Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-26

ELSEWHERE Will be found a COM
munication from the Hon. r. FL.
Stiles. The State Register has bottled
up its scurrility and falsehood and is
as silent as the grave touching the
mean and dastardly falsehood that
we caught it in, and which, together
with its flood of Misrepresentation of
us, it has sent broadcast over the State
and beyond the reach of this paper,
without daring even to give publicity
to our reply as we have done to its
ISLANDERS, though we have asked them
to accord us this privilege. We have
rested under this, making the beside
fence we had at hand. We hoped
we were done with it, in all its phases.
Mr.. Stiles says he had no hand
whatever in that controversy. Just
what extent this declaration hath we
know not.
The pith of our controversy with
the Register after the one touching
its interference in this districts affairs,
which was only a pretext on the part
of that paper and n stepping stone to
launch out in its abuse of us-was
the claim that we were playing the
hypocrite, as that paper styled it. To
give the gravamen of the controver-
sy we quote its own words briefly.
Speaking of the COURIER it says: "In
its attempt to be for two residents of
its own county, for Congress, before
the public, and for its own editor in
private, it has overloaded ITSELF"
Mr.. Stiles selects out of our defense
Of ourself in this regard paragraph
which, looking through suspicious
eyes might be wrongly construed;
therefore we know of no better way
than to republish much of the connec-
ton surrounding the paragraph quo
ted, in order the better to understand
it:
'The Register devotes much of this
last article to areiteration of its charge
of our mistreatment of two candi-
dates of this county this year, and
our hypocrisy. The Hon. e. III. Stiles
and the Hon s. Z. Caldwell were the
candidates referred tO-both desired
the support of the county for Congress;
both have lived in this county contin-
uously for q long series of years and
both were as well known to the repub-
licans of this county as we are. Had
we undertaken to have'held the balanc-
es between them i'm our editorial COM
ments it would have been impossible
to have given satisfaction to both sides,
and they did not need any introduce
ton by us further than was given to
the people of this county i'm stating
their candidacy. After some time
spent in canvassing, one of the candi.
dates withdrew on the 22d of Nav
last; the other continued and failed t1
get the county delegation instructed
for him and withdrew his name pub
licly before the convention. Now, in
giving these gentlemen, SO well known
by our people, a free race before the
people, did we not pursue the only
proper course for US to pursue? Could
we have done any better? Had we
undertaken one day to praise one and
the next day the other, we would
have got into deep water directly,
But the Register says we froze out by
our silence the Hon. Z. III. Stiles. Is
it possible that our silence is SO pow.
erful? The Register says we killed
Caldwell by our personal assurances
Of support, but did not support him
in our columns. What a powerful
political element the COURIER is ac.
cording to the Register, by its silence
Would not the Register do well to i'm.
itate the COURIER in this regard and
work off more bile through its livel
and less through Its columns? If the
Register folk will come to this city