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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

| Average per cent
| Thus the only southern state as low
as the lowest New England state is
Louisiana, while the average Of the
southern states with any considerable
negro vote is 10 per cent above that Of
the New England states.
1t must be borne in mind, also, that
voting is something new to the negroes
and they have not, like the whites,
yet fully acquired the voting habit. In
Wyoming, Kansas and other states
women are allowed to vote at certain
elections yet not one in 20 ever avails
herself of the privilege; and what rca-
son is there to believe that the Hitter
ate plantation negroes Of Louisiana,
Mississippi or Alabama care any more
about the right to vote? And with the
negroes Indifferent to their political
privileges the political contest in the
Southern States is too one sided to
bring out full vote of the whites.
No, the object of the Lodge bill is
not to secure to the negroes any right
to vote that is now denied them, but
it is, by means Of government ennis
sares, in "A dozen OF southern con-
grcSslOnal districts to register and
marshal the negroes in compact bodies
and cOmrel them to vote, and then
the browning infamy of the bill is that
it creates returning boards, whose GER
tincates are to give the holders the
right to participate in the organiza-
ton of the House. These returning
boards will be the creatures Of the
National Administration, under the
orders Of the Boss who presides over
the Republican National Committee.
The selection of "A majority Of the
House can be dictated from Washing
ton, and executed by men who are re-
sponsible to no one and who will be
selected for their rascality. The Re-
publican party now hold a majority in
congress in the face of popular vote
of half a million against them, and
the design Of the Lodge bill is to steal
the next congress with popular ma
jority Of a million against them.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12
LEWIS STEWARD.

The Democratic convention at JOl-
let on Wednesday unquestionably did
a wise thing in nominating Lewis
Steward, of Plano, as the Democratic
candidate for Congress in this (thc
Sth) district. There is no man in the
district better known or of cleaner
record. He is not only a man Of edu-
cation and ability, but "A man Of the
people. Carrying on for years not only
a large mandatory of agricultural
implements at Plano, but also largely
engaged in agricultural operations, he
Is an extensive employer of labor, and
in such way as always to have enjoy
ed the esteem and confidence OF his
employees who, instead of a hard master,
lever found in him their best and truest
friend.
AS a politician the career of Mr..
Steward dates back to early in the sew
enties. There was in those days sort
Of farmers and laboring mems con-
yention in Chicago, attended by few
sensible men and good many theo-
rsts and cranks. They got into an all
days wrangle over the currency ques-
ton, when Lew Steward, getting his
mad" up, could contain himself no
longer, and taking the floor, made a
half hours speech in favor of a safe,
judicious, but liberal issue of green
backs, presenting the subject in such
strong, vigorous language, and with
such an array OF facts, figures, argu
ment and strong common sense, that
he carried the convention by storm,
and from that day forth was recog-
nized as the most prominent figure
in and virtual leader of the then new
ly formed and rising Greenback party
Of Illinois.
In 1876, there being a virtual agree
ment between the Democrats and
Greenbackers OF Illinois on all essen
tial points in politics, the two parties
coalesced in the nomination Of a Joint
State ticket, placing Mr.. Steward at
the head for Governor. The two par
ties were strong enough to have car
ried the state, but Mr.. Steward and
his Greenback associates on the ticket
refusing openly to endorse the finance
plank in the st. Louis National Dem
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

A good deal of surprise is affected IN
Republican newspapers that Gen.
John B Gordon, at recent reunion
of confederate veterans at Chatta-
nooga, should have told them that the
reason why the confederate cause
failed was because slavery was wrong
and therefore in defending it the con-
federates were on the wrong side"
The truth is, Gen. Gordon is by no
means exceptional among the confed-
crate leaders in this view. Gen. Lee
substantially said the same thing, and
Gen. Longstreet often said so.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

Speaking Of the conference report
on the silver question presented to the
L. s. Senate and House on Tuesday,
the Inter Ocean has the cheek TO say;
at will stand out in history as one of
the great landmarks of American
progress, "A monument to the states
manship of the Republican party. 1t
is certainly the event of the period
After years Of agitation and friction d
conclusion has been reached which
bids fair to be the end Of the conflict
and eliminate the silver question from
politics" And so on.
The GOODNESS OF this is almost suf-
flcient to account for the sudden cessa-
ton OF the heated term. The Repub-
lican solution offered for the silver
question was the Window bill that
passed the House, involving worse
complete decentralization of silver than
that stolen through congress in 1879,
and its degradation TO a commodity as
complete as corn and potatoes. 1t
was only by the tlrmness of the Demo-
Gratis in the senate, aided by half a
dozen Of republican senators from the
silver states, that such calamity was
averted. The honor Of the event,
which fixes zone of the great land
marks OF American progress there
fore belongs to the Democrats, whose
firmness and devotion alone saved the
nation from falling hopelessly into the
clutches OF the millionaires, bond
m0ngers and mortgage sharks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

