The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-12-01

AZ Bridgeport packing house butcher on
trial for drunk and dlsorderly Ina police
cour, Democrats are not saints, but II 10
fair TO saw tina, never did the democratic
n,ess Az a body treat republican president
with 80 little respec, or with 20 gross In
dacency OF language AZ has been common
the last four years In the leading republi
can papers of this cnunuy Yet save IN
his pos,ess,on Of an simple body, there has
been no evidence Of grossn-ss-- cUarsenes'
in An, Act of President Cleveland him
self or his administration. That has been
pure ard bayines,-ik The only hint OF
scandal ever attached 70 II WAS In the Gar
load matter, when the telephone suits were
begun, and the Supreme Court of the |,
: has fully viadlc.ted the position taken
| by the government In that matter, by sus-
talnipg In recent decision the govern
ments position
But the administration bss not suited the
politicians any more than d!d thatoi Ar'hui,
which was chara teri2ed bya similar re
gard for the business interests ~ the coun
try rather than those OF the politicians. Ae
| 10 civil service reform, even Mr. liarrlson's
indianapolis organ IL compelled To admit
that "it WAS no, diTegarded by the present
administration" The foreign trade Of the
country has been aided by the new inter.
n.tion,l parcels post and the foreign
mail service has been Improved and eX-
pedlted and that, too, without the applica-
ton OF subsidies; the cost OF the executive
work Of the government has been reduced;
the gross f.voritlsm formerly shown In
army appointments has been unheard of;
large additions have b0ep made to the war
navy OF the country, both 10 ships and In
the application Of dynamite TO naval de-
Tense. for the frs, time in history; the
army and naval ordinance bureaus have for
the first time since the war been placed on
decent and respectable footing creditable
20 = first-class power vast tracts OF I'M
earned government lands, AZ least eighty
five millions Of acres have been redeemed
from land thieves; the operations of the
treasury have been prominently srt'sfac-
tory 70 the business world; and large
blocks Of net-due bonds have been re-
deemed and cancelled at prices that, while
the purchases kept down the surplus and
prevented money panic, they, at the
same time, defeated the projects OF the
bond holders 10 squeeze the treasury and
the people through exhorbitsnt premiums.
The administration has been An able one;
and when the republicans shall have recov-
cred q or offices, and have quieted their
hunger and thirst. and sat down to smoke
th post -p,n Hal cigar, they too will join
the rest OF the world In looking back TO
President Cleveland's administration as
one ef the ablest and pares, In our c0untry's
history, At the same time coDgratulating
themse that the President made an
Issue 10 the campaign and did not, as so
many republicans have done, fall back on
the record OF his naturalization a. the
only question 10 controversy. Had he done
that, the result might have been different.
The prohibition vote Ia Illinois this year
WAS 25 sos as against 1904 four years ago.
II 10 noticeable that the republican swear
at the prohibition party Is just twice as
vigorous ~ II WAS four years ago.
Harrison's vote was 81 ,379 greater than
Cleveland's In Illinois; Fiier's 1851
greater than Palmsrs
The New York brewers have turned out
sill union men from their establishments.
Mrs. Gen. VIM. r. Sherman died on
Wednesday in New York city of heart
disease. She was a daughter Of the cele-
brated Thomas Ewing She was Jealous
Is nov Jesuit priest at Woodstock, Nd.
The burial will tske place at 81. Louis
this afternoon
Mr. Powderly has been elected muster
workman Of the X. Of L., with ample pow
or to practically run the order In the way
that best suits himself The Knights are
TO be congratulated In their wisdom.
Po~derly has no doubt made some mis-
takes, but he Is unquestlonably the best
man In the Order-the wlsssi and most
conservative, As we'll as the safest man To
be trusted with the immense power the
master workman Yields, whether viewed
from the knights or the publlcs stand
point.
On Nov. 9Th, during the morning
Grand Forks, ID. +, telegram reports very
pleasant weather fsr ners blowing In straw
hats and linen busters! At 80 a blizzard
struck the place and the mercury fell 81
degrees 10 few minutes,
Indiana's official count gives Harrison a
plurality OF only 2,34S over Cleveland
Tallmnn, cashier OF the Traders Bank,
has been indicted by a Cook county grand |
jury for ENLIGHTENMENT
The new steel cruiser, Boston, arrived At
quarantine New YORK, on Saturday last |
from Hayu with three Of her crew sick |
with yellow foyer, four others having died |
Lord Sscbville-Wes and family, and |
Joseph Chamberiin and his bride, allied |
Cor England On the French ship, La Bour-
gogne, on Saturday last
Railroad men are uneasy at present a. |
there threatens, from the tone If the men |
Mt Indianapolis, 20 be general lie up of |
the roads 10y the switchmen.