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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03
TOWN ELECTION.
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Under the township organization law OF this
state the annual election in the various towns
takes place next Tuesday, April 9Th. The
this year are a supervisor, two assistant super
yisors, town clerk, assessor, collector and road
commissioner
| For principal supervisor the opposing can
dlda,cs are $. w. Cheever and VIM Stormont.
Mr.. Cheevcr is the present incumbent and has
discharged the duties of the office during the
past year with so much address and ability
that il would be unjust not to award HIM the
compliment of reelection. Indeed the pub,
lie is more indebted to such man for consent
ing to take the Office than he is to the pubic
for comforting it upon him. The RepubStrdh
makes an objection to Mr.. Cheever that he
voted against the novel plan of the board TO
secure equal assessments by an inquisitorial
search of the records to find out who had
money loaned on mortgage. The plan is one
about which any honest man should have
grave doubts. 1t is virtually an attempt on
the part of the supervisors to add to the assess
llpII INV VI lDC SthtV, ny l'i'Ni"iho ''N
side Of the law to compel tax payers to list
their property, and we have very serious doubts
whether any court would sustain it. 1t Is Ger
tainly no Just ground of complaint against
apy supervisor that he should nave scruplcs on
the subiect.-As to Mr., Stormont, he is one CT
our most active business men, has made
good assistant supervisor, and 1t is to be re-
GREETED that he is no. content with the posi-
ton rather than to seek the multitudinouS an
noyances of the higher but no more remuner'
alive one
For assistant supervisors the candidates are
Mat. White, Chas Metzger, and John Matthias.
The last named was brought out only day or
two ago, and as he may be less widely known
than his opponents, it is due TO say that he Is
a German of decided intelligence, property
owner in the city and certainly quite as com
petcnt as any of his opponents to discharge
the duties of the office with credit to himself
and profit to the public.
J. G. Armstrong will run for town clerk
again without opposition, and SO Will Arthur
Lock wood for assessor
The candidates for collector are Asa Holt
man, f. =. Nltschelm and Nicholas Downey,
At present writing, the tidal wave" seems to
run decidedly in favor of Asa Hoffman.
Mr.. William Calvin is a candidate for re
election as road commissioner and very de
servedly has no opposition.
In South Ottawa the candidates are, so far
as we can learn:
For Supervsor-James II. Pickens, for re.
election, Arthur Lowman and l.. h. Mackinlay'
Town Clerk-Thomas NJ. Mason, for re-elec-
ton.
Assessor-A A. Martin, for re election
Collector-Wm. Stumph, for reelection.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

