair, average, Demo-
cratic speech. but it showed that
n,p;al coral I;fflo for 70 etc on that ho
created the impression that Stubs
was great man and the friend OF the
laborlng man.
At the close of Stnbbs' speech
Rev. CO Ira &. Mitchell arose and
from the cavernous depths of his
lungs commenced simon-pure
Democratic speech. He said he con-
graduated his friend Stubs on his
sentiments. He (Stubbs) now stood
where Hendershott, Dean and HIM
self had stood in 1864, when he ran
for Congress in this district, and it
was then dangerous TO utter tho senti-
tIlht MI. SLuDbS ull IL
He was glad Mr.. Stubs was now in
accord with them. Stubs was cx-
cusablc for his Republican sentiments
in 1854, for he was young then.
Here the audience became FESTIVE
and began to go out of the hall in
squads, and the Rev. Ira c. said, with
a magnificent wave of the hand call
go out noac that want to-" and they
went. He waited for perhaps five
minutes to see how many were going
to stay, standing on the platform all
the while, like patience on monu-
ment, and when he found that all
were going he sat down. and thus
ended the meeting. 1t was cruel
cut to Ira, but the crowd didn't want
to hear any more such talk.-,Sdtur-
days Daily.