The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-07-08
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| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES!
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Hon. Charles 7. Strattan, republican nominee
for superintendent Of public instruction, Is SAID
TO be one of the ablest educators In the state.
| He has been principal Of the schools ut Mt. Yer
non, Nashville and Edwardsve, and professor
| in Washington University ut st. Louis.-SfTdtor
Free Press.
Prof. II. l.. Boltwood, of this city, practical
educator, knowing the educators OF this state
thoroughly, and himself q delegate to the
Springfield convention, thinks differently on
this subject. He says in this weeks Republican;
"To say that the teachers Of the state who were
present at the Springfield republican convention
last Wednesday went home thoroughly Disguised
with politics and politicians is to state 1t very
mildly. Opposed to them Slade, Ing
les, Pike &C., was Mr.. Strattan, ayoung man
whose friends openly avowed that they sent him
to the legislature to put him in the way to ac-
quire the influence necessary to capture the
nomination His energies were successfully di'
rected to the end He secured all the newspa-
per men, especially the Springfield correspond
ent OF the Chicago tribune. He secured the re.
quisite railroad passes, by which he travelled the
state free of paying fares. Having a pleasing
his nomination over all the efforts of the real
friends Of education. During the last ballot
to illustrate one way of working-a friend of Mr..
Strattan stood beside him, near the Chicago de-
Legation, throwing out cigars by the handful,
and the dignifed delegates, jumping and snatch
ing at these, changed their votes to Sirattan in
sufficient numbers to carry him through on the
fourth ballot. . . . The sentiment of the
politicians in regard to this office was embodied
in the speech of a Chicago delegate, more forci-
bic than elegant "D-n the schools and the
school masters What have they to do with po-
litics.' The Office is OF.
fered to a man who has come to it as polti-
clan, by methods purely political. This means
that the "ring" has decided that no Office shall
be left to those who seek it by honest work in
the lines that qualify them for doing credit to
the office"
Peru .Necs: "Among the items of political
gossip floating through the newspapers Is the
rumor that the Rev. Haseltine, Of the LaSalle
NJ Z. church, will do battle for the republican
nomination for county school superintendent.
The Marsees Plaindealer this week appears
double its former size, and making by all odds
the best local paper Marselles has ever had. 1t
is handsomely printed, barring the fact that the
"ads" are made up badly In spots, and well
edited. We congratulate our friend Simmons,
and wish him good luck in his new venture.
The fourth page of the Pltindealer, we observe,
is devoted to 'MarseIes, as a manufacturing
town" The article is well written! We know
this because we wrote or edited the most of it
ourselves! nearly the entire article filing four
columns, having been set up without change e1-
cept of name from the pamphlet entitled sketch
of the City of Ottawa issued by the Business
Mems Association a few years ago. The most
absurd applied to Marseiles) statements are
made: "over fifty artesian wells provide water!
coal was first discovered in America few miles
below Marseilles"! Sand procurable at Marseilles
is now made into glass! even the scenery is the
same at Marseilles as at Ottawa! Really this is
, absurd and will not be found useful to Mar
. settles. Honesty is the best policy always.
*.#
' Those reckless idiots who have no more sense
than to shoot toward house are still roaming
r around. Some Of them were over on Riverside
I on Monday and were banging away without
y sense as usual. They finally shot toward John
= Butchers house and hit little girl named Bron.
I son, who has holding the baby. One shot nil
I her in the forehead while another hit her in the
nj
Q the skin, though each made bruise. Another,
with more force apparently. went through the
baby's clothing, but without touching the mesh.
The parties were demonstrated with and proved
to be full grown men living here in town. They
begged that no trouble be made over II as 1t was
G an accident; but 1t would seem that men who
A have no more sense than to be shooting In thu
= way they were should be given some trouble
StredOr Free Press.
They are not confined to Streator by any
means. They can be found at every public place
: the world over. The picnic grounds on tht
Fourth were full Of them, firing with reckless
ness that WAS hair.liftng. The genuine "smarty'
j. always carries pistol. He has a suspicion it il
manly 1t isn't. Nobody now days carries pis
toll but the coward or the knave. When you see
the pistol-smarty showing oil at public resor
J. you can depend upon it, he's coward or weak il
i his upper story.
8 Earvle Lea,'er: "a. T. Bartels OF Ottawa Of
). fers himself for the candidacy of County Clerk
for the ensuing term. Bart" is man Of many
J. friends has been for some time the city clerk Of
Ottawa, ana presents himself now for the frs
time for a county office. OF his capabity fol
" the position he seeks no one can raise question
Z and his geniality and good will can only gain fo
him host Of friends, Irrespective OF party, who
- Will ala IN his election. personally he Is gen
tleman Of culture and taste, and IN so far as WI
u know him can speak most favornbly for hi:
e qualifications for the position he seeks"
e The Insurance Ch,oncle, OF New York City
c says:
d The old law requiring insurance companies tC
p contribute to the support Of the fire department
81 on every S4OO Of premiums paid in the city ]:
Z about to be enforced in Ottawa, H. So says
all ;E II q
. place as any in which to begin the practical as
sertion Of the true relations Of insurance com
> panies to fire departments, and the way to begir
II is either to cancel existing policies or add The