The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-22
CONVENTIONS ON THURSDAY.

II there is n democrat in La Sale county
simple enough to imagine that any aid is even
10 come from the National Grccnback party Ia
vanquiSh the republican party and the great
money power and multitudinOuS monopoliC-
and corruption rings by which it's backed, lrl
him dismiss that idea at once and forever, \
union between the democrats and grccnbacNcrs
ut any election would IMPLY that the green.
hackers hated the democrats less than the re-
publcans whereas 80 far n Il large body ot
the grccnbackcrs in this vicinity is concerned,
their hatred is cXac ly the other way. In fact
the action Of that party hercabDUts for The past
few years shows that they are not only by acct.
dent but by design-dccp and cunning at that
the eager and willing allies of the rcpubli.
can party, ready to aid them at every election.
4 few weeks ago Ccrain wcll-mcaning prom
inent erccnbackcrS and democrat, met in this
city, and comparing party platforms and see
ing no tangible difference thought it would be
Il sensible Thing if the two parties should hold
their conventions to nominate candidate for
recorder on the same day and unite on one
candidate No one cared who the candidate
might be- or whether a democrat or green.
backcr-thc said prominent grcenbackcrs'
fondly imagining that the main object Of their
party, like that of the democrats, was after all
70 lay out the republicans. Absurd idea!
The conventions were called rs suggested /,
and rs soon as the Democratic convention had
met in Turner Hall and organized, it proceed
ed in good faith to take steps towards bringing
about the proposed union ON Il single cand.
date. o yeinnocents'
The grccnbackcr convention met at the same
time at the City Hall, and there, as innocent
as the democrats, sat our prominent green
hackers" already referred TO and supposed the
matter would move along smoothly in the
same direction Again, o We sin.plctOns!
There were in that body about dozen Of stal-
wart rcpubicanS-as stalwart rs OH Iacharlah
Chandler himsclf-who Immediately took
charge of the convention, organized it in their
own way, and before half the delegates knew
what WAS going on had maniuly and like true
republicans as they we're endorsed the rcpub
liCan nominee for recorder under the name of
J. II. Wood, and then when. at last, in their
innocent bewildcrmcnt the delegates who had
attended expecting to come to an understand
ing with the democrats walked up to what was
going on they found that the whole business
had been loresallcd, and that the intention
was to treat their project with derlsiOn and con
tempt, What we staIwart republicans who
voted for Grant clasp hands with the demo
Gratis! What do you take Us for? Rather let
us cut our throats and cast our bodies into the
river to become food for the fishes" Such was
the language with which wcllmcanlng Doc
Garfield John 5. Armstrong, Griffin, &c.
were greeted.
The National Grccnback party ofths county
is u tail to the Republican kite and nothing
else, and if there are former democrats train
ing with that crowd who have thimblefull of
brains and modicum Of self respect they
ought to be able to see it and come out Of such
company.