The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-10-29
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGE 8.

weighing 500 lbs. when dressed" He-not the
calf-but the Gardner editor, objects to the sto-
~, because sit is too high" He says:
"There are some here well dressed but three
hundred pounds is too high for u.s..
1t is evident that the calf meant was not
any OF the two-legged calves of Gardner.
THE Sigaal, Aduocate and Free Trader are
the only papers whose editors are not 'hirelings.
1t Rtdg be that there is no one who thinks they
are worth anything. Rep.
Of coarse, The foregoing is theradical view.
4 radical newspaper radical politician, who
will not hire out to whoever will give the most,
would be an anomaly-a thing past all radical
comprehension. Such thing as unyielding in.
tegrity modern radical republican cannot un-
derstand.
I'VE sometimes see a sensible thing even in
the Ottawa Free ITUd6r It advises its demo-
cratic readers to vote for republicans when they
consider them better than the democratic nomi-
nees."-,j0,id Rp
We give the Republican, of Joliet the privilege
Of making Il point on its own invention. Yet if
we had said, rs aboye alleged, it would be fairer
than anything the I'eptbIicon has ever said.
The meanest of the democrats is better man
than most OF the radicals, and still it is barely
possible to find worse radicals than the editor of
the Republican, bat they are all in the peuiten.
tiary.
The republican papers, all over the state,
begging their radical friends not To bolt, a sure
sign that the rats are deserving sinking
ship The radicals are evidently becoming dis
gusted with their party.
Secretary Cox, of the Interior Department,
has resigned. because when Grant levied heavy
tax on the clerks in that department to aid the
radical cause the secretary refused to allow it to
be done hereupon Grant at once suggested that
he was ready for Cox's document of resignation.
Most of the radical papers at once began to howl
in Grants behalf, while few mildly favor Cox's
view o: the question: but claim that Cox should
have yielded, as he wouldn't have been obliged
to pay the electioneering money, which is now
SO badly needed for the success of their party
this fall.
This is characteristic of the radicals-every.
thing for party, nothing for principle
The La Sale Press is scared to death at the
Hon VIM. Reddick's election. 1t is throwing
mud at him with all the vigor it is capable of.
The editor throws out the phial of its puny
wrath on the temperance party. Tom Bowen,
Esq, of this city, although not candidate for
any Office, comes in for bitter denunciation, be-
cause this fall he chooses to vote Independently,
and refuses to be whipped into the traces of the
radical party.
The Clinton Register makes point or two
against Gov. Oglesby as follows: "The demo.
cratic party have not brains enough to run this
government" The Register reminds the govern.
or that the country was never so prosperous, the
people SO happy, nor taxes SO low, as during the
forty years when the democratic party ran .the
government. But if Oglesby means that the
democratic party don't know how to run the
government into debt as rapidly and deeply as
the republican party has and can, judging BY its
unexampled success in this particular, then
Oglesby was correct!
John "A. Logan says "the democracy are entire.
ly responsible for the origin of the war, aud
creating the public debt. Gov. Oglssby says
she is proud to ackno Wedge that the republic.
ans did both; that the war was successful in its
object and that the public debt, though large,
must be greater by millions, and all that has
been or will be done i'll these matters, will be
accredited to the radical republicans"
Now who tells the truth?
The tariff rings and thieves about Washing.
ton, Schnects friends, have determined to CON.
test the election Of Mr.. Campbell to q seat in
Congress from the third Ohio district"-Chn&ou
Register.
Yes, and having large majority in that cor.
rupt body, they will reject Mr. Campbell and
give Schneck the seat not because OF aay ripht.
but because they have the might, az they have
done with Il dozen other democratic congress.
men, 1t will be remembered Mr. voorhees, was
elected when he had $50 clear majority, but the
people rebuked the action of the radical Con.
gresS by 800 majority will they ejec, him
again Cook and Logan will doubtless vote
'yea' on such question, rs they did before
One OF our exchanges, by y typographical or.
ror, got large religious denomin .tion down On
1t severely The paper in question undertook
to publish the proceedings, in large type y.
heading, Of tho "DEwITr S. 5. ASSOCIATIONS"
but the type had it I'm flaming capitals, DkwIrr
5. 5 Ass TioS. y few dszen lady Sunday
school teachers are Sroaad, armed With man.
sticks, damaged bibbs. DC, watching for thu,
editor.
The editor Of the Laron Home Jo,anai moral.
ICES thusly: