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

, ty, and laughs at the other fellow, whom
he denounces as a "bolter." The democ
racy of the entire state will watch the re
suit in that district with interest.
This is the way the republican paper
of Grundy and De Kalb take TO j. Ivol
! Montgomery's nomination as senator fol
the Seventeenth Senatorial District: Mr.
Marshall, of the Kendall County Record
says:
The methods observed by Mr.. Montgom
cry and his friends are unworthy OF re-
publicans,
Joe Mackin is in the penitentiary. He
thought he had Ia moral right 10 tamper
with the ballot box.
The P.co,8 Is republican 10 The back
bone, but don't have TO support greenback,
democrats.
These hundred dollar delegates should
be lett at home. Republican conventions
cannot long afford 10 keep them in front,
The oomonauk R~reiNe fears that Mar
! shall will be called mugwump, because
he opposes Montgomery. We support re-
| publican nominees, but all the conventions
IN the universe cant make republican
out of Montgomery.
Had the three stood by them, with
Grundy's five votes, Montgomery could
never have been nominated, and after a
few ballots De Kalb would have been clad
TO drop the Illegal moral voter, and put up
man whose Republicanism and integrity
are unquestinned.
The result Of the convention at Plano
last THURSDAY is one TO bring shame on the
republicans of the 18th Senatorial District,
and the nominees of that convention may
find, when the votes are counted in No
vember, that the people are not to be trad,
ed for like cattle, In the interest OF any
man,
But wrong has been done the Repub-
lcans of this district that cannot be re-
paired. Mr. Faxon and his two associates
have forced upon us candidate for state
senator that even delegates who voted for
county an unsavory reputation for political
tratticing, and we do not deserve it.
Mr. Montgomery says he did vote in La
Sale county while he was resident of
De kalo county, but he thought he had a
moral right to do so He had been engag-
ed all summer working for Colonel Plumb,
and wanted TO help him all he could so he
did the final act-voted for him, though
living in another district. Congressman
Hopkins has some ten thousand majority
in the De kalb district; Colonel Plumbs
majority may not reach one thousand in
this district, and his election will be very
close. Now, why can't Congressman Hop !
kins spare few hundred voters from De
Kalb to come over here and give enough !
moral" votes to Colonel Plumb to make |
mis- election sure. 1t has long been the |
DRY with republicans that the democrats !
carry Indiana by borrowing number of !
"m0ral" voters from Kentucky, where they |
have democrats to spare, and our people |
never liked il.
Mr. Fletcher, of the Morris Herdid, re-
lieves himself in the following manner:
"Why did the Grundy and Kendall dele
gates remain out of the convention? Be
cause j. lvor Montgomery has not been
as a republican; because the
only act of his since making the claim for
as a republican was the cast
Ing of fraudulent vote in the town of
\ Worthwhile, La Sale county, in November,
1884; because of deception and fraud
against Kendall county in 1884,
and repeated in 1886, by securing to f. W.
Faxon the pledge of the De kalb delega-
ton to him for representative in return for
his, FaXon's, vote with De Kalb county for
senator, unbeknown to the voters of Ken
lall county, declaring them from the right
If expression of choice as to their repre-
because of the general and nu
nerous charges against J. Ivor Montgom
,ry as a political tickster, as legal sharp
whose nav has been the receptacle for
)elf fleeced from lltigants whose misfor-
une il has been to fall into his hands as
,lients. But why prolong the reasons.
They are sufficiently numerous, and any
me of them sufficiently strong to impress
he delegates whe did not enter the con
,ention that the course taken was proper, G
md that the action of the convention was |
lot binding upon the voters of Grundy '
ounty republicans by any act of their del a
gates" d
G
The Grundy county delegates assign the a
among others, as the first rea- $
ons for withdrawing from "Jivor's' ssna- I
orial convention; @
1st They were informed that Mr.. C
Montgomery, candidate for senator, while
onducting canvass In 1884 in the inter =
st of Hon. Ralph Plumb, in whose service :,
lie was working, claims TO have been q
itizen Of De Kalb county, but to have r
asst a vote illegally in La Sale county,
it 10 have been illegal at that
ime.