The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-08-05
MORE INWARDNESS.

r My DEAR FRIEND SAMUEL was so gla'
to find your letter awaiting me when CAM
p home last evening, and to hear you wer
having such good success.
, know this is very busy time with you
farmers who have large crops to care for
a and 1t seems almost cruel to ask you to leave
your business and go out electioneering, ant
could not think of dong so if it concerned
me only as private individual, but when
remember what there is at stake-the present
= condition of the republican party-and the
thorough organization of the opposition, and
their determination to re.eect Campbell,-I
say when | remember all this, 1t does seem
to me that we cannot ask too much of any
republican who has a drop of party blood
courslng through his veins, or a single hope
of ever holding al office | think the repub.
licans this fall should arise in their strength
and come boldly up to the work shoulder to
shoulder, and roll up a heavier maiority for
me than the opposition did for Cam pbell two
years ago. Why, Sam, think of our country,
think OF the republican party, and then think
ofthis glorious centennial year Think how the
republican party has put down the greatest re-
! beIlon the world ever saw, and has preserved
our country intact for a hundred gears! Why
there is not democratic party on the face o.
the globe that has preserved our country for
IA hundred years. No, Sam, our country
calls, and we must obey. | can cheerfully
give up my shop and go to serve her. 1t is
not the satary l am after. No, if there was
nothing left tor me but the perquisites OF the
! Office, still would go.
Now that the democrats have endorsed
I 7 rI % - n,,;I tl.. Al,
business, in other words they mean to carry
this glorious old state for Tilden, and we
must not leave stone unturned or we will
be beaten. You see Shelby Cullom is an old
banker, and it will be the easiest thing in the
world to turn the tide OF the poorer classes
against him. If the democrats and indepen.
dents can only work tremendously together,
which | fear they will, they will carry the
state ticket sure, but il will be great thing
for us to save our congressional district, as
1t is about as good hold of the public teGt
as we may expect for some time 10 come,
and when | get to Washington l propose to
run this district myself / don't propose to
submit every petty post office to a vote OF the
by default as Campbell has, but shall adopt
the good old republican rule OF helping those
who will help me back again.
have already promised the Ottawa post
office to four fellows sure, and partially to
three others. They are all good workers and
are taking hold splendidly. | still hold La !
Sale, Mendoza and Streator under advise. |
ment This may strike you as a little queer
for an honest man, but you will find before
we get through that it IS strictly republican,
and when we get INTO politics we must do as
politicians do, all Of which Will be fully eX.
planned in my next
You ask how you had best proceed, how
you had best approach your man. | can
only say that you Will have to use great dis
crctlon, but must rely manly on your own
good sense No rules can be given, only be
poiittc IN polite matters / would stiggest,
however that you try and ascertain his cir
in life as nearly as possible be-
fore you approach him. And if you find he
Is man Of large means, las you or II and !
that he has it well sailed down in bonds and
mortgages, then talk gold basis to him.
Show him how we procured our bonds and
mortgages on a long time, at high rate of
interest and at greenback prices; ana that If (
we can only reach a gold basis again before
they mature it will enhance their value from ,
fifteen to twenty per cent, and that will make
Il very nice sum for US to loan and reloan on ,
The farms OF our poorer neighbors who won't
sell their farms to US, and we Will sooa eet
them in this way by foreclosure. But Ehen /.
you 90 among the L0rer classes-the c0rR0R
herd-De very cautious indeed, for there IS
where Campbell's strength lies. They have
great faith in him and greater faith III the t
q eenbacks, and | think 1t would be best
to mention neither him nor them nor gold,
The fact Is it is very difficult to do ANYTHING
with these cutie. They haye grown into a
superstition that the greenback is the poor
mans money, and won't hear nm ythinp saii Y
against IT. So | guess | would only urge |
upon them the necessity of sticking to the
ptj iy; show them what great things the re,
publican party has donei tell them thai in I,
union there is strength and that this is The
most important election since Washlugten's
first canvass; tell them that Bluford WiBon
is disappointed office seeking liar, and that 5
Belknap, Rabcock, Robson and Schenck !
and all the others who have been detectedI In l
crime sgc democrats, End that Grant is near. J
ly q democrat; and that it 1t was not for ne 4,
republican party our country would goto ,
ruin. Aud If they turn upon you like fcsk
OF geese and begin to hiss through th,Ir
teeth such expressions as whisky rings, ptst
Taderships, bullpups, bond holders, monty {
power, &c, then you shout Llrcon, Wasl- !
ncton and the republican party back At {
them Quote Ben Hill S entire speech at tie
top of your voice; wave the bloody shirt b.
fore them you had better get one to tale
with YOU aud perhaps ycI may be able b
stampede them down our road. 1t so, al
will 90 as merry as a marriage bell, but
they should take the Campbell chute, Thea
FAREWELL BROTHER JONATHAN
From Dayon. il
DAYTON Aup 4th 1876