The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-19
POLITICAL FEN POINTS.

POLITICAL PEN POINTS.
EIGHTEEN AND oNE-An old lady of Wash
ingtoA has shaken hands with Fighter
Presidents and Il. &. Hayes Worcester Press
Tie Y. y. Sun states the situation in few
words: The republican party made Hayes
by fraud; and he unmakes the republican
party by treachery."
DoN'T Forc.T-"Hayes is q republican,
the Norrisiuwn Herald informs us. 1t Is
COCO idea to keep this fact before the people
it MI nt be Observation-Disclosures l'mes'
The Marshal OF the district of Celumbif
does not accompany the tenant OF the white
House on the present excursion. In the kind
ness of his heart Mr.. Hayes has excused thai
officer from the performance of one of hi:
traditional functions. The poor African stays
at home. World.
SUBLIME PORTE, May il, lS17.-To jim
Blaine, Pasha, Maine, America: The Shiek
nj. Islam has laid his blessed hands upon the
Commander of the Faithful, which 1t is |
and recommends the bringing forth of the
san ak-sherif, the bloodiest of bloody shirts,
want fellow to flap it, and Maynard tell;
me you're ont of job. Steady work prom
ised; will you come ?-ChicGg0 Times,
ABDUL HAND.
One of the republican papers of Cincinnati
published this telegram Monday:
"WAsHINGToN, MAY, G.-The present hold
er of the real Mulligan letters arrived from
Maine this morning"
And it must have puzzled lis readers some
what before they found that it only meant
Blaine had come to town.
Curious GROUND OF GRATITUDE.-There
is cynical humor in Public Printer Clapp's
thanks to the President for the confidence
implied in the naming of a somewhat remote
day for the closing Of his term OF service" II
is as if visitor who is shown the door should
avow with emotion his grateful surprise that
he IS not forthwith kicked out Of the house.
st. Louis Republican.
Why don't Hampton and Nichols kill hall
a dozen or more negroes IN their respective
States? Il wOlld be such godsend TO Blaine
Phillips, WaQc, Chandler & Co. Instead OF
this, however, they and their supporters 60
right on and cultivate the most amicable re.
latlons with the colored man, to the infinite
disgust and chagrin Of these shrieke-s.-
Rockford J0urRdl
Blaine is brother-in.law of Gail Hamilton
Sam Bowles, OF the Springfield Republican,
did not support him for President, and now
Gail pays him off III the following style in
one of her letters: "Under thin veil o!
Pharisaisn, one dlsccrns the judgment of the
infant, the conscience of the assassin, the
tactics of the Thug" Now, Mr.. Bowles
don't you wish you had said good word for
J i'm, aud not ridiculed his sunstroke:-Er
Just now, jim is engaged in working up
his anti.goverhment party, which Is to be
known as the Abigail party, in honor OF ISIS
ter Abigail" who is already assigned by Jim
to the post of Chief Scold. Already Sister
Abigail is showing what she can do for the
Abigail party in that role. The latest offend
der turned over by jim 10 the dlscipllnlng
tongue of Sister Abigail is Joe-JOe Medlll
$50 for this mendacious "old humbug!" says
jim. Whereupon Abigail goes for him with
most of the bad epithets IN the English, and
many IN the Latin and other languages (the
English vocabulary being inadequate to eX.
press Jim's and Abigail's opinion of joe
To which Joe responds by hurting a column
of bad English at the first man and the frs,
woman OF the Abigail party. Jim is a frs,
class political humbug, says Joe, and Abigail
ChtcagO Times.
THE HEARTS THAT BLEED.
The heart which bled six months ago
For men whose skin were black,
No longer lets its life. blood flow,
But on itself goes back.
The stake for which Hayes played is gained;
Vain now, the black mans trust!
The blood about that heart so panied
Is dry as summer dust.
The heart of Alexander bleeds
Fer Christians sore oppressed;
Into the Sick Mans realm he speeds,
With fiery zeal possessed.
All! when the MOslem Turk is crushed
And conquered his domain,
viii Alexander's blood have gushed
For justice, or for gain ?-N. Y Sun.