The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-28
THAT BOOM.
the south

THAT BOOM.
The Ottawa Republican,, like all papers Of
It's stripe, is disturbed at the very numerous
accessions to Hancock from the republican
ranks
Its liberal minded editors cannot conceive
how n man can have the ability to change
his political opinions; and insists that base
motive is at the bottom. In its eyes the indie
pendent voter-the man who has IA mind OF
his own; who MiakS about politics; who re
| fuses to "eat crow" who does not admire
| Credit MObllicr Garfield, wlO as republican
papers protested IN 1873, accepted bride to
swlndlc the government; who refuses to sup
port ring politicians or corruption in Office;
or who protests against the eternal disunlon
of the states through the damnable republican
doctrine of sectional hate such man, in the
opinion of the thunderer of the Republican, to
Is disappointed office. seeker at least
Vinton, of Moline, is a disgruntcd politl-
clan, who has been sour since the republicans
refused TO elevate him to office
Ex-senator Poole, of North Carolina, failed
to get an office from President Hayes, and has
been grumbling greenbacker and CLAIM agent
in Washington ever since.
The principle that man cannot change his
political opinions, is the most impudent, con
temptibe and pernicious that can be imag-
ned It's enforcement would steal away one s
manhood; place every man on par with a
machine; makes HIM puppet to move at the
bidding of every little tin-whistlc dixie the
Ottawa RepubltcaH,) that, at the beck of a
higher boss, blows its little tune of sectional
hate and contempt for independent thought.
When men recognize such a principle Ameri.
cans may bid goodbye to decent government.
Such Is the principle of action dictated to
the republican party for the past ten years.
The bOter from their ranks IS a knaye. Gree,
ley was assassinated by the republican party
because he did his own thinking; Sumner was
disgraCed for the same reason; Carl SchuH
was a political prostitute until he sneaked back
under fire into the ranks; Trumbull, Palmer,
Farnsworth, Adams and host Of others VINO
refuse to tram with a party Of rascals like Muir
ply, J. Madison Wells, Orvile Grant, Gen.
| Babcock Boss Sheppard, Casanave, Arthur,
and such lk, under the whip OF Conkling, Lo
gan, Cameron, Jewell, &c, are, as Conklng
says, ay.hawkers," gaerrillas," tramps,'
&c.
The Ottawa Republican has no scrupes as tc
being found in such company. Some people
have, and the world generally gives the man
credit for honesty and responsibility who is moi
found IN the company of thieves and bummers
| However, the HcDubIicdn says
And there are a number Of other important
additions to the "boom" omitted by our neigh
Dor, which the Republican, adds for the edit
cation of those who read both papers:
Peter Sheldon, a New York 1llden electol
in 1876, has come out for Garfield, &c, &c.
The best reply to this is communication by
v b. WEEKS, Esq, of this city, as follows:
! To tie Elitors IF Free Trdder:-I see men
toned in the Ottawa RGpujiicaH the name o
4 Peter Sheldon, a Tildcn elector in New Iori
four years ago, as a convert TO De Golyer Gar
4 field. Now pronounce that an unmitigatet
lie. In the first place his name is not Peter
but Porter Sheldon and he lives in James
town, New York. know him personally anC
know what his politics have been. He wa
elected to congress on the republican ticket II
1868 In re he Greeleyized. In rs he sup
ported Tilden and is democrat and will vot
for Hancock this fall l take papers of boil
politics from jamestown and have news from
there since the canard news was sent to New
> York paper.
| II all the boom paraded in the Republican
on par with this, 1t won't hurt.
D V. b. WEEKs.