Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

The campaign is now upon us, or Will
be in all its force with the close of this
week. The republican ticket-State,
Congressional, Judicial and County
will be in the field, so far as we are
concerned. Too much Importance
cannot be attached to the elections,
this autumn. In all human proba-
bility resumption will come, on the
LIST Of January in any event. 1t is
however, very important that it take
place while the government shall be,
as far as possible, in the hands of the
friends of honest money.
Again, in all probability the cleo
tions of the South are to give us al
most solid democratic South. The
power, the backbone of the so-called
demoeraticparty is thereandthere they
are determined they will not brook
opposition nor defeat. This situation
of affairs makes it perilous to permit
the so-called democratic party's as
cendancy in the nation. Neither the
Northern democracy nor the nation
ais, grecnbackers, labor-reformers, or
whatever you may choose to term
them, make any opposition, any war
upon the outrages upon freedom and
theprivileges ofcitizensi in the South by
the democratic party. The nationals,
&C., arc bending all their energies in
an attack upon honest money, clam
oring, some for a large and some for a
T countless issue of irredeemable cur
rency. We have had this battle to
, fight these many years, and the strug-
gle, owing to the restless, dissatisfied
feelings of many people arising from
coming down from the great expend-
, lures of the war and Immediately
) following it, causing great and I'M
, natural stimulus to business-has been
a severe one. We have come to the
5 very brink of the close victorious and
/ a bright, prosperous era is just setting
, in upon us, and will come to us with
accumulated vigor, if we shall assure
the business men, commercial men,
men of capital in this land and in all
lands that we mean to deal honorably
and justly with our public creditors
and maintain the public faith.
We have no fears of the final sue.
cess of the republican financial prin.
ciples, and we would have no hitch OF
trouble by loss of the next House OF
Representative. We believe the
prospect of success is good but it will
not do to be too confident.
We urge, too, upon our republican
friends the need of keeping the gov
eminent in the hands of the party
that saved it; the party that did not
wage four years Of rebellion; that has
no hundreds ofmillions of rebel claims
to.be paid from the national treasury,
and that they aoW bepaid in large meas
uJe should the present democratic party
obtain managing control there cannot
he the least shado,C Of q doubt. There
are tens of thousands living to-day,
who did not expect Southern democ-
racy to rebel and fight great war,
but they did, and we suppose there
are those to-day, who will not believe
that the South would press these reb-
el claims to payment, but we confess
: we are utterly at a loss to understand
how or upon what hypothesis they
can so believe.
Republicans of Wapello county, on
next Saturday you meet in County
Convention. We want you to come
in force, we want you to come with
the old republican fire enkindled
within you. Come to see that there
shall be an honest, fair expression of
the voice of the party, and be sure
that every man of you shall go away
with but one feeling and that is, de-
termined to do hard, unceasing work
for every nominee on our ticket with
out an if, without the slightest muir
muir OF dissatisfaction.
We must make gallant fight this
fall; there is too much at stake to have
a laggard in the ranks; glorious vic
tory is ours if we will it, and we must
will it.