The event. pa, rrcellence, Of Easter week was
undoubtedly the Leap Year Party, given by the
young ladies on last Thursday evening al
the residence of John Manley, Esq The party
was a fancy dress or masquerade; and was alto
gether ENJOYABLE. In the matter Of invitations
many Of the ladies adopted the idea Of ncognitos
which in most cases were so well preserved that
! Though the invitations had been out for week
or ten days. the gentlemen had no inkling of the
identity of their escorts until the refreshments
were announced. The idea was capital one-ike
the dressing to salad. In few cases there was
| flavor of All Fools Day, owing to caressness or
the part of hackmcn, delaying the calls Of ladies
for their gentlemen until such late hour that
the gents were beginning to indulge in unwar-
ranted suspicious on consulting the calendar.
The promenade took place about O'Clock,
showing about TO maskers and some 20 or 80 otL.
ers not in costume. The usual variety of cos
tunes appeared as general thing very beau.
tiful. The usual number of dukes" Princes
What-is-it"s," &c, &c showed up among tht
male population, though several new ideas were
brought out-The young ladies' costumes were
as whole very beautiful, as a short resume viii
show, to wit:
Carrie Manley, cream satn trimmed will
white satin ribbons, with hat to match.
Lura Nash, "Mignon," black velvet, swans
down trimmings.
Vincie Bushnell, Lady Gay Spanker," blaci
velvet.
Jessie Macarthur, Ncreid, ocean foam, sea weed
and shells.
Fannie Osman Spanish Lady scarlet satin and
lace.
Mary Strawn, lilac silk underskirt and whit
satin overdress.
Fannie Hull, washerwoman.
Emma Campteld Fremont O., Folly" blHe
and cream colored silk. with bells
Mrs. /. Leland, jr., Peasant, black velvet an.
pink silk
Kate Eldredge, Greek Girl, blHc and rcd satin
Anna NJ Chandler Astrologer.
Lizzie Shuler, Spanish Girl, salmon and red
silk, black satin underskirt.
Mae Blanchard, Queen of Turf, black camcrs
hair dress with horseshoe trimmings.
Anna Lynch, "Araby's Daughter, black velvet,
trimmed with red silk, lace, pearls and beads.
Lille Bull, white organdic dress, trimmed with
white satin.
Kate Jordan, Morris, pink satin and grenadinc
diamonds.
Lillian Mattocks black velvet and pink swiss
with lace and gold.
Jessie Orr, Folly" scarlet underskirt, green
oyerskirt, swans down trimmings.
Lu Mcfarland, Morris, Polish Lady.
Jennie Taylor, Utica, Night
Julia Mattocks, white underskirt, green satin
overskirt, bead trimmings.
Mrs. Or. Richards, Night.
Ida Strawn, Flower Girl, swiss dress trimmed
with flowers, hat, and basket of natural towers
very pretty.
Kate Smith and Julia Wood, School Girls.
Miss Barrie, canine Of GeiersteIn.n
Mollie Osman, Spanish Lady, black satin and
lace.
And so on.
The dancing card contained IL numbers (chief-
ly "ronnd" dances and fancy quadrillesl 70 which
two or three more were added, the evening e.
closing rather early in the morning. The gen
tlemen guests were charmed with all the arrange
ments, bv which the ladies, in the 'languidgeof
the poet" did themselves proud"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

The state committees of both the regular and
the Kelly democracy of New York held meet
Ings last week and agreed to hold state conven.
tions at Syracuse on the Goth of April to ap-
point delegates to the Democratic National
Convention at Cincinnati All eiarts to har-
monte the two committees were futile, though
calling their state conventions to meet at the
same time and place looks like purpose not
wholly to abandon all efforts in that direction
The kellyitcs declare that the only hlndrance
IN the way of union is TIlden, and it Is pos.
siblc by the time the conventions meet at SYRIA
cuse Tilden may be so evidently out of the
presidential race that he will no longer be an
"ObStac'pn
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03
lur of these states are ciyen as follows

Kentucky is about equally divided between
Tilden and Seymour, but with that exception
there IS not southern state from which Til.
den according to legislative preferences, will
get delegate, and the Herald reporter thinks
the members of the legislatures reflect very
closely the general preferences of the entire
party of the states respectively. On the re.
publican side the south is generally for Grant,
though Blaine stands best in Tennessee II
Tiden can count on no southern votes at Gin
lcinnat except from kentucky, he certainly
stands no ghost Of chance of being nominal
ed while Grant, with his large southern vote,
backed by New York, Pennsylvania and Hi
nois, is apparently certain of getting the re
publican nomination. 1t is noticeable that as
" second choice" among the democrats David
Davis is quite largely mentioned.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

FoREIGN-The English parliamentary cleo
tons, unlike our congressional elections, take
place at different polling places on ditieren
days, the elections continuing over Il week.
The elections commenced on Tuesday, and I'M
expectedly on that day as well as on Wednes-
day and Thursday showed continued liberal
gains, so that by midnight Thursday the liber-
ais had elected lGj members To the Conserva-
tives 80 and the home rulers II, showing a net
liberal gam of 81 members. At this rate 1t is
certain that the Beaconsteld ministry is voted
out and the liberals will haye majority OF
from - to p in the next parliament,
The elections rs usual, were attended with
considerable riotlDg and mob violence Par
nell, undertaking to make a speech at Ennis
corthy, in Wexford, was rotton egged, his
clothing torn in a scuile, and he escaped seri-
Gus hurt only by being protected by some
priests that were present. lie was not allowed
to speak.
The French government has issued m order
to enforce the law against the jesults.
The king of Siam is about to start on Il visit
to Europe and America.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

