The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-25
ABUSE OF Mr.. MILLIGAN.

There is no candidate on the democratic
county ticket that seems TO give the Wpubli'
cans more uneasincss than Mr.. Millgan. lie
is about the only one the organs of the party
feel IN duty Bound 10 assall. 1t troubles them,
firstly because when he was a candidate for
sheriff in 1862 he ran ahead of his ticket. The
Ottawa Republican Is compelled to admit that
fact, hut finds fault because he didn't run far.
Their ahead Of his ticket than he did. After
all, it says, he beat his ticket but II matter OF
80 votes, when 1t seems TO think he ought to
have beaten it thousand. The HepuJi!cdH
ovcrlooks the fact that Mr.. MlllIgan ran at the
time against tremendously popular man-to
wit, William Cullcn, senior editor of the Otta-
wa RepUJiica1 and present candidate of It's
party for congress- Had he been opposed by
some common man, Mr.. Mcintyre or some
such fellow, for instance--no doubt Milligan
mint have run a thousand ahead of his ticket
instead of less than paltry hundred
Then it is denied that La Sale was rcpub.
lcan county in 1862 Well, it is a fact that
the democrats did carry their whole ticket that
year by a small majority, but it must be re-
membered they had an uncommonly strong
ticket-Dickcy for congress, Mllhgan for sher-
i'll, &c, while the republicans had "A weak
ticket, with such men on it as Jesse o. Nor
ton, Frank Corwin, &c, their only strong man
being VIM. Cullen as aforesaid. However, 1t
was the only time in fifteen years before and
afterwards that the county md go democratic,
so it is certainly not stretching the truth to say
that IN 1862 La Sale was republican county.
But them thirdly, 1t is added that DIR, Mill
gan did not, as claimed, make an exceptional
" good sheriff. On that head we are willing
to let the universal recollection and testimony
of the people of this county who lived here
then stand against the naked assertion of his
rival candidate at the time, the editor Of the
Ottawa Republican,
As to Mr.. Milligan begging for republican
votes on the ground that he is half republl
can himself, that is nothing but a slanderous
invention of the Ottawa Republican,. Mr..
Millgan is a democrat-nothng else--and
there are few voters IN the county green
enough we imagine, to mistake him for any.
thing else. But there is nothing about his de-
mOcracy to prevent his being, aside from his
politics,-like Sheriff Stevens, for instance
personally popular, on the score of being an
exceptionally capable man, a bighearted, good
fellow. man of warm sympathies, generous
deeds, and multltudnous closely clinging
personal friendships. Mono; there is moth
ing milk -and-watery about Mr. Miligan's
politics, no more than there is about his
ightforward, manly ways and principles
in all other relations of life.
The apology the Republican, offers for. La
Sale county going republican in 1862 and
Cullen being SO mercilessly thrashed for sher.
iif at the time, that three months before the
election nearly thousand men left the county
to fight southern democrats"--ls a peculiarly
Cullenish falsehood No regiment or com.
pany in 1862 before or afterwards left
La Sale county for the war that did not take
with 1t more democrats than republicans.