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Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

THE Inter- Ocean of the Goth make:
a terrible exhibit of the wrongful
use of the pardoning power in that
State, touching persons convicted o1
murder. Says that paper:
The record of the penitentiary re
veals the fact that murderers in Hin
ois who are sent to the penitentiary
average about 3 years and 6 months
Of actual service in the penitentiary
and that 10 years for life term is an
exception, while 2 and 3 years may
almost be considered the rule.
One of the saddest burlesques or
Justice in this State is the fact, clearly
enunciated in the records printed this
morning, that a large proportion o1
the men pardoned were originally
sentenced to be hanged. In some in
stances the sentence was commuted tC
imprisonment for life, then to twenty
years, and finally the convict's sins
were wiped out with a permit to free
dom.
Either our courts and juries are ir
the habit Of convicting innocent men
or else the pardoning power in this
State has been very much abused
With these facts glaring them in the
face, it is not surprising that such rep
resentative men as DIR. Thomas pub
licly announce: ~ was once in favor
of Imprisonment for life in the peni'
tentiary for murder, and opposed tt
capital punishment. have had rea
son to change my mind, and am now
a believer in the punishment of mur
der by hanging"
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

SOME of the democratic journals of
the South who praise the recentspeech
of JEFF Davis at Mississippi City,
La, land most all Southern demo-
cratic journals do praise it,, claim that
the speech did not affirm the right of
secession. To this the Vicksburg,
(Miss.,) Herald, democratic, replies
by quoting Jeff's language as follows:
Permit me to say of the controvert-
ed question Of secession by a State
from the Union, of which it was a
member by a compact voluntarily
made, that my faith in that right as
an inherent right of State Sovereign
ty was adopted early in life, was con-
firmed by the study and observation
OF. late years, and has passed, un-
changed and unshaken, through the
severe ordeal to which it has been
been subjected.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

ing about in referring to bonds under
the act of 90. 1t is highly probable
that this less than half a million of
bonds under that act will never be
presented for payment, but are lost
and destroyed in the mishaps of their
time by fire and food. Next the
General refers to the act of ga as in
Guiding some of his six hundred mil
lions of bonds to be paid in green
backs and which, according to Gen.
W., Sherman and Morton said were
payable in greenbacks. Well, there
We're outstanding of bonds issued un.
der this act, in round numbers, 1885,
0OO,000 on May |, last, and if the Gen.
eral will read the law he will, we
think, be stumped in his effort to pay
them in greenbacks when the law
says they are payable in coin, and
Morton and Sherman would hardly
Justify him in quoting them as saying
these bonds were payable in green.
backs:
But we have made this article al.
ready too long and will leave othel
matters for the future, save we viii
say that when we said, in order to bt
brief, that ''all the 5-20s expressly
state that they are payable in coin,
we conveyed a wrong impression
perhaps. We do not claim that al
the bonds so state upon their face
though a great many do, but that
fair Interpretation of the law make
them so payable. Again, the Gener
ais criticism as to the report of hi
speech is exceedingly thin. He cor
rects but a single word, and while thi
enables one to more clearly get tn
idea, it does not relieve the sentimen
of its nonsense at all.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
The Iowa Democracy as the
Great Ratifying Party.
From the Sigourney Reyiev-Ds


The $500 Democrats of this Distric,
who clung 10 the ticket last fall, Akt
men, when this very same element
was seeking the disintegration of the
party, will be heard this fall both in
convention and at the polls, and many
of those who fell into the snare and
fooled their votes away, will come
home this fall and cast their votes
with the Democratic party-the party
of the people and the hope of the
country. The men who are seeking
to disrupt the Democratic party have
called their Judicial Convention for
the 3lst of this month. We under
stand from the lunatics here that the
object in so doing is to designate a
couple of gentlemen for the Demo.
cratic convention that meets on the
l4th of August to ratify. If the Dem.
ocrats of this State will only do all
the ratifying these lunatics ask, we
had better change our name, and call
ourselves the great ratifying party
1t may occur to some people that this
ratifying business is getting just q
little stale.
There ls another suggestion thai
we would make for the edification OF
the ratifiers. Is 1t not little strange
that we have to ratify so many sore.
head Republicans-men who stayed
in the Radical camp and voted for all
the infamous class legislation Of the
past twelve years, the outrageous dis.
elimination between capital and la.
Dor, in the shape of banking laws
tariff laws, and laws for the express
benefit of the bondholders, and last
but not least the infamous reconstruc.
ton laws which swindled and cheat
ed the Democratic party out of their
president? We can eat a reasonab BILE
amount of dirt. and are tolerable
good on the confession, but our di.
1estive organs cannot stand every
thing. If the Democrats of this State
are to be constantly fed on such dir,
as Weaver, Gillett, Bereman and 9TH
ers Of the same kidney, it is calcula-
ted to make them dyspeptic, and il
they do "spit up" little you can
hardly blame them.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

