The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-12-16
Still Crawling.

business and shamed out ot it, now seeks re-
venge by hinging dirt at us. Giving nick
names is an easy and cheap sort of amusement
that involves very little brain. and by neces-
sity none in the case of Mr. Cullen, who IN his
impeverishment of ideas, borrows from anoth-
er blsckguard. of course nothing would be
easier than to retort in kind. Starting from
his sappy and saffron appearance, to call the
editor of the Republican, "galvanized car
rot" would have some pith about it from its
truthfulness- Say we put 1t in the form of
degree-William Cullen, G. c., (Galvanized
CarrOt.) Or, from his housing and offensive
" intermeddling disposition IN small affairs he
might very appropriately be called the Nam
cy Spriggins of his neighborhood-Miss Nam
cy for short, or, to make the thing definite,
Miss Nancy Sprggins Cullen. But the
truth is, we have no taste for this sort of dirt
finging, and well remember She fable of the lion
that retreated from the attack of the skunk,
and being upbraided by the fox, said II have
NO fear OF his physical power, but from his
natural toutness."
Amid its half column of reeking nastlness,
however, the Republican gets in something
about "a point at ISSUE between us, by which
appears to be meant a challange to COM
par,son of the readiness of the FREE TRADER
to show up thievery in the democratic party,
with that of the Republican to expose thievery
~, ;,,~ hso1
TRADER is accused of delinquency in that re-
gard is that of the scrip steal in this state
some ten ar twelve years ago, in which case
| the accusation is false. We published at the
| time all the facts in the case; the discovery of
the scrip in the auditors office by Gen. Fry ::
the history of the shoe box, &C., &c. And
latterly, in the case of the Tammany steal in
New York, though as many republicans were
engaged in that robbery as democrats, the
FREE TRADER shrank from no duty in expos
lug the thieves of its own party.
But who has ever read anything in the
Ottawa Republican about the enormous steal.
ings daily coming to light by republican
officials To begin with Grant himself-his
disgusting nepotism and sale of the highest
Offices of the government outright for con-
sideration ; the secretaryshlp Of the treasury
to Stewart for 100000; the Navy to Bore for
q house and lot; of the Attorneyship to Hoar
for library, &C., &C., down to an office for
4 bull pup,
Ex-Commlssioner Pleasanton, in an official
communication to the L. S. Senate, few
days ago, charged directly that Secretary Bout
we'll was large defaulter to the internal rev.
enue bureau, and that Douglass, whom Grant
appointed Internal Revenue Commissioner in
place of Pleasanton, was known by Grant at
the time to be defaulter to the same blu.
reau for $4,000? Have The readers of the
Republican ever been, or will they ever be adj.
vised Of these facts?
The Solicitor General Of the government, in
. report recently laid before congress, states
that during the past year he has commenced
1928 suits agalnss defaulters for defalcations
amounting during the year to sl3 100000, of
which he has thus far recovered abont 5000.
600 and that about as many more old suits are
pending for full as great an amount. while he
candidly admits that the cases do not include
half the thieves that deserve prosecution.
Have the readers of the Republican been, or
will they ever be, advised of these facts?
The Ocean Bank has just exploded in New
York. 1t was government depository, and
the government has an official called an ''exa.
aminer," whose duty it was to know all about
the rottonness of this bank. He turns up him
self robber of the bank to the amount of
$75,O00 Will the readers of the RepuJlican
ever hear Of it
How much have the same bcnighted readers
ever heard of the 400 internal revenue thieves
who robbed the government of $2l 900, 900
or of the defalcation Of Robb $4,000; or of
Evans, $25O,00o Or Forbes, $4,000 or Hold.
ges, $4,000; or Balloch, $40, O0O; or John
w. Gould, $4,000; or Of Whitaker, Roderick
Butler, G. F. Bailey, Montgomery Gibbs, &C.,
&C., C.; or of the 5000 scalawag and carpet
bag thieves whom Grants bayonets have pur.
posely protected in robLing the south ofs25O..
600, 900 in the last five years?
When the Rtpujlican maintains the tissue"
it claims to have made with US by satisfactory.
ly answering the above queries we shall have
come more ready for its cogitation.
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A Contrast.