The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-30
THE CAMPAIGN.

SURPRISES Never before were party relns
borne 50 loosely and calculations based ON
previous return, liable TO 90 50 far astray.
A. a contemporary observes this fashion for
the campaign has been set by the lndepen-
dents and consists in the variety and inge.
nuity Of the kicking they have inangu-
rated. There are hosts Of independent
Republicans kicking against Blaine, and
there are independent Democrats kicking
against Cleveland The Irish kick, the
Germans kick. the Scandnayians kick, and
the colored men kick. Some Butler men
kick against all the other candidates, and
in Massachusetts, al least, number Of But
ler's late adhcrcnts are kicking against the
old man" himself The prOhibitOnists
are kicking among each other Malone is
both kicker and kickce, and the rclig-
ious press have not legs enough to kick rs
many ways as they want to. In short the
country is in a mood which requires the
epithet kicksome" to fully describe it.
: Looking at Illinois, which for many years
hitherto has 50 regularly rolled up its large
Republican majority, the kicking is clearly
such as 10 knock all calculations based ON
previous figures awry Four years ago the
Republican majority was $1,000 From
this vote at this election the prohibitionists
will take at least 10000 The kick Of the
German Republicans which will make II
change in Cook county alone equal 10
$4,000 votes will amount to not less than
10000 in the state, thus already wiping out
the Republican majority, TO say nothing OF
the SCandinavians, who have almost in Il
body declared for Cleveland and Harrison,
and the Independent Republicans as indi,
Gated by II dispatch from Decatur yester
day, announcing that Maj w. W. Peddi
cord a leading banker of Decatur and
nephew Of Richard j. Oglesby, and hith
erto an active, working Republican, has
come out for the whole Democratic ticket,
and is followed by "a converts to Democ
raCy in Maroa- township, in the same
county among whom is John 5. Sargent, n
leading banker And this "kicking 4"
among Republicans seems to be infectious
all over the state.
In Iowa the same kind of kicking is in
active process. The 10000 German voters
in that state have almost in body left the
Republican party, enough in themselves to
make the result in the state doubtful, to
say nothing of items from all over the
state like that which comes from Des
Moines, and reads: There are 1850 bolt
ing Republicans in Des Moines, among
them being f. NJ. Gilbert Colonel Rock
we'll and DR. Crittenden"
An item no less surprising then encour-
aging comes from Wisconsin, announcing
that the Hon. Thaddeus G. Pound of
Chippewa Falls, Wis, has written letter
to IA personal friend, giving his reasons us
an Independent Republican, for opposing
Mr.. Blaine and supporting Grover Cleve-
land Gov. Pound has been for years an
unwayering leader in the Republican party,
always supporting its entire tickets, and
has been very prominent in its councils for
twenty years, Mr. Pound has thousands
Of friends in Wisconsin, and is well known
throughout the northwest as a prominent
Republican leader and thoroughly repre-
sentative man"
As to New York and New England, the
following single days experience at the
headquarters of the Independent Republi.
can Committee in New York city-Aug.
2Sth-will show how the work is moving
on:
Within the past three days we have
had sent to us the names of more than two
thousand republicans who are opposed to
| Blaine From New York we received
about eight hundred names this morning
On last Thursday we had upward of two
| thousand names sent In from different
points in this state. Our principle orders
outside of New York state come from
New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and
Wisconsin. But speaking of New England
| might say that three tOurthS of our
strength there, and for that matter goedly
proportion of II throughout the country
lies in the silent vote. In Maine and New
Hampshire particularly they don't wish To
make much noise about what they are do
ing but there is very lively still hunt "
in progress there, and il will become much
warmer as the campaign advances When
We receive letters from that section of the
Country-and the experience of the Massa-
chusetts committee is the same as our own
the writer's say: These men have eX.
pressed themselves as against Blaine, hut