per month, from the sale Of milk and
cream.
The raising of flowers, seeds and
plants for sale is another beautiful
and paying industry. But small cap
ital is required but there is required
a genuine love for the work. Flow
ers need to be tended like children,
lovingly and constantly, but to those
who can thus tend them they offer
rich rewards both in money and
pleasure. The work is very light.
and constantly refrcshes and cncour-
ages the worker by the happy, free
conditions under which it is necessa-
rily carried on. The demand for
flowers is one that is constantly in
creasing, and that indicates the rapid
progress of people in the percetion
and love of beauty and refinement.
If the thoughts and energies of
people could only be turned more to
the undertaking and prosecution of
such practical and safe enterprises,
instead of being spent in bew ailing
the hardness of the times and in wait
ing for some sudden great change for
the better, which is not going to come
it would help very materially to
solve the problem Of work for the un.
employed. and lead to the return OF
prosperity, comfort and peace.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

PHILIPS pItFERING.
From Wealth and influence to
| Poverty and Otauraco

From Wealth and influence to
Poverty and Disgrace.
WAsHINGToN, July 22.-It is made
public here to-day that Frank Philip,
lately Chief Clerk to Pay Director
Cunningham Of the Navy at San
Francisco, embezzled about $1,000
while in that position. 1t seems that
he used checks made out in favor of
other persons. Pay Director Cum
ningham has made the amount good
to those defrauded, and it is doubt
full if there will ever be any criminal
prosecutions. Mr.. Philip is q proml-
nent character in Washington. He
was in tho book and stationery bust
ness, and was remarkably successful
in securing contracts from depart
ments for these articles. He lived in
grand style, entertaining on large
scale, and thought nothing of a thou
sand-dollar dinner to q few friends,
especially if any of the friends could
be of service in the matter of con.
tracts. During the session of the
Joint High Commission his elegant
residence, latterly used by the Span
ish Minister, was the scene of several
splendid receptions to the English
members of the commission. He al.
so entertained Prince Arthur when
the latter was In Washington. BY ex.
travagance and speculation he became
. poor nan. He Is an Englishlnar
by birth. He made many friends il
Washington, and these latter have
been industriously trying to keep hi
recent. disgrace from the public.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

The Register calls attention to the
liability Of the railroads of this state,
under the law, in bringing into lows
thousands of persons whom they
know to be paupera, The railroad
companies could largely stop this
plague, if they would. But some OF
them are carrying them free rather
than be at the little expense OF
arming their employees Oh the trains
and so keep them riding from point
to point. Others of our railroads
like the Burlington, Ce6ar Rapids &
Northern, fight the tramps and keep
them of their trains with shotguns,
when other means fail. Roads of this
class do not aid in the way by which
ten thousand of these vagrants reach
the interior Of the State. The roads
which are culpable in doing so should
be brought to terms under the law, il
it can be done.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Craig and the Democrats.
From the Clint ton Herald
~ .J1,,,'roro%e. ,,,aIn r,,


The democrats made Craig Mei,
choice for Warden, the last time he
was elected, Notwithstanding demo
crat had been nominated against him
About this there can be no mistake
Craig was last reelected Warden
January IL, 1876. He was the nomi.
nee of the republicans, and Jonathan
Jones, of Marion, the candidate of the
democrats. The joint roll of the two
houses having been called, it wa:
found that 129 votes had been cast, o
which Craig received 125 and Jones 4
The tally shows that q democrat.
and anti-Monops deserted Jones t6
vote for Craig, thus making his elec
ton almost unanimous. This endorse
ment of Craig by ,fov,ffths Of tn,
democrats an the Legislature was giver
after he had been in the position foul
years, and after the bulk of his rob
berry had been committed. With
such a showing it hardly becomes 6
democrat to say much about Craig
and the republicans, especially in
view of the fact that the investiga.
ton which disclosed his crimes was
set on foot by republicans, authorized
by republican legislature, and con.
Quoted by republican committee.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
A BOSTON SENSATION.
Failure Of the Boston Betting Com
pary-Shortcomings ofthe
Treasurer.

