The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-02
" THE INEVITABLE ISSUE"

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THE INEVITABLE ISSUE"
Dislike it as one may, says the Pekin Bu!
letiu, the bloody shirt Is the inevitable is
sue OF the present political contest. Tn,
Bulletin of course views things from the rad
ical standpoint, and can see no hope in any
thing else. Abuse of Tilden won't work
Hayes as u iefOrmer is miserable failure
there is nothing lett but the bloody shirt
The Bulletin but echoes the despairng CRY
of the chaste and ncorruptible Kilpat
rick, whose lachrymose epistlc from Indi
ana to Gov. Hayes is at present receiving sc
much newspaper attention. Says the re
doubtaole cavalry Bobadl:
There is an independent party in this state
confined it is true, in few counties, but for
midable, and it will defeat Gen. Harrison
There Is but one way to overcome this move
ment The leaders of the independents are
poor, needy and in debt. They must be lee
tured. Let documents be placed in thciI
hands that they may be convinced of their
folly. \ BLOODY SHIRT" CAMPAIGN WITH
MONEY AND INDIANA Is SAFE A financial
campaign and no money, and we are beaten
| uc uuS toilO bothihS iOi
Indiana Alone they are fighting their bat
tie, and bravely; but unless the national
committee wakes up and does lis duty &c
iyou, to the party and the country, defeat is
certain in October
| PLENTY Of money and the bloody SHIRT, y
cries Fitzpatrick. Morton substantially said
the same thing in his Indianapolis "key
note" Boutwell, tried to work up the same
thing IN his Mississippi report. Without a
shadow of evidence to sustain him, he insist
ed that republicans coula vote in Mississippi
only a! the risk of their lives, and went SC
far as to recommend that Mississippi be ere
manded back to the condition of a conquer
ed province; a proposition which so disgust
ed the New York E'cening Post, a staunch re
publican Hayes and Wheeler organ, that il
was compelled to say, "In the blndesl days
of partisan passion nothing worse has been
offered the country than what Senator Bout
well presents as the recommendations of the
committee They are not only narrow in
suggesting an extraordinary poverty of states
manship-statesmans which would regard
the southern disorders as symptoms of pc.
lltcal disease to be treated dispassionately
and calmly upon broad political principles
They also are stupid in a mere party
sense. With what face can the Republican
party tell the country that, after holding al
most undsputed power since the war; hay
ing enforced at will its plan of reconstruc
ton, by strength of numbers and arms, by
constitutional amendment, and finally with
the general consent Of the people, it can pro-
pose nothing better to be done with a state
which it has reconstructed and restored to
equal rights of states than Cd to re-enact fed.
eral laws of protection which have been de.
clared unconstitutional by the highest federal
court; or (2) to deny the state representation
in Congress; or 80 to remand the state to a
territorial condition. 1t is hard to discuss
this monstrous proposal with patience. II
needs no discussion, indeed. Simply to re.
peat is TO expose It's narrowness and stu
pidity"
And yet the stupid" recommendation of
this committee is what the Bulletin, and Nor.
ton and Fitzpatrick are yelling for, the
"bloody shirt" though the most honest organ
of the party is compelled to admit that I'm
the blindest days of partisan passion, nothing
worse has ever been offered to the country