The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-16
From Joliet.
JOLIET, Mare

JOLIET, Marcel ), 1913.
Your correspondent visited Chicago again
but finding little of interest in that village
stopped at the prison at Joliet, where there is
something going on to interest philanthropSt
like the writer There are hotels, blt likcthOsC
in Chicago, bul they want pay forboard, and
took the street cars up to the penitentiary
McClaughcry tacerR, Though twas full, the
proprietor being one of the most obIiging men
on earth, gave me nice bed and Il hook for
my hat About eighty boarders leave him
during the month of March One very pecul-
lar feature Of this hotel is the fact that very
guest on leaving is furnished with new suit
of clothing, ten dollars in cash and ticket
home. These items Of expenditure will cost
the institution over $4,000 during the present
month.
The celebrated patriot Rande, recently sojour-
ming at Galesburg, has taken rooms here,
and is as yet man of infinite leisure, using
what is known as the court solitary, wh,re he
can be entirely alone-perhaps for the purpose
of writing his biography. But another 'ingu-
lar feature of this Mre,W is likely to interfere
with this project McClaughery, though lib
eral in some respects, assumes the right o die
tate to his guests what they shall do, what they
shall eat and wherewithal they shall be cbthed 4;
and he refuses even to furnish paper, INK, &c,
for Rande to write his history, and IN his case
even went so far as to insist that he should don
the uniform which has been prescribed Tor the
great hotel. Rande at first objected and asked
the attendants if they knew who he was, de
handing more consideration than was accord
ed to an ordinary whelp, as he was a very eX-
traordinary one. But the said attendants some
of whom knew him, allowed" he was putting
on airs and the result of half hours stay was
the loss of his raven locks, his flowing beard,
all his jewelry, trinkets and even his photo
tograpns, which he had tried to sell on his way
thither. What was the cause of this singular
treatment must be guessed at, though it is pos
siblc that the contents of a letter which McC.
found in his pocket from distinguished friend
in Texas may have had something to do with
it. This friends name is Bill Longley, who
boasts that he has though only pc gears old
been on the war path" for eleven years and
is charged with raising the scalps of 81 id
scOundrcls,' as he expresses 1t, and that Il sort
of Brlgand Court in Texas has had the impu-
dencc to sentence him to be hung in the course
of week
Probably his only crime is that of being II
Republican and voting for and killing few
Cayoots in the interest of that party.
Longley tells Rande that he has been hung
once and is "ds gayas Turk" over the pros
pect of another hanging, which he thinks will
answer his purpose. lie disagrees with Rande
in his theology, thinks there sahell especial.
"ly for newspaper men and preachers"
agree with HIM so far as necessity exists
for the final disposition of the former. This
is but my opinion and | do not wish to hold
the FREE TRADER responsible for its advoca-
|cy) Randc has taken rooms for tho season and
will be cared for in good style by McC laughery
who, though peculiar about the rules of his
house, will furnish him with occupation, cloth
ing, board and medical attendance free of cost
doubt if there is another such hotel in the
state. 1t is proposed, however to build one
at distant and inaccessible point on the MIS-
sissippi river in the vicinity of Chester, and
for the erection of which, | understand, the
Legislature year ago appropriated a large
sum of money. This is the way our money
goes and with all its apparent enormity the
proposition met with the approval of the Gov
ernor, Auditor and Attorney General. They
are all Republicans. Such conduct will en-.
sure the election of democrats as their success
ors as surely as another election Is had. w.