The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-04-12
A DIRTY TRICK,

field on the % inst, giving the resolutions J.
full. The resolutions had been passed just q
I'VE published them, and with very little opp'
stion. on Wednesday evening, and the cor
ycntion having thus done its work, and don
il well, adjourned, and twothirds OF the men
bcrs took the trains the same night or III
|corly trains next morning, and returned home
.. Numerous radical politicians, Of the Guile
stripe. who were fearful something might D
done to injurc the republican party; and nj
mcrous agents, pensioners and lobbyists q
the iron, lumber salt, and other tariff rings
had attended the convention with view L
its capture and pcrvcrsion 10 their own baN
uses. They found the farmer, too numcrou
and earnest and ahcryanly striving to breal
.up their deliberations in a row found them
selves signally defeated and Withdrew appar
emily satisfied.
/ It appears however, when the convention
adjourned on Wednesday, the secretary nae
expressed desire to have some plan adopted
to pay the expenses Of the state association
and 10 enable him to perfect his financial
I,,.,, ,li,.,,,.r,oor, ,,os NOT made sigc dic
| but 50 left that few members remaining
over in the morning could meet and adopl
some plan to raise the needed funds for pay
ir,, o,,opscs NOT only for printing the pro.
,,a,;r,,.. Of fiji. h,t also of fine Bloomington
convention, and for printing circulars &c
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,na Alma, ,ho c,rco ordod Di.,o,oroh,o
md i,f,,oou,as t,o ,ricl, wac howoyor # an
,rorod ;,s ,,,,r,oso mo o,,ioo, ,.os ,o brook
ho f,rco az ,l,o ,.;oo-or, rosnI,,,;or, ,,,o, had
ccn adopted the nirht before, and cast a
hade of ridicule over the whole proceedings
f the convention, and this the tricksters be
ievcd they had fully ACCOMPLISHED. They
DrthWith tclrpraphcd 70 thc heavy Dip iron
nd steel rail firm of A. B. Mecker & Co. at
,hicago. and A. B. MeekcrN Co telerrapbed
, their fellow monOpolists at the Eastan thc
horizons news fled all over the countrv that in
pitc of all the difficulties in the way, "WeI
nally cnpturcd the Sprinrticld convention "
but the victory has becn dearly boucht and
mother such will ruin our cause"
And now all over the country the news is
aurht up and crowcd over by the radical
politicians and monopolists of every Grade
hat fine rroot Illinois f,rmory, convontior
,os erdod IN smolo Tho roso,,,iors ,hou
,col cbuliition oroinst thcir own r,iIro,ds
nd on thc great issuc Of indefinite thunder
W thc euormous tariff monono,ios and rirrs
no u,iroi, f,rn,ors oro s,iu 49, har,,la,.