The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-15

gravel far too inferior Tor her CraW Kings,
diamonds and gold watches are none too
rich for her blood
The Gos,iper.
Some say that we won,
And some say that they won:
And some say that both won the day mon
But this ken, mon,
A battle was lost and won, mon.
A girl was born to John Lesser last Mon
day.-NeRd0ta paper.
Whom deos his wife suspect?
The latest returns report that Mayo has
revised his famous obstetrical story, and
finds that the young doctor failed to save
even the old man!
Col Plumb, since election has been
" decorating" the republican pl loss with his
portrait. In the absence of other COnsola
ton, these papers use it instead of a rooster
which all newspapers do not carry in stock
BY the way, we haven't seen the illumina-
ton in the Peru Ne,cS and Ottawa RepuJlj-
can yet,
Streator will be entitled to one more del
egate in the next republican county con
vention than Ottawa, and now takes the
lead in the county. The vote for Blaine
and Logan was 800 in Bruce and 1855 in
Ottawa.-OhdiCH Times
Which completes the transfer Of the
ring" from Ottawa to >uaa'or,
Plumb feels sore. Obviously. And the
Streator Free Press feels constrained to let
out the swear within il, in this style: THE
mugwumps of La Sale county and the
soreheads are responsible for the cut in
Col. Plumb's vote. Ilib Corwin, Cullens
postmaster at Peru, openly peddled demo
cratic tickets and solicited votes for Haley.
Means, of Peru, who could not dictate the
congressional nomination; Eldredge, and
other political hacks, of Ottawa, who
wanted to see the nomination go TO some
other county, that in u few years another
La Sale county man would have chance,
all conspired TO accomplish his defeat or to
at least cut down his vote. His strength,
against all these odds, developed marvellous
ly, and although special fight was made
upon him by the democrats also, he ran
about $50 behind the head of the ticket,
while other republicans were defeated by
hundreds more"
The greathorned- spoon of the NaseilIes
Register Is also mad and VOWS vengeance
on the prohibitionists, in this style: "In
the disgraceful fight which was made
against the republican party by the demo-
Gratis, they were assisted from first to last
by all the prohibitionists in the country
While claiming to he far more holy than
the rest of humanity, they have demon
strated that on mud throwing and base pc
litical trickery, they are far more expert
and ready than the democrats themselves
1t may be that they have come out of the
fight feeling that they have acted wisely
and still little better than other people,
but II so they are victims of serious de-
fusion which deceives none but themselves
Republicans of Marseilles, you
know who these parties are here, and il is
a duty you owe yourselves to accept the
issue, and hereafter run a straight republi.
can ticket for town officers. See to it that
this is done and all will be well. Hoist
the banner let no prohibitionist apply for
town Offices"
Oh, yes, they are all mad. There's Cor
win, of the Peru Ne,cs. He's the last to
show up; but he's mad, too and lets him
self out thusly: La Sale county in 1890
gave republican majority of nearly
600. Last week il gave democratic ma
jority of over 300. If any unprecedented
philosopher will take scratch book and
sharp pencil, carefully set down and add
up the different causes which contributed
to this astonishing change, he cannot fail
to get as sum total: La Sale county re-
publicans want fair vote and an honest
count In caucuses and conventions as weG
as at the polls. The primary cause of the
trouble In this county was belief among
many republicans that the La Sale county
republican committee was selected for the
express purpose Of putting up job and
notwithstanding the indignant denials by
the individual members Of that committee
the belief remained mistaken when the
one convention idea was enforced by the
committee against the entreaties of many
republicans who were anxious that every
candidate should feel after the conventions
we're over and nominations made, that he
had q fair show We are not now crit
cising the ticket, and do not say that bet.
ter one could have been made, but we do
insert that the stubborn sdhSslop 70 the