BosToN, July 22.-Thc announce
ment this afternoon Of the resigna-
tion of John Il. Tappsn, as Treasurer
of the Boston Betting Company, q
position he had held since the organ
ization of the corporation, thirty
years ago, and the statement that he
used the credit Of the company in the
interests of private speculations, was
a surprise in financial circles, where
Tsppan was regarded as man of
the most exemplary character, and
unimpeachable integrity. The cor
poration had paid up capital of
$5OO,OO0, and held favorable reputa-
ton. Investigation shows that Tap
pan had issued notes to the amount
of 100000, and is also held for $685.
600 on an outside endorsement, as the
treasury proceeds of which have not
been received by the company. The
total liabilities of the company are
$S39,OOO; nominal assets $9SO,OOO
notes payable as above stated $685.
GOO. 1t also appeared that Mr.. Tap.
pan, to make good the losses to the
Company, the responsibility for
which rests with him, had handed
over to the creditors his entire prop.
erty, of the nominal value of 81 ,1OO,.
600. In consequence of the condition
Of affairs the company has suspended
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

Gen. GARFIELD has been talking
With the editor of the Cleveland Her.
aid, and defines his views of the DO
litical situation in emphatic language.
He believes "a return of the demo.
Gratis to power would be the restora.
tion of the Southern leaders to as alb.
solute control as they had in Buchan.
ans time. Their purpose would be
to fertilize their impoverished country
with streams of appropriations from
the national treasury. Every pretext
for spending money in the South
levees, railroads, harbors, rivers, pub
lie buildings, and the like-will bt
seized upon. Last session the North
ern democrats cntreated and swore tx
no avail. The Southern men were
immovable. Some admitted the DO
litical folly of their course, but sale
their constituents demanded libera
appropriations, and they dared not re
sist."
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
A 6,stiHgusshoa.ss Democrat kpan'
donlng His Party Candidate to
Vote for Craig.

MT. PLEASANT, July 2O.-.Editor Of
Register: 1t must be mistake in the
record, where you quote the Hon. w.
G. Hobbs, Of Lee county, the demo-
cratic nominee for Congress in this
district, as having been one of the %
democrats who voted for Craig's re-
election as Warden. Ijudge this must
be so, since the democrats have been
making the penitentiary plunder job
the principal issue of the campaign.
Consequently l can hardly believe
that this nominee for Congress was a
champion of fCraig, ,--and dsuch cham
pion as to vote for him regardless of
politics. Please let us know if Mr..
Hobbs did indeed vote for DIR. Craig's
reelection. READER,
Mr.. Hobbs did vote for the re-elec-
ton of DIR. Craig as Warden. And
he did more than that. He made a
speech in the joint convention in IA
vor of the Doctor-and this when the
name of a democrat, Mr.. Jonathan
Jones, had been presented to the con-
yentiOn. The record of this was made
in the Registers account of the Joint
Conventions proceedings. The Con-
vention was held the 10Th of January
1876. From the Register of January
2Oth we quote:
'Mr. Irwin, flee, nominated Seth
III. Craig, of Pottawattamie. Mr.,
Clark, of Marion, nominated iona.
than Jones, of Marion county.
"While the vote was being taken
Mr.. Hobbs (dem.l of Lee, arose when
his name was called to explain why
he, a member of the democratic par.
ty, voted for Mr.. Craig. For some
time past his residence had been ir
the vicinity of the penitentiary, and
he had ample opportunities for OBJ
serving the manner i'm which the
present Warden discharged hisduties
He was willing to testify that they
had been discharged with ability anc
fidelity"
Mr.. Hobbs was such an admirer o
the Doctor, and such a staunch believ
er in his fidelity, as all the republican
were, that he voted for him regard
: less of politics, and regardless of tn,
, democratic Mr.. Jones who was a can
f didate against him.
. The distinguished representative
from Wapello county, Capt. G. A
Madison, also voted for Craig, and h
had good democratic authority, viz
J Hobbs, vouching for Craig.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
The Democratic Programmed
Southern Democratic Creen-
backer,

