The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-10-14

this county.
Hon. Emery \. Storrs.
The faithful were exceedingly alarmed about
Farnsworth, and when they found that the Hon.
John was here and intended to make one CT his
telling speeches, they sent in hot haste to Chca-
go for the Hon" Emery A. Storrs, who, of
course, having finished his labors for the free
dom Of the last relic OF Brstowlsm in Chicago
by getting "Our Jake" out of the county Jail, |
and having $4,000 knocked Off his fine to assist
him in squarng his "poker" bill while in the
toombs, FASTENED to reply that nothing would
give him greater pleasure than to revive the
dropping spirits of Grantism in Ottawa by tell.
ing what pure, noble, highminled and hon
est o. pat lot Grants is. Well, he came. Turn
Hall was engaged, and the town plastered over
(by the devil Of the Pee Wee olce, the party be-
ing too poor to pay the bill-poster though not
too honest to steal the use of his boards with
flaming posters announcing the grand pow WOW
Then Cullen secured the city and procured a
and hired the martial band, promising that if
they would turn out this once their little bill
would be paid as soon as they could raise the
money. AT half past seven the infants appear
ed, about $50 very outside calculaton) strong
who marched with heads down as If ashamed to
thoroughly show their weakness. As they
marched in very open order and Indian file, OF
course the tail would get nervous every few
rods as if fearful of being detached from the
main body and head twenty feet in advance
On entering the hall we found it filed with
ladies, gentlemen and boys. The enthusiasm
among the faithful was immense; their patriot
ism was immense; the odor of whiskey thieves
about Storrs was immense, and the number of
bad smells was as immense as could be expect
ed from lovers of such bad smelling subject as
was to be talked about
Storrs likewise was immense and his speech
was immense. 1t was just such a speech as
could be expected from the associate of parcel
of whskey thieves. We shall not disgrace our
columns or insult the intelligence OF our readers
by any lengthy survey Of it. The substance was
simply this: Abuse Of Farnsworth for leaving
the radical party, as dirty as it was nonsensical;
the bloody shirt; republican party has always
been true to its trusts; punished its thieves CID;
and moreover contains all the intellect, the
culture and the refinement as well as honesty of
how many who heard him enlarge on the sub
ject are silly enough to believe him? But the
main part OF his speech was made up Of the
dirtiest abuse Of the democrats that it was ever
our fortune to listen to. He said the st. Lauis
convention was made up of the plug-ugles, the
shoulder htters, the scum OF n. Y. Five Points,
the sewer rats, the gutter snipe, the free lunch
snatchers; half the men of that convention
were men to whom square meal would be
God send, men who had not clothes enough on
them to make gun wad, men who had had half
their ears bitten off in q sewer fight! &c, &c,
all intin,tum, and men whom we reckoned re-
spectacle sat and listened to such filth and call
cd it eloquence! And such is the man who
places the immortal Lin coin on the topmost
pinnacle Of fame with U. 8. Grant and the bull.
pups on his right hand! Mr.. Storrs may be
greatly belied as to business or social standing
but this is certain, that when he makes politi-
cal speech he is a 1rst-class blackguard, foul
mouthed as any gutter 'snipe that ever crawled.
After listening for two hours to filth that should
make man blush when alone, to say nothing Of
the presence OF ladies, the infants marched out,
held a war dance or two and went home.
l.. IL. Croker and Carpenter" WILCOX.
II seems that there was an election somewhe
this weck-in Indiana, Ohio, &c, it was rumor-
ed. And it further appears that this election
was held on Tuesday-at least the radicals gath
cred together on Tuesday night at Turn Hall to
hear how Harrison had swept the state of In
diana and saved the country from the hands of
the "confeds." Almost before the voting was
over, and long before the ballots could be count
ed the stage of Turn Hall was filled with anx-
ious, yet confident, radical politicians waiting
for news from "lnjeanee." Meantime the rest
less crowd was to be amused by Mr.. L. B. Crook
er, of Mendoza, candidate for the Legislature.
"Loosh" struck right out and laid the grumbl-
ing against the administration to the genera!
cusscdness Of human nature, since people will
grumble under the best administrations, and
that is the whole trouble with the radical party
while the democratic party is the same old, old
story-moss backcd-wthout ability enough TO
run u district school! Loosh, as everybody
knows, is the funny man Of the party in La Sale
Co. Loosh had not little to say about the
homestead laws, &c, which was all well enough,
but in that connection he might have said just q
few words about the big railroad steals OF land
but it is so easy to forget the particulars. He
said a number Of other very funny things, such
as, that the republican party was the only party
that ever confessed its sins; and how the party
confessed by hauling off Orth from the guberna-
torial race in Indiana because he had dirty hands
but forgot to tell us how it was that all the good
republicans in Indiana took him in and had him |
introduce their big speakers down at Tppeca.
noe. They used to tell us in boyhood days some
thing about birds Of feather running the In I
terror Department, &c, &c. But We cannot give |
it all, nevertheless really thought it the only
decent republican speech yet made in Ottawa.
Crooker is gentleman enough to be above the |
use Of the blackguardism that is usual in repub-
llcan speeches. especially men like Storrs. He
told his stories and sat down in the midst Of loud