The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-30

large and halt WAS cried to railroad ag
pression. Mr.. Bryant had the temerity Il
attack the mighty railroad corporations, II
behalf Of the people, and Judge Gilber
has brought his scholarly attachments ant
sound legal mind to boar upon the law
and their legitimate construction, to the
same end, and In doing 80 had the courage
TO attack these mammoth monopolies anc
at the same time TO com bat the legal pre-
JUDGES OF the day.
The report by one of the unscrupulou
Ottawa independent" sheets that BartoI
has been offered money by democrats Il
withdraw Ia foolish falsehood
The Joliet Press, a republican paper
don't like the FREE TRADER, and speak
CONTEMPORARY of its editors, Thanks
Praise OF US by the Pres would make u
fear we were letting down to the milkan'
water, wishy washy tone OF the miscallet
"Press"
Mrs. James G. Blaine IT,, has written t.
a prom. inent crest and coat of arms manu-
factory In Philadelphia, asking to be fur
nished with a combined crest of the two
families of Nevin and Blaine, at Is 81
English, you know"
The poor old Aurora Beacon Is an age be
hind the progress of the times. 1t wipes
It's specks, takes pinch of grandmother
snuff and proceeds to argue that the rapid
payment of the public debt by the admin
istration is "why times are dull" This In
the face Of the fact that times are moi
dull, as every paper in the land declaresl
The United States Circuit Court at De
troit Judge Brown, has just affirmed the
constitutionality Of the federal law, for
bidding the importation of laborers, under
contract, into the United States.
1t Is remarkable and true that the great
monopolists of this country opposed the
passage of this law, and their bitterness
towards II has been in exact ratio as to
their protection" by the Ubiquitous laws
enacted In their interest by subservien,
republican congress.
The managers Of both political parties in
Indiana have agreed to do away with pa
rades, torchlight professions, barbecues
&c. This method OF getting up political
boon was the result of the Indiana repub
llcans having more money than they knew
what to do with This money was partly
squeezed out of the republican otlicehold
ers and partly directly from the govern
ment's secret service fund. But Its extrav.
agant use and the elevation of VIGOROUSLY
corrupt men to office by Its means at length
set the people to thinking, and they turned
against the party that employed money to
buy political places.
"Jivor' Montgomery, the republican
nominee for senator In the counties of De.
Kalb, Kendall and Grundy, has withdrawn.
The pressure Of the bosses was too heavy
for him.
Judge Wallace, of the United States
Circuit Court of New York, decided that
shares owned by stockholders in national
banks are taraJle property. Thirty five
eastern banks combined to resist the levy
Ing and collection of taxes on bank stock
and employed the ablest counsel in the city
with the result as stated.
The Streator Free Press says "Rhein.
hardt, the republican candidate for the
state senate, is making bitter fight"
II is strange that In so large county as La
Sale, and one 80 densely populated and
with plenty of good and able men, the re,
publicans should have been compelled to
name new conner and total stranger to
nearly all of the voters!
The Joliet papers mention a visit Of
Judge Cody to that city, recently, where he
was met by prominent democrats from all
over the district One of them opposed
the judge, politically, says: They all
liked Judge Cody firstrate. His face was
the picture of honesty and old fashioned
Intelligence and he greeted all with a
warm hand shake that was at least reviv-
ing, Judge Cody stated that the nomina-
ton came to him unsought, but that he had
consented to run on platform advocating
political honesty in every department of
political work. He deprecated, he said, the
plan now in vogue in this district, of run.
ming for office and obtaining it, simply by
spending large sums of money. That pol
itician is dangerous who depends not on
the free expression of the peoples wish,
but rather on the purchasing power of
money He believes public Office is a
public trust, and that it should he admins
tered in a spirit of honesty in every par.
ticular."
Here is an item of news which not one
republican newspaper in II Thousand has
noticed editorially-they are too busy
abusing Cleveland, IL is: GENERAL John
NJ. Corse. the hero of Allatoona, has been
appointed postmaster at Boston"
An eastern paper says; The most war
like man In these times of peace is the
average republican editor who never
smelled gdnpower, -except at soldiers
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