The Southern States is a newspaper
published at Okolona, Miss. The
motto over its editorial column is this
precious morsel from jeff Davis re-
cent rebel yell at Mississippi City:
You are not called upon to approve
all the laws which you believe to be
bad and injurious to the country.
You are not called upon to deny that
you question the validity ofthe mans
title which you know he acquired
possession of by fraud.
The ''leader" in its its issue of July
IS (double-leaded to give it promi-
nence) is headed ''The Programme
What the Democracy Will Do," and
this is the way it rea IDS:
In all human likelihood, democrat
will walk up the White House steps
i'm 1881, and take his seat in the presi-
Dental chair.
He will send his first message to q
democratic Senate and democratic
House, and then quiet but irresisti-
BILE political revolution will set in; a
revolution that will sweep from the
constitution and statute-bo0ks the last
stain and blemish of New England
ideas.
1t is safe to say that the following
programme will be followed out to
the uttermost letter and syllable:
1. The Republic will be divested of
the powers that it has usurped from
the States since 1861. The reserved
rights of the several Cmmonwealths
of the Federal Union will be recog-
nized in their widest scope and range.
In word, the Calhoun theory will
be put in practice, while Hamiltonism
will be torn up root and branch, and
destroyed forever.
ii. The Unconstitutional Amend
ments will be repealed, and the con-
stitution will thus be restored to it's
primitive vigor, the ballot-boX puri-
fed and politics redeemed in an un-
limited measure from the demoraliz-
ing influence of ignorant, vicious and
mercenary suffrage.
III. The "National' banks will be
leveled with the dust, and the United
States bonds will be taxed, and the
greenbacks will he made legal ten
der for every dollar of public indebt-
edness.
A thousand and one other reforms,
necessitated by radical treason and
misrule, will be made; but those we
have particularly specified are the
most urgent and vital, and will prove
most speedily beneficial to our COM
| mon country.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

ROBERT NJ. PAINTER is out in an
open letter in the Ottumwa Times,
making mouths at Capt. Thos. NJ. Fee
If Robert wants to elect Capt. Fee
Judge, he better just keep right along
abusing the Captain. Whether Mr.. Fee
will take any notice of this letter OF
not, we cannot say. Capt. Fee, a:
Prosecutor, had long and severe
tussle in the prosecution of brother
of Roberts for seduction, as the COU
R1ER readers know, which resulted
in conviction, and Robert is expect
ed to be in travail whenever the Cap
tain's name turns up before him
Stump away, Robert, but if it wert
probable that you would receive from
us any advice in this matter, W.
say you better just quit right where
YOU are. ...
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Labor and Capital. .

In this country there is no such
thing as class or classes, nor can there
be. The wage and salary men of yes
terday are the employers to-day, or,
as it is commonly expressed, the Ia
borer Of to-day is the capitalist of to.
morrow. Labor lisa commodity to sell;
capital furnishes the means for its
purchase; but the carefully husband
ed proceeds of sales of labor soon be-
come capital and the seller becomes
purchaser; the laborer, in turn, be
comes the capitalist. The capitalists
of to-day who, for fear of loss, will
not invest in properties and commod.
titles at falling prices, were laborers
before they were capitalists, and many
of the lahorers of today, many, in.
deed, who are now seeking employ.
ment without finding it, will, in the
revival of industry, soon become cap.
talists and employers. All antago-
nism, therefore, between the employ
ed and the employer, between labor
and capital, is unnatural; all organi-
cations based upon the assumption OF
the hostility of capital and labor are
hurtful.
In times Of business prosperity,
when all the people have remunera.
tive occupations and employment,
there is general contentment, and in
times ofbusinessd depression and indus.
trial paralysis, when wage and salary
men are without employment, there
is discomfort, and demagogues are
ever ready to point out the wrongs Of
the laborer. And to-day the leading
greenbackers are simply for personal
ends, for self aggrandisement, on
account of their intolerable greed foi
Office, taking advantage of the times
to foist themselves into place. As a
rule they are men who failed in the
old party organizations to obtain of:
fee, and failed because they were un-
worthy to be trusted.
In this grand country Of ours the
way is open to every man to wealth
and position. There is not boy in
the land who may not, by faithful
toll and industry, climb to the highest
place of honor and wealth, though he
commence without a dollar; the only
prerequisite is health, pluck and q
will and discrimination to win. In
deed it always has been and still con-
tinues to be the case that the leading
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
A Democratic Pin In a Green
back Bubble.
From the Ottumwa Democrat

