The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-09-18

ed Judge Cody would accept nomination
for congress and make the canvass in this
district against Col, Plumb the latter gem
organ in Ottawa and in so doing has Sc
cured Col. Stevens late organ, The Eayth
with W. b. Wilson as the butt end Of the con.
Germ the other of only two men in town
whs have the brazen shamelessaess to sell
their names for keepers Of political brothels.
One of the most curious things to me, Mr..
Editor, is the assurance of this man Plumb.
In his argan he poses as a Christian gentle
man. donating bonds to schoolsand churches
and attitudinizng AS pious Christian;
and yet he is forced to have his cause
as politician pleaded by gang of editorial
prostitutes. 1t would be difficult matter,
in this district. full Of republican papers, 10
find one sheet honestly aid without pay ad-
vocating Col Plumbs election az sound pub.
/ lie policy. He has had TO bug everv mouth
piece in this district that is to-day udyOCat-
| ing his claims, with perhaps two or three
exceptions, and the latter do not R05g object
to his election, simply because they are party
papers and do not care to oppose his election
because he has been nominated by their
party. There is not q republican editor in
this district who heartily supports Col.
accepted pecuniary fayors of some sort from
him What a spectacle Is it any more
righteous in Christian statesman to duyI
newspapers 10 deceive the people in his favor
than it is to obtain their money by false rep.
reservations?
The last newspaper venture of The Colonel
| is revival. 1t curious what an "ornery'
set Of men the Colonel IS able to have about
him and keep his stomach right side up. for
no one else with such an apparatus less than
copper-lined could endure such smells; and
having once escaped the stencil Ohough at
an outrageous cost the slrangcst part Of all
is that he should have returned to his
wallowing.
THE E.Da flies W n. Wilson'S name at its
head, but everyone who knows Watts will
hesitate to give him credit for its utterances
Watts has some claims to responsibility. lie
| has heretofore enleavorel to be gentleman
and leopard does not change his spots in a
week
1t is not difficult to lay back the mask
Wilson wears and show who are making
tool of him. Modesty is not the most promi
nent of their characteristics
Mr.. one Of our most talented
young men expects to study law in Attorney
Genleman's office in Ottawa this winter
Erth
Mr.. - one Of our most popular
young, will 90 to Ottawa and enter Willard
Gentleman's law office. -Eqrth.
Fowler Bros. have several large cases from
Kendall county pending at this term Of the
Supreme COurt-Erth.
Thi is the same gang who two years ago
ran an independent organ, with the hui
let-headed Frank kendig as The visible ED
of the sewer. 1t is the same gang to whom
Colonel Plumb Through father-i law paid
81, 600 in one lump and $500 in another
lump TO plead his cause as an honorable
politician. 1t is the same gang who, having
been ousted out of offices held as democrats,
did the dirty work of Col. Plumb's campaign
two years ago, not only in their paper but
in their Office as his special agents, distrbut-
ing the convincing arguments" whose Jingle
defeated Mr.. Cullen in the convention by
four votes, when ut noon of the convention
day he had an honest majority of the dele
gates. 1t is the same gang who bled Bill
Miligan four years ago for their support as
democrats. who in turn levied on other can.
didates and business men to pay them the
blood money. 1t is the same gang who two
years ago, claiming to be democrats, sat in
Il democratic convention and afterwards |
boled its nominations because Smith and
Millgan promised their printing office their
patronage, while Taylor refused to sell. 1t
is the same gang who now, rs Plumb's scar
let women, attempt to dictate to democrats
VIII, IN they shall nomin .te for off &c.
This is the kind Of timber that is using
Watts Wilson as sewer-pipe! This is the
kind of timber Col Plumb employs to sound
his praises as a high toned, exemplary Chris
tan gentleman-a gang of independents"
for revenue only, who never yet said good
word for democrat or republican that wasn't
p lid for in "co,n Of the realm" Do demo
Gratis expect such q gang to elect them to
office? Bah men nominated at the dicta-
ton of such gang ought to be buried out
sight to save our county from an epidemic
of typhoid or cholera Colonel Plumb's can
vass must indeed be in pretty plight that 1t
is necessary to fall back upon such scurf to
plead his cause? EAcus.
The commissioners Bills.
At the semi-annual meeting Of the town
auditors recently, it was vote hereafter not
to pay more than one commissioner for over
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