The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19
THE DExocRArIc STATE TICKET.

end the state to the other, and ii there was
anywhere question as to the proprlety OF
his nomination for Governor it arose only
from CONSCIOUSNESS that he deserved to be
presented with all the carnesness united eX
preston of the Illinois Democracy could give
il to the Cincinnati convention for nomina
ton to the higher and more honorable office
of the presidency. Mr., Trumbull was born
and raised democrat, and though he differed
with Douglass on the Nebraska question, and
in its earlier and better days acted with the
republican party, supporting as an acknowl.
edged leader of that party all its legitimate
war measures during the war and after it was
over, all its proper measures tor the preser'
walton, strengthening and consolidation OF
the preserved union, he was too conscientious
and too good a democrat to go with the new
leadership of the party after II driltcd away
from the standards Of Lincoln, and Sumner,
and Chase, and Palmer and the rest OF the
better and purer men by whom the party was
founded, and so naturally fell back into the
ranks of the party whom the fires of the war
and fifteen years in the minority had purified
/ Especially is it remembered IN his favor that
it was his conscientious vote against the i'm
parchment of President Johnson that finally
lost him the favor of the republican party,
and that it was solely on account of his hon.
esty and independence of character that his
conscience at last compelled him to step out
side of its pale The breach became perfect
when In 1872 he became one of the leaders OF
the revolt against Grantlsm and received
many complimentary votes for the nomlna,
ton for president Of the liberal republicans
at Cincinnati Since tken he has been quietly
acting with the democrats, and having served
a suitable term Of probation. IS admitted into
full communion and fellowship in the demo
cratic church.
Lewis b Parsons, the nominee tor Lleuten-
ant Governor, though less widely known than
Senator Trumbull, is really a man only sec
ond to him in ability and in all respects as
deserving of the highest esteem and the en-
thusiastic support Of the party. His record
lduring the war shows him to be man OF
great executive ability, while his career as
!, ilawyer IN st. LOUIS, which he left few years
ago, after the acquisition of an easy compe-
tence to engage IN the less exciting occupa-
ton of farmer in Clay county, shows him TO
= be a man of the highest intellectual attain
ments and in that respect one of the leading
minds of the state. Indeed it was only from
that he was not given the first instead of the
his own choice or rather set.abnegation than
from the choice of his friends or the con
vention second place on the ticket.
Nearly every democrat in the state has
heard of John ii. Oberly. AS editor for many
years of the leading democratic paper OF
southern Illinois, the Cairo Bulletin, he has
been recognized as one of the main stand-bys
, and safe leaders and advisers of the party In
that quarter. He is a man of decided ability
r pleasant, engaging and forcblc public speak
er, and as a writer yields sharp and lncisivt
e pen. Always true, square and consistent as
r democrat, never Sinking any duty, represent
! ing his people frequently in the Legislature
! and elsewhere with marked ability, 1t was nc
+ wonder they came up insisting on his having
S the first place on the ticket, and barely salts
fled with giving him place "betwixt and be
| tween" As to John himself, it may SUIT hin
well enough, rs he sought no place at all
1 though II may not entirely satisfy his myriad,
of friends, as a Cairo journal suggests, "wht
believe him to be--and with reason toO-th'
l best and strongest man IN the state However
nntI, mil lia illn biS ,yil
do more than its share to carry the tickle
through the approaching campaign to sue
| cess"
: Of Lewis c. StarRel, the nominee for audi
7 tor, the Stdte Register has this to say: "llt
!. was born in Germany in 1893, and came Il
= this country IN 1850, settling in Ohio first ant
c for nine years. Thence he came to Carlyle
j this state and, two years aiterward, removed
e to st. Clair, where he has since lived lit
l. graduated at the Cincinnati medical college
9 and followed the profession with eminent sue
n cess In 1873 he defeated Col Wanglin 70
It county clerk OF St Clair by 1000 votes. liz
was reelected in 1877 by u majority of 200
He is, and always has been, a democrat, and i
rs Oht VI HHtSt d'COuHttlts III
southern Illinois,
Honest Tom Buttcrworth," Of Rockford, j
not only all that the title of honest whicl
:, his neighbors unanimously bestow on him i'm
: plies, an honest man, which is all in
portant in a man having charge of the pee
pies money, but is man of immense wealth
honestly earned by hard knocks, and wit
which he can be not only not niggard but Iii
:, eral and public-spirlted.
And finally, as to Mr.. Harmon, of Peoria, Ii
. is man so well esteemed that the Peoria del,
: CATION named him for nearly every office o