The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-10-30
MISSION, Oct. %, 1873,


Mr.. FDITog Il told you in my other let
ter that | would drop ia again sometime and
see what | could about matters and things
Instead Of dropping IN at q tawa, I happen
ed that | dropped into the Inesl,ug house in
Mission Oh last Thursday evening, and va.
there afflicted for about three hours with
one Of the Otter Creek HERDS sen -eless har.
raneueS. When Gray goes to perpetrate a
lie upon our brethren among the foreigners
he has 10 take Warner along TO swear, II
necessary and expodient, 10 what he says.
This old and present kHow-noiLIng was on
hand that night.
Otter Creek pitched into tie big questions
very generally and rapidly, and even very
sup.riiciaiiy,. but Sid off quietly to The
great question of this campa'gn--createst
to lin and the other stuupers-lhat Of
electing Frank Warner sheriff. Gray didn t
positively assert that Raymond was know.
nothi 2, bu, in his peculiar special pleading
.t;le he neaH!y inSluuated such to be The
truth. The sippery. uuchastc deuagogue
dere not positively as II Il.
THIS hero i no l.iputar-in the art Of mis-
representation and wing. He must have the
natural faculty in his Uranium. or he has
received the very best early education in
this line.
lie asserted tNal ram never was 4 fal
lantern man, but on the contrary always
Sympathi>ed with his foreign born brethren,
and was always opposed, to the d, ath, to
the proscriptive know nothing organization.
After he had got al the nasty lies and other
vilencss out Of him, he says. MIR. Warner
is here, YOU can ask him if what state con
corning him is not true. Ask r auk War
nor, gentlemen, if he ever caught me in
lie" To all OF which Frank LOOKS very wise
and willing, which 10 X peculiar" they re
ceive as an endorsement Of Gray'S spawn
Then he goes at the Republicans in true
siedge-ham'ner mode, telling them that RAJ
mond was the bit'erest partlzan in existence,
never refusing or failing to 20 his party
ticket, and Tor this very weghty and pc, u
liar reason no man of opposite politics
should for a moment thn X { supporting
him. GrayS motto then seems to be- 20
the,straight ticket, don't cut a candidate
But in the same breath he calls upon the
voters Of this county to cnt Sam Raymond
for being guilty Of this same odtnce-tor an
offence II is among the democrats, but a
great virtue among the woOlies.
Every body can see through the whole Of
this Slimpsy subtcriuge.
They have feeling of Establishment, for
nominating so weak and silly man as
Warner. They know that the people Of
this county if left to choose, untrameled,
would never think of Warner, would abso-
lutey forget that ne was running if Ray
mond wa, in the field. Hence GRAY & Co,
trsrs!, 10 remind the people that Warner is
vet on the track somewhere.
Gray's eXordium, universally, in the
country is, Gentlemen. F. ank Warner is
the great republican standard bearer He
is the man ofthe hour, before vi HON all mer,
but myself, sink into insigr France "Mr
Warner has not withdrawn his name from
the canvass" " II you don't believe me,
ask him, | always take him along, TO show,
and that the people may believe whereof
affirm"
will conclude this letter by stating that
the Norwegians are not to be fooled by
Gray's twadde. When they see, day after
day, end week after week, in Your paper,
charges of Know No,hingiSm against their
pet, and no person to step forward but Gray
to deny it, they nationally conclude the
charge to be true, and biggest lar in
the county can't change the decision. 1t is
amusing en- such occasions, to see Gray stir
Frank up with his long pole but after al,
he handles the animal very cautiously.
Yours, &c.
DECEMBER.