The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-04
POLITICAL MUTTERINGS.

POLITICAL MUTTERINGs.
Beecher says English has bad record. OF
course English couldn't say the same OF the
pure minded Henry.-Boston Post.
Efforts are making in Tennessee to form a
coalition of Republicans and Repudiatonists
against the regular Democrats. That's where
you'll find the Republican party every time
They are always ready to assist in fraud.
Garfield was nominated without any time
for reflection and there were not dozen dele
gates who would have voted tor him the next
morning when they had time to reflect upon
the consequences.-Ph Philadelphia Times.
A meeting of democratic negroes in Della
ware has been broken up by negro mob, an
other in st. Louis was dispersed after the same
fashion, and in the Kentucky election the me-
groes shot were by men of their own color.
Gradually, and by slow degrees, the colored
voter appears to be assuming all the privileges
of full citizenship IN the south.-SprinGteld
Republican.
The campaign ground upon which Harper's
| Weekly seems to stand Is that Hancock is u
good man in bad company and Garfield bad
man 10 good company. Which seems to lead
to the conclusion that Hancock would reform
his company and that Garfield would corrupt
his, since the files of the Republican papers
for 1878 indicate that there is no hope OF his
company reforming him.-N. Y. World.
The southern outrage business Is in flour
ishing condition. a negro of Lexington, Ky,
has been stabbed by republican negro tor
voting the Democratic ticket, and demo
cratic black man in Wilmington, Del, has
been stoned for lndUlging in free speech. APP
parently the democratic party must hoist the
bloody shirt--N. Y. Sun.
During ten long and wretched years the
policy of which Conkling, Logan and kllpat-
rick are the accredited opponents and apostles
had full swing and sweep in the South. The
stalwarIs, black, white and yellow, had things
their own way, and were supported in all their
dongs by Republican administration and a
Republican congress. The history of this
miserable despot>m fills the darkest and most
shameful pages in American annals. In no
civilized country in modern times has there
been anything even remotely resembling the
ntamIes perpctrated by the negro and carpet
bag rulers of Mississippi Louisiana, Alabama
and South Carolina; infames, be it forever
remembered, sanctioned and enforced by the
Republican party in the North, and applauded
and stimulated by such eminent Republican
authority as James A. Gartield.-lSt. Leuis
hpuJl5can.
1t is wonderful how quickly the most emf
nent Republicans lose all their responsibility
and worth the moment they cut loose from
that party-at least according to the Republ-
can papers. The latest illustration of this is
ex-senator Pool of North Carolina, who has
recently announced himself for Hancock. He
has been for years recognized as the most dis
tlngulshed Republican in the South, and when
it was thought probable that Mr. Hayes would
l,p 1,lo IN !,
met, Mr.. Pool was more prominently named
for the place than anyone else in the South,
Now that he has come over to the Democracy,
the very papers that have heretofore been most
fulsOme in his praise are loudest In declaring
that his detection amounts to nothing as he
has never had any standing as a Republican.
st Louis Republican,.
The attempt to distort the facts connected
with the recent Alabama electlon-aD election
which, from all trustworthy accounts, was un.
marked by either violence, intimidation or
frauds in keeping with the general strife
loving spirit of the Republican party, and
warns the country of the disastrous policy
which 1t will revive if it should again come
into complete power 1t does not intend that
the Southern states shall be left to the peace.
full self government they have enjoyed for the
last three years. IF they give no opportunity
for military interference, the Republican party
will, if it can, make an opportunity by just
such Misrepresentation as it is indulging in
with regard to the Alabama election The
Southern states are Democratic; 1t will, if it
gets the power seek to make onehalf of them
Republican by the same agency with whiCh it
made them Republican under Grant-the bay
onet-,St. Louis Republican.
Mr.. Prince, secretary of the national Demo
cratic committee, and mayor of Boston, says
the Democrats OF Massachusetts are making
vigorous campaign for Hancock and English
and are very much encouraged. He thinks
Boston will give the ticket ten thousand ma
| jority. He says
! an 1872 the total vote IN Boston was 30, 101,
Of which 1878 votes were Republican and
1882 were Democratic. In 1876 the total
vote was Al ,l12, of which Tilden received %
1924 and Hayes 20,438. The total increase in
four years was II ,415, and the Democratic IN
crease was 1852, against Republican ma
ljorty Of Only GG3 In the state at large the
increase during the same period was G6,SS1, of
| which 40, 5i7 were Democratic and only 1851
were Republican, If the Democratic gam this
year corresponds with the increase in former
years the country may witness some surprls-
ing results in Massachusetts. The gam of
votes in Boston will certainly he very large,
as the polls assessed by the city of Boston this
year are 93,36S while only 6S,S15 legal voters
were shown by the state census of 1910"
Mayor Prince then drew attention to the Mas
sachusetts election laws. "The laws" he said,
"are very much against us in the state, and
now no one can vote who has not paid his poll
tax and beer assessed sixty days before cleo
| ton and, rs in PENNSYLVANIA and other states
| Republican officials administer this law so as
to exclude As many Democratic voters "a pos
sIble. In the city of Boston | expect a very
large vote, and think Hancock and English
will have large majority In the CITY"