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JUDICIAL ELECTION.
70 say.

No time has yet been fixed 10y the Gov
ernor for holding an election in this Judi
cial circuit, TO fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Judge McRoberts, but no
doubt the matter will be attended to as
soon as the Governor is officially advised
of the Judges election and death, and as
about that there will be no unnecessary de-
Law, the order for new election may any
day be issued.
As to who the new Judge shall be to
succeed Judge McRoberts, naturally Will
county puts in claim for the man, on the
ground that the west end and the center
of the district having each a Judge, the
east end is entitled to the third. The claim,
however, can hardly be urged with good
grace by viii county, after having had two
of the three judges, with Il brief exception,
from the first organization. of the district,
while La Sale county, having more bust,
ness than all the rest of the district put to-
gether, was at serious inconvenience from
having no Judge resident at its county seat.
The clsim of VIII county will and indeed
ought to be respected only to the extent
that it justifes it by putting forward bet
ter man for the position than is presented
from any other county. The office is of
so much importance, and the proper tim
Der to fill it so comparatively scarce, that
the selection of the right man is of great
deal more consequence than the mere To-
cality to which he may happen to belong.
As to the probable candidates we know
of but one from this county, and that is
Judge III. T. Gilbert. Having made so fine
a run at the election on the first of the
month, the people really designating him
as their next choice after the candidates
then elected, nothing is more natural than
that he should again be put forward. The
strong argument against him at the former
election, that the sitting judges were so
eminently upright and competent that it
would be wrong to pass an implied censure
on any one of them by defeating his re-
election, can no longer have any force
against Mr. Gilbert, whose eminent fitness
and strong claims to the honor of an cleo
ton otherwise no one during the recent
contest ever ventured to question.
Aswe write we are Informed that the
VIII county bar and leading men have
virtually agreed to put forward Judge &.
ID. A. Parks as their only candidate. We
have not word to utter against Judge
Parks. He is an able lawyer, has proved
his fitness by considerable experience upon
the bench, and would, if elected, make a
good Judge. With him and Mr.. Gilbert as
the only candidates, the people are to be
congratulated that they are exempt from
the danger of making any serious mistake,
no matter which one they elect.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

The cause of the present stagnation in
business and hard times is mystery.
There is no lack of money in the country,
but there is no demand for it and it is
locked up In the banks, not even earning
interest for its owners The New York
banks alone have $60,000,000 of surplus
lying idle in their vaults. There seems to
be a general want of confidence in the fu-
ture, which causes these millions to be
boarded up instead of being invested in
productive enterprises. Why is it:-Er.
The easy though somewhat fippant way
to account for any general stagnation in
business is to attribute it to overproduction.
The great manufacturing establishments,
as well as the produce and cattle raise I'm,
der the stimulus of good prices and high
wages, proceed to manufacture and produce
with such profusion that in few years every
market is glutted, prices fall to mini
mum, and with them the wages Of labor,
strikes ensue, idleness and general impov-
erishment, in the midst of overlooking
abundance. The case, however, may be
stated in another way. When prices are
good, and the production therefore only
equal to the demand which keeps up pri.
ces, it is nonsense to say there is overpro-
duction. When the demand suddenly ceas-
es, and prices fall, would it not be more
correct to attribute it to under consumption
rather than to ver-produ ,tion? And as
prices fall and labor is discharged, and the
ability to buy rapidly diminishes the
evil of under-consumptlo increases. What
then? To cure under.consumption the
people must be enabled to live faster and
consume more, and TO do this they must
have employment and good wages. Clear
ly the manufacturers, who have gone to
the end of their tether, cannot give them
this, and so the socialist says the STATE
must interpose and give the needed relief.
The idle mechanics and producers of all
kind must be employed by the state in
works of public improvement,-building
railroads, canals, anything, until their Wa
ges enable them to buy and consume the
surplus products of the country and this
will again start up the manufacturers and
bring good times" Such Is socialist
philosophy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

