The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-07-22
The Telephone.

The Telephone.
A little boy with baseball hat
(Sore is the joint of the left hand thumb),
stone lie shes at a brindle cat
(But the voice OF the sobbing sea is dumb.
For thee, my love, will my strong right arm
(Hoarse is the man with liver pad,
Plow up the stumps in western farm
(And solid I'll get with your grizzled dad)
O, the red, red rose is red, you bet!
autumn is coming, my sweet, my sweet);
Maud 8. will trot In twO.seven yet
(Or my name isn't Red headed Granger Pete)
Oscar Wide II.
The Earlvile Leader says: "Ottawa is talking
of having paid fire department. For town that
hasn't had fire in nine months 1t would seem
that paid fire department would be sort OF
luxury"
The Mendoza Reporter says Tom Forristal is
mentioned as a candidate for sheriff. Is the his.
tory of the Clark Stevens campaign OF 1880, as
told by Stevens to his particular friends" to be
repeated In 1892 Is Clark to be "hosted by his
own petard"?
In its report of prohibition meeting at Mar,
settles, recently, the Ptaindealer says: 1.-THE in.
ability to obtain an organ in the county was de-
plored. and in this connection F. NJ. Sapp, OF
the Republican, was given several not very com
plimentary raps." Well, well; what are we com.
ing to! Having ceased to be organlst for the
republican party (the young repubs. having &C.
cepted the Times must it now cease to be organ.
ist for the prohibitonists after all its hard work
"Oh, worse than dragons teeth" &c.
The Marsei.les Plaindealtr this week "goes"
for us for our structures on Its late Marseilles
sketch All right Mr.. p. We'll not quarrel
We're had our say on the subject; and will add
that in spite of all Marseilles is a mighty good
town; and had it more good defenders and
active friends like Terry Simmons, and the Piata
dealer, it would be a good deal bigger one.
We must, however, insist that the Pia6adeate,
wrongs us IN assuming the editor of the Business
Mems Sketch of Ottawa plagiarized from the
Illinois State Geological Reports So far as we
remember we never saw one OF those valuable
volumes.
The young mems republican club, as we said
week ago Is determined to knife StOcKsleger
for county clerk-he has not used the young
repub. lawyers properly The first cut in the
process was made by the Journal on Monday,
when it attacked him on charge of paying out
money for wolf-scalps when 'the fact is, there
hasn't been a wolf in the county since 1902! 4
particular case is cited Of one of the Mackeys, OF
Eagle, who the Journal intimates swore to lie,
and the innocent "Stocky" paid him $40 for fox
ctn of and
ticularly rough on Mackey; but in this particu.
lar effort to bleed Stockseger the slaughter of
a DISTINGUISHED party like Mr.. Mackey appears to
have no consideration with the Journal. which,
indeed, seems to be making a specially Of that
sort of thing Just at present.
The La Sale Press has been abusing States At
torney Brewer because certain voters of La Sale
were not indicted for Illegal voting az the recent
city election. The Press seems so wrapped up
in the little squabbes of La Salles politics that
1t can't see over an ordinary picketfence. The
case was really very thin one, and at best was
only the violation of city ordinance, not in
dcta Die, as the Press, claiming to be conversant
with the facts, conld readily have seen by reter-
ring to the Incorporation act under which La
Sale is governed. Mr. Brewer was very careful
in his consideration of this case, Illegal voting
is a very serious matter. The incorporation act
says man can vote in city wherein he has
lived 30 days. 1t is not claimed these men were
not in the ward 10 days as the ordinance pre-
scribes yet the facts show that even In this view,
counting the day they moved they arrived at s.
in the evening", one day, and the law does not
consider fractions of days, they had lived there
10 days. This charge was very weak. and under