Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-13
CHICAGO ELECTION.

CHICAGO ELECTION.
& Tho late municipal Election in Chi
4 cago was battle outside of party, ant
fought upon local questions and per
sonal preferences. The leader of th,
j so-calied Peoples party, was Hesing
& Of tho Illinois Stauts -Zeitung, ant
ofthc Law and Order party, Horace
White, Of tho Tribune. The German
and Irish population, for the most part
combined and went for the Peoples
party, and comprised the greater par
of that party. II is charged, and il
probably largely trnc, that the hummer
klemcnt, united also with this party
The Sunday Ordinance, the closing o
Z Soloons, was a question between The
parties, and il il natural to suppose
n that the bummers would be with the
Peoples party in opposing this Ordi.
nance. The four great papers of Chi
cago. the Tribune, Times, Inter Ocean
and Journal, were opposed to this
Peoples party
The Tribune and Journal, espoused
early the caused of the Law and Order
ticket, which was the offspring of a
committee of seventy prominent citi-
zens. The Iater-O Ocean, fought earn
estly and long for Republican ticket.
1t insisted that the Republican Central
3 Committee should call Republican
Convention, and let that Convention
so called, decide what should bo done.
The Committee refused to do so, but
yielded to the request of prominent
citizens of all parties, that ticket non-
Z partizan should be gotten up to oppose
{ the bummers. 1t is fatal mistake to
= suppose that leading citizens can
ignore the common people, in framing
s a ticket, and expect the latter to vote
1t. Here, it seems to ps, was the mis-
Bake. There is a natural feeling of q
want of confidence, on the part of the
people at large, towards men of wealth
] and prominence, and when they
lssume TO present ticket without
Asking the common people to assist
them in its make mp, they do the very
thing to drive the people from them,
aud give into the hands of demagognes,
20 club that they can use with great
effect.
The Chicago Times, speaking of the
result, says, that this manner of nomi-
mating the Law and Order ticket
was the cause of its defeat. This OBJ
lection was urged by the Times, early
i'm the campaign, and it favored third
ticket, which it would call the Eclectic
ticket. It may well be doubted
whether the Times was really honest
In its opposition to the Peoples ticket
The Tribune says of the result:
"Thc election in this city, yesterday,
proves that the ignorant and vicious
glasses, added to the entire German
vote, are majority of the population;
That they have the power to govern,
and that they will exercise it whenever
IN influence is broughtto bear compel
ling them to coalesce. The vote cast,
yesterday, in favor of the ticket head
cd by II. d. Colvin, was made up, to
the extent of 80 per cent, of these two
elements. The other 10 per cent. con-
sisted Of personal friends of the can
didates and scattering vote of intelli.
0ent non-German citizens who were
uisgusted with Sunday laws"
The Inter-Occaa says:
When the INTER- OCEAN had ex-
hausted every argument and every
appeal in behalf of a straight Repnb-
ican ticket, and all had proved in
vein, but one course was left it. There
We're two tickets in the field, both OBJ
jectionable, and both nominated
against its protests; but there was
choice still. 1t chose the so-called
Citizens ticket, because in the main,
the candidates were preferable to those
on the other side.
The very way in which the "Citi-
zens' was nominated was sufficient
70 beat 1t, had its candidates been
twice as popular and ten times as re.
spectacle.