The state "civil rights bill" which passed
the Illinois Legislature last week and is un-
derstood to have been signed by the Gov
ernor, ELECTS various, but generally unfa-
vorable, comment. Its object is to secure
for negroes the same rights and privileges
in hotels public conveyances, saloons, eat
ing houses and places of amusement as are
enjoyed by the whites. The hotel, saloon
and restaurant keepers affect to care little
about it, for they claim that they habltually
refuse entertainment to white persons who
they consider would be offensive to the
greater number of their guests, and they
will do that and no more in regard to ne
groes. At all events, at the better class
hotels, none but genteel, educated and
wealthy negroes are in the habit of asking
to be entertained, and to these objection is
seldom made by any guests.
With regard to places of amusement,
however, the case is different. Under this
law the choice of reserved seats is open to
negroes of all grades the same as to whites,
while the custom In our larger cities has
invariably been to assign negroes TO GER
tain part of the house reserved for them
exclusively Mr.. McVicker, of Chicago,
though an ardent republican, is understood
to object to the law strenuously, and to de.
clare his purpose to ignore it. He takes
the ground that his theatre is private prop
erty and lie will refuse admission to any
man, black or white, as he pleases
The bill raises the question, which has
already often been discussed and even de-
cided in our courts, as to the distinction
between "civil" and social" rights. The
right to vote, hold property, engage in any
trade or calling, sue and be sued, &c, are
civil rights, and as to possession of these
by the negro equally with the whites there
is no question; but to sit at the same table,
occupy the same room, wash out of the
same bowl and wipe on the same towel
with the white man,--these are social
rights, in regard to which the amend.
ments" are clearly silent, and which are
generally regarded as matters beyond the
scope of statutory regulation.
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ness on decoration day to mar the solemnity
of its observance, Our people being free
from the plaques apparently peculiar to
the prohibitive states, drink whisky only
because they like itand when they feel like
II, and are therefore under no compulsion
on account of bodily ailments to imbibe it
as medicine at times and on occasions when
to appear in public under its influence is
both unseemly and indecent. Hadn't Kan
sas and Maine better drop prohibition and
try high license fora while Evidently the
former doesn't prohibit, while the latter
does restrict. And then, in the light of de-
coration day experience, contemplate the
advantage of high license on the score of
public health and deCency!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

The resolutions of coincidence offered by
the committee appointed at the citizens
meeting last Wednesday, on the death OF
Judge McRoberts, and which were en-
crossed by the pen of A. w. Shaw, to be
presented to the family, are said by com
petent judges to be as fine specimens OF
artistic pen-work as ever seen by them
Mr.. Shaw may we'll feel proud of this
creation of his pen. 1t is simply excellent
and could not be improved upon.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

The storm that swept over this part of
the state on Sunday evening was only the
southern edge of much more serious blow
that crossed Wisconsin from the interior of
Minnesota to the lake. South of the Wis
consin line the most serious effect was the
destruction of trees, the demolition here
and there of light building, the blowing
down of fences, sc. In portions of central
Wisconsin, however, II assumed the nature
of q cyclore. In the village of Victory,
Vernon county, every building was demol-
ishei, and on the opposite side of the river,
In Minnesota the village of New Albin
was almost totally wiped out, involving q
loss Of $4,000. Throughout Dane, Sank.
and adjacent counties trees were stripped
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The Indian Outbreak In A arizona.

The news In regard to the Indian out.
break In Arizona appears to grow worse
with every new dispatch. Originally but
"a men OF the Apaches under Geromio,
with their women and children, left the
San Carlos reservation, aiming, by follow
ing well known trails In the mountainous
region at the head waters of the ella, In
southeastern Arizona and southwestern
New Mexico, to reach their old haunts In
the Sierra Madres, In Sonora The re.
gions through which they pass are settled
by many hardy mountaineers, upon whom
they fell suddenly, and of whom they have
thus far butchered-some accounts say
as many as IS, mainly to get their arms,
but Gen. Crook admits II they are not
speedily Overhauled, with the Indians that
will join them In these mountains, there
will be such work, and such q wall will 90
up - never before was heard. A dispatch
from Tombstone, Of the 10th, announces
hat the Indians are within six miles of
hat city. having killed w. A. Daniels, q
]. 8. inspector Of customs, and several
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ciples, as he can hardly have been demo.
crat, though very likely he was mug.
wump, like his father, during the contest
of 1894. Most likely of all, however, the
appointment was made in return for politi.
cal services in the campaign of 1884 by the
father. Which is all right. A civil service
system which would not permit the Presi.
dent to recognize honest, earnest and eftec-
tive labor in behalf of himself, his party
and its principles in great presidential
campaign like that of last year would
neither be democratic or based on good
sense
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