| The FREE TRADER is charged, by the vrtu-
Gus Cullen, of the Ottawa Republtcaa, with
"instinctively favoring whatever savors OF dis
honesty in politics." because 1t justified the
report of the Elections Committee Of Congress
favoring the unseating of Washburn and adj
hitting Donnely of Minnesota The Rcpnd-
!tcdn says;
| There is no pretence that Donnelly was elect
ed nor that w ashburn did not receive the mum
Der of votes claimed The pretense is that the
numbering of ballots, as required by law In
Minnesota, Illinois and other states, in general
elections Is unconstitutional, and that all such
| ballots must be excluded from the count
Mr. Cullen has evidently not read word OF
either the majority or minority report in the
case for the main "pretense" referred to in both
for unseating Washburn is not the numbering
of the votes, though that also Is named, but
the patent fact that Washburn won his elect
ION by shameful system of bribery and bull
DOING, the proof showing that over 1900 mill
operatives IN Minneapolis were driven to the
polls like cattle and compelled to vote for
Washburn and that over 300 voters were bribed
outright with money to vote Tor Washbum. 1t
.
seems at least that the Republican papers in
Washburns district don't regard the action of
the majority of the house committee half as
mach in the light of an outrage" rs some
stalwart papers less Immediately concerned.
The Melrosc (Minn.J Register, republican
paper published in Washburn's district says
Sf the majority committee report
| II there was any rcbutting evidence to clear
up these charges of bribery and intimidation
made by Donnelly, it would seem that man
of the reputed shrcwdness OF Washburn would
certainly produce it, In the absence of such
proof Washburn must stand convicted of the
charges made, and the Republicans of this dis
trlCt will be wise to honor some less aspiring
and more honorable candidate.
And the St Paul Pioneer Press, the leading
republican paper Of Minnesota, says of the
same report:
We know that some very dishonest men had
been managing Mr.. Washburn's canvass, and
we know that they had immense pecunlary in
tcrcsts at stake IN his electon-lnterests so
great that they could well afford TO spend tens
of thousands of dollars Ia have a congressman
in Washington whom they could rely upon to
protect them from exposure and from the ap-
pretended necessity of being called upon 10
answer for the frauds they have committed and
by which they have profited. We know that
some ot these men were the most active agents
and friends of Mr.. Washbun in the canvass
The Appleton Reroyd,r, Fergus Falls idpo-
cate, and other Minnesota papers talk IN the
same vcin :. that We suggest the Republican
drop the FREE TRADER awhile and level its
Ipopgun at its stalwart cotcmporanes in Min
nesOta
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

While in the organs of one Of the Demo
cratic factions in New York we constantly
see pretended authorized statements that Gov
Seymour will under no circumstances consent
TO be the Democratic candidate for President,
and in the organs of the other faction We see
statements pretending to be equally authorita'
tive that he will accept such candidacy, Il Is
certain that Mr Seymour has thus far author
lied no one to make any such statement pro or
eoa. on the'subjec,. Meantlme,all agree that he
IS IN splendid health and his studied retcencc
nomination were unanimously rendered him
il would not be declined
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

The Mayor has appointed the following stand
ing committees of the City Council for lSS0-l
They will be formally announced on next Tue,
day evening at the council meeting, though the
are now at work:
Local isseSsments.-LogaR, Murphy, Wilcox.
I,t,rs and Ordinances. Miller, Logan.
FYnance-Phelps, Murphy, Griffith.
Hedlth.-Hollecker, Heating, Phelps.
Fire Department. Perkins, Logan, Leonard.
Gas-Maher, Griffith, White.
Poiltv-White, Miller, Carew.
Sewerage -Leonard, Wilcox, Heating.
License Murphy, Carew, Blake.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03
COUNTY FAIR.

