The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-07-08
POLITICAL PEN POINTS.
1t was Dad under the Hays.

TWAS DAD under the lays.
"a Fool for Luck. '-Chicago Times.
The mules we're too much for Bristow.
Severe case OF sun.stroke wasn't it, Mr.
Blaine?
Mr.. Blaine's railroad record may 60 into
the waste basket.
The bloody shirt was to Morton rather a
Nessus-ary garment.
Hayes is the candidate, but Grantsm, in
its old undiluted form, Is the thing TO be
beaten.
1t will be remembered that Hays was
nominated by a convention that Kissed
Richard II. Dana for making a reform
speech.
1t is Gfteen years since the republican par
ty first pledged itself to abolish polygamy,
and how much polygamy has it abolished:
The great issue before the country Just at
this moment is that of the republican party
against saving of forty million dollars.
The name of the man who was nominated
at Cincinnati was Hayes. Our republican
friends had better paste it in their hats lest
they should forget It,
at is against Wheeler" says the New
York Herald, that he was chairman OF the
Pacific Railway Committee when all the
jobs were passed" Let it be so recorded.
Wanted, a monster cataplasm,
To draw the Hays enthusiasm.
Boss Shepard and Fred Douglass were
delegates from the District of Columbia to
the Cincinnati convention. Fred represented
the negroes and Boss the thieves. 1t was a
nice conglomeration any way.
Bob Ingersoll didn't pull his client through
at Cincinnati. He was more fortunate with
NUNS case.
Investigations of the anatomy of the Gin
cinnati ticket will find that the thing is of
the kangaroo species, with whatever strength
Il possesses located In the hind quarters. Mr..
Wheeler il only little better known than
Hayes, but that little is immensely in his
favor.
John Logan excited the widest enthusiasm
In the Cincinnati convention by declaring
that the democratic party was bent on the
destruction Of the Republic, and had begun
the Job by assassinatlng the characters Of
Belknap, Babcock, Blsine, and other great
men of the republican partv.-St L1uts
Times.
What the democratic party begun the Gin
cinnati convention finished, and the big BIS
are numbered with the slain.
The Chicago Times says: "This point
might as well be settled at once. Hayes Is
neither Presbyterian nor Methodist. lie
is follower of Confucius. He is following
Coniucius with shot gun.
Gail Hamilton, Biainc's witty sister-in.lav,
SAYS the RAIDS fought 10 have taken ex-UoV'
Straw of New Hampshire, instead oil WheeIer,
The ticket then would have been Hayes ana
Straw.
II is SAID that Wheeler, the republican
would-be vice.president, has mortgages on
hundreds of farms In Livingston county III
Why not? lie WAS twelve years IN congress
and voted for all the Pacific rallroau 'iiI9
Interview with an exile from the Central
Flowery Land: LepublIcan man wanted
vesslepate John Chinamsnr THINK ne goI
alice plenty vesslegate heseli.
The ebscuriiy of the republican candidates
il such that every man hameu hayes OF
Wheeler feels il necessary TO announce mat
he isn't the man.
r,c Gov John NJ. VI. Palmer declares his
-...-,,,,;.,,, With the nomination OF Tiilen
- U.rlricks. lie declares the ticket 20
-, s,,,,,r one. and proposes 90 support Il.
H., 4 Trlmbull is highly pleased with the
49,, .,-,f offer, his services IN any way 10
-. if. success. Gov. k1eEuer Is very en-
iIY.ias,Ic IN support 81 The ticket - they
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