The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-11
POLITICAL MUTTERINGS.

"a fW cote, q free ballet ahd tair coHQt.'
Hancock letter of acceptance.
"Not word was heard from the democratic
or southern side unirlendly to Mostly as a sol
der until he chose to unite with the rcpubli-
can party."-N. y. ErentHg Post
That Hampton never used the words attrl-
buted to HIM by little local paper in Staun
ton. one published there in the interest of the
republican party, has been proven.-Chicaqo
Times.
Every dollar Of state tax levied in Illinois
is robbery If the radical officials would man
age the state institutions and the state penl-
tentiarics properly, the revenue from the Hi,
nos Central Railroad would pay all the state s
Expenses.
ISy the way, il there is to be ga new rebel,
lion" which would be the filter President to
deal with it? General Hancock, who served
through the war, or the "ChlCkamauga," who,
having left the army in the middle OF the war,
undertook To Improve the army by dismiss
ing General Hancock from it?- UorM.
New Orleans Times: In the North South.
ern orators are making the people acquainted
with the views and feelings Of the people of
South. What Is the republican party doing
toward making the South acquainted with the
views and feelings Of the North? Absolutely
nothing Which, then, Is the sectional and
which The national party? The question IS
not difficult to answer
Under the order of the Congrcs>ion Re
publican Committee the public employee, in
Washington city have an'ied up tins week at
the rate Of nearly $4,000 per day The bulk
Of the money now being collected is 10 be sent
to Indiana. Ifmoncv will carry Indiana the
republicans mean to do il. The argument ad-
vanced is, if Indiana can be carried in OctO.
her the entire North will he solid against the
South Dorsey is to have special charge of
dumping the lucrc INTO he state.
Since the death of Zach Chandler there is
no one alive who embodies, represents and
personifies this Fraud more perfectly than
James \. Garfield If the republicans had
sought out their candidate merely that they
might take the peoples verdict upon the sub
icct they could not have made a more perfect
selection. As Mr. Hendricks has well express
ed II, "Garfields nomination means the en-
dorSement and approval in the most positive
and offensive manner possible Of the Presi-
dental Fraud"
\ good deal was heard, however from the
republican orators and papers dcruEatory To
M0sby before he "chgSc TO unite with the re
publican party" Democrats 80 far a. We have
observed, have not abused MoSby because he
changed his politics, which is every mans
nghI hut have SIMPLY quoted former republi-
can abuse If the guerilla, as they dubbed HIM,
whom they can now consider as good Is any
body. This shows The inconsistency of that
party. Its real ust of PATRIOTISM is not loyal
ty to The Union in the past, but ieaity To the
republican party of the present Had the
democrats elected MOsby To congress or given
him other high Office. the stalwart shrek of
Murderer" "bushwhacker" guerilla" etc.
would have been heard all Over the land Re
publican logic makes Nosby patriot and
Hancock q traitor-.>t. L0uis Republicans
Alas for civil service order No I, Not on
" are collectors Of campaign funus allowed to
roam through departments collecting assess
menis, but a high official, the public printer,
posts up a notice in his own bureau, that
clerks will be visited Immediately after pay