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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14
A BLOODY SHIRT CAMPAIGN,

The conference of Republican leaders in New
York city last week, to which Garfield had
been summoned and in which he took prom.
inent part resulted in decision in favor OF a
bloody shirt" campaign. In the public
speeches that were made at the close Of the
conference number of the eminent states
men" in attendance made speeches from the
steps of the Fifth Avenue Hotel by way OF Civ
ing utterance to the great thoughts the con-
junction of leading minds" had evolved. Mr..
Blaine spoke first, and proclaimed the issue to
be, whether the men who fought the civil war
shall surrender TO the men who fought against
the Union" Mr.. Logan, who spoke next, said
the issue is whether "the loyal men of this
land who stood by her constitution and flag
when the sword and flame were applied to the
temple" or "the rebel army and the copper
heads of the North" shall have the fright to
govern this country" Mr.. Sherman SAID it is
whether "the republican party shall resign to
the solid South, headed by Wade Hampton
and the kuKlux Khan, and little segment in
the Northern States calling itself the demo
cratic party. "4General Harrison said It Is
"how we will defend Washington against the
enemy that once opposed 1t in arms" And SC
on, each other orator IN his turn proclaimed
the decision OF the conference to be to fling
out the banner of the bloody shirt" and re
we the old sectional issues. Garfield himself
did not speak, but stood by and heard all tina,
was said, heartily asserting and applauding
This same Garfield, less than two years ago, on
the floor of congress, IN forccasting the cam
paign of 1880, gave vent 10 the following pa
triotic utterance:
The man who attempts to get up political
excitement IN this country on the old section
al issues will find himself withouta party and
without support The man who wants C
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14
THE TAIL TO THE REPUBLICAN KITE.

The Grecnback party is conicsscdly an an.
achronism. The rag baby is dead and needs
no more nursing than a dcfunct kitten. Yet
the Renaissance is kept up in name by the
survival Of the forms Of its former organiza
ton, and by the occasional infusion Of a tacti
tous vitality into the carcass by means Of
republican cash. The national organ Of the
party at Washington city openly admits that
1t is maintained by republican contributions (;
the treasurer of the Ohio republican commit
tee complains Of the heavy drafts upon his
pile to keep life in the lump carcass of green
backism; and in Indiana 1t is admitted that
of the millions Of republican cash poured into
that State, large proportion is absorbed by
the grcenback leaders. ..
The same means are used TO keep the corpse
kicking in tins State. 4 prominent green.
hacker Of this city is ready TO make atlidayit
that formal offer was made to HIM within the
past few weeks that if the grcenbackers would
nominate 4 congressional and county ticket
here tins fall, the republicans stood ready to
foot the expenses OF vigorous campaign in
its behalf, and he had no doubt the convention
on Thursday was the result of republican
money The convention itself gave evidence
OF the fact Members, after taking an active
part IN the proceedings, with apparent good
faith and carncsiness, would drop back INTO
their seats, laughing in their sleeves and ridi.
culing the whole thing rs ridiculous farce.
There were no men IN the convention appa-
rently in earnest except the confessed com
munists and agrarians, and with them green
backism itself Is n secondary and unlmportant,
The simple truth of all OF it is,
that what Is left of gIeenbaclllsm in this county
has no other apology for its existence than that
it can possibly be made to serve purpose as
a tail to the republican kite. Are the honest
grccnbackers of the county willing to be
placed by republican money, in that dignifed
attitude?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

The election returns from Alabama show
that the state went democratic by from forty
to fifty thousand on Monday. The greenback.
ers, republicans and independents had united
upon one ticket, hoping thereby to carry the
state, but the rebel democrats used the shot.
gun and tissue ballot 80 EFFECTIVELY that a free
vote and an honest count were impossible
ErerJ Republican Paper.
There never was a bigger falsehood uttered
than the above Not single telegram in re.
ference to the late election In Alabama fails to
bear testimony that the election was free, fair,
peaceable and orderly everywhere. In regard
to the 18th ward in Mobile, where the change
OF 1000 votes from the republican to the demo.
Gratis is cited as an evidence of fraud or bull.
doing, the associated press dispatch gives
this simple explanation:
The city was extraordinarily quiet and
there were no incidents worth mentioning
One feature Of the day was colored demo
cratic club with badges, who worked like
beavers, in the seventh ward, and carried the
ward for the democrats.
What gave the democrats their largely in.
creased majority ia the state was the attempted
unholy alliance between the republicans and
greenbackers. Both parties were disguised a,
the attempted fusion and showed their con
tempt by largely voting the democratic ticket
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

our leading republicans, while they admit that
Mr.. CULLEN is a man of average ability and
undoubtedly honest, they at the same time
positively assert that he is rs unfit for the po.
sltlon as a bull to tend n China shop. Our
prayer has been since b. C.. Cook, give US
some brains in congress from the 1th." Our
answer has been crow to eat, until we don't
banker after it any more, and utterly refuse
the diet. From =. c, Hayes to Cullen, "Out
of the trying pam" &c. I encountered this A.
NJ, inside Of half an hour, five heretofore
staunch republicans who expressed themselves
very much disappointed at the result of the
at Morris and positively assert they
will not support the nominee. Another said
he had hoped for an improvement upon the pres.
ent incumbeHt but thought they had made a
bad matter worse. In the language of the lit.
any," Good Lord deliver us!" aY
.r...s did a. ...t.. E..s ltEPUBIICAN,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14
WILLIAM CULLEN FOR CONGRESS,

