Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
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wa Times a complaint about our not
publishing a certain part of Weaver's
speech at Newton, Iowa. The Time,
says the reporter failed to furnish il
or we were too mean to publish it
The Times then proceeds to give q
part of a speech, about one-hundredth
part of the whole speech. This re.
port came from Weaver himself, be.
yond doubt, and he sent it over to the
Times for publication, or somebody
for him, because 1t acas thought to be q
good card to induce the WapeNo county
democracy to indOrse him.
We have this to say about all this
that the extract the Times publishes
is really no extract at all, but re.
vamping by the General of what he
did say; and besides it is not from the
evening speech, which alone we have
quoted from up to this date, but it is
intended to represent portion of the
Generals speech in the afternoon OF
the 29th-an entirely different speech
If we were to use our whole daily
issue for three days it would take
about all the space we could give to
reading matter to put in type all the
the Generals windy harangues of thai
day. But for the sake of setting the
General right on what he said in the
afternoon as to some of the subject
matter, he gave to the Times to
publish, we will quote a little of what
Weaver did say. We do this because
we are quite willing to aid the Gen
eral in trucking for democratic favor
The following is what Weaver really
did say in his afternoon speech:
81 expect these men here, some OF
them, are studying about whether
when get to Congress, will moi
rush and introduce bill to paw of
rebel claims. Now this is all got III
for a scare before the people. "If you
don't elect our man to Congress they
will introduce a bill to pay off the
Southern Claims" The honest fact il
there is not a single Northern demo
crat wants to pay them. The honest
truth is that it is the republicans who
have been paying the rebel claims
They have paid all the Southern
claims that have ever been paid. You
have got Commission going round
and hunting up the claims to pay
them; and they found they could MOI
pay them fast enough, and here a lit
tie while ago Hayes appointed M. M
Walden, the former representative
from this district, o sort Of generals
simO to look after the Southern claims
in Missouri, to 60 round and hum
them up to pay them!! Even Samue
J. Tilden was not in favor of that
They generally want some 'stalwar
republican to go to Congress; the,
don't want anybody but 'stalwart
republican. The republican candi
dates for Congress want a 'stall' witt
a 'Wart' on it!! We have got no ust
for them; they are warts on the bod,
polite.
"They have paid off the Southern
claims every year since the close O
the war, and they have been talkinl
about the democrats doing it all tha
time. 1t reminds me very much O
the old preacher who had q great hab
1t of using the word 'he' in his con
yersatiOn. Once he had for his text
The devil goes about like roarinl
liOn,' and he said, we will cOnside
this In three questions: who the dev
IL he is, where the devil he is going
and what the deYjl he is roaring about!
That Is what I would like to know
what they are roaring about"
If ever man stultified himsel
completely Gen. Weaver did it in TIL,
above-did it for purpose and tina
purpose was to basely truckle to tn
democracy, that democracy which h
denounced when republican, by de
claring that "no man could be a chris
tian who was Democrat This h
had sent over here to the Times t
have published for its effect on the dc
mocracy, and in order to make an ex
cuse for its publication, had the Time
complain that we were too mean t
publish it.
Now what are the facts about thi
claims commission? It is commits
sion consisting Of three persons tina
was provided for several years ago t
ladjust the claims Of those Of the Sput