The Iowa National is greenback
paper published at Newton, by Mr.,
Charles f. Neal, and it displays al
the head of its editorial columns a
representation of the legal tender alb.
solute money which the National ad.
vocates. 1t bears the legend: "This
is United States One Dollar Legal
Tender, Lawful Money"
Now our friend Neal may express
his willingness to take such a dollar
on subscription for his paper, but
what would his subscribers say il
friend Neal should send him sheet
of paper with nothing printed on il
except the words: "This is the Iowa
National, Newspaper, Complete
And yet that would be as much of a
newspaper as the piece of paper il
money which brother Neal would
receive on which was printed This Is
a dollar"
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
A wEEkLYl0ST

OF United States patents issued to
the inventors of Iowa, for the week
ending July 9, 1878, and each pat
ent in the list will bear that date.
Reported expressly by telegraph
for the COURIER, by A. III. Evans &
Co., Patent solicitors, Washington,
ID. e.
VIM Irelan, Oak Springs, truss
bridge.
Lyle & Crocker, Des Moines, can.
ceiling letters, etc.
A r Steel, Let's, motors.
W T Burrows, Nashua, wagon
brake.
A c Clark, Manchester, milk COOL
ers.
M d Humble, Manhattan, egg beat
ers.
Lumback & Wilson, Oskaloosa,
corn planters.
ID Il Moore, Prescott, corn planters.
A ID Spalding, Mitchell, elevator
cups.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
pardon,np power r. ,,,,no;.


CHICAGO, July l9.-The Inter- Ocean
Tomorrow will publish an article
containing q statement of facts regar.
ding the abuse of the pardoning pow.
or, in the state. The records Of the
penitentiary show that three hundred
and thirteen murderers have been
sent to Joliet in twenty years, of which
ninety-five were for life, twenty. five
for twenty-five years and upward az
high as thirty.four years, twenty
three for from twenty to twenty five
years, and the balance for less terms.
Over fifty Of the lite men have been
pardoned by different governors, and
q large number of others, amounting
to one hundred in all. The total
number of murderers now at large in
the state, who were tried aud SEN
fenced since 1858, is one hundred and
sixty-two. Twenty-three have died
or gone to the insane asylum. These
figures indicate wholesale system of
pardoning, as the average time for a
murderer sentenced in the Illinois
penitentiary appears to be three years
and six months.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

A LEADING, paper published at
Corinth, Miss, uttered sentiment
the other day that may be the precur-
sor of the coming storm. 1t says:
"Let the solid South meet the unit
ed North with a bold, undaunted
courage, for we are just as confident
as we are that we edit this paper, that
a division of States will be attempted
again in the future, just as sure as it
was in 1861, when the tocsin of war
first sounded at Fort Sumpter."
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

cal markets, This week, owing, per.
haps, to the fact that farmers gener.
ally are very busy with their harvest.
The receipts of produce consequent
ly have not been very brisk, although
prices have not advanced. A small
quantity of wheat and rye has been
brought to mill to be ground for
home consumption.
No wheat has been sold 30 far as
we have learned and the market can
not be stated for some days to come,
although the market will open at
from 60 to Is cents per bushel. Flour
has declined trifle and will 60 still
lower within week. Hay, also, has
dropped about one dollar per ton.
Shippers are paying 6 cents per lb,
for butter and 4 cents for eggs. The
quotations below were obtained Just
before going to press and were reli-
able yesterday evening.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
A Boston Failure.

BosToN. July 23.-It is estimated
that about $500, 600 is the amount of
the Boston Betting Company's indi-
vidual promises held by banks main.
ly John G. Tappan, treasurer, has
turned over considerable property.
Tappan in addition to being treasur-
er of the betting company, was presi-
dent of the McKellop& Sprague COM
mercial agency Of New York and is
said to be largely interested in the
Merriam packing company, of Texas.
He is also q partner in the firm of j.
E. Tappan & Co., successors to Kel-
vert Il Tappan, which has met with
heavy losses for q small concern.
They are the Boston agents for the
packing company and the two con-
Germs had absorbed q large proper
ton of the misappropriated funds,
together with money Tappan raised
on his own responsibility. The ex-
treasurer is also said to be heavily in
volved in real estate transactions that
have almost invariably resu lted in
loss.