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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

u big N, though it holds that under the con
shtutlon there are certain rights reserved tc
the states. Mr. Everts, in his speech in New
York week ago, stated the republican posi-
ton in exactly the same words So the boys
are talking at random. When, however, they
say the FREE TRADER denies the validity OF
the Nth and 18th amendments and vindlcates
the "shot gun" policy and fails to condemn the
tissue ballot system of carrying elections, the
younkers lie so recklessly as to deserve to be
spanked, The FREE TRADER has always de
nounced the system Of carrying elections by
force and fraud, whether the force be shot guns
in the hands of white leaguers or muskes and
bayonets in the hands Of L, S. soldiers; or
whether the fraud be with tissue ballots, which
were the invention of the carpetbaggers in
South Carolina, though the democrats may
afterwards have resorted to the same device, or
the republican system OF "pipe laying" so per.
sistenty resorted to in Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh.
But this notion Of putting the defeat of Mr..
Raymond on the ground of hurting tho FREE
TRADER Is peculiarly FRESH and vealy. 1t is
equal to the boy who revengcd himself on an,
other by making mouths at ms sister, After
ALL it is but question whether those sleek,
papfed cormorants of the Ottawa RepuJican
shall have five or six hundred dollars year
more added to the fifteen hundred or two
thousand dollars a year they already get from
the county offices or whether crumb of that
patronage shall 90 to some other paper The
GROWING righteousness of the whole, howev-
er, consists in the notion that either the gain
or loss of this crumb of patronage would add
to or abate jot or title from the force or Wig
or of the FREE TRADER as party organ For
thirteen years, from 1868 to 1871, the FREE
TRADER not only had no tax list to grease its
machinery, but not a smell of patronage from
any other office in the court house, yet it man
aged to live and support democratic principles
with about as much vigor as it has ever been
able to exhibit since then, and whether 1t has
the tax list for the next year or two or not, we
reckon it will keep right along in its beaten
track So you see the defeat of Sam Ray.
mond won't IN the least cripple the FREE
TRADER as his election will add nothing to
its earnestness and vigor as a Staunch demo
cratic organ.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01
THE INDIANS.
cratic organ

The Indian outbreak in New Mexico and
present. The stories about the Uintah Utes in
Utah being on the war path appear to have
been great exaggeratlons.
Gen. Adams, Schurz's peace commissioner
to the hostile Utes IN Colorado, arrived at their
camp from the Plnos agency about Oct 2lst
and found the white women and children Mrs
Meeker and daughter and Mrs. Price and two
children safe, and on his application they
were delivered up to him without hesitation.
They have since arrived at Denver The In
dans told him there had been no intention to
hurt either the men or women at the White
river agency except Meeker, but the men had
fired upon the Indians, killing couple, and
they had to be killed. Mrs Meeker, however,
says the intention was also to kill the women
and children, but they were saved through the
intervention of the squaw Susap, Ouray's sis
ter and chief Johnsons wife
The Indians lay the blame of the war on
Meeker who withheld rations unless the In
dians would work and threatened them with
chains when Thornburgh and his soldiers
came They admit, also, that had there been
a head chief like Ouray at the agency and the
Indians had received less bad whisky from the
ranchmen, the outbreak would probably not
have occurred. They claim that they lost 39
men in the affair with Thornburgh, Merritt
&c, while the whites lost but 80 men. They
claim to be anxious for peace and are willing
to quit even, but will fight rather than give up
the "ringleaders," for they say they are all
equally guilty. They admit that they had
made such arrangements to attack Merritt as
would have made of it another Caster massa.
ere, but that they had abandoned the project
on receiving peremptory orders from Ouray
not to fight AS to the death of It. Wer and
IIumme, they say they had been sent out by
Merritt as scouts, and meeting indians had
| fired upon them when the Indians shot back
An Indian had also been killed in the skirln.
| Ish.
| What the administration intends to do mex,
| is Unknown. OF course the people Of Colo
RADIO demand that the Indians be eXterminated
and the war department is collecting troops
and large quantities of stores at Rawlins and
at Alamosa as If preparing for vigorous hos
| tllties.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

