Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-18

VOLUME so.
OLD FoRo9Ry REVIVED.
Dubuque Times.
The zeal, earnestness and resolution
with which the republicans are al
work in thecurrentcampaign through
out the country, save the few States
that are under the sweet influence oi
democratic rifle clubs, White Leag-
uers In arms and Ku-klux bristling
with hideous masks, revolvers, bowie
knives and shot-guns, appear to have
produced q state of alarm In the DEM
ocratic ranks that Is driving them to
desperation. Despite the protesta-
tions Of Gov. Hampton, of South Car
olina, Nichols, of Louisiana, and a
few other democrats in the bulldozed
South, their blood-thirsty followers
are pushing things" with their GUS
tomary methods and brute force.
With them desire has grown to hope,
hope to anxiety, anxiety to determi-
nation, determination to desperation.
Acting upon the jesuitical principle
that the end justifies and even sancti-
fles the means, they have abandoned
all principle and are relying upon
more congenial methods, falsehood
and fusion. Two years ago their ma
tional convention, as had all time
previous national conventions, declar-
ed In favor of honest money and
home rule, but from then till the pres
ent they have consorted with the
Brick Pomeroys, Deans, Kearneys,
Weavers, Gillettes, and other Com
munistic and Greenback leaders with
the view of deluding them into DEM
ocratic support and winning their
votes. In some instances they have
succeeded in cajoling the Greenback-
ers into an alliance, but nowhere have
they consented to become yoke-fellows
with the greenbackers If there was
hope for themselves. In such cases
they have entered into private con-
tracts with the greenback leaders ex-
acting from the latter in considera-
tion of support that they willco-oper-
ate with the democrats hereafter.
This IL a mere proselyting scheme,
and to help it along they make heavy
requisitions upon the magazine of
falsehood. One Of these has just been
exposed again, this time in a slightly
altered form. 1t is revival by the
democratic press, of the exploded
falsehood of the Greenbackers Of last
year In relation to the National
Banking Association.
It will be remembered that a year
ago the greenbackers of the country
were industriously spreading circu-
lar purporting to have been prepared
by James Buell., secretary of the
American Banking Association, adj
vising contribution by the banks to
aid in defeating all candidates for Of
fee who were not favorable to the
banks. This fraud was exposed at
the time, full account of the lying
trick being published in The Times.
But now 1t has re-appeared, and just
In the spot where 1t might be expect
democratic press. The Mil
waukee Ne,cs revives the lying fraud,
slightly altered from its progenitor of
q year ago in the hope of escaping
identity, but 1t had scarcely got on lis
feet before one democrat, honest
to tell the truth for the truths sake
no matter what the effect upon his
party, put his foot upon it and crush
ed it to death. Hon. Alexander
for four years the democrat
ic congressman from the Milwaukee
and who is President of the
Bankers Association, prints
the following card in the Ne,es which
explains itself, while convicting the
democratic party of spreading this
Greenback- Commune lie at second
hands. Mr.. Mitchell says:
regret to find in this mornings
Ne,cs reprint of what purports to be
Q ''private and suggestive circular
from James Buell., Secretary of the
American Bankers Association, ad-
vising certain political action on the
part of the friends of the National
banks. This circular was authorita-
lively pronounced a forgery over a
year ago. Both the language and the
tenor Of the paper stamp It as base,
and ] am surprised that so well-in-
journal as the Ne,ns should
be unaware of the prompt repudia-
ton of it by its reputed author.
Remembering that a lie will travel
round the earth while the truth is
getting its boots on, we have no ex-
pectation that this forgery will fail to
be reprinted in every democratic pa
per in the land, while the exposure
by Mr.. Mitchell will be seen in no
other democratic paper than the Ne,cs.