The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-02
WEAVER.

Decidedly the biggest mountebank and
blatherskte the pending presidential contest
has brought to the surface Is James b. Weaver,
the greenback candidate for president lie
went to Alabama confesscdly IN the pay of
the republican party, to effect fusion between
the republicans and greenbackers, and sue
ceeded so TAR as to get them to agree on one
state and congressional ticket The night be-
fore the election he telegraphcd to the repub-
lican and greenback committees at the north
that he had made a splendid campaign
| in Alabama, had been everywhere received
with open arms and felt confident of car.
ryng the state Two days after the cleo
ton he reported to the same committees that
he had been maltreated, insulted and buldozed
during his Alabama canvass, and that on cleo
ton day the republicans and greenbackers
were outrageously bulldozed and driven
from the polls, both of which statements
Mr.. Jesse Harper, who accompanied Mr..
| Weaver to Alabama, denounces as shameful
falsehoods.
The next stage Mr.. Weaver appears upon
is in Maine, where after having spent two
months to effect fusion of the greenDackers
and republicans in Alabama and Arkansas, he
takes the stump TO break up the fusion be-
tween the greenbackers and democrats, insist
ing that the only salvation Of the greenback
cause consists in the party standing alone and
scouting all unholy alliances" with republi.
cans or democrats, OF course Mr.. Weaver was
of very different opinion when he accepted
the united support Of the democrats and green
hackers in Iowa and was elected to congress,
or when he SO earnestly eXhorted his party to
fuse with the republicans at the south.
So glazing and shameful indeed is Mr.,
Weavers Inconsistency and dishonesty, and
so palpable Is 1t that he is N the pay of the
republicans and operating as a tail to their
kite, that Mr.. f. w. Hughes, the confessed
leader of the greenback party of Pennsylvania,
openly denounces and repudiates HIM as a
charlatan and traitor, the conclusive evidence
of which Mr.. H. finds in the fact that Weaver,
IN his anxiety to serve Garfield and the repub-
llcans, worked earnestly in Maine to defeat the
| Weaver and Chambers electors, and thus to
defeat the only chance they had of obtaining
single electoral vote in the whole country,
and the last possibility of their choice for
president and vice president should the cleo,
ton be forced into the house. Indeed, so
"open, gross and palpable" is the sell out by
Weaver to the republicans in this matter that
the republican leaders themselves are denounc-
| ing 1t as one of Mr.. JEWELS most costly and
ridiculous trades, for it was not only a dead
loss of quite an amount of his cash. but is
pretty sure to end IN the loss of the electors of
Maine to Garfield, as we'll as in the disgust OF
thousands OF greenback voters everywhere and
driving them over to Hancock.
We feel called upon to make this slight ex
pose of the character Of this man Weaver, not
because he is otherwise of the slightest conse
quence, but because he is soon to appear as a
stumper In this county All we ask is that he
be recognized in his true light as an ennis
sary of the republican party, and so far as he
makes any pretensions to sincerity and earn
estness IN behalf of the greenback cause as a
sham and fraud. He Is owned, body and
soul and breeches, by Marshall Jewell. and
would sink greenbackism itself to the neither
most PIT to win for Garfield one electoral vote
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