| There is little burlesque on daily paper
printed in Ottawa which is so utterly insight
icant and It's editor so thoroughly contcmpti-
BILE, that IN common with most of our citizens
we seldom see a copy Of it in month Our
attention, however, has been called to the FOL
lowing bold lie in its issue of last evening:
DoS'T CARE FOR REPUBLICAN VoTEs.-A
gentleman, and a Republican who worked hard
for the election of Samuel Raymond two years
ago, was in a well known place in this city the
day after election, when Mr.. Raymond came
in with crowd Of friends to treat them. lie
stepped to the counter and some of his Demo
cratic crowd said, Sam, the Republicans say
they have elected YOU" Mr. r. answered in
effect if not in the exact words, "Well, they
didn't do it, and don't care a d--n about
their votes either" This is the PLAN state.
ment made to us and the gentleman concluded
by saying, made up my mind Sam would
not get my vote again and think that any Re-
publican who votes for hllh is fooled and swim
died"
We are authorized to offer reward of 800
for the proof of any such occurrence. The
slmian who publishes the lie has now an OPP
portunity to make known the name of his in
former and If he can prove his case to make
more money than he has made in year before
honestly
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01
JUDGE LYNCH.

A year or more ago shocking murder was
committed of family named Spencer, in CLARK
county, Mo-, and suspicion fell upon the noto-
rious Young and James boys who live IN that
vicinity. The first one arrested was VIM.
James, who was tried for the crime, but no
proof appearing against him he was acquitted.
Then an Illinois detective named Lane worked
up Il case against VIM. j. Young, who was
tried last week, but at the critical moment Lane
failed to appear in the witness box and the
case broke down against Young, who was
also acquitted The neighborhood, however,
were not satisfied with the verdict, and had
Judge Lynch convene his court to revise it,.
The result was reversal of the decision of the
Jury and the mob having decided Young
guilty met on Wednesday at Cahoka, and pro.
ceeded, without further ceremony, to hang
HIM. Young protested his innocence to the
last and died game" as they say. As Young,
however had committed other murders, the
mob paid no attention to his protests.
About two weeks ago Miss Ella Martin, a
II year old daughter of wealthy farmer liv.
ing near Minonk, in this state, while returning
home on Sunday afternoon from church in the
village was met on the road by John Deboer
young blacksmith of Minonk, and after a
desperate struggle outraged. Deboer was soon
after arrested and lodged in the Woodford Jail
Last Sunday Miss Martin died of the injuries
she had received IN the struggle to defend hcr
honor. The nelghborhood felt so indignan,
that after the funeral they gathered in large
numbers around the Jail with the intention OF
lynching Deboer. Being unable otherwise tc
get access to the jail, they set it on fire. The
Sheriff, however, succeeded in getting Deboel
out and before the people knew it had safely
hurried him off to the Jail in Peoria.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01
THAT TAX LIST HUBBUB.

