The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-09
The GosSlper.

Inc GOSSlper,
She sat upon his lap
Happy chap
And their billing and their cooling
Made it plain that they were wooing-
Came rap!
On camp-chair just in sight,
Bolt upright,
Sat the young man, and the daughter
Was compromising sonata
With her might.
darlington Press
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To put it gently, the Cullen men are
mad. There are degrees in this sort of
thing. The Cullen men are laboring TO
work themselves down from the superlative
to something human nature can endure
and eat well.
They are in exactly the same position
the Bushnell men were in four years ago.
We can't see that they are especially to be
pitied They are mad, all the same.
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The autocrat of Turn Hall has long been
considered the boss German of the town,
On every occasion he has been leading
member of their delegation. we shudder
lin sympathetic way to think of the fate
of republican convention in which the
autocrat had no voice. Nevertheless, the
Cullen men are now asking their friends to
kick them for ever thinking he amounted
to hill of last years beans
Charley Metzger explains that he insisted
to Mr. Cullen when asked to go on his
ticket that he would not go into the con
vention pledged to any candidate for con
gress. If so, Mr. Cullen should have taken
the hint He did not Metzger became
delegate. He was elected by the Cullen
men, on Cullen ticket On Monday night
the Cullen delegation had a meeting in the
latter's Office to organize, and, says the
Times, "he met with the delegation and
sixteen men Will swear that he committed
himself thoroughly to Mr.. Cullen" When,
therefore, he showed his hand on Tuesday
for the first time, and ordered his vote cast
for Plumb, the wrath of the Cullen men
reached steaming point at bound; and the
temperature has been reduced but little
since Members of the committee swear
they'll never sit with him again-won't
even use the same cuspidor with him.
And it looks little as if the rule of the
diminutive boss was over-for time
Indeed it must be said that so far as Mr.
Cullen and his particular friends are con.
cerned, 1.-The Dutch" are at discount They
don't feel over friendly, by the way, to
Stephen Arnold and the Dutch" of Men
dota What excuse Stephen Arnold had for
selling out Mendoza is hard to determine,
yet he and Mendoza came in for goodly
share of the ugly talk men expect to hear
when they 60 back on their word.
So Bro. Cullen now knows how it is him.
self -Four years ago he gained nomina-
ton through broken promises. All politi-
clans except "our side") are liars, and no
wise man is fooled thereby. Four years
ago four or five timid and decrepid old
wheel horses, who thenceforth were grace
fully but eXpeditiously retired, flew the
traces, scared by the howlings Of lillipu-
tan p m. from La Sale; this year a
genuine barl was tapped. That's all.
Strange that so willy an old coon as Brother
Cullen could not see he had no chance with
a bar'l that can afford to buy causcus votes
at $40 head!
What took our breath away was to see
our old friend Jivor Montgomery bossing
small delegation sitting on the front seat
After all the dizzy greenback speeches he
has bored us with; after all the temperance
rackets he has inflicted on small but long
suffering conventions; after having had to
follow him carefully and patiently through
a multitude of anti monopolyism, laborisms,
and all the anti-republicanisms that have
during the past 10 years,-we
must say we were paralyzed! He was not;
but threw back his ears and swallowed the