The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-01-01
MOTIONS LITTLE GAME.

The editor OF the Ottawa Republican has for
wears been daft" on the subject OF southern
ou,rages, and is probably the only person IN
the Northwest that accepts in simplicity and
honesty as true the telegraph dispatches
which the Chicago IattrOcedn senioccasion'
ally manufacture at home, giving details OF
outrages in such portions of the south as the
exigencies of the particular occasion happen
to call for The 10. is now manufacturing
Niger murders in Mississippi, to back up
Morton's proposed congresslona! inquiry into
last falls elections in that state, and the Otta
WA Republicam lnstinctively republlshes these
highly colored and impossible recitals, with
such grave and ejaculatory comments as to
touchingly portray the editors innocent
trust in their ,ruthtuness
Now it is as well known as any fact in cur
rent history, that the election in Mississippi
last fall was one of the fairest, most que. and
satisfactory ever held IN that state. Ames
having applied for troops before the election
without reasonable pretext and having been
refused, of course if at the election anything
had occurred to demonstrate the need OF them
Attorney General Picrrepont never would
have heard the last of it from Ames. But
not q word has come from Ames or a single
one of his carpet Dagger congeners in MIS-
slsslppi since the election to show that the
troops were needed, and this of course is OF
itself full demonstration that they were not
needed, and that the election was fair and
honest.
! But Morton, in urging the proposed nves
! tigation, is influenced by very different mo-
! tives from concern for honest elections IN
Mississippi What troubles him mostly is
that the election was nOt-as il had always
been when the carpet baggers had their own
way dishonest. The big radical majority
in the L. s. Senate is dwindling down TO
nothing at a fearfully rapid rate. One by
one the carpet bag governments of the south
especially have dropped out of power, under
the stern demands of sound public opinion
and one by one these states are sending up
democratic senators, so that the radical ma
jority in that body threatens to disappear
S'Sh oS'oiS viz PiSeShI oSooi'h 40 ou'' <Ai
kansas is likely soon to dispense with its only
remaining republican senator-as lovely a
specimen of carpet bag putrdity as radical
corruption ever raised above the reeking
sums in which he was Matched; Alabama
also, is in danger of losing its lovely Spen.
Ger, another product of reeking corruption
And now comes Mississippi, threatening to
displace another exemplar of radical putrldi
ty by the substitution of a MAN-even, Il Is
possible, the hated Lamar
! 1t is possibilities like these that are dis
turblng the peace Of mind of honest Morton
and it is to preveEs such contamination
that he wants TO get up an investigation in
Mississippi, and then, by such false swearing
as he knows the Mississippi carpet baggers
so admirably adept in, having made prtmd
tacie case against the Mississippi legislature
he hopes, by military Intervention, to stave
off and ultimately defeat the election of a
democratic senator from that state.
Almost any other radical editor in the U
| S. would understand Morton's little game
and "boos." it in way to show bis conscious.
ness of it. But the Republican manifests no
such consciousness, and we think in sustain.
ing Morton's movement is simply and stu.
Ipidly honest.