The "Rev." VIM. Cullen tries to take of
some of the shame of his reckless falsehood a:
to the tees the FREE TRADER has received fol
printing the County Tax List by publishing
what he calls the figures from Mr., Raymond's
"oiilcial report" And these are the official
| figures:
Delinquent List IN 1878, S1,7923O
Amount paid in 1879, 1870
Mr.. Cullen knew perfectly, when he printed
these figures that in these fees are included
$500 to $500 each year as fees paid to Mr.
Raymond for making out the Tax List for
publication and fees afterwards paid to the
county clerk for copying the printed list on
his books, On the book from which Mr.. Cul.
len copied his figures the items are given; 50
much paid the printer, so much to Mr. Ray
mond and so much 60 Mr. Stockslegcr, footing
$l373 10, A mistake on the part OF Mr.. Cul-
that he pretcnds to give is therefore lmpossi.
bic, and his falsehood is intentional and DELHI
crate 1t is a scurvy and dsgraceiul falsehood.
4 man who will lie like that must be devoid
of all sense of shame and ought to be kicked
out of decent society as a social pariah.
We may add, in regard to this Tax List busl-
ness, over which Mr.. Culens bowels are so
fearfully tortured and about which the un-
weaned whiflets of the Ottawa juvenile Re
publican Club have set up such bark ing,
that tor SIX years-from 1871 to 1S77-during
which the FREE TRADER printed the Tax List,
it amounted annually to from $3.50 to $500,
out of which had to be paid at the beginning
about $3.50 for type we had no other use for,
and $15 to 500 each year for extra type set
ting. BY the new revenue law Of 1876 the
mode of collecting taxes was changed, so that
the collector could no longer levy on personal
property to pay real estate taxes The result
was that people generally put off paying their
real estate taxes to the last day, the postpone
ment involving no other expense than the
small fee Of publication in the delinquent list
The effect was enormously to increase the de-
linquent list, swelling the printers fees in 1878
to something over 81 800 and in 1879 to nearly
$1,100 To print it, however involved on our
part cost of nearly 500 for type we had no
other use for, and some $500 each year for extra
type setting, and ether heavy expenses in get
ting out each time a supplemental sheet of
four pages.
The howl over these fees accruing to the
FREE TRADER, however, as we remarked IN
our fast, comes with a peculiarly bad grace
from the Republican, skinflnts seeing that dur
ing the same eight years the FREE TRADER
has had the Tax List scarcely averaging profits
of 5000 year for the whole time, the RepubH-
can enjoyed all the patronage of the Record
er's, the Circuit Clerks, the County Clerks
and the Sheriff s Office, the whole certainly not
averaging less than 81 800 year clear profits
We submit whether the hoggishness which
now also squeals so Justify for the pttance
from the Treasurer's office IS not something
phenomenal. There is no filth too nasty for
such hogs to wallow in, and decent men pass
ing them on the street must hold their noses
to avoid the stencil
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01
NV. lew. I'M. an. aM. eM. Y.
7,..o,,,. Inns Of Agate make one square.

Twelve Inns Of Agate make one square
Advertisements not under contract must be PLAINLY
the length of time desired, or they will be continued Al"
charged for until ordered out ,,.,..
Business and professional cards mot exceeding h'e
nserted at five dollars per annun over hTe hes oo "''
ar per line extra. ~, ,,,,,. :,
o,sien, advertising in all TO be paid strictly II
advance. ,.,,
m Yearly advertisers disseminating their advertisement
before the expiration of the contract will be charged e '
cate. as above Extra charge will also be made TOT aSo
,ton and other notices not connected WIN 'he'r su
business.
local notices. nfteen cents per line.
~ In M case will these terms be departed from.
~ Tho date on tho sip on which the subscribers name
"a nri,ted indicates the when the subscription expires
Persons who have paid the FREE TRADER shoun W
IN notice that the date the slip corresponds TO Inc
date to which they paid and at once notify Inc puos"
srs of any discrepancy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

Last winter we had occasion to mention the
election TO the New York state senate, by a
very fiatterIng majority, to fill vacancy, Of
Z. G. Halbert, Esq, OF Binghampton, once a
merchant in this city. We now observe that
Mr.. Halbert gave such satisfaction during his
short term that he has been nominated BY his
psrty for reelection. The district is politically
close. but we notice the Binghampton Repub
lican speaks very confidently OF the success Of
Mr.. Halbert not 20 much ss politician bu,
- ~ conscientious candidate and an hones
nan"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