1t seems to be pretty well settled at
Washington that the article in the
July North american Rerie,c, cOmpris-
ing such caustic review of MIR.
Reeds course as speaker of the House,
was written by James G.. Blaine. OF
course no state as small as as Maine
can hold two such men at the same
time in peace, and the personal enmity
between them which has long been in
tensely bitter, becomes doubly inten-
sited with every new step taken by
Reed to become an aggressive leader
of his party.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

Maxwell and Williams have been
formally held without bail in Jail at
Morris to await the action of the
grand jury on the charge of the MUIR
der of Charles Decker and the deadly
assaultupon his mother, Mrs. Stevens.
1t also appears there is a woman in
the case. Detective Smith has dis
covered that while Maxwell was in
the penitentiary he had Louis Simp-
son for cell-mate: that Simpson,
through his sister Mary, who had been
in the employ Of the Deckers six
months ago, had learned of the
Decker box supposed to contain a
large amount of money, and that it
was through Simpson, therefore, that
Maxwell formed the plan to get pos
session Of the box.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

James Harrington. for many years a
noted Democratic politician of Kane
county, died at his home in Geneva
on the 7th inst. in the 64th year OF his
age. He was a strong man on the
stump, and had been elected various
times as the minority member from
the Kane district to the Illinois legis-
laturc, where he was always con-
spicuous figure and leading member.
For some reason he took a dislike to
Col. w. r. Morrison, and was mainly
instrumental in his defeat in the bat
tie with Logan for the senatorship in
lSS5-which about ended his career on
the political stage.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12
FRIDAY.

Receipts of cattle, $1,000, of which
$500 were Texans. Prime native
steers steady; Others weak and on the
downturn. Receipts of hogs, $4,000;
slow with another downturn of lOc,
making drop of 20c foBthe week thus
far. The great bulk Of packing and
shipping grades and light mixed sold
at SO. 10, and the best heavy AT $3.50.
Receipts Of sheep 5000, and all sold at
steady prices. Board of Trade markets
were active under lead Of corn. Corn
sold up to 30 cents for September, clos
in" cent up at 3Ss cents. Wheat was
strong early, selling 90 cents to 90a for
September, but the close was at 30
cents. Oats were up cent all around.
Provisions were higher early, but
closed about steady, except pork which
broke and closed lower.
News has just been received that de
France. a fine town of $1,000 inhabi-
tantS on the west coast Of Martinique.
French West Indies, was almost total
ly destroyed by fire last month and
that many lives were lost.
Bishop Ireland delivered stirring
address before the National Educa-
tiona, Association in st. Paul ycster-
day morning, in which he denied that
Catholics were opposed to State
schools.
The sensational suit of Judge Gear
ing, Of Chicago, against prominent
members Of the Second Presbyterian
church for criminal libel, was dis
missed 10y Justice Blume yesterday.
At the meeting of the Supreme
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias in
Milwaukee yesterday, George w. Shaw
of Eau Claire, Wis, was elected Su-
preme Chancellor.
The Louisiana Legislature decided
early yesterday morning that the Gov
ernor had no right to veto the lottery
bill, and IL has now become "A law.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

The Pennsylvania democrats held a
fully attended enthusiastic convention
at Scranton on the I'd inst, and nom
mated state ticket with which they
intend to best that recently nominal
ed by the republicans by order of Boss
Quay. The ticket consists of Robert
f.. Pattison for governor, Chaunccy F..
Black for lieutenant governor, and
William ii. Barclay for secretary of in
ternal affairs.
Pattison is called kind Of horse
shoe candidate, from the symbol of
good luck, having once on former oc-
casion beaten the republicans in their
banner state. He made good COVER
nor and left a clean and honorable re-
cord. The other candidates are men
of equal fitness and spotless character.
The real question at issue in Penn
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

The weather report for June shows
the mean temperature for June in H.
linois and Iowa to have been n de-
grees, point never before reached
since the establishment of the signal
service, eighteen years ago. The near
est approach was mean temperature
of - degrees in 1874 and in 1882. 1t is
rather strange that this hottest June
should have been but one year after
the coolest June in the whole period,
which was the record Cf the June Of
1889 with its 81 degrees. On twenty
four Of the last months thirty days
the maximum temperature was so de-
grees or higher, and on seven days it
was 80 or higher. The total precipi-
tatiOn during the month was 4.5l
inches, which was nearly the June
average.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

Further details are given in yester-
days dispatches of the cyclone at
Fargo, n. D., showing it to have been
more destructive than our yesterday
mornings reports indicated. Many
buildings were destroyed, seven per-
sons were killed and nineteen wounded.
A Chicago & Northwestern train just
leaving Fargo at the time of the storm
was blown from the track and many
of the passengers were severely injured.
Full particulars are given in our tele-
graph columns.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12
THAT MOORE CASE.
Two Theories of the Defense for O'Brien
and Ford.

