The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-17

A Greeley and Brown club has been r-anZed
in the town % Earl. Although 10 active can
vass has been made of the township, the mem-
bership, up to Saturday evening last, numbered |
lightweight, OF which twenty.six voted for |
Grant at the last election. 1t is confidently ex-
pected that thorough effort will result in secur-
ing Greeley club of sufficient numerical
strength to reverse the past radical maorities OF
Earl. The following are tho officers of the CLUB
j. ID. Rogers, president; W. H. Norton sccre-
tary aud \. j. Grover, treasurer.
On Saturday evening last public meeting
was held in Earlville under the auspices OF the
Stub, which, for numbers and responsibility, has
neTer been excolleG in that village. The assem-.
bl:ge was called TO order by j. d, Rodgers, the
president of the club
A. J. Grover said it was dificxit for political
partizans TO get out of the net Of their party.
Of this NO better illustration could be given than
the democratic party, the leaders of which, con-
trary to the teachings of Jefferson, had prostitu-
ted their powers by upholdng slavery Had it
not been for this detection the democracy might
have besa in power to-day, In precisely sim.
liar nsnner the republican party had been led
to destruction by demsgcgues. such as John A.
Logan, who had no love for republican princi.
ples at heart. The speaker was one of those who
attended the first roll call of the republican
pa.ty In 1854, but he was now satisfied that the
issues for which it fought and which it had
boldly confronted at every point were dead. In
short, there was now no primal distinction be.
tween republicanIsm and democracy. The men
w1o had initiated the republican party and fur
nished its brains had met at Cincinnati and
adopted platform. The administration party
had convened at Philadelphia and promulgated
political creed in all points similar TO the
former. with the exception of the endorsation Of
woman suffrage. But this was only coy duck,
and otherwise the Philadelphia platform was
only . copy of that of Cincinnati. Applause
The Baltimore convention had accepted the
nominees and the platform OF Cincinnati, and
now the question had narrowed itself down TO
who would most truly represent the principles
enuncis.ed. Grant men wanted to fight the war
and the issues of the last twenty years over
again, and said that there was danger, if Horace
Greeley we're elected of an attempt being made
to pay the rebel debt and to re.establish slavery
But who had introduced the constitutional
amendments and tho principles of equality!
Such men as s. Chase Charles Sumner, Cassus
N. Clay, Lyman Trumbull, &c, who were now
found on the liberal republican side. Loud ap.
pIause On the contrary, John A. Logan, Matt
Carpenter, Simon Cameron and the other lead.
ers ct the republication OF the hour had fought
these measures tooth and nail Yet the Phila.
dephia men proposed to place the latter men in
power. Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull Nc,
we're not to be trusted. [Cheers
Captsin VIM. Cogswell said the election of
president had always been strife between two
parties, combined with q struggle for offices,
high and low. He did not present himself as an
enemy or eulogist of either General Grant or
Horace Greeley, but would view the situation
from the standpoint Of the laboring classes. We
had received q republican form OF government
from our forefsthers, which was not supposed to
be perfect, any more than Fu,ton's steamboat
which first plowed the Hudson considered
the perfection of steam navigation. On the
whole, the nation had refrigerated. inssmuch as
the improvements on the government had not
kept pace with the advsucemen in mechanics
In former years the speaker had been engineer
on q lake steamer which required $50 cords of
wood for voyage which now only needed 60
The Manufacture OF iron hid so progressed Is
only TO need one-third the labor formerly ex.
pended and the same ratio of improvement had
marked the progress u agricultural machinery
II was not 70 the credit of statesmen and ley.ia.
tors that these advances were due. but TO the
humble mechanic. This state Of affairs had lead
many to believe that the fttest men were not
elected rs legislators and officers. We had not
the best pilots for the nation, and We never will
progress as long as party rule controls elections.
men, and will continue to DO 80 as long as We
thought more OF party than of the mechanics.
This was the doctrine oi the labor reform party.
The speaker then compared the biography of
Grant with that of Washington. distinctly show.
ing that the former had no claims as u working.
man, but was the exact reverse of the latter re.
ceiving his education ut the expense of the
nation. 1t had been said that the labor re.
formers were fanatics, and all they desired
was to get their hands in the public crib
To this they had as much right as any blather.
skite politicians Applause. This republic
had been initiated in the confidence that sue.
cess would attend it, because the United States
were relatively different from attempted Euro.
pean republics. in the extent of territory and
the elasticity of resources, but from the begin.
ming the masses had been neglected. ZAP.
plause. Contrasting the statistics of wealth
with the population at the time of the reyolu.
ton s1d in 1860. the speaker demonstrated that
the decline had been vastly against the masses.
Ibis was in consequence Of class legislation for
the rich 20 the issdvantage OF the poor, and it
is high time somebody else be called to run the
machine. Cheers.i Horace Greeley had never
penned the dot of an or the cross of t
that had not been in favor of the eleva.
ton Of the masses Prolonged Applause.
II general were wanted, Ulysses S. Grant
would fill the bill, bat Horace Greeley was first
and last for the interests of the workiugmen
Renewed applau We. The speaker then re.
viewed the administration policy in the sub.i.
dining of railroads by land grants, claiming that
shortly the railways would own the whole land,
whereas it was Gods free birth.rip ht to sovereign
people, and theu asked, "Can you trust the nd.
ADMINISTRATION any longer ," Loud cries of No |
and Never. We we're about to put men in of.
tice who study the interests of the low.boy and |
the artisan, Applause and y voice exclaimed