Several sharp frosts at Memphis near the
close of last week about cleaned out the yellow
fever so that during the week the cases and
deaths have hardly averaged one day. In
deed last Saturday the epidemic was officially
declared at an end and for the first time IN w
DAYS steamers on the river were allowed to
stop at the wharf. Absences were returning
at the rate of two or three hundred day, and
business of all kinds was being resumed
Warm weather since Tuesday, however, has
made other absentees rather timid, and few
who had hastily returned have temporarily
withdrawn. The camps, however, are broken
up, no more rations are issued, and practicaiiy
as we'll as officially the epidemic for the season
Is at an end
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01
nnR CLIMBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE ihAD.n
with Observation-Disclosures furnishing NJ. ool Il
ct the prices named, postage prepaiu. Inc 81,
Sa--open 10 old subscribers or new at any
most office IN the county--ls the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county: .,e
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. " o.
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly tribune. zoo
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly inter- q a.
Ocean ...................... .'''''''' . n0
FpEf TRADER and Prairie Farmer. ......,.. ''"
Hhbn MADE" "'' 4. 75
caDiT T,' ,,,,,, and S..;bncr 75
TREr TRADER and Godey's Ladies' Book. go. 3'0o
FREE TRADER and PhrTOfoD,cdf ooa''o''''' . H0
FREE TRACER and 81. Nicholas. ........ 3' N
FREE TRADER and Demoreas ho"hH5'''''' o o. ~
FREE TRADER and LtteFs Lchg hW'''''' o M
Far TRADER and Western Rural. ......... 3VO
rnr 80 and Moore, Rtrat Ne1p Yorker $50
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01
"ACCOMODATING."

young Republican" who made such clum-
sy work of it last week in his assault on "Nlne-
ty-fve Pounds of Republican" and whose
" syllepsis" has made him common laugh
ing stock, was equally unfortunate in his OBJ
lection to Mr.. Raymond because he is accom-.
,a0dating 1t Is the first time we ever heard it
objected to public officer that he tries to &C.
commodate people and save them expense
The young man, toillustrate his meaning, sup.
poses case how farmer might be accommo
dated and go home feeling under obligation to
Mr.. Raymond. Very likely he would. A man
of common decency always feels obliged when
a kind act has been done him. Yet doubtless
there are men so constituted that they cant
appreciate favor, and perhaps because never
treating any body decently themselves
they don't know when they are well treated
For instance, there is Mr. Cullen. In 1877 he
found it announcement to pay his taxes when
they were due, and when Mr.. Raymond came
to draw off the delinquent list he kindly mark
ed Mr.. Cullens taxes paid and laid aside the
receipt which Mr. Cullen afterwards took ny
at his leisure, pittOm paying a cent IF costs o.
interest And We! Mr.. Cullen devotes his col
umns to abuse of Mr.. Raymond for accommo
dating others in the same way.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

Hon. l.. b. Croker, of Mendoza, has recelv-
ed the appointment OF collector of internal
Allen, lately deceased The appointment is
certainly good one, no man in the district
being more capable or better "cut OUT to
make a popular officer.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

The price of silver bullion is again advan C
ing in London and is now quoted at SD. PEI
ounce, which makes the American dollar worth
about 30 cts. in gold. AS the India trade re
wives further advances may be looked for, sc
that within year 1t is possible silver and gold
may again be :" at par"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

Tremendous preparations are being made
for the reception of Gen. Grant at Chicago,
where he is expected to arrive about the 10Th
of November. Immense street decorations are
projected, there is to be vast military turn
out as well as muster of all the civic socie.
ties in the city. Chicago is determined to sur.
pass the San Francisco boom if it costs a
months earnings of the Board of Trade gam.
blers
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

Winter set in in earnest at the East last Sat
urday. Furious winds prevailed off the At
lantc coast and on Lake Erie, while snow fell
on the Hudson, in the Catskills, IN Connecticut
and Canada, and at Buffalo, Meadvlllc, Cory
and Oil City, Pennsylvania, in some places tc
a depth Of twelve inches.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

Look out for the night of November 18th,
Professor Tice says that we are to have on that
night the most brilliant meteor,c display ever
seen since 1888, when to all intents and pur.
poses the sky literally raiEed fire. The dis.
play will not be seen this year until o'clock
in the morning, but 1t will pay when it comes
for keeping late hours.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
For County Treasurer,
SAMUEL w. RAYMOND.
For County Surveyor,
JOHN WOLFE.
NATIONAL PARTY NOMINATION.
For TreaSlrey-PHILO CASTLE.

