The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-03
Grant and Wilson yue.,,r.

We W " wilson club, convened in
the Court House on Tuesday evening. The
attendance was good. with, however a large
sprinkliny of small boys, who contributed lao.
ly to the laughter when good round nisco g
profanity was uttered by the "orator of the
evening" a very large number of the admit
portion OF the audience was composed Of I;ber.,
republicans aud democrats. BY the help of Eve
drums and single fife and extensive placard,pp
this motley assembly was gathered about p. NJ.
when the chairman of the club, Charles Blan.
chsrd' closely followed by Hon. B. F. Parks, of
aurora, took the chair. In few brief words
Ar. blanchard introduced the latter as Il "hie-
long democrat"
hon b. +. Parks, first receiving the initiatory
and customary round of applause, substantially
said ne had been true and loyal democrat, but
when he was told last January that the democra-
cy had fallen so low as to be abandoned. and that
it was proposed to throw aside PRINCIPLES and
men and play possum, he had changed his front
lie had occupied his position as democrat for
twenty years, and was willing to stand true for
twenty years more. He had been indentured
and articled TO the democratic ship but when it
was determined to swap the ship off, he would
ship where he liked, ICheers.l They had threat.
ened to crack the party lash over him, but they
might crack and be id. Here, as everywhere
else, when the speaker INDUCED in his happy
propensity for profanity, his wit was duly
acknowledged BY ronnd OF laughter and
hearty cheers from the small boys and the
party of great moral ideas II was said the
democratic party was rotten, gangrened to the
core aud iull Of corruption, bu. Horace ,accen.
on the Ho) Greeley was ready TO swallow the
carcass. Cheers. Horace Greeley had always
been ready to take up every Ism that cornoat:ed
democracy. He had advocated the Ku klux bill,
the suspension of habeas corpns, &c, &C., all OF
which had been opposed by democrats. In short,
Oh every thing which democrats had advocated
Horsce Greeley had been their unre,nit.ing, coz.
slant euemy. He then took from his pocket a
republican campaign document, consisting OF
quotations from back files OF the New York Ira.
June, from which ~ read The hackneved phrases
which Harper Journal of Civilization and
other loving r,dic,l sheets so deligh. to repub-
lish ao@ that Greeley is the opposition candi.
date 4. the speaker read he threw III IA vulgar
commen, here and there, among which was this
unique one. which the small bow, and the rad,
duly "pphudei, q will see them in HI before
will vote FOR Horace Greeley Continuing,
he said Greeley was not going 10 die a debtor for
his vote. He Greeley bad never fought with
Us on single point, and h. had never taken
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