The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-06-26

conservator of The public good is really anx.
ious to discuss an issue ofimportance with the
readers of his paper, let him prove Mr..
Plumb's fitness TO occupy a seat in congress
His dealing with the rebel debt question is
proof tina, he is fond Of difficult problems,
and hence the one propounded to him.
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The announcement is made from Washing
ton that Mr. John NJ Perrucker, late OF this
city, has been dismissed from the postal ser
vice, together with twenty.six others. In
dismissing them Postmaster General Villas
ordered tie publishing of the following state.
ment:
by order Of the postmaster general the
clerks named below have been removed from
the service for characterization in conspiring
to obstruct the regulation of the service by
the department and to injure its efficiency.
They have secretly attempted to form an as
sociation with view to dictate action to the
department, and many Of them have also
been guilty of deception toward their fellow
clerks by representing the purposes of such
association to be merely benevolent, and thus
entangling them. At the same tin the
postmaster general desires me to express his
qualification that few, comparatively, could
be found to engage in such scheme, and
his acknowledgment to those who have kept
the department informed
Under the circumstances Mr.. Perrucker,
no matter how efficient q clerk he may have
been, will receive very little sympathy from
the public, Democrats who were inclined to
tolerate his offensive partisanship, will not
shed teaas at his dismissal for entering int
combination to dictate to his official su.
periors. As rule csercive measures are
very Improbable ones.
One of Col. Plumb's Independent organs
says the press is flying to the rescue of the
doughty Quartermaster with flIial affection!
True. Fill them up and they'll show their
atfection-until another fellow fills them full
err Ofcourse, in filling contest Col. Quarter
master Plumb has liberal faucet to draw
| from; but il isn't often an Independent press
| is candid enough to admit it even by implica-
ton.
Upon the second page of to-day' FREE
TRADER appears letter from the Rev. s. NJ.
Davis, of the NJ. E. church of this city, in
reply to certain structures made week since
by the FREE TRADER upon his coarse in criti-
Ching from his pulpit the High School Alum
nj entertainment at Willis hall and the Hen.
pePin steamboat excursion party. Mr.. Davis
in his communication sees fit to propose TO
us a number of questions, which, as it would
open prsftless controversy and as no posi-
bic good could arise from threshing again
straw freed from every kernel of original
argument years and years ago, we prefer to
leave them unanswered Neither the letter
of Mr. Davis to the Ottawa Times nsr the one
to this paper in any wise sonvinces US that
the course pursued by Mr.. Davis in his pull
pit was either Unsuitable or in good taste.
Undoubtedly Mr.. Davis has well settled con-
victions apsn the subject of dancing, and 90
have other people, who are quite as much as
Mr. Davis entitled to believe as strongly in
the one direction as he does in the other.
Because they do not view things just as he
does, hardly justifes him in working himself
into a very uncomfortable state Of mind and
challenging them to meet him in joint debate
upon the very, very trits subject Of the
Christianity Of dancing either through the
columns of newspaper or upon the public
platform. The reverend gentleman having
gone out Of his way to pass &c parte judS-
ment upon the general unreliability of the
press and upox the character of the Chris
tianity of these who see no harm in dancing,
he ought not now to find fault when news
paper speaks Of his views as beng n ss.
ceedins bad taste. He is altogether toe
sensitive.
The Chicago Tribune denominates the Pre-
hibitionists lately convened at Springfield as
political anarchists For paper that is
anxious to win the members of that party
back to the republican ranks the Tribune is
certainly pursuing peculiar line of tactics.
As far as can be noted the ProhibitiCniAs
have nothing in common with anarchists,
and the insalt offered them by the leading
republican organ of lllinoi. is as brutal as
it is false.
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The following appeared in the Chicage
Daily Nslss of Wednesday:
Ex-State Senator jim Duncan, of Ottawa,
was in this city Monday OF, his way to Nj
agara Falls. He is graduate Of the semi
nary of Oar Lady of Angels at Niagara Falls
81 10 craau thora To Inliunr an nrntinp NJ the