The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-14

presumeS to insist that the Ottawa peo-
| pie shall recognize HIM SOclally,-ll
unlimited, forcing himself into social
gatherings. as at the recent fishing
party OF gentlemen, and as speaker at
| the Evans banquet, when he demand
ed of the committee that he be allowed
to make a response to a toast, and
made it. Even the timid people who
may have yielded to his demands rath-
er than run the risk of having
themselves discussed by him would
probably have hesitated if they had
been better informed as to his past
| life and conduct. Ottawa people, the
FREE TRADER believes are hardly
ready to associate very intimately with
or give much weight to the censorship
of one who has been conspicuous in
the police courts of sister cities as Il
publisher of brawdy house papers. and
who has been indicated by the u. 5.
grand jury for sending obscene matter
through the mail.
Rose says $50 to Detroit:" but
though all the people of Ottawa can't
go there, they can have the benefit of Il
few facts in his career in that city and
from them they may judge what man
ner of man he has been. what his posi-
| tion in society here should be and how
beneficial to the community he is or is
likely to be-
Rose went to Detroit in the spring
of 1877, after a varied career as rail
road hand, oil Spectator and fast liver
in the oil regions, where las friend
he helped to Squander the two and a
half millions which that amazing
fool, Coal Oil Johnny, blew in in gam
bling, riot and fast living in about two
years. Then when cleaned out he went
to Bay City, Mich, and there became
a temperance lecturer and publisher
'of a red ribbon paper, but when the
reform business" played out he went
busted to Detroit and started flash
paper-a weekly paper Of chr0niqueS
ScdndulenSeS called Roses Nose, printed
on the material of w. ii. Trainor'S
Public Leader, a liquor paper. 1T was
such a paper" says the Ne'cs, las no
decent man would take into his house.
Considerable enmity was engendered
| by the reckless exposure of the doings
of omcyeom folks and the publication Of
torrid account of the McCoskry
scandal capped the climax" This
cago Times on a Saturday and Roses
Nose printed different and infinitely
more filthy account in the afternoon
of the same day. The Ne,cs says that
when Rose was called on touching this
| publication he said
! that payment had been made weekly
paper to induce delay in the exposure
of the scandal, which had been prom
ised. He declined to say whether or
not his paper was the one, telling the
reporter he might d,aaC has o,rn infer
enceS.
On April p, 1878, Roses Nose was
suppressed by the police, week after
his McCoskry filth. Then he changed
the name to Roses Ne,cS.
On May Goth, 1878, his paper was
again suppressed, called then Roses
NerS and Bay city GOrler On this
occasion he begged off by promising
he would not sell any papers, but sent
out his mail and county lots as usual.
land was indicted by the L. 5. grand
jury for sending obscene matter
through the mails.
OF this paper the POSt-1rib,mc says {:
1.-THE issues of the past two weeks
contained articles Of the vilest deScrip-
ton"
On this occasion he was arrested by
| ROundSman Dexter for printing and
circulating an obscene publication,
containing among other things says
| the complaint, divers wicked, false,
| impiOus and obscene matters and de-
scriptiOns manifestly tending TO the
corruption of youth and representing
| the grOsSest scenes Of leWdneSS and
Obscenity." On June 9TH, the case was
argued, and Rose was bound over to
the Recorders Court (criminal) in
bonds of $500. He left the town on
August 23d, and after that date the
action was mol pressed. He was after
ward so worried by the police that on
June Sth he said he was going to get
out of it. which promise he repeated
to the police on August 9Th.
This is but bare outline of Roses
dongs in that city. The FREE TRAD
Err may allude to them again in the
future. They are sufficient, however,
to show what manner Of man he was
then-a publisher Of salacious litera'
ture, which at its best, says the Fra
Press, May 18th, was degrading and
quite as harmful as undisguised OBJ
scenity." The action of the authOri'
ties and several suits for libel broke
him down and he went to Cincinnati,
Did he reform? Not bit of it. His
Sunday Ne,rs in Cincinnati was, says
the ERq,drer, IA disreputable sheet,
and after running few months, died
a sudden death, when. after the vii
famous attack on Judge Taft's charac'
ter, the publishers, Rose * Harkrader
got wind that Capt. Wappenstein had
ordered their arrest if they got out an
other issue, and they concluded Il
lquit.