Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-20
Collased from the Tipton Advertiser


, termined to have an election and v
have responded. Mr.. Wilson's It'll
y runs on all fours with Prices.
Collated from the Tipton Advertiser.
The election en- Tuesday last in Ce
dar county, rs far as heard from, CAV
Price ], ,l0l; Branahan, Al, and 81 sea,
tering. Votes cast in other township
will probably increase Mr.. Price
majority by one or two hundred.
Judging by this, the first evidenc
the public has had, and which come
even now anonymously, elections
were held in the Sixth and Seventl
Districts-which was done, doubles
under the direction of Irish an,
Campbell, to save Gillette and Wesv
er, and so aid in making up an oppo
sition majority in the November-elec
ted Iowa delegation. It will be seel
that Holmes, Democrat, was elected
In the Eighth District, and it is ais,
true, we Judge, as Irish claims, tha
Wilson, "Snide," is elected" ovel
Carpenter in the Ninth. For the AL
gona Upper Des Moines, gives tn,
following as the "vote" for Carpenter
| So far as we can learn the only poll
anywhere opened were four in thil
county, to-wit, at Algona, Irvington
Cresco and Lofts creek; four in Pale
Alto county and six in Humboldl
county he votes polled we're:
Carpenter. Wilson
Algona. ... $780,. 95 81
lrvingt0ns.. ...... Ii
ISIcecO, ..... "a
Lofts Creek. ....... lC
From Palo Alto and Humboldt we
have heard reports from but four
Ipolls, giving Wilson 81 votes and Car
penter l, making Wilson's total vote
probably some 200 or 800. So far as
this township is concerned about the
usual Democratic vote was polled,
In Irvington, Cresco and Lofts Creek
about one-half the usual Democratic
vote was polled.
This would make the November
elected Iowa delegation stand, two
Republicans, Hiram Price and Rush
Clark, and four Opposition, Holmes
and Wilson, Democrats, and Weaver,
Greenback, and Gillette, Greenback
and Communist. That the Irish and
Campbell Democrats of Iowa intend
to press tho matter, and get the 'ssnide"
delegation seated, and 30 give to Iowa
. Democratic representation, is made
still palmer by an incidental refer
ence iu the same issue of the Press.
In a paragraph referring to the opin-
Ion of Mr.. Edmunds, an Iowa City
lawyer, the Press says:
True, Mr.. James B. Edmunds, form
erly of Iowa City, but now residing
in Washington, d. C., is q Democrat
of the old school, believer in free
trade, hard money, and common sense
in all things. Mr.. George b. Ed
munds, his brother, who lives in Iowa
City, is Republican, and was the au-
thor of the legal opinion widely
quoted to sustain the October elec-
tion. 1t is noteworthy that at the last
minute he changed his mind and tele-
graphed to Marion and Cedar Rapids
advice to hold an election. His first
opinion and change of front aciH use-
fully guide the House in tAro,cing out
the October Congressmen.
This whole plot has been laid for
weeks, and il has been guided by the
manipulating Irish and the more Je-
suitical Campbell. 1t has been dark
lantern affair throughout. Who in
lndianola, outside Of the fellows
holding the secret election, heard of
any election being held there, and
who, in Abba, know until Irish made
it public, of an election being held in
that place? How do the people of
lows like his Mexican sort OF politics
introduced into this State?
The meaning of it all is plain. This
plot was laid and carried out, and the
| elections" were to be made public
only If it should become necessary to
the Democratic party of the nation TO
disfranchise Iowa as q Republican
State and enfranchise 1t by it's own
power as Democratic State. The
Democrats hoped and expected to
have an overwhelming majority in
the House, without stealing lows, ,and
80 two of the "Snidc" elections were
kept secret. But now that their ma
iority in the House is SO reduced that
the Republicans will have majority
of the States, the secret elections are
made known, and the announcement
made by Mr.. Irish that their Mexi-
can delegation from Iowa will be
seated. The Democrats are looking
to the future, and this action on the
part of Irish, on the surface, and on
the part of Campbell, under cover,
is plain. Owing to the failure Of
the greenback party to carry single
State in the elections of thiSyear, the
appearance Of third candidate in
the Electoral Collegeis not probable,
but it is not impossible, should the
democracy split on the currency issue.
In that case the House would vote by
States, and twenty States would be
required to elect. In the next House
the republicans will have At least Is,
the democrats will have Is, Indiana
is divided by six republicans, six
democrats and l greenbackers; Flor
ida is doubtful, and ought to be d.
vided between the two parties, and
| California has not yet elected her
Representatives. Should California
choose a majority of republicans, and
the democrats count in their man in
the Second Florida district, the vote
by States would be 10 to each party,
and the vote of Indiana would de-
pend on the odd greenbacker. I'm
der these circumstances, the demo-
Gratis will doubtless try to uuseat
some republicans in q State where
that process would insure the balance
to the democratic side. The tempta.
tion to steal State would be over
whelming if the possibility of steal
ing the President went with it, and so
the seats of the Iowa delegation are
to be stolen.-Register.
1 Whisky's Work.
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