The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-31
MORE TRANSMUTATIONS,

| We had something to say last week aoou
the Strange TRANSFORMATIONS" of the contes
over the Supreme Judgeship in this district
referring mainly to the Chicago Times, whicl
had persistenly represented Judge Lawrenc
as the railroad candidate, until it published
the letters of Judge Thornton and Gov. Palm
er, upon which it candidly admitted that TIT
record of Judge Lawrence showed him to b.
on the side of the farmers, and against thu
fallacious and despotic theory" of the rail
road companies. Having made this admis
sion and virtual backdown, the Times, Will
feeble advice to the farmers nevertheless t.
support Craig, virtually "dried up" on thu
subject. This was transmutation No.
Then for nearly week the Times was a'
dumb as an oyster about the contest between
Craig and Lawrence Every body asked
"What does it meany' as Story preparing
to flop over and come out for Lawrence"
"Hope not, by all that's good!" And so on
were the queries and ordinations of the
Lawrence men. The general supposition
however, was that the sudden ominous silence
of the Times indicated that Story, having run
the Craig machine about as long as it paid,
was waiting for more grease" The Times
being published outside the district, and
Craig being immensely rich, owning five
large FARMS" it was hardly to be expected
that so virtuous a sheet as the Times could
devote its attention to a rapidly sinking cause
ir'c al off hn OF in n
blow he had just received in La Sale county
without some suitable consideration.
Whether it came from Craig himself or his
friends, the railroads, there is no doubt that
again on Wednesday the Times looms up saw
agely for Craig. The farmers are scolded for
their lukewarmness in his support, Judge
Lawrence is again denounced as the very tool
that Craig is, or ever has been, a railroad ator-
ney, is held scoundrel and thief.
The Times overdoes the thing. The moving
cause of this transmutation No 9 is too trans
parent to deceive. The motive of the oppo-
'ition of the Times to Judge Lawrence in the
irst place, was personal and degrading. The
Times had sandered Il poor woman in Mich |
gan. An honest jury in Chicago had award
d her $4,000 damages. The case was appcaled,
nd the Supreme Court Judge Lawrence de-
ivcring the opinion, affirmed the verdict.
LAYING touched Story in his only sensitive
pot-his p0cket-his hatred of Judge Law
ence was unboundcd But it was not in the
thcs of the Times to allow its hates to re-
ound to any body else's benefit without
haring the profits Craig must divide |.
lough his profits came from Story's hates
his is the true philosophy of the newborn
cal of the Times for Craig.
1t will do Craig no good The Times has
o influence 1t is the Ishmacl of ncwspa-
apers. Its hand is against every man, and
very mans hand is against it. There is
othing that good men esteem or hold sa-
'ed-no hallowed memory-no revered insti
ltion-no religious sect, creed, or organiza-
on that has not been subjected to the rbald
GERS, the coarse jokes and ridiculc of the
'hicago Times. 1t is the very epitomc and
mbodiment of all that is satanic in journal
SIN in this country Jacobinical, atheistical,
ross, sensual, devilish in all its tendencies
nd aims, its dcnuncation is proof of in.
ocencc, and its praise worse than mildcw
nd blight