The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-30

out any execution that | have ever grown or
seen. The flowers are orange red, with dark
veinings very large, and produced in the
greatest profuslon, while the plant Is OF dwarf
and bushy habit. Cuttings taken OH ana
rooted will begin to bloom as soon "a they
start into growth. The newer sorts, of which
this is one are immense Improvements upon
the old, being dwarter with larger and more
open flowers, and producing ten blooms where
the old kinds gave one. Many new and DIS
tinct colors have been produced, as well as
clearer and richer tin,s of the old shades
Rorhtord, IT,, Oct. 81, 1879.
The meaning of Republican victory In No.
vember.
1t must be admitted that the result in lndi.
ana renders republican success At the national
election more probable than it otherwise would
have been Let us see what that success, II
realized, will mean; and for this purpose we
shall use only undisputcd facts and the repeat
ed and emphatic declarations Of republican
organs and orators.
II will mean, in the first place, that the war
between the sectionS-supposCd TO have ended
fifteen years agO-IS To be continued lnuen'
nitcly. The worst wars are not those III which
the cOmbatanis meet amid the shock of arms
and settle their disputes with the sword.
bad blood" is more permanent and perm
clous III its effects than blood spilled. Inc
latter may, and often does, prepare the way for
lasting and benehcent peace The former
makes genuine peace impossible by poisoning
the public mind on both sides and sowing
the seeds of mutual suspicion and hatred
which are sure to bring an accused harvest
sooner or later. 1t is quite unnecessary to say
that the combined efforts OF the republican
leaders and press during the present campaign
have been exclusively confined to the stirring
up of "bad blood" between North and South.
Every purely national issue has been ignored,
and the old sectional one-whlch first appear
ed in the presidential arena twcnty-fOur years
since-pushCd to the front with al! the vlg0r
and yindCtlveness partisan malice could gen
crate. The southern portion OF our alleged
Union, its people and institutions, have been
denounced in such language as the average
Englishman might use towards Ireland and
the average Russian toward Poland. What
feelings these denunciaions have produced IN
the South we can easily understand by simply
putting ourselves IN the place Of that people.
Republican success in November Will set the
seal Of popular appreciation upon the instru-
mentalities employed by that party, and there
bv guarantee their pcrpetuation- with the IN
evitablc consequences thcrcunto pertaining
The republican candidates for the two high
est offices in the nation arc III one very lmpOr'
tant respect, peculiar and unprecedented Both
of them stand before the country convicted OF
grave misdemeanOrs, to speak i'll the mlldest
! terms; and in both cases the conviction has
come, originally, from the party which alter
ward nominated them. Mir Garfield was
branded by a republican investigating com
mttec and the republican press generally AS a
| taker Of brides and Il perJurer Air. Arthur
was expelled from Custom-houSe by repub'
| lican administration for misbehnviOr and dis
\ honesty. If they are elected the American
people will therefore declare that bribery, per
| jury and dishonesty do not unfit the guilty
persons for the presidency and vice presidency
OF the first republic IN the world. We have
never yet had-the present nCnmbents always
excepted--a president and vice president who
could not take the Official oath without blush,
or without bringing blush TO the faces Of
their honest and honorable countrymen. If
the moral sense of the people can he thus de-
graded and debauched with impunlty, or rath-
| er if the people themselves are willing thus to
degrade and debauCh their moral sense, we
have reached a point III our political and So
cial history as full of peril as 1t Is of shame.
! We are on the downward road, and have not
! far to 90 to touch the bottom. When nation
! deliberately rewards those whom 1t ought to
punish, it deserves the memorable retribuhon
which canonized crime always proyokcs.
Mr.. Garfield played prominent part-as
VISITING stateman" and member OF the cleo
toral commissioning tie presdcntil fraud
and conspiracy OF 1876; by which the people
were robbed of their most sacred right and
l COMPELLED to recognize the executive authority
of q man whom they had rejected at the polls
| His election will be a solemn and unanswer-
able Endorsement of that monslrous intamy by
those who endured It, The people will there
by declare that fraud and conspiracy are lcgitl.
mate elements in presidential elections, and
that usurper in the presidential char is
neither disgrace nor danger TO popular gov
eminent The reelection OF Mr.. Hayes would
not be longer or stronger step in the path
which leads to national destruction than the
election OF Mr.. Garfield will be.
Last, but not least, republican succcssln No
vember means an administration in which the
dominating influences VIII be those that pre-
vailed 1869 to 1871 1t will mean Grant and
Grants friends in the foreground and a work
ing up of the third term movement from 1881
to 1885. This is an absolute certainty, unless
EVERY sign Of the times lies Mr.. Garfield has
shown himself to bc a mere lump of clay IN
the hands of Grant and the third term man
ayers, and there is not the smallest reason to
expect that, if elected, he will cmanCipate HIM
self from the control of tie abe and unscru-
puous men who have bought hlm and are
now using him. He is their tool today, and
he will be their tool to the end of his term of
office What Grantism and lhrd-termism
mean, requires no explanation.
This, we believe is an impartial and accur
ate presentation of the real intent and mean
ing of republican victory twenty days hence
If the people like the picture they know how
IN phta1n In 81 y1,yJs RcJ,lgIljruU