The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-18
POLITICAL IMPUDENCE.

county by an organization Of juveniles IN the
city of Ottawa, known as "The Young Mems
4 Republican Club" This body of youn gsters,
am reliably informed, is composed of young
sprigs of lawyers, law students, young doc
tor or two and probably q few other young iel-
lows lately let loose from their mothers apron
strings, impatient to distinguish themselves n
political leaders. The evident object OF this
circular is to defeat sam Raymond for trcasur-
er a! the ensuing election, and to effect this
these infants presume to dictate to the farmers,
mechanics, tradcsmcn, aborcrs and property
owners Of this county, who Oh all national and
state questions vote the republican ticket, as to
ness in the Office Of county treasurer 1t is
well known that Raymond has moro thorough
knowledge of all business transacted in aud
about the court house for the last twenty-five
years than any other man IN the county Its
well known that the business transacted in that
time in and about the court house affects cv-
cry taxpayer IN the county, 1t is well known
that Raymond'S knowledge and experience are
upon all occasions given for the asking to every
man in the county icHhoH coSt,-glyen as free
y and correctly to the poor man as the rich
and given willingly and obligingly to every
man irrespective Of party. 1t is well known
that Raymond's services in this behalf save TO
the people of the county hundreds of dollars
every year IN attorneys fees The instances
may be numbered by the hundred wherein
| Raymond's services and advice in the settle
ment of estates, examining titles, looking up
back taxes and tax deeds, and in many other
ways, have saved the payment of five ten, fiji.
teen or twenty dollar fees to a lawyer. 1t is
well known that these services thus gratuitous-
ly rendered by him are no part of the duties
of his office, neither do they interfere with the
office. There is probably not a single instance
wherein any citizen of this county ever applied
to Raymond for information respecting the
transaction of business in any office in the
court house, when the applicant did not receive
theintormation willingly and tctthoU cost The
defeat of sam Raymond means that the tax
payers Of the county must pay large fees :othc
Older attorneys of the county for services here.
toioic iCHuclcu Wy haN liiSHu lOI uolnlnp, OF III
means that such business must be intrusted-
and paid for too young and inexperienced
attorneys, such as compose this Juvenile club,
with the risk of its being poorly done.
1t seems to me that these youngsters, who
expect to live upon the labor Of others are
looking beyond the next election are looking
and longing for the time when they can sit |
complacently in their offices behind their Gig
ars, and levy tribute upon the taxpayers of the
county for doing that poorly which Sam Ray
mond now does and has done well far n0.htng. |
But in sending out circular debating to
the rank and file Of the party these young men
owed it to their mothers as well as to them. |
selves and the party to which they profess to
belong that all things stated therein should be
true Let us see. quote: in sending forth |
this circular we do not presume to dictate to
the members of the party" Any fair minded |
man who will read the circular through care
fully will unhesltatlngly pronounce this state
ment false Again they say: Mr. Raymond
Is a bitter partisan whose boast Is he nevervot-
ed for republican in his life" THIS state.
ment khOto to be false
quote again "IIe is the acknowledged |
leader Of the democracy IN this county, and
the County Treasurers Office under his admin
lstratlon is the nucleus under which that party
centers" Every man who knows anything
about the leadership of any or either of the pc.
litical parties in the county knows this state
ment to be false, and every member of the club
which sent out these circulars knows, or ought
to know, that it is false.
The next statement in the circular is that re-
Gently Raymond's salary was raised $500 ain
reality to enable him tospend that much more
in the coming campaign and the campaign of
1880" This statement is not only untrue, but
is a direct charge against the honesty of the
Board of Supervisors who raised the County
Treasurer's salary because of the increased
and increasing business and more arduous du-
ties of the office.
There are many other false statements in the
circular, which, to say the least, are very reck
lessly made. 1t is to be hoped that the young
men made them ignorantly and not wlllfully.
| Will notice but one more. They say there
has been no squaring of the accounts of the
County Treasurer for eight years"
This looks like false statement willfully
made, as every one knows the accounts in the
trcasurer's office are squared every year and
frequently twice year. As the law requires
the Board of Supervisors to settle and square
accounts with the treasurer every year, and as
the law has always been complied with by the
Board, this statement looks bad on the part of
the boys.
The idea that the election of Raymond can
have any effect whatever upon the national or
i for