The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-10-31
Democratic Ottawa Holdeth Fast
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Democratic Ottawa Holdeth Fast
gaF Her Integrity! ~ lieh
Before another issue of our paper the
result of the elections will be known thro'-
out the country.a So far rs Ottawa coun-
ty is concerned our opponents have done
all that bitter partizanship could de-
wise to demoralizo and befog our citizens,
staunch and true as she has always been
to the principles Of the democratic party,
and now no less noble in her advocacy of
the truth according to the constitution.
This has only served to draw upon us the
attention aud labors of the most promi-
nent of the republican party Of the State.
CHANDLER has been trundled out here to
pour out his vile epithets and vitupera7
ton upon us. "Our BLAIR" has been
obliged to do penance upon the swamp
land roads, which hare not been mdae,
and goaded through the country to defend
the republicans from tho charge we have
made and shown against them of neglect
of our interests by the shameless juggle-
ry exhibited in the management of the
munifcent land grant given for the bene-
fit of the lake shore road, and also of the
refusal to repay the amounts due the new
counties-our own in particular All this
he has done with a zeal worthy of a
better cause. DE JAEGER has been inn
ported from Galena, ILL.,, to politically de-
bauch our Holland citizens. The harm
less .CLUDB. has been jerked out Of the ed
itorial chair of the Clarion, and THE
mosttalented, powerful and rigorous arr
ter of THIS or any other age" has dealt
out Campaign Politics until its columns
give evidence that her editorial life has
been sacrificed upon the altar of niger
ism. He has succumbed to the force of
circumstances, and is as powerless by over
exertion ms helplessness itself, and as
mute as tho grave.
"No sound shall awake him to glory again"
| The Clarion has again returned TO
first principles, friend CLUDB in the chair,
and its former harmless platitudes fall rs
lightly as snow flakes on the sod.
All over the county, at every cross
roads, every school, house, the orators of
that party have spoken, and abused, and
denounced, and vilified the democratic
candidates from the Presidential down to
the Fish Inspectorship of our county,
until their claim to HAll the decency"
has been by themselves abandoned. With
the recklessness of despair they have
trumped up all the political filth that the
most eager set of scavengors could ex-
hume, and have thrown it upon the dem
ocracy. They have left no stone, or chip,
or slab, unturned throughout the county,
and arc now diligent in going over the
ground again, this the last week of the
campaign, so that republicauism in all its
beauties has had an abundant airing, and
will have during the intervening days to
the day of election an extra ventilation.
But Notwithstanding all this, ..old Otta-
wa stands to-day as she has always stood,
true to the good old creed and invulner-
able to the assaults of the enemy. Tho
results on Tuesday next will show that n
majority Of the honest voters of this
county have not, nor will not bow the
knee TO tho Baal of fanaticism. Let the
result be as it may in other portions Of
the State, old Ottawa will merit the trib-
ute given to Job: "He still holdoth fast
his integrity" 45a i r2 lii
Democrats! one and all, "Put your
trust in God and keep your powder dry 7"
One week more only of earnest labor FOR
your country and the constitution, and
the result will silence the clamor of our
opponents until another campaign calls
you. to the field.
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