The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-11-01
VERY Low BUSINESS.

VERY Low BUSINESS.
! Our readers will bear witness that IN the
political contest in this county we have thus
far carefully avoided all personal abuse or
scurrilily. We have not done this because
the antimonopoly candidates are more vul
nerable in that direction than their opponents
bu. because We hold such "a course to be mean
and disreputable. This abstinence, however
does not forbid our abiding briefly 10 the
low scarrility with which our candidates
have been assailed
Long before the antimon0poly convention
in this county met, it was known that Gilman,
Mead and Raymond were candidates for re
election, subject, of course, to the will OF the
people They had filled their offices with
marked ability, and the people seemed pleased
with them. Everybody apparently agreed
that, if the anti.monopoists desired to pre-
sent their cause to the voters to test its
strength, they could do it through no better
medium than tickat made up of the names
of these gentlemen. They stood committed
to the cause-they were bound byno other
party letters.
The Ottawa Republican dared not assail the
cause these men were made to represent.
Their election might takesway from the pub
fishers Of that paper a thousand dollars year
in legal advertising and official patronage.
They must be defeated, but how?
The Rep0Jlicab opened its batteries on the
men. 1t abounded in low slang about rings,
states made up, barnaclcs, tax eaters, and all
that sort Of politicians billngsgate. Was
there any foundation in fact for such vitupc-
ration? The antimonopoly candidates had
not Travelled over the county urging the far.
mers to attend the convention and nominate
them for office No farmer lost his buttons
or was bored to death by their opportunities.
The delegates to the antI-mOnOpoly convcn-
ton attended from no urging or prompting
by the candidates. and in the convention voted
withou; outside importantly or dictation-
Where were the rings" "slatcs," &c?
Now mark the impudencc of this open fal.
sitter:
OF the facts given heretofore in the ReDub, |
Acam in relation to the little ring of harnaccs !
and political hacks" who managed the so
called "anti-monopoly' convention In such
way as TO nominate the representatives of the |
ring for the principal offices, not one material |
fact has ever been publicly disputed They !
therefore stand as confessed.
When, where, how has the Rcp,,JiicaR given
facts heretofore 1t has made assertions, it |
is true-assertions 50 grossly false that to have
noticed them would only have tended to raise |
them from the contempt they universally ex.
citcd-but it gave no tactS-madc no state
ments but such us the editor himself knew
to be false.
Take Il case: Why is the Repu5ltcan so bit, |
ter against Mr., Raymond Gilman and Mead !
it would naturally hate, for they had been |
republicans and were guilty Of the unpardon.
able oftcnsc of dcspising the editors whip
ash; but what was Raymonds sin? Publ |
cation of the tax list and fee of $500 taken |
from the ,puJticda-thats what ais Mr..
Raymond. Nothing else in the world. He is
a poor man, because "A few years ago he in.
vested his all in an enterprise in Ottawa that
priced at the time financial failure. He
has held the office but two years during which |
he has struggled mantuly to recover n por |
lion OF what was lost. Public sympathy is
strongly with him in the struggle. He is an
ofiicer-faithful, diligcnt, accomo.
latng, popular But to get that little $500
zee the editor of the ReDHJitcdR would stab
nm.
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