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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

The National Grange of the Patrons OF
Husrandry assembled IN National Conven-
ton at Chicago on the 18th. After a secret
session, the Worthy Master, John T. Jones,
delivered his annual address, and the usual
business committees were appointed. The
annual address was mainly devoted to the CO.
operative system, the success OF which IN
England and other portions of Europe was
regarded as Of the highest Importance ana
worthy of the serious attention of the Grange
Official reports were then received and re'err-
ed. The TreaSurers report shows flourish
inp financial condition Of the Order The
Secretary's report exhibits paying member
ship of $4,000.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

Alta marriage frolic at Big Woods, Ger
man settlement near Aurora, on Friday eve
ming Of last week, large company being
present and some of them becoming intoxi-
Gated, an old man named Bartholomew im-
acined himself Insulted, and drawing large
knife began to cut right and left. He sue
ceeded in seriously wounding four persons
before he was secured and dlsarmed. one of
the wounded it is thought must die. Bartho-
lomew, on SOLDERING up, was so overcome with
grief at the occurrence that he went to bed
sick and next morning was found dead. He
was about GO years of age and worth a con-
siderable property.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

The Ottawa FREE TRADER expresses the
fear that we may have minority President
Well, such minor affair has occurred sever
al times in the history OF this government,
and vet, in this particular, the constitution re-
mains AS our fUrefa,hers adopted 1t. Mere
over, some of these minority presidents have
been excellently good, while others have been
egregiouSly wicked.-SherIdan Ne"s,Letter
There has really been but one minority
President since the organization Of the gov
eminent, and that was John Quincy Adams,
who had received but 10000 votes to Gen
Jacksons $4,000. All the other presidents
had at leas, plurality-that is, ! majority
over their highest opponent jackson, though
honestly elected, was euchred out Of the Presi-
dency in 1924 by the leaders of the old Fed
eral," or National Republican, party, as
they then called themselves, and the result
should be II warning to the republican lead
ers of today, who propose to euchre Tilden
In the same way. The National republican
party died so dead that it never made re-
spectable kick afterwards, while Gen. Jack
son, four years later, was borne IMP the presi'
Dental chair on popular wave thai complete
" overwhelmed and annihilated hs enemies,
and the Clays, Calhouns, Websters Sargeants
and Southards that four years before formed
the coalition" against him were 50 political
ly dead forever afterwards that no hand of
resurrection could raise them.
Somehow as the prospect dcepeas into GER
~ i =, 80 l. ,o1o tn1D of htc
fair and honest elctlon, ones natural indigna-
ton at and adherence of the crime are great
" tempered in view of the certain consequent
ces. Were Tilden now declared elected and
in due course inaugurated, he would at least
have during the tour years of his admlnis,ra
ton a strong, aggressive, arrogant party OPP
posing him, with at least one, and it may be
both, houses Of congress against him. But
let Tiden now be cheated by the bold, shame
less, daring process of the Infamous southern
carpetbagger returning boards, and at the
very next election the republican party will
be buried out of sight under mountain OF
popular indignation and scorn, and poor
IIayes-a mere fgure-head presdent-w
an arrogont senate and house that despise
him to deal with, will be OF all poor devils
the most helpless and miserable.
Andrew Johnson, though without a party
to own him, came into the presidential chair
without the faint OF dishonor or fraud, and
beng man of probity and nerve, was re-
spected. But who-with his party everywhere
beaten, dispersed and annihilated, will have
any respect for such creature of fraud and
lnfamy as poor Hayes would be-the trem'
bling, shrinking president elected by the
reeking and rotton Kellogg, Wells Louisiana
returning board?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25
RULLDOZINL.

