The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-06-28
r,o,,raaic,ed bv Themselves.

The fusionists, in order to assa'l MI Du-
chanan, are compelled to go back ara rake
nm the old worn out falsehoods of the famous
hard cider campaign of 1910, and from this
ro,,uted source are able to fork up but two,
nnon both of which the filthier portion Of
the fusion press have been harping ever since
the Cincinnati nomination was made. The
Ist of these is in reference to that "drop of
democratic blood" and the other in refer
ence to 10 cents day" for laborers.
The first is so palpable ialsehood that
even the \. York Tribune feels bound to
give it the lie, which it does fatty, and
adds ..sE -
1--WE do not think any one who knew Mr..
g. erer credited this tale. He was never so
simple or impetuous as to use such an ex-
preston. There is not man Icing more un-
likely TO make rash, silly speeches than he az
In reference to the other, the Boston
Chronicle, violent fusion sheet, cries
shame after this manner:
eve rcgre. to see that the foolish old story
that Mr. Buchanan once said that ten cents
day were wages enough for q working
man. has been revived, and is now COM
monty spoken Of as If it we're well establish
ed that such is his opinion. If Mr.. Bucha-
nan were so ard-hearted as to hold to any
such opinion respecting the social rights Of
the producers of wea!th-the mighty indus
rial classes, who love their country disinte-
restedy-hc is no such fool as TO ayow it.
But he never said, or thought, anything OF
the kind, nor anything that would bear any
4. AZ il "a
statesman, and he knows that no nation can
be powerful where the mass of the people
have no more than sixty cents a week on
which to 1--we. He is a man of ordinary hu-
manity, we take it for granted, and is not
pleased with the sight of human suffering
and what but suffering could exist IN
country where the wages OF working men
should be less than were those of the poorest
laborcrs OF England two hundred years ago.
$40 represent Mr.. Buchanan as having
made the remark attributed to him, in the
absence of all proof, is knavish. To repre-
sent him as having said that the very people
whom he expects to elect him their chief
magistrate should be reduced to state Of I'M
paraIlcled pauperiSm, is foolish. y charge
into which knavery and 70 ly both enter can
never harm the man against whom 1t Is di-
rected, in the estimation of an intelligent
people. Ii can inJure only those VINO make
it, and those only ought to be injured by it.
We believe Mr.. Buchanan would heartily re-
joice to know that every working man in the
world was earning enough TO live contorta-
bly,, and to place something aside every
week. We believe, too, that he would be as
ready as any man to do his part towards re-
alizing that good time that we all hope is to
come for the children Of toll. 1t is unfortu-
nate for him that his position in politics is
such as to cause many Democrats to oppose
him who can find little to object to him as
man, but ". have no wish to see him as
sailed anew with the falsehoods that were SO
rilein 1870, that year of political proiliGacy,
when 80 much was done 10 debauch the pub
lie mind, ard VIXEN the troubles with which
We are now bcsct had their origin"
The editor Of the Republican, who accom-
panied his announcement of the Cincinnati
nomination with a repetition of these stale
falsehoodr, will doubtless feel comfoytable as
could be expected under the pointed reproof
thus administered by his fusion cCtempora-
ries.