A very impressive contribution to politi-
cal history was made by Mr.. Bayard in his
address at the Missouri University last
week He said that the election of Mr..
Jefferson to the Presidency in 1900 was &C
complished through the influence and adj
vice of Alexader Hamilton, his lifelong
antagonist There had been no choice by
the people, and the question went to the
House of Representatives, where the voting
was limited to the two highest candidates,
Mr.. Jefferson and Aaron Burr. There were
fifteen states at the time, each voting as a
unit, and each counting equally; and final
ly the election turned upon the vote of
Delaware, which was held by Mr.. Bayard's
grandfather, Federalist He sought the
advice of Hamilton, who told him that be.
tween jefferson and Burr it was his duty
to vote for jefferson; and thus the first
Democratic President was elected by a
a Federalist vote, inspired and counselled
by the great Federalist leader,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURES.

The past week has been pretty busy
one in the Illinois Legislature, and several
measures Of considerable importance were
passed. On the 9th a bill passed the sen
ate appropriating $4,000 for the encour
agement and support of the Women's silk
Culture Association of Illinois. The mill
tary appropriation bill was passed the same
day, granting $4,000 for ordinary expenses
and 1856, 900 for the purchase of uniforms
The latter Is In addition to the usual appro.
prlation heretofore to that "cause." On
the 9th the senate killed the bill for the
creation of State Veterinary Board, and
the house bill to make the general election
day;a legal holdayi The object of the lat
ter bill was stated to he to get out larger
vote, while Senator Duncan argued etfec.
lively that II was useless legislation, would
produce no such result, and that, so far as
people closing their stores and shops on
that day and ceasng from their ordinary
occupation was concerned, it was absurd,
for nobody would pay any attention to it.
A bill was passed appropriating 100000 to
erect an industrial school for the blind in
Chicago, and bill to appoint an auditor of
accounts for the PROBATE courts of Cook and
La Sale counties was ordered to a third
reading.
On the 10th the senate passed the house
bill to change the name of the Industrial
School at Champaign to that of the Uni.
versity of Illinois; also the house Railroad
Crossing bill, embracing some important
and long needed legislation in regard to
securing greater safety at railroad cross
ings In this state; and on Thursday 1t pass.
ed the much talked of and long debated
house bill looking to the speedy total dis.
continuance of the system of contract labor
In the penetentiaries of this state.
The work of the house during the week
made less hea1way. Beyond the passage
of the bill TO abolish contract labor in the
penetentiarles and bill to establish a state
reform school for girls, the time of the
house was almost entirely given to what is
known as the Chicago Citizens Election
bill; bill framed confessedly In the inter.
est of securing greater honesty and fairness
In the conduct of elections In Chicago but
which In reality, 1t is commended, will only
give increased immunity to the republican
party In the commission of fraud The de-
mocrats have thus far successfully resisted
the passage of the bill by breaking the
quorum and preventing final vote.
The subject of greatest interest, however.
at Springfield during the week has been
the investigation of the implied charges of
fraud and corruption against members of
the house involved In Speaker Haines
speech las. week In which he attempted, in
an irregular and out-of-order way, to lay
before the house certain affldavits said TO
involve such charges against members.
The house promptly appointed commit
tee of nine TO investigate the alleged char
ges with full power to send for persons and
papers and to sit during the session of the
house.
The probings Of the committee thus far,
however, have been very meager of results.
Al Mr.. Hsines processes to have at once
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destroyed his aiiidavits on the houses reius-
al TO hear them read, the committee Is
without means TO get ut their contents
Meantime local newspaper reporter pro
fesses to know of % members of the house
who have been having improper dealings
with corporations, and the committee first
addressed itself TO this charge. The news
paper reporter in question being first sum
moned, confessed that he had made his
statement only on wild rumors and could
give no names The charges of bribery,
however, are alleged to be in the interest,
|, of the defeat of the telegraph tax bill I;
3, in the interest of the passage OF bill 70
prohibit the manufacture anu sale Of oleo.
margarine in this state; and 3, In the inter
est of the allowance Of million or more OF
old canal claims. The investigation, thus
far, appears to have been mainly directed
TO the charge that the Elgin Dairy Assocla-
ton had used money TO secure the passage
of their dull butter" bill, as it is called /;
and about all that has been elected on the
subject is, that from 81 100 to 81 900 were
raised in the interest Of that bill, two or
three hundred dollars OF which were eX-
pended in paying the travelling and hotel
expenses of lobbyists, and the rest Mr. Bar.
tholomew, president of the Elgin associa-
ton, said "was used TO influence votes and
that is all there is of it, But how, and to
whom the money was paid, he was unable
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