This is Tie word-used as synonymous with
for iustifying the outrageous fraud they are
about TO commit in Louisiana. Kellogg ad-
mi,s that the returns are all right except from
four or five "bulldoZed" parishes-Bayou
Sara, West FelicIana, &c, in which he says
there was intimidation of voters. Now w.
+. Whiteman, mayor of the town of Bayou
Sara, and one of KellOggs appointees, has
the following to say to an interviewer of the
Cincinnati Enquirer about these "bulldozed"
parishes:
He comes forward with a conclusive expla-
nation of the change in the votes OF East and
West Feliclana since the election OF 1874, and,
as the charges of intimidation are based prin-
cipally on those great changes, the public
should understand the situation. "In the first
place." says Mr. Whiteman, who, by the way,
holds his commission as mayor from Kellogg,
"tbe radicals made no canvass whatever in
those parishes With the exception OF enc
meeting in Clinton, East Feliciana and anoth-
er in st. Francisville, they actually did moth
ing to attract any enthusiasm to their side OF
the campaign. They paid so little attention
to this, and seemed rather to scott at the
whole business so emphatically, that In the
speeches that were made more was SAID in Ia
vor of the democratic than the republican
nominees for the state offices. The negroes
even detected this, and remarked that all they
had heard was putting up the democratic
candidates The gentleman further says
that the democrats were on the qut rtre from
the opening to the close of the campaign
leaving no stone unturned to increase their
own vote by making converts OF some negroes
and prevailing on others not to vote at all.
Hundreds of them voluntarily Joined the
democratic ranks, and nearly one thousand OF
them appeared in torchlght procession on
a certain occasion, shouting as Justify for I'll
den as any of the whites. The charge of In
timidaton is absolutely groundless. Troops
have been quartered in those parishes for sew
en- months, and Maj. Bascomb, republican,
but q candid man, has already testified that
the election was entirely fair In MIR. White
mans town of Bayou Sara there are not more
at present than two radical leaders. OF any
prominence, and he doubts whether in the
town of Bayou Sara 10 radical votes were
cast The cause is deader than nit. The
whole spiritless canvass made on the part OF
the republicans goes to prove that their origi-
nal plan was to let the election so by default,
and rely altogether on final victory on their
internally corrupt and irresponsible returning
board
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

The Aurora Neus is trying to make itself
noisy as an advocate of an "lntelligent bal
lot'-tnat is, restricting the right to vote to
only spch as can read and write English. OF
the white voters of this country, the number
who can neither read or write is about equal.
ly distributed between the two great parties
but of the negro voters, who are nearly all re-
publicans, not one in ten can read or write.
"The intelligent ballot" therefore, in the late
election, would have left Hayes without a
party IN the South, and would have beaten
him badly IN Ohio and Pennsylvania, in both
of which states 90 per cent of the voters are
negroes. The Mems may babble now, but a
serious proposition to make the " intelligence
qualification" part of the Constitution OF
the United States would raise a squeak of
indignation on the part of the Ne,cs and its
5000 fellow little radical tin whistles equal to
the united screecA of q hundred millions of
famished locusts Intelligent ballot" in.
deed! 1t would be as fata; 10 the republican
party as dose OF strychnine to dog.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

il. Montgomery, ]. M. Hummel and Geo.
Crapser, of Sandwich, met with serious DC
c,dent from a runaway on Monday while
driving from Sandwich to Morris lheir
team ran away, upsetting tho wagon ana
throwing all with great force to the grouno'
Montgomery received fearful Commissions
about the face, and his lip was cut through
to the teeth; Hummel was but slightly In
iured; Crapser had his left arm dislocated.
The team ran Ave miles before it was caught
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

One reason why the New England cotton
and the Pennsylvania iron lords are opposed
to the democrats getting the same control Of
the balance of the south that they have OF
Tennessee and Georgia, may be found in the
following, from the Bulletin of the Phila
delphia Iron and Steel Association:
The rolling mills Of Tennessee and Geor
eIa are all running double turn, with orders
ahead. There are five new cotton factories
being built in Georgia, one In Atlanta TO GOV
er $1,000 spindles. There is not an idle cot
ton factory In Geogia, and none that failed Il
pay ten per cent. dividend for the last year
The four largest factories in the state paid al
average of fourteen per cent There is also
decided activity among the smaller indus
tries. aad factories are beng erected for tn
making II hundreds Of articles.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

