The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-13
POLITICAL sCINrILLATIONs.

ones in which have belonged to nv family
and not to the rest of mankind" SCHUYLER
Is said to have made $4,000 a year since his
retirement from congress delivering lectures
before village gymnasums and literary clubs,
where nobody says word to annoy him on
account Of that little credit mobiler steal
Bain'S dread of the "Great Unknown" in.
spires New England poet, who sings:
Lives of Great Unknown renind us
We may make our lives sublime,
And departing leaye behind us
Bonds OF some forgotten time.
Railroad bonds that, yet another
Canvassing the State of Maine,
forlorn and shipwrecked brother
Seeing, won't do so again.
st. Louis Times A New England Senator
has told the Boston 7raceler that Bristow
would not accept the presidential nomina.
alton, and now New England ought to End
out where that senator got his liquor.
The Cincinnati Enquirer concludes an ari.
Gle on William Allen with this conundrum:
why, then, should no, William Allen be the
nominee! We give it up, but insist on pro,
pounding another: Why, then, didn't vii.
liam Allen carry Ohio last year st. LoulS
Republican,.
We think, however, that all regard for hon
esty has not yet persisted from the earth, albeit
but little remains among the high officials of
the country. Neither is the democratic party
IN circumstances so reduced, as regards this
virtue, that 1t possesses but one prominent
member TO whom it can point out and say:
"Behold an honest man. the sole survivor of
his species ''-Haruord Times.
How ees re third term" asked Dom Pc.
dro of Grant, during his call at the white
house. The emperor was evidently not aware
that he was touching upon a delicate subject
and, looking at the long faces produced by
the question with surprise, he SAID: 30, par
don me; l re by your solemn faces got re
third term is dead. Too bad; too bad -
Chicago Times.
What the ST. LOUIS convention must do is
thus set forth by the Utica Observer:
"The day for compromises with corruption
and political heresies has gone by On the
finances, on the tariff, and, most of all, ON the
question of administrative reform, the st.
Louis Convention must give no uncertain
sound. The candidate must be taken from
the thick of the fight-not from the fence
"Dolan died protesting his innocence So
did Blaine, of Maine. -BOston Post.
Some of Blalnes friends think he will rise
again So he may, but it will be some time
after the day Of judgment at Cinciuratl.-
ST. LOUIS Republican.
You can't always tell about these favorite
sons. Ames was the favorlc son of Missis.
sppi for while, but be was Legitimate
So Louis Times.
Not one life of presidential candidate has
been published thus far.-CinctnndH Commer
cidi.
No. but the obituaries of several Of them
have appeared--B0stOn Post.
The Boston Post desires the news to be
carried to Zach Chandler that "those ID
literary fellows" got in their work in Massa-
chusetts the other day.
Judge David Davis should be Investigated
by means Of hay-scales. The country is de-
handing to know how much he really does
weigh.-St LoutS Times.
Col Forney is reported to have said that
he found Bristow dull, heavy man obstin-
ale as mule, with a thick skull, into which
it was necessary to bore hole before pour
ing in a new idea. After Hartranft, he
thought Brstow the very worst candidate
who could be put up.
The republican party made Blaine what
he was, and his republican enemies have
made him what he is. Blaine stood in the
way of their aspirations, and so they destroy
ed him Unfortunately for him his reputa
ton was built upon such shaky foundation
that gust of Morton's lungs destroyed the
fabric. Blaine can't Pick himself up and
put himself together. but he can destroy Nor
ton; he cannot repair the damage, but he
can retaliate.