The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-08-12
INSIDE WORKINGS
PERU, H., Sunday, Aug. 9th, 1871

PERU, H., Sunday, Aug. 9Th, 1876.
4 Mn Deor FiTe,d .Samue1-Yours of the 3D.
! instant is received; you answered much
sooner than expected, and IN very differ
ent tone from what thought had "A right to
expect from you. You evidently have not
been able to take in the whole situation at a
. glance
You say you have serious thoughts of Civ.
! ing up the slip and going back to the farm,
and thought could discover the least bit
/ Of temper when You ask why in thunder
am pedding out the offices SO freely before
they are mine to give and wonder what |
am gong to reserve for you and the other
boys who have Withdrawn from the contest
to help me.
Now, Sam, don't get into a fret but take
things cool and 20 ahead with your work,
and trust the management Of the machine OF
me, and we will bring things out all right.
yet You have known me long and intimate.
| ly, and | hatter myself that you have conf
dence in me as a man, and want you to trust
me as implicitly as a politician. told you
at the start that we would have to do some
things that would seem singular to you, and
that you would find that "things are not al
ways what they seem" OF course we have
got to promise something TO every man you
meet, or he will become a candidate himself
But please bear in mind that generally speak
ing promise in politics Is not as good as Il
bond there are so many things that turn up
after you are elected that it Is the easiest
thing in the world to slip QUITO explain
them away-and you can SO readily make a
fellow believe that you would if you could,
but the fact is you just couldn't and he will
go away as pleased as If you had handed him
his commission as postmaster. Why, Sam,
could cite you to man who is as good re.
publican as there is IN the county, and who
was good soldier, and, like our colored
troops, fought n0Jiy; but unfortunately he was
too much of a soldier, or not enough, to curry
favor with the par,y-as he was only an ad-
jutant He should have been brigadier
general or a civilian. This fellow has been
a standing candidate Tor years, and has hcen
scooped at every convention with the promise
that the next time we will all 90 for you and
swing you IN so high and dry that you Will
scarcely know that you had any opposition
the fact is, we will nominate you next time
| by acclamation," and this would satisfy him,
and he would go home pleased that he did
not get the nomination, and would go to work
heartily for the ticket could cite you to-
other instances, but it is unnecessary-Im mere
i ly do this to show you that the countersign
of the republican party is, you scratch my
back and then l will scratch yours" SO,
cheer up and go on with your good work, and
when see you We will fix things just as you
want them. | am hearing from you every day
4 through men who have been visited by YOU
leading democrats and Independents as well
as republicans, al! pledging me their sup
!, port, and assursng me that |. am the only
| man in the district that can beat Campbell
y II Is true. most Of them have small hatchet
: to grind, but that can be easily fixed up after
election. OF course, Sam, intend 10 be as
true TO you as the needle Is TO the pole, or as
, a republicans nose 10 the public CRIB, and
, ndO FdtNeT vote loI you lot circuit clerk IMAM
, any other live man; but | don't see any
chance for you this fall. Still there are so
!, many candidates, and so much bitterness
among them, that they may not be able to
nominate any of them. II so, will have
some one pass you IN .ust at the right mo-
ment and YOU will 80 through like shot
But will have plenty places for you after
am fairly settled in Washington, ard places
/ that l think will suit you better than the
clerkship. There is not much money in that,
: and no perqUsltes at all.
II looks now as If would be nominated by
exclamation. haven't heard dissenting
voice, and wouldn't wonder if Campbell
would withdraw when he sees how unani.
mously / am chosen.
a 1t is taking more moneyto run this machine
& than l expected, and may have TO put a
2 small mortgage on my house for few months :;
!. or, IL my prospects continue as fAiiering as
n they are now, / may conclude TO sell and
buy property In Washington.
Let me hear from you soon-it Is late and
I must close as my folks are coming home
q from church.
r Very earnestly and con6deniially yours.