"counted in" on clear majority OF oOoo
acnins, him in Louisiana, by such board:
And lastly Florida, where without going
into the dc,ais) the democrats have clear
majority Of from 1000 10 1900, but the Cover
nor Is unwilling to have the returns canvass
ed by board consisting of two republicans
and one democrat, but insists on canvassihg
them himself, so as to secure MS own re-
election rs Governor, and to count in the
Uavcs electors. Can the Republican party
afford TO accept the election of Hayes on such
returns?
We cast aside AS idle buster all talk about
fighting, if an attempt Is made 10 inaugurate
HAYES under such proofs of his fraudulent
election. There will be no fight The demo.
Gratis in congress will contest the point to the
last minute, and then, on the 9th of March,
Grant with his army will proceed to inaugu'
rate HAYES by force if necessary, and the
democrats, solemn!y protesting against the
.ou,rage, will submit. But what will be the
condition of the republican party after that:
With what face can they come before the
people and ask reelection after being par.
ties to such a crimeg Like the army OF Sen.
nacherlb, when
The angel OF death spread his wings on The blast
And oreshed In the lace OF the foe as ne psssed. ,
And like leaves ON the forest when autumn hath blown
That host on the morrow lay withered ana drewn
So will the republican party, in view OF
such an enormity, be hopelessly and forever
blasted and annihilatedl
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

Niger rule in South Carolina, which the
good sense of her people, both white and
black, would have banished long ago but for
the support which government bayonets has
given few dozen Of white scoundrels who
have upheld il, is thus beautifully delineated
in an incident related by correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer:
The fact is that the halls OF legislation are
without furniture. The late legislature pass
ed an appropriation TO refurniSh the halls
and committee rooms, and before this learn
ed body adjourned-nearly ali negroes, with
three fOurths unable 10 read or writc-a col
nred Scion rose to his feet and said:
"Mstah Speakah, moves, sab, dat dc hon
ahable membahs of dis Legislature had de
privilege oh takln' 10 dar own homes all de
ole furniture, sah.'
This sensible proposition in the confusion
of the last hours failed of a passage in both
branches, but il was enforced all the same,
and all the carpets, desks, chairs, tables, pat
terdusters, spil,oons and clocks-in a word,
every article that could be gathered and cart
ed away disappeared. The attempt 10 re-
place the necessary appliances to law making
was not successful.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

Several weeks before the late election the
FREE TRADER referred to Mr.. Weeks, Of Jo-
liet, late internal revenue collector of this dis.
trict, as defaulter. Our attention is now
called to response in the Lockport PhaatI,
of which the following is the substantial
part;
When Mr.. Weeks left the revenue office,
there was such balance against him of I'M
settled accounts which has been considerably
reduced since. In fact, we understand 1t is
nearly wiped oHt and as soon as government
officials get through investigating his accounts
it will all be properly settled. Mr.. Weeks
has not cleared dollar out of the Office and
passes among his acquaintance as thor
Cughly honest man. You had better tone
that down, Mr.. Free Trader.
The only toning down we can do is TO state
that our authority was an official statement
from tue L. S. Treasury, laid before the last
congress. If Mr. Weeks is misrcpresented in
the matter, as we are inclined to think he is,
he ought to commence his libel suit against
the Secretary of the L. S Treasury.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

Thus republican chickens come home to
roost In about 1868 the patriotic war COVER
nor of Indiana, Hon. o. 2. Morton, refused
to commission CERTAIN democratic officers that
had been elected in that state, on the ground OF
iuelgibillty, aud gave the commissions to
the next highest candidates, aud facile su.
preme court sustained him n 1t, holding
"The governor may determine, even against
the decision of board of canvassers, wheth-
err an applicant is entitled to receive com
mission or not, where the objection to his
right to receive 1t rests upon the ground that
a constitutional prohibition is interposed.
Where majority of the ballots at an cleo
ton were for a person not eligible to the OF.
flee under the constitution, it was held that
the ballots cast for such ineligible person
were Intellectual, and that the person receiv.
ing the greatest number of legal votes, though
not a majority of the ballots, was duly elect
ed and entitled to the office"
Here is an excellent precedent for the Gov
ernor of Oregon in the case of the republican
postmaster elector in that state.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

