The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-07-27
POLITICAL ITEMS.

ply damnable, and no other words can describe
it" And Gov. Blair knows VIII, reof he afirms.
Chaska. Carver county. Minnesota, which usu.
ally polls $50 republican votes, contains now but
one Grant man-Luoien Warner-and his neigh.
bors laugh at him and call him their republican
Nasty. The st. Paul Pioneer is assured that
Carter county is good for Greeley majority of
400.
The general who now occupies the White
| House will next November be reduced to the
rank of lett.ten ant.
The minions of Grant are wisely guarantee.
ing republican form of government" to the
people Of North Carolina by arresting and throw.
ing into prison every colored man who declares
for Greedy and Brown.
Some of the administration papers says that
Mr.. a. t. Stewart is opposed to DR.. Greeley's
election If so, he has queer way of showing
it. Thursday Mr. Stewart sent Il check for
SEQ 900 to the chairman of the liberal democratic
republican executive committee.
The republican vote of Dixon, Lee county, Ill.,,
was 372 IN 1870, and SIG in 1871. Ninety.eight
OF these republicans, or nearly twenty-five per
cent. Of the whole number have attached their
names to published call for liberal republican
organization. The same feeling for Greeley is
said to prevail in all the other towns of that
county, rendering it certain that Lee, a strong
Grant county in 1868, will give majority for
the Greeley ticket in November
When Buchanan was president, and trying
to force an endorsement ofhis administration
upon the people, he allowed clerks of the gov
ernments from two to three weeks leave of alb
sence, during which to go home and vote, and
for which he was sharply abused by the oppo-
sitlon. Mr.. Grant gives his under!lngs four
months IN which to electloneer, spend millions
of money taken directly out of the public
treasury, and to vote for Grant.
The Mendoza Bulletia Grants admits that
there are one hundred NbeyaJ republicans In
Mendoza. The change IN this proportion
among radicals, would give Greeley the state
by 10000 majority.
The Detroit Free Press says if Grants ex-
penses are $4,000 year more than his salary,
and in three years he manages to lay by over
half a million of dollars, what's the use in
bringing out any more arithme.ics:
Mr. Grant, on the Goth, appointed ex-Con-
gressman Clark, of Texas, to be postmaster ut
Galveston, at IL salary of $4,000 a year. 1t is
not more than Il month since Clark was ex.
lad in l,,.,
nous vote of the house, on the unanimous re-
port of a committee that he had 1t by the
grossest fraud There are no charges made |,
against the postmaster 1T Galveston, and his |
snpcrsedure is not only violation of the new
~ CO. ice rules, but is followed by an APP
+ .Aent universally denounced by friend
and foe alike of the administration.
1t is fact worthy or note-and enc which |
the collar organs are very careful to conceal |
from their readers-that Horace Greeley was |
the first man who ever introduced homestead |
bill into Congress. His bill was defeated, but |
its author did his best to procure its passage,
and he has always been firm, true advocate |
give poor men the best possible chances for
settling up and improving the public lands,
There Is not in all the United States IL more
able, jealous, consistent champion 9. poor
mems rights and labor;ng mems Interests than
Horace Greeley.
The most touching instance on record of
forgiveness, Of almost passionate love is that
which Grants political faction have lately
manifested for the " simon-pu'e copperlead"
element Of the democracy. These very loyal
Grant men have taken the ultra, nI.compr,.
mise democrats to their bosom, while the
"loyai," "union" or war.iemocra,s whom
they once pretended to love, they now hate
with q consuming intensity! Their cmni,y
towards the bitterest rebels is not greater than
that which they now bear toward Greeley and
his supporters,
Grants newspapers, mostly edited by post.
masters, Crhere are II few honorable excep-
tions-postmasters who are not Grants cdi.
tors, are full Of compliments for "the staunch
old democrats who adhere to principle ~ and
coincidence with the historical party, a nation.
al party, honest and faithful to what it believed
to be right" &C., &c, "and which is so
shameiully beng forced, through the cunning
OF political wire-pullers, to swallow Greeley a"
Their sympathy for the democrats is like
that which vulturcs have for lambs, lowering
over and devouring them "