As mentioned In our last, there will be a
meeting of the La Sale County Agricultural
Board at the court house on Thursday next
April Sth, to make final effort in behalf of a
county fair fer the current year. Either there
is a very singular general Indifference on the
subject or the members of the board have been
most unfortunately selected, as thus far, IN
spite of repeated earnest efforts, it has been
found impossible to get quorum of the board
together to act on the subject.
We are satisfied, from such conversation rs
we have had with business men and prominent
farmers on the subject, that there is quite as
earnest a desire as there ever was, that we have
the usual county fair the coming fall, and that
it will be AS literally attended as ever. There
is positively, on the part of the general public
no dccadencc of interest in the matter. The
prevailing impression is, that the liteessness
on the subject is manly in the Board. AT all
events, the board owe it to themselves to have
a full meeting and to give the matter earnest
consideration, and then, il they find it inexpe
dent to hold fair they may possibly be able
to give the public satisfactory reason for their
decision
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

And now the stencil Of 1.-The great transgress
ion" has come to faint the atmosphere of the
White House itself! 1t has leaked out that
Chas l.. Chapman, the head Of the Presidents
personal clerical force, has tor year or tive
been keeping scraglio on G. street IN Wash
ington, to which he was in the habit of invlt'
ing female clerks and other women of loose
proclivltics and doing out their favors to
lecherous congressman When Hayes heard
of 1t, he gave Chapman week to clear HIM
self of so grave a charge, and there Is vol
ume Of testimony to the high appreciation OF
his institution" by congressman in the fact
that 200 of them signed paper to Hayes re-
commencing that Chapman be retained in his
position But when Mrs. Hayes heard of il
the jig was up, and Chapman left the White
House with celebrity enough to have been pro
PEELED bv hobnailed boot.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

The strange subsistence, within the last
month or two, Of the Ohoiona States, from
which our stalwart contemporaries were wont
to enrich their columns with such copious ex-
tracts, Is explained by the discovery of the
Blaine and Sherman boomers, from which it
received its main support, that the more the
public was becoming impressed with the idea
that the Stdtes truthfully represented Southern
sentiment the more pervading became the log
ical conclusion that Grant ought TO be nomin.
ated and 'strong government" inargurated
10 keep the South in subsection. Blame and
Sherman are apparently beginning to realize
that the bloody shirt business has been over
dane
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

Gov. Cullom, the Chicago papers of Tues.
day mentioned, has appointed Hon. S. G. Pad.
dock OF Princeton, and Hon. Granville Bar
riere of Canton, the members for the state at
large of Garter Harrison's committee, selected
at the Ottawa meeting, to devise measures for
continuing the agitation Of the ship canal pro-
ject Referring in our last to the apparent
tardiness of Gov. Culiom In appointing these
committeeman, we doubtless did him injustice
by asking whether he too was in the conspira
cy to smother this agitation" for it appears
the Governor made the appointment as soon as
notified of the action Of the evening meeting
at Ottawa, at which he was not present The
record, indeed, Of Gov. Cullom as staunch
friend of the ship canal is so unimpeachable
that any attempt to cast cloud on it would
be absurd.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

Gen. }. G. Smith, present State Treasurer OF
Illinois, is prominent candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Governor of this
state, and was in Ottawa on Tuesday interview
ing the heads of masses and feeling the party
pulse on the gubernatSrial question. Gen
Smith is man of fine presence, of more than
average intellect, of pleasant, winning ways
and is backed by a very creditable war record
Gen s, like his competitors Gov. Culom and
Clark f. Carr, is sound Oh the ship canal Ques-
ton, and Is entitled to lair show in the selec.
ton OF delegates to the Republican nominal
ing convention from this region.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

in spiteof its Bunsbian twang, Is sound enough
To be the utterance of a +0-year old OWL
If the main object of the canvass Is To cap
tare Western Republican States, and if that
can b. done by uniting the Democrats and the
Greenbackers IN one organization, then the
nomination of 4 candidate who lives in the
West and represents 1t will be good politics.
But if on the other hand, the main object Is to
recover Connecticut, New York and New Jer-
sey then tie nomination Of candidate who
lives in the West will be very bad politics.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