1t is very gratifying to the people of Joliet
to know that our congressman elect is in
hearty sympathy with our Iron and Steel
mills and will labor for their interests in con.
gress When petitions are sent TO HIM from
the employees of our great manufacturing es-
adjustment they will receive prompt atten-
ton, and will not be thrown into the waste
basket.-JOlid Sun.
How does the Sun know that MIR Hayes is
the friend of that gigantic system of robbery
known as protective taritf-that system by
which the west pays about Si00,00O,00O year
to line the pockets OF the New England cot
ton spluners and the Pennsylvania iron lords
II Mr.. Hayes IS a friend of that robber sys
tenn, 1t Is well for HIM that the fact leaked oui
only after his election.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25
England.

jeff Dayis was passenger in the steamer
Adriatic, which sailed from Queenstown for
New York on the 10th.
Since the publication of the Lord Lotus
dispatch from st. Petersburg, careful official
contradictions are made public of the reports
of activity at the Woolwlch arsenal In con-
nection with the Turkish complications
The shipment of gold to America continues.
$4,000 IN American eagles was Withdrawn
from the bank on the 22i tor shipment to
New York
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

In the present disturbed state of public feel
ing, let the people notice whence come the
threats. Honest, earnest, straightforward peo-
pie are not the class who threaten bloodshed
and violent yengeance.-Aurora Beacon.
The only threats we have seen or heard of
in the present disturbed state of public feel
ing" are those mace by President Grant, both
in backing up the thieves and ballot box STUFF.
fers of Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida
with bayonets, and in gathering an army
about Washington to threaten and overawe
congress. Some sixteen years ago lot OF
rebels down south made similar threats by
mastering their armies and erecting batteries
around Fort Sumter, but our recollection is
that the business didn't prove an astonishing
success. Threats by staggering minority
against an overwhelming majority somehow
seldom do succeed in the long run.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25
France.

The senate on Monday rejected the bill re-
Gently passed by the deputies providing for
the cessation of prosecutions against the
communists.
A ministerial crisis is now threatened by an
Interpolation in the deputies to the minis
try, why military escort is denied at tuner-
ais of members of the Legion of Honor when
the members are buried without religious
ceremonies? The question is exciting Intense
feeling,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

Referring to Grants ordering OF troops 10
Washington TO overawe congress, the state
Reqister remarks, that "The lamented FRANK
Blair had more foresight than any OF US,
when he wrote to James II. Broadhead, near
eight years ago, that Grant and the republi-
cnn party would never surrender the govern,
ment to any other party unless by force, and
that Grant would have to be carried out feet
foremost
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

The La Sale Democrat Indignantly, and
truthfully too, denies a statement of last
weeks FREE TRADER, that" Mr.. Elwood, the
Democratic candidate for the state board OF
equalization, was beaten less then 7OOto Camp
bell 1000" Our statement was based on a
loose remark of Joliet paper that Elwood
ran 1000 ahead of his ticket in VIII county
Mr.. Elwood really receITed but lS2 votes more
than Mr.. Campbell
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

He didn't Dodge and 1ce are Proud Of Him,
Gen. Hayes did not dodge anything during
his canvass. He will make good congress.
man, and one the district may we'll feel proud
of electing. He will represent this district
for the interest of the people.-BratdUOod Re.
publican.
Now with just one more certificate, that he
is not a popinjay and hoodlum, and Old
Jacob Townsend himself could ask no better
set of testimonials.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

Whatever may be thought of Presiden,
Grants order to General Sherman in other
respects, his declaration that "either party
can afford TO be disappointed in the result,
but the country cannot afford TO have the re-
suit tainted by the suspicion of rascaliiy on
the part of returning board which both
houses of congress have repeatedly voted to
be unworthy of confidence cannot be toe
strongly enforced on public opinion.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25
India.

