The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-05-09
FROM EARLVILLE.
LOCAL ELECTION.

LOCAL ELECTION.
We held our corporate election ON the LIST of
May. We were incorporated under the general
laws of our state, 10th of May, 1868. We then,
with desire to keep politics as much as possible
out OF our annual elections, elected half de1ao-
Gratis and half republicans. From that time to
the present, through bitter political strife we 10
managed as to elect annually men Tor trustees
and police magistrate thus equally divided polit-
ically. Three of the trustees, out of the five to
which we are entitled, have always been demo-
Gratis, tive of the trustees and the police magis-
trats have always been republicans At our re-
cent election the same division was studiously
kept up. The following gentlemen were elected
as trustees for the ensuing year DR.. Geo. w.
Norton. James Simons. John atkinson, s. T. Still.
son aud d. P. Goss. The board at once organ
lied by the election Of DR.. Geo w. Norton pres.
ident and appointed N. NJ. Morse clerk. Tie
first three Of the trustees are democrats and the
other two well known republicans.
They are all good men, and are sound on re-
trenchment and reform. They are all greenback
men, without which views they would get very
few votes in their town. That's what's the mat
ter" We have for once adopted Lincoln's sage
maxim, " that is easier to pay small debt than
u large one" We have all concluded that it does
not take much logic to prove that we can pay the
5-2O's in greenbacks more easily than we can in
gold; when, in order to hire gold in Germany or
somewhere else, we must pay therefor So in
vra hp plya for I'll ~ u AZ
thing, we can sell horse for 500 in greenbacks
and cancel 800 of our Indebtedness to the bond
holder; or we can sell the same horse for $50 in
gold and cancel $50 Of our indebtedness to the
bondholder. The people up here in the rural
districts can comprehend this as easily as the boy
knew his daddy.
When they are called ON to pay their taxes.
they fully realize this little item in finance Pol
iticians in the interest of bondholders and banks
may cry out repadiation and violation of our
plighted faith till they are hearse, and the tax
payer will reply "ws have danced and now pro-
pose to pay the fiddler no more than we agreed
TO-" and there are lots Of dancers, who, if they
find, in order to pay the fiddler the usurious
amount agreed upon, they will be compelled to
sell their little children for bread, will join
the party which seems the most inclined to pay
the fiddler the least amount for his playing. Do
you understand this figure Qn plain English 7? let
the Chicago Tribune keep on lying and charging
the democratic party with design to repudiate
republican party are made fully to believe this,
let tho democratic party open wide its doors, and
such stampede from the rotten ranks Of the re-
publicans was never seen since the route of home
ward bound puritans from Bull Run. But it is
singular your correspondent can't write bit Of
news without running into homily ON politics.
But SO it is; and it seems as if word dropped
in just where it u.s. might possibly do little good
to some poor soul beating round in darkness and
needing light 1t costs nothing, reader; read it,
will you? ao0G or --'l.td 9t 9 |
SAD AccIDENT.--Wa nton Signor, son Of M.
Fl. signor, ESQ, residing about one mile east Of
our city, on the 4th inst, while playing with his
wifes little sister, fell from corn crib on to the
fence, and so injured him that he died in few
hours thereafter.
Wanton Signer was one of our most promising
young mon. He had betaken himeslf to the pro-
fession of farming, and was getting to be very
intelligent farmer. He was emphatically good
young man, happily married, and beloved BY
everybody. He leaves awifs and one little child
to mourn his losa aan.ail
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