Ii Is now little over month since the
latest amendments, attachments and I'M
provements to the Maine liquor laws went
into effect in the stronghold of the prohibit
ton system, yet the Kennebec Journal,
which takes its prohibition straight, sur
prises us with the announcement that on
decoration day the streets of that town
were full of drunkenness. Out in Kansas,
where the Maine Idea on the whisky ques-
ton is equally dominant, like dissertations
of memorial day" are mentioned, though
the apology is made that somewhat free
consumption of tire-water In that state Is
necessity growing out of peculiar condi-
ton of the country, snake bites being fire.
Quent occurrence, and the people singular
Iy liable to corns, chapped hands and tam
ed compilations, in all of which brandy,
whisky and wine are sovereign remedies,
none of these being sold anywhere except
rigidly as medicine, though the sales as such
under oath of single druggist In Law
renee amount TO over 100 gallons a month.
We are not advised as to the nature of
the peculiar afiilction in Maine that rem
ders necessary there also large sale OF
strong liquor purely as medicine, but
as snakes do not abound there and the peo-
pie mostly go barefoot and are therefore
not troubled with corns, and there Is no ar
dent Kansas sun to discolor their cheeks
or blister their hands, 1t must be some 9TH
err kind of visitation, though no doubt equal
" dreadful. The conundrum In the case
that puzzles us is, why the non prohibitive
states, especially the high license states,
escape such calamitiess No necessity to
ward against snake bites, to cure corns or re-
move freckles filed the streets Of Ottawa
or any other city In Illinois with drunken
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

The PRAIRIE FARMER, Chicago, is now
under the sole editorial control and finan
cial management OF Orange Judd, who, fol-
quarter of a century, was editor-in-chief
of the american Agricultrist, the most
successful publication of Its kind in Anne
RIGA, Its circulation exceeding 100000 I'm.
der Mr.. Judd's management The vigor
of his system" is already apparent in the
columns of the p. Farmer, Astounding as
they do with striking evidences of the edi-
tors ripe experience and valuable observa.
ton.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

Isaac Hibbs, postmaster at Lewiston,
Idaho, who strangely disappeared month
ago, it turns out had secured $4,000 by
manipulating postal money orders. The
ease with which he did 1t will necessitate,
it is said, change in the entire system of
postal money orders throughout the coun-
fru
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13
Streator Monttor: 1T appears DR.. lie

Streator Nonttor: 1T appears DIR. LIE
Roy interviewed President Cleveland,
while in Washington, in the interests OF
his old friend, Judge T. Lyle Dickey,
whose eyes are looking longingly towards
the Italian mission. Also paid his re-
spects to the pension Office, but gave the
post Office the go-by. If We had the Doc
tors avoirdupois and political persuasion,
we should have tapped Postmaster Villas
for Streator's best gift-politically-the
post office. Doc. says he is too fat for ia:
officen
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

The republicans of Ohio held State
Convention at Springfield on Thursday, and
on the first ballot nominated Judge Joseph
b. Faraker, Of Cincinnati, as candidate for
Governor, at the election next October,
Robert p. Kennedy was nominated for
Lieut. Governor, John c. Brown, of Jeffer-
son, for State Treasurer, and j. A. Kohler,
of Summit, for Attorney General,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13
Very Remarkable Recovery.