There are tidings of fearful calamity by
a cyclone in Eastern Bengal on Oct 3lst.
Three islands, near the estuary Of the river
Mluua, were the sufferers. n dispatch says:
The largest, Dakhan Shahabozhare, was
500 squares in extent 1t had population Oh
about 100000, Haitian and Sundeep togeth-
err had about 100000 population. Up 10 ii
O'Clock on the night of the 3lst there was no
sign of danger; but before midnight wave
swept over the country to the deptn IN many
places of 20 feet, surprising the people III tnelr
beds. Dense groves OF cocoanut anu palm
trees around the villages enabled many 20
save themselves by climbing among me
branches Some took refuge on inc tops OF
their houses, but the water burst the houses
asunder and swept them out to sea. Some
we're carried thus across the channel ten miles
10 the Chitta-ong district, but the vast ma)orl-
~ were never heard of again There is hard
! " n household in the islands and on the
adjacent coast but lost many members. Inc
cai,Ie are all drowned. Boats are swept away,
and means of communication with other dis
tric,s DESTROYED There Is much distress
among the survivors, which the government
| is relieving.
The government Gdz5tto says: Wherever
the storm wave passed, it is believed not
third Of the population survived. The ISLANDS
| have barely one-fourth of their former inhaol-
tants The stencil from the purifying bodies
! is insulierable, and q general outbreak OF
cholera is expected A correspondent says
this tear is happily not yet realized, except IN
NoOkholly, where the disease has appeared.
The loss of life is stated at 2l5,Ooo.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25
A LAMENTABLE WANT OF sELF-APPRECI.
ATION

An eminent writer observes: ut is curious
and possibly little disheartening to think
how terribly Journalist may toll, and still
leave behind him hardly any monument to
his fidelity and industry" The gallant Gene
raj Phillip c. Hayes OF the Morris Herald
has no notion of INDUCING in any squemish
selfdenlal of that sort, Since the election he
has been carefully copying into the Herald
all the pretty things the radical papers have
been saying about him. Imagine the gallant
general" duly armed with huge pair of scis'
sors, gaily clipping from his patent inside
country exchanges, and then reading oil to
his audience of 500 admiring subscribers, in
the fashion of patent medicine man airing
his nostrums, the following laudatory tiff
Gates"
4 Gallant General.
1t is with undisguised satisfaction that we
announce the election Of the gallant Gen. =.
G. Hayes, over the mongrel nominee Of two
parties, Alex. Campbell, by majority of
about 1,10O-Joliet Republican.
4 Gallant Soldier and Statesman and Re
spectacle Man.
The republicans of this District rejoice in
their hearts and are glad of the great victory
achieved on last Tuesday in the election of
the gallant soldier and statesman, General z.
c. Hayes, We can now see the importance of
nominating respectable men to office, men
whose integrity and honesty cannot be ques.
toned. The people delight to honor such
men.-Joliet Sun.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

The grave question Is, shall one whlle
scoundrel and two negroes, one of whom is an
ex-penitentiary convict, disfranchise Inc
whole American people by counting out III
den and counting in Hayes?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

The Illinois State Dairymen's Association
held their annual meeting in the Court House
at Egin on the 18th, 18th and 14sh OF Decem,
Der. Dalrymen, manufacturers, dealers and
all others feeling an interest in the prosperl-
~ of the association are invited to attend.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

sull we don't hear anything of that demo
cratic celebration, Why don't you shoot OIL
Joliet Sun.
BY the way, where is that magnificent eel
ebra,ion the republicans promised us on the
election of Hayes Isn't Hayes elected
Chandler says he is, and every little republi
can froghopper organ grinder swears to it
Then why don't you celebrate,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25
Spain.

A dispatch at London from Madrid, Nov.
Goth, reports that two Protestant ministers,
one citizen of the United States, were recent
ly forbidden to hold religious services IN the
MARIE of the village of Llanes, near the French
frontier in the province Of Santander. They
were subsequently detained, pending the
prosecution begun against them. Although
the prayer-meeting they held was conducted
according to law, only IS persons were
present.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-25

The shipment of wheat from Chicago to
Baltimore over the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road now averages 10000 bushels day.
This don't look as if Vanderbilt would cap
,ure the whole western wheat traffic, as he
boosted he would not long ago.