The Chicago Inter.Ocean, after the election,
has to say: "Ohio carried by some 10000 to
10000 majority for Foster for governor. Gree"'
Jdciers returnedto the republican, totd and coted
tie stratgH Ticket" Just so.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01

What state can the republicans wrench from
the democratic column? Very doubtful if they
can touch one. Whereas, in the republican
column there are several very close and doubt
full states. California, Oregon and Wisconsin
they are not sure of, and they must yet fight
f,r DhiO
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-01
InnpING DEPARTMENT..

pr facilities for doing s kinds Of job Work. In the Va
,,ous style. Of the art not surpassed In TINS seco
We respectfully solicit those wishing anything o"'e " WI,
line to give 10 call by the jidc'ous ANU
it. ,,.nv n mans fortune has made. and the
neld Is still open. Tryt.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
The Portland daily press., 1879-04-17
Senator L0gan's Speech.

The entire session of the senate, Tuesday,
was taken up in listening to the speeches of
Senators Logan and Beck. Senator Logan's
speech was evidently the result of the
most careful preparation, but being
read from manuscript, it was less eff
fectave than the extemporaneous effort of
Senator Blaine. 1t contained few new argu-
ments Its principal merit consisted in elu-
cida ting some of the best points of the pre
vious speakers The most important part of
his speech was that wherein he showed what
the Republican vote in the South was when
col ored men were free to exercise their right of
suffrage without the intimidation and violence
of the rifle clubs and bull-dozers, and what
that vote now is. His declaration that the
Democratic party was impelled to their present
policy by desire TO perpetnate their power in
the southern States, aud to obtain absolute
control over the ballot boxes, produced q rest
lessness on the Democratic side which clearly
indicated how dstssteful any allusion to the
subject was to the Southern senator's. Follew-
ing up this point, General Logan charged that.
as the simple preroganves OF the troops were
oply to keep the peace and prevent disorder
ard intimidation on the part of others, ii was
astonishing that any man than q ballot-hox
stuffer, or member of rifle club or a mnrdsr.
Gus negro-hunter, could object to the presence
of the mllitaty ior such benefcent purpose.
| He contended that the Democratic motto was
to use the military to keep the peace every day
in the year except when Q national election
was held. The mob on that day were given full
swing to perpetrate all the outrages that they
saw Mt, and to go unwhipped of justice, so long
ss they served the Democratic party This
party OF to-day represents the doctrines of
State sovereignty in Its worst form. They
were presumIng too much, however, and he
warned them that they were going too far, and
that the patience OF the loyal people of the
North was well nigh exhausted: and he
warned them to pause before they went further
The Portland daily press., 1879-04-17

THE World is not reserved in its opinion
Of Tammany, but says: "If the Democrats
Of New York should nominate Mr.. Tilden in
1880 at the command of Tammany Hall land
stranger things have happened in New York
politics., the World certainly would recom-
mend not only its Republican but its Demo-
cratic readers to refrain from voting. And
this for the simple reason that what our cor
respondent calls 'Tammany' is an organiza-
tion of the worst elements in our political
life, maintained by the most corrupt means
and aiming at the lowest and most unworthy
ends through the most odious methods" As
Tammany however would not refrain from
voting, the plan of the World would work
like all other forms Of quetism.
The Portland daily press., 1879-04-17

The doctors agree that the finance COM
mittees are infected with the soft-money
plague. The Boston Advertisers Washing
ton dispatch says Speaker Randall was
strongly urged to make them hard-money,
"but at last he yielded and concluded it was
best, for himself at any rate to satisfy the
Western element, which, with his surrender,
has captured the Democratic side of the
House." The Springfield Republicans dis
patch says the Speaker has ''given the i'm
portant Banking and Currency Committee to
the softs of the worst stripe, and. as under
the new rule it has power to report its bills
at any time, there will be no end to the wild
financial schemes they will recommend.
The hard-money men of both parties are
sick and disgusted at what they do not hesi-
tate to call a complete surrender to the green
back voters". The Worlds dispatch says
the Banking Committee is opposed to the
national banks, and the Coinage Committee
is in favor of the free coinage Of silver. Re.
publicans, Democrats and Independents all
tell the same story.