The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-10-11
WILL THEY SCARE


inousness and grandilouquence of its lea,
political editorials, reminds one wonderful
of Mr. Corwin's stump speeches couple 4
years ago, and VIC rather suspect the cdjte
has had the luck TO get hold of a few thou
and pages of Mr.. Corwin's manuscript polit
cal otfhand" speeches. Language lake tn
following abost the democratic party of tn
north during the rebellien, certainly mus
have been originally written in the very hea
of political excitement, such as we have no
seen for less than half a dozen of years. Say
the RepuJltcan:
Every bone and muscle, vein and ertOry o
the democratic party Was impregnated will
treason against the common country, agains
free government, free speech, Il free press
free scho0ls and even free gospel"
GcewMllikens! You don't say 80? And
yet these same democrats, the saUe paper
tells us in another place, "by hundreds OF
thousands Say Ter. hundred thousand
which is certainly . moderate estimate, and
includes about nne5enths of the u&rty at the
north--"under the influence of patriotic mo
tives, shouldered their muskets AMI did their
WHOLE DUTY 10 jntr country
What terrible jeilows these democratic
traitors" must have been!
Yet this is the sort of stuff toe Ottawa Re
p4jJtcah is dishins mp weekly H. its readers,
and it can have but one motive. 1t is TO have
them forget TIE wrongs, expressions and out
RACES the people are suffering TODAY on &C
count of the corTr Dtion and nisrule of the
party in power and have them 90 back ten
years and fight over the worn oat, thrcadbarc
and hackneycd ISSUES of the rebellion The
object is, by holding up the g,tZzley heads of
Jeff Davis, Flovd Slidell, Ben .jamin, (and we
must not forget 10 add Longstreet Mosby and
DurellD to frigften the roiH1&ica farmers,
Who tee!ngtEe wrongs and expressions of
To-Day, show signs of kicking off their party
letters and striking for reform back iRto the
republican shsep pens and party straight
jackets |
Are the farmers to be L0auded and l,a- |
cooned from G4 honest pGrpGse in favor ot re
form in thu Hay? Does Rot every farmer
know, that fthe republican party IS allowed
to carry Tie elections in The western states |
This fall by IA e usual mal0ri,ies, the strike OF
ne farmers Tor freedom from the oppression |
II the monGF olists dies the7iay after the cleo
ION as deal IS Julius CHsa-?
The monnpoIists Of New England, New
FORK and Pennsylvania are watching TIC |
elections in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa AID
Minnesota with more eage,ness than they -
tr watched the result Of presdentit2 elcc |
ton, and they are sendif=g money by bgn-
dreds Of thousands to Influence the elections
Lere-why: To save ihs integrity-;lse III
broken phalsnX of the renrblican p4Itr let Il
that party succeed with its usual maioiitias.
and the mon9polists are al right again far tIlc
next half dGzen years TO come. The aHi.
monopoly hobbub, theyV i'll say, "has been
mere prf of wind-hss not disturbed The
party in TIE lcast,--we can 90 on with our ,
treasury plurlering, tariff robbery, salt, lun-
Der, coal and pig iron stasiing as usual-thc
anttmCAppoEsts of The Met have dercl9pcd
no strength It the polls--Ehcre /, nothing !
dangerous il Aem"
We have sane reliance o, the stamina and
manl,Ec-s OF lc farmers o. this county. We n
do not believe they can be frightened by the lit
"raw lead and bloody bones of superapuu- Il
a'cd and forgo.rn issues into uniaithlulncs5i II
% Their own good and their own righteous Il
cause .o.day Che vote on election day will II
show low much our estimate of their stamina /,
and pluck to- say nothing Of their estimate of Ii
the rigirou,rc-s # their cause, has been jus v
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