The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10
SOME OPINIONS.

leading it To rum" 1t isn't its politicians
who urc running" the South half so much rs
1t is the politicians of the Tribmes pattern
Let the Radical party cali ot1 lis sleulhhounds
as first step to new era,~-St, Louis Repub
NcaH.
The vote Of Louisiana IN 1876 was counted
one way for presidential purposes, and exactly
another way for gubernatoria purposes. The
votes which We're counted hv Mr.. lIayess ap
ploval for Governor Nichols were cast at the
same tine, and on the same ballots, for Mr.
Illden. But they were stolen and the exccu
tive power and patronage Of the government
","t "It.I ,uc.. .,l four years. 1t was all
right then 10 count to suit cXigcnces.--
Louis Times.
The fight in Maine Is not u fight between
the republicans and democrats, hut between
the republicans and all others of whom the
grccnbackers are u large majority. The gov
ernor is democrat, or more properly Il fusion
LIST, but the nuporlty "a the council, which did
the counting are greenbackers; and if the men
to whom certificates have been issued as mem
bcrs OF the Legislature keep their seats, it will
result IN the election OF the greenback candi-
date for govcrnOr.-NCtc l0rb SuH
The Cincinnati papers for some time past
have been prospecting for evidences of IA
Grant boom in Ohio, but they find very little
of what Is technically known as pay dirt. OF
Afty-two leading republicans at Columbus in
tervIewed by q Commercial correspondent,
twenty-five were found for Shernan, seventeen
for Blame, five for Grant, four for Washburne
and one for Hayes. A Gazette correspondent
at the same place says he can name one hun
dred men whe never voted outside the party
lines who say they will not support Grant for
a TN rI Another al Rallnir. IN at
of 1870 German republicans there, Grant would
not receive the votes of ten. Still another at
Cleveland protests against the eX president be-
ing strong man.-"Slrong man, indeed
where was the strong man in 1874, when he
lost nearly every northern state that had only
two years before voted him into second term
with an immense majority?" And SO on. The
returns from everywhere are mainly of the
same character. So far as the boom is con
cerned, Ohio may be counted out.--St. Louis
RepuJhican.
The democratic party united could defy all
opposition, just as the people of the United
States united could defy any nation in the
world. With Il platform favoring the liberty
and fraternity Of the people and the equality
and rights OF the states, IN opposition to the
corrupt and dangerous concentration of power
IN General Government, plainly tending to an
empire, | should not doubt the success of the
party.
DO you achcipate any difficulty in the party
on the fins ncial question:
wish could say cmphatlcal]y no. but
cannot. l may say, however, that If demo
Gratis are divided on the question republicans
are also dlveded, and this is especially true in
Indiana. For myself want our money TO
rank with the same standard recognized by
all the great commercial nations in the world
want no deprecated or irredeemable paper
forced upon our people. | want the laboring
man, when pay day comes, to be paid in real
dollars that will purchase just as much Of the
necessares of life as the dollars paid to bond
holders or OilicehoIders, and with as great
purchasing power as the best money in the
best markets in the world Honesty, in my
judgment, Is the best policy in finance and pol
itics as well as in morals generally, and if pol
itIClans would take half as much trouble 10 IN
suuct and enIlghten the masses that they do
10 take advantage OF their supposed preludiCcs
it would he far better.-Nr. EHgliSh, Of Indt.
ana, in COurierJOUrHak.
Nothing like family quarrel to disclose
family secrets! Here are the Brooklyn repub-
licans accusing each other oil treachery and
with the enemy in the late election,
and in the heat Of the fight up rises exSheritf
Daggett, who Is treasurer Of the republican
and he discoses the details of
bargain with John Kelly by which the re-
publiCans gave seven thousand dollars to Mr.
Kelly, and Mr.. Kelly kept the independent
democratic ticket in the field. AS this is q
matter Of interest to Mr. Kelly, we quote from
A newspaper report Of Mr.. Daggetts speech
That gentleman Mr. Perry entered into a
bargain with John Kelly, under the terms of
which he bound the Campaign Company to
pay seven thousand dollars to keep the indie
pendent democratic ticketin the field He failed
o acquaint the other members of the Commit
ee either with the negotiations or the consum-
nation of the bargain until week before
election, when Kelly wanted to know how it |
vas that the agreement had not been carried |
'ut and the money duly paid over. That com
,ellcd the Committee to raise money for the
purpose Of keeping faith with Mr.. Kelly, and
he result was comparatively large diversion
If the already small amount of money in the |
lands OF the Campaign Committee"
These accusations were not denied on the |
they were admitted to be true 1t |
vas through the treachery to the democratic |
'arty that the republican state ticket was
ected.-N. y. Sun.
That this nation is on the eve of great 20.
itiCal and material changes broad in their
haractcr and grave IN their importance, is no
Onger an idea III the minds of our most adj
anced thinkers. This belief is rapidly spread.
ng everywhere, among all classes and now,
or the first time, ideas which have grown into
onviction, are being openly avowed. The
ate war settled forever the question whether
his country was nation or simply confed-
ration Of loosely connected states; il has ex-
landed and strengthened the powers Of the
general government, and correspondingly con
racted and weakened the CLAIMS of the states,
et it was only within few months that pub
ic men openly svowed their support of the
doctrine that the powers of the general gov
should, and of right could, be
Exercised throughout the land in all matters
where the persons and property Of the citizens
we're not properly protected by local laws. So
trnnr hns this continent Of cnntrali znt1nn