Mr.. Geo. V. Willing, of Name hester, Mich,
writes: my wife has been almost helpless for
five years, so helpless that she could not turn
over in bed alone She used two bottles Of
Electric Btters, and is so much improved that
she is able now to do her own work"
Electric Bitters will do all that is claimed
for them. Hundreds Of testimonials attest
their great curative powers. Only fifty cents
q bottle ct Lutz & Briggs.
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The w eek.
FOREIGN.

Mr. Gladstone stated in the British
House of Commons on the 9th that Russia
and England had come TO full agreement
concerning the points of difference between
them, and they were to be referred to aroi-
tration, the king of Denmark being named
as arbitrator.
The political event of the week in Eng
land however, was the defeat OF the gov
ernment on Monday evening, in test vote
on that part of the budget which proposed
an increased tax on beer and spirits, eXciud'
inc wine. The vote stood 264 to 252. The
announcement of the vote caused the In
tensest uproar and excitement in the house
and as soon as sufficient order was restored,
Gladstone took an adjournment to the
evening
Next day cabinet meeting was held at
which it was decided by the Ministry 10
tender their resignation to the Queen, re
quest being forwarded to Her Majesty, VINO
Is Of Balmarol, TO return Immediately to
London; and on the re-assembling OF par
lament at 4 o'clock next day, Gladstone
announced the determination of the Minis
try to the house; ana as there could oDVi'
ously be no legislation until the matter was
settled, the house adjourned to Friday
Meantime the Queen refuses TO return 10
London. so that Gladstone, and whatever
other leaders she may wish to consult IN
regard to a new cabinet, must make a Eoo
miles tourney to Scotland TO meet her
The resignation seems to have taken the
tories by surprise, and in view of the unfn-
ished condition of certain delicate negotla-
lions, the nearness of the election for new
parliament, and the general difficulties OF
the situation, the organization of new
Ministry is regarded by the tory leaders as
anything but an inviting task. They seem,
however, to have decided to undertake II,
and the Gladstone defeat being the work OF
the Parnellites, who became dissatisfied on
account of the re-enactment OF coercion In
Ireland, the programme OF the tories, on
accepting office, will be to drop Irish coer'
cion, accept the presens budget estimate.
but raise the money by loan instead OF
new taxes, court Turkish alliance and
understanding with Bismarck, and make
everything smooth for a good front at the
general election. If new Ministry Is
formed, of course the Marquis of Salisbury
will be premier and Sir Stafford Northcote
probably leader of the house.
The earthquake in the Vale of Cashmere,
in Asia, Is more serious than the first re.
ports indicated Whole villages have
been engulfed, and terrible subterranean
noises are heard driving the people fran
tic with fear. The horrors of approaching
famine are added to the other results of
the disaster, as many thousand bushels of
grain in storage have been swallowed up
in the chasms which are constantly open
ing.
London society appears to be agreeably
surprised to find that the new L. ). Minis
ter, Mr.. Phelps, is not the rude barbarian
they supposed him TO be- He spoke on
Saturday evening at the Lord Mayors ban
quet, and the Times says he did it with a
grace of diction and an elevation of tone
that prove him fitted to fill Mr.. Lowell's
place as well socially as officially"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-06-13

The Agricultural Bureau at Washington,
in its report for June, estimates the total
wheat crop of the country for 1885 at $780,
100000 bushels, of which 207O00,O0O Is
winter and 153,000,000, spring. Last years
crop was 513,0OO,OOO. The condition of
winter wheat is lower than ever before in
June, being now GO, against 70 in May.
Condition of spring wheat is 81,