The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-10-18
HON. JOSEPH HART.

This gentleman seems to be target tor
all the low, dirty democratic papers of the
county to attack with the hope Of injurlng
his chances for election as state senator
Mr.. Hart is a thorough gentleman and Is
the peer of any senator ever sent to the
legislature from this county, but the dem
ocrats are making great efforts TO defeat
him, and 1t stands republicans in hand to
he dillgent and watchful and see to II that
Mr.. Hart receives, as be well deserves, the
full vote Of our party.-HarseitIes Register.
Mr.. Hart appears within the last week
or two to have made pretty extensive
tramp over his district, and wherever he
came to town or village with local pa
per, something like the above has appeared
IN it, the circuit apparently being com
pleted at Marsellles. We don't like to
spoil this 40 cent line" .stereotyped rosy
little puff OF the courtly old gentleman, but
an Earlvllle republican neighbor of his,
writing to the La Sale Democrat, Ger.
tainly draws very strikingly different
picture of Daddy Hart" Some of the
lines Of his sketch are so sharp and harsh
that we prefer not to reproduce them, as
they actually involve crlminality, but the
following are some OF the milder features:
| have known Hart for 10 years; have
known him as preacher, Spectator, farm
er, politician, temperance lecturer and pro.
hlbltionist. am a christian, or at least
try to be, but | cannot support Hart, be-
cause he was the principal IN splitting the
Presbyterian church at Earl and founding
the orthodox church, that has a pauper ex-
lstence ever since, Hart doing good deal
the of preaching,
Mr. Schmidt, of Earl, a saloon keeper,
found he was involved on account Of loss
by fire so he could not pay his debts, and
in despair took his life, leaving IL minor
children with no means of support except
ing the saloon. Hart left his farm, moved
into Earl and with the aid of tramp lee.
turers made the city prohibition. This
lett them without bread, and their German
friends advised the widow to start beer
garden out of the corporate limits and sell
only by the gallon and keep within the
law This she did, and kept the wolffrom
the door until Hart commenced a prosecu.
ton, and kept her on trial three days and
his case was dismissed on his own evi.
dence 1t was so malicious that he has no
friends outside Of the prohibltlonlsts and
not more than half OF them. Every lead
ing republican in this town will support
Duncan as warning to them to put up
our good men, Hart commenced IL pros
ecutions against drug stores and saloons
and not one of them has stuck. They
were unfounded and malicious. If he had
lived early enough he would have been a
witch hanger and grinned while punching
red-hot irons through Quakers' tongues
and laughed outright while black-snaking
Baptists. On Sunday while preaching
saw him reach dollar bill over the pulpit
into the contribution box, holding one end
In his fingers to make it look as large as
possible.
Loosh Croker Is very popular with the
republicans and liberal man, no matter
what you democrats think of him, and re
publicans will not vote tor Hart because
he stumped the county as bolter against
Loosh am not sore-head, but my con
science will not allow me to vote for q
hypocrite and widow and orphan perse
| cutor. A REPUBLICAN OF EARL.