There are two theories advanced by
the knowing ones as to the probable
defense which will be set up by O'Brien
and Ford, the murderers of David
Moore. First, it is stated that both
men will attempt to establish an
alibi, but this theory is hardy worthy
of consideration, as the blood on their
clothing and handkerchiefs, which
has been shown by chemical analysis
to be human blood. even without the
evidence of the women, must first be
explained away.
The second theory is that it will be
attempted to prove that the Winder-
ling woman was not present at the
killing and knew nothing about it
until it became public property, and
that the Ford woman. in order to save
herself has committed perjury. Then
Ford would attempt to play the in
jured husband act and ring in OBrien
as having come to his rescue to pre-
vent Moore from killing him. This,
of course, is very pretty theory, but
as il would take wonderful imagi-
nation to conceive Of how it became
necessary to use coupling pin to
''rescue" a friend. this story would
hardly wash. Again, if the men did
not know of the meeting, why did
they carry coupling pin?
These are theories, but just what
the defense will be no one, except the
men and their attorneys, know.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12
THEY PLEAD NOT GUILTY.
The Motion to Quash Overruied-A speedy
Trial Promised.

The interest in the Moore murder
case is still alive and the Announce
ment that the murderers are to annear
in court always brings out large
number or curious people. The legal
fraternity, that is as many as were not
otherwise employed, have been in con
slant attendance on the proceedings
in court so far and OF course number
gather considerable information in
this way. When court opened at A.
NJ. Tuesday the court room was well
filled and the prisoners were brought
in and given their accustomed seats,
The counsel for the people and defend
ants soon arrived and the court called
for arguments on the motion to uuasl,.
Mesers. McDOugall and Fowler sub
mitted the motion without argument.
and the court promptly overruled the
same, remarking that he saw nothing
illegal in the indictment.
The prisoners were then called on to
plead which they did, without taking
their eyes from the court. Both plead,
ing mot guilty"
States Attorney Blake-If the court
please deem it very necessary that an
order for special venire issue at once.
and these men be tried as speedily as
possible, say in the month of August.
The Court feel disposed to 20 to
trial in the case as soon as convenient.
There will be no delay.
Attorney McDOugall complained
about trying the case during the warm
season and also stated that he was ill
and did not care to begin at once as
his health might be dangerously i'm
paired.
The COurt-Well, gentlemen, all OBJ
jectiOns to the calling of special We
nire must be ready by Saturday morn
ing. That is all, gentlemen.
Ford and O'Brien were then taken
into the Probate Court room and en-
gagged in a three hours consultation
with their attorneys. Both men bear
up well under their close confinement
although Ford appeared somewhat
nervous while OBrien had resigned,
determined look on his face. 1t is un-
derstood that M. II. Molonev will as
Sist the states attorney in the prose-
CutiOn.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

When, according TO the programme
arranged by the Republican steerers,
the motion was made in the United
States senate on Monday to- take up
the Mckinley tariff bill and rush it
through, the silver men showed fight
in sporting parlance, they event
for blood" and got it. Morrill,, as
chairman of the finance committee,
made the motion. and when the vote
was taken six Republicans were found
voting with the Democrats against
it, and the motion was lost. The six
were Plumb, Squire, Teller, Stewart,
Mitchell and Allen-all from silver
states. The stand they took was, that
there should be no tariff legislation
until the silver bill was disposed Of.
The silver bill, of course, is in the
hands of the conference committee,
made up, on the part of the house, of
enemies of silver: and the plan of Reed
and Mckinley was to keep the bill
there until after the tariff and cleo
tions bills were disposed of, and then
Kill it. This little scheme, it is shown,
the silver men in the senate have the
power to defeat: and now their de-
mand is that the silver bill shall at
once be reported from the conference
committee, acted upon and passed
not providing for free coinage, but
for the purchase of 4, 100000 ounces of
silver month, and the issue of legal
tender silver certificates upon it. And
in this shape there is nodoubt the bill
will at once be passed by both houses
and sent to the president. 1t is the
only condition on which the Mckinley
bill can ever get hearing in the seE-
ate. 1t is pretty rough on the tariff
monOpolistS, who hate silver as they
do poison. But why should the
spirit Of mortal be proud?" Their
case is the humliating one of root,
hog or die and rather than fOrego
the plumber the Mckinley tariff has
in store for them they will root"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

The Peoria Transcript joins the Chi
cago Tribune, Streator Free Press and
about dozen of other Republican
papers in Illinois in raising its voice
against the Mckinley tariff iniquty.
Abatiny none in its devotion to the
principle of protection, it recognizes
little that is godlke in the tariff bill
enunciated by the eminent gentleman
from Ohio. There is too much East
and not enough West in it. To tell
the truth, the East is getting to be a
very large-sized infant" If party
papers were less hidebound congress
would be slow to pass measures with
out hearing from the responsible press
and independent thinkers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

The Philadelphia Press says the
place to fight the lottery is in congress,
where, by single act, the lottery
privileges becomes worthless "by cut
ting it off from mails, express compan-
les, banks, and all the privileges of in
ter-State commerce. Uutil this is
done, congress will be, as it has been
for many years, as accessory after the
fact to the lottery and its Swindlers."
The Press don't know what it is talk
ing about. The Postal Laws and Reg
ulations now forbid the