The Grant boomers say that with the dele.
gates from Kentucky and Texas recently ap.
pointed in favor OF Grant he now counts 1873
He Is sure also of the delegates from Missouri
Illinois and Massachusetts,, and of enough
from the southern states 10 swell his vote on
the first ballot to 4+3 of the whole vote of '56,
giving him 1870 majority on the first ballot, to
say nothing of 20 or 30 more delegates he may
get from states that are yet doubtful. Blaine's
victory in Kansas on Wednesday, they say,
counts for nothing, as they had always given
him that state In their estimates.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03

There was one baleful practice fastened on
our political system by Grantism that it will
take years Of the most rigid democratic virtue
TO eradicate, and that is 20 shield from punish
ment any delinquent, no matter what his
crime if he had record ~ an efficient worker
son, Williams, Minister Seward and Il thousand
whisky ringstcrs and others might be named
who escaped punishment for the grosscstcrimes
on the simple plea of having been useful party
bummcrs And now we have another notable
instance 10 Pennsylvania. \ bill was dragged
through the legislature of that state last win
ter to pay $4,000 900 for property destroyed by
the Pittsburg rioters, when claims amounting
to less than $s,00000O had been proved up
and il was notorious that the other two mil
lions went TO pay ring Of lobby corruption
lists who got the bill through by the mos,
shameful bribery. Five of these lobbymen
headed by the notorious kemble, author of the
admirable republican system of political NOR
ality known as addition division and silence ~
were subsequently arraigncd before Harris
burg court and plead guilty. They applied to
the state board of pardons for rcliei, but very
Unexpectedly that body, though stalwart to
the core, refused to interfere in tneir behalf
What was to be donc9 Must such bright and
shining examplars of political virtue in the
kingdom Of Cameron rs Kemble, Rumbcrger
Petrof, Salter and Crawford be incarcerated
in filthy pcnitentiay' 1t was not To be
thought Of So it was quietly arranged in this
way. After the board of pardons announced
their decision the unfortunate gentlemen y
who were out on bail, quietly left the state,
FORGETTING their bail bonds which of course
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03
FROM WARRINGTON.

The week has been even more dull than
usual IN congress. During wordy scufile
with Blame in the senate on Tuesday, over the
Geneva award bill, Senator Thurman was sud
denly attacked by n vertigo, from rush OF
blood to the head, and dropping into his seat
III scmi.unconscious state, was at first sup
posed to have had a stroke of paralysis, but, as
it turned out, the attack was less serious, lie
has, however, been confined To his room ever
since.
The immediate deficiency bill, which passed
the house last week with II rider to the clause
providing for the payment Of the marshals
that those officers should be selected equally
from both parties came up in the senate or
Tuesday, and Blaine and other republican
senators showed great uneasiness To attack The
rider, and thus renew the fight Of the eNtr;
session. The Democrats, however, replied tt
none Of the Republican speeches so that they
| tired OF the game, and the bill on Thursday
was allowed to pass the senate as il came from
the house.
During the discussion of the bill, however
Blaine put his foot INTO it, by moving anoth
cr rider giving the employees in the public
printing office a vacation on holidays without
deduction of pay The inconsistency pro
posing rider while fighting the bill on &c
count of a rider was So glaring that Matt Car
penter lost his patience and gave Blaine Sc
we're setting down. Blaine, by his lnvctcrato
bully Raging propcnstics, has made himself
so offensive that the whole senate enjoyed the
merciless scoring he got from the Wisconsin
senator.
The senate has been discussing for a day 81
two a bill to Incorporate company to hold &
worlds fair in New York in 1888 The bill is
Unexpectedly opposed by Carpenter on Tho
states rights ground that congress has no pow
er to incorporate such a company.
The house has commenced work on the ap
preparation bills, having passed the consular
and diplomatic bill on Wednesday and taker
up the army bill on Thursday.