We should be churlIsh not to congratulate
our esteemed contemporary, the senior editor of
the Ottawa RepuGlicaH, on his nomination Tor
congress IN this district While it may be sad
commentary on the exigencles ofparty perpex-
tiles among our republican friends that out of
so much better timber IN the district they could
make no filter nomination, we must do Mr.
Cullen the justice to say, that as compared to
his predecessor at least the nomination Is q
great improvement and to that extent judi
clous and creditablc one AS veteran edi.
tor" he has of course acquired more or less
ought TO be more than ordinarily well posted
in current political discussions and have fair
notion of the merits or dement's of many of
the more prominent measures and topics likely
to come before congress. Doubtless there are
dozens of men sent to every new congress who
have been far less favoraby circumstanced to
become informed and who are therefore vastly
less qualified to vote intelligently than Mr.
Cullen. H....
In saying this, however, it must be conceded
that we are putting the best possible phase on
it for our brother chip" Aside from this
perfunctory knowledge he may have acquired
1t would be ridiculous to claim for him any
shining ability, or any ability whatever for the
position of congressman beyond the sherest
modlcum. However, like SO many other non
entities in congress, he will, if elected, have
his vote and there is even possibility that at
times he may rise into the awful dignity of
constituting the omnipotent majority of one.
1t is fair to assume that, whatever other wis
dom or intelligence may DC lacking in the cast
ing of that vote, 1t will always be true to the
interests and exigencies of the great republi-
can party and in pursuance to the dctation of
its intelligent leaders. There may IN every
flock be better sheep for mutton or wool, but
in the estimation of the sturdy shepherd none
stands higher than the one that sticks closest
to the bell-wether
Mr.. Cullen may thus be implicitly relied
upon, in case of his election, for faithiulness
to his party. BE the question tariff revenue,
currency, finance, or what it Will, the eminent
sagacity and fitness of our member will shine
conspicuously in the intelligent faithfulness
with which, in casting his vote, he will be
found sticking to the party bell-wether. In
many other respects, as already intmated, the
party may have had fair stock of better con.
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serve his country must put himself IN the line
OF its leading thought, and that IS the restora-
ton of business, trade, commerce, industry,
sound political economy, hard money and
honest payment of all obligations.
What can be more debasing than greed for
Office which could induce the same man who
had uttered such words to spend week with
his friends in devising ways and means to get
up the identical political excitement on the
old sectional issues" which under an honest
and patriouc impulse he had but Il short time
before 50 pointedly condemned?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

The democratic negroes of st. LOUIS under
took to hold Hancock meeting the other even
ing, but mob'ot republican Sencgambans
from the Ievee appeared and drove the demo
Gratis away. Todlsturb a meeting of negro re-
publans at the south Is crime, but a meeting
of democratic negroes is sure to excite mob
among the oppressed, down.trodden
republican blacks; and somehow no notice APP
pears 10 be taken Of that class Of Southern
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

The old man and woman captured at Ere.
mont Neb. and taken to Lsbette county, Kan
sas, for Identification as old Bender and his
wife, have been discharged, 1t turning out that
they were pair of crazy tramps and bore no
resemblance to the Blenders. 1t appears to be
about settled that the Blenders were lynched
within week after their atrocities were dis
covered seven years ago, and that of course all
PRECEDED Blenders in these days must be I'M
posters.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

Messrs. Editors-The republican mountain
IN the 7th congressional district has "been in
labor" &C. Now, while / am and have been
a working member Of the republican party IN
La Sale county since the organization OF The
party, l must positively enter my protest
against so much crow diet.
was in hopes the republicans OF the 18th
district, in view of the important canal en-
largement measure now being agitated and
which should be pre- sented and urged upon the
next congress by an advocate commensurate
with its importance TO every resident OF the
district, would select from the very many able
men within its borders one in a measure at
least equal to the task.
am not at all surprised that SO many Of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

EOn Saturday last there was arrested in this
city one G. Brubecker charged with the for.
gerry of a $1,000 note on the First Nat Bank of
Ashland, o. On his person was found two
checks of $3.50 each, $3.50 in cash, which with
the three horses he had just bought, made up
the $4,000 he had forged. An officer from
Ashland identified his man and took HIM
away
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

Dr. Tanner completed his forty days fast at
noon last Saturday and since then has been al.
pounds in weight every day. The IMMUNITY
with which he gorgcs himself since his long
abstinence is greater mystery to the doctors
than the fast itself
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

During the year ending June 30, 1880, more
than seventy thousand Canadians, who declar-
ed their intention Of becoming permanent res
idents Of the United States, crossed over from
the Dominion at Sarnia
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

j. ". Browne, Esq, of Earlville, has gone
on Il visit to his old home in Name, on the in
yltation Of the democratic committee of that
state, and expects to take an active part in the
pending political campaign there.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

A Springfield despatch states that Senator
Bayard of Delaware has indicated his willing.
ness TO the Illinois Democratic State Commit.
tee to make several speeches ut various points
In this State during the peAding presidential
CAMPAIGN
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

We are compelled to ask the iorbcarance
this week oc ou' lmerous rural correspond
ents and others the non.appearancc Of their
esteemed favo The political conventions,
old settlers, sc lave drawn so heavily upon
our space that we are helpless
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

died at Brooklyn, v last Saturday night
aged 60 years
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

presslona timber in the district but in the
light of faithful party servitor they could
have made no nomination more fitting.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

Talking about the democrats being the au.
thors Of the civil war, reminds us that the
south was meyer democratic before the war
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Louisiana Arkansas, Misss-
sipp aud Alabama were wing states aud ON
rare and exceptional occasions only gave demo
cratic majoritles. When finally, in 1852, the
whig party 'pctcred out" the south became
largely knownolhing and at the election in
1860, when Douglas and johnson we're the
presidential candidates of the democratic par
ty, over thrcc-iourlhs Of tie votes Of the south
were cast for Breckenridge, the candidate of
the disunonlsts and hre.caters and for John
Bell, the Know-Nothing candidate The small
democratic party left IN the'south at that time
found its representative men in such worthless
as Herschel Y. johnson, of Georgia, Judge
iIuger, of South Carolina, and others, who re-
manned Union men to the last and were al
lowed to remain in the south during the war
only on account of tAeIr well known fearless
ness and lofty integrity and purity of charac-
ter. The real authors of the civil war were
the iireeatcrs of the south-the Toombses and
Yanceys and Wigfalls, heartily and most eff
tectively seconded by the equally reckless and
guilty lire.eaters of the north,-the Phllpses,
and Garrisons, and GiddiDgses, and Bankses and
Balnes, and Ben Wades, &c, &c, with an ex-
ceedlngly thin sprinkling Of democratic fools
like John A Logan and Senator Bright
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14
AUTHORS OF THE WAR.

During the republican conference last wcel;
in New York, John A, Logan, arguing in "a
vor of bloody shr. camnalgn, ""made o fiery
speech " in the language Of the .Svn reporter,
dcnounci3g the demcratic party, North and
South, as the authors of the. civil. war, and
guilty Of all the blood shed by Union soldiers
in suppressing the. Sebellien. :. Then raising
his voice 70 II. highest pitch, he demanded to
know If the audience wcrereaIly toGg gain trust
the democrats with, TIE administralion of the
govcrnmenEs Tie hundreds cfEepublican of.
ficeholders aid oftlceseekcrs who were present,
catching the spi,,t of the occasion, responded,
Mo- nevcrT'". Ls& g t.''s "a 3 ft~ s.
The standing argument among the southern
tirc-eaters before the war IN favor Of taking up
arlns was, that alarge proportion Of the demo
cratic party of the north .woat jointhem, and
no northern llemagogue was more freely quot.
cd as proof on that point than John A. Logan.
His speeches N congress IN the spring Of 1860
were as fail Of fire and fury rs those Of Yam
his in Southern Illinois was quoted, in which
he declared that if any soldiers attempted to
march through his portion of Illinois for the
purpose Of coercing his dear Southern breth-
ren with the bayonct, they would have to pass
over the dead bodies of ten thousand demo
Gratis IN his district and he even went so far as
to attempt to raise force for service on the
rebel side Now Is not this same John A.
Logan sweet bird to stand up in bloody
shirt conference at this day and denouncc the
democrats rs the authors of the civil war? But
for the direct encouragement given the hot,
heads Of the south by half dozen of northern
fools like John A. Logan they never would
have dared to draw the sword in rebellion.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-08-14

The legal voters of the 18th congressional dis
trct who believe that the time has come when q
perfect union of the several states should be
had and when all sectional lines should be abol-
khed are requested to elect delegates to a Demo
cratic Congressional Convention to be held at the
Court House in the city Of Joliet on Wednesday,
September /, 1880, at p NJ, to nominate cand-
idate for representative in congress and men,
Der of the state board Of equalization and trans
act such other business as may be deemed advis-
able. The ratio OF representation in said con-
yention will be one delegate for every 200 votes
east against the republican congressman OF this
district in 1876, which will give La Sale county
81, VIII county %, Grundy county and Kendall!
county delegates total Co.
=. A. Armstrong,
ANDREW WEIGH,
ALEX. NAUGnEY,
c. FARLEY,
WIN. REpDiCK,
JNo. ID. HENDERSON,
IIe,n fouuN r,nl,3t,,.
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