Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-19
The Registers Last Candidate for
Congress In the Sixth District.
The following is from The State
Reqtster of the Sth inst:

'.There is a renewed and determined feeling
rising in the Sixth District to select Mr. Cults for
gted that his candidacy would make the party
strong and invincible. A letter received from .
prominent Republican in the District says that
while the Republicans of the writers county win
support another gentleman for local reasons,
fourfifths of them are heartily in favor of Cntts
He adds that correspondence Is going ON among
think Mr.. Quits should be nominated regardless
of his position of indifference and inactivity, and
who say that the party has demand upon him
present time which he ought not to ignore"
The Hon. M. E. Cults is q gentle
man for whom we have the highest
regard; he is tower of strength in
the Republican party, and in making
the remarks we shall in reference to
the above article we want it dist met
ly understood that we have no criti-
cism to make touching him. 1t, how
ever, does no gentleman any good for
his friends to seek his advocacy by
journals outside of the District. The
editorial advocacy of this or that
man by journals outside q district is
quite generally considered an imper-
Thence within the district. 1t is q
popularity with most people that they
prefer to attend to their own busi-
ness. Unless lacking in intelligence
any people can attend to their own
business better than outsiders can do
it for them.-Ottunsoa Courier.
The above was intended to be sar-
castle, and is, more or less. But the
COURIER, in its custodianship of the
affairs Of that District, ought to allow
some little latitude to others. The
Register, we know, is not entitled to
many favors, and does not ask them.
But the constituency of The Register
in the Sixth District is entitled to
some consideration. 1t is not flatter-
ing to the CoURIERls vanity, of course,
but the fact remains, nevertheless,
that The Register circulates more pa
pers and has more readers in the
Sixth Congressional District than the
Ottumwa COURIER does and has.
And this being so, when one of the
Republicans of the District, daily
reading The Register, wants to say
anything to the people of the District
through The Register, or to say any
thing to The Register itself, We sup
pose he can do so without first writ
ing to Ottumwa to obtain the privi.
lege to do it. Besides the COURIER
must remember that the Republicans
OF its own district cannot get q hear
ing sometimes in the CoURIER-and
hardly ever can unless they write as
the editor of the COURIER himself
thinks. Within year or two we
have printed two or three letters
from Sixth District Republicans who
were refused hearing in the CoU-
RIER. For the COURIER, in it's sort of
journalism, thinks it is the thing to
suppress Republicans who do not fall
in with its views; The Register, on
the other hand, thinks differently and
always give the people s hearing, in
Guiding the Republicans of the Sixth
District, who cannot be heard in the
COURIER. This may be wrong if SO,
We like to be wrong.
Our friends Of the COURIER would
be happier II they were better natur-
ed, and the editor Of the COURIER
himself especially would be more
lcontented II he did not see in every
man who dares to think for himself q
rebel, and in every candidate for Of
| fee rival to his own chances. The
Republicans Of its own city have suf-
fered under this selfish ambition OF
the CoURIER's editor. Foriany gen.
tleman Of that city or county to dare
to be candidate for Congress raises
the ire Of Hamilton, and leads the
COURIER to freeze him to death by al.
lence or to damn him to death with
faint praise through the District
This the COURIER has done several
times in years past and again this
year. The pettiness and little mean
ness of the COURIER in this respec,
have attracted State attention-and
won State contempt--and 1t 10 thif
selfish ambition and consuming jeal-
ousy Of the CoURIER's editor which
has led it into the littleness of spleen
which we have quoted from it's col.
umns. The gentleman from which
we quoted in the paragraph raising
the wrath Of the COURIER is . more
prominent and more popular Re.
publican of the Sixth District thar
the editor Of the CoURIER,-and ht
may be wrong now, and q rebe
aginst the CoURlER's discipline
But he will 60 to Congress from tn,
Sixth District long before the editor
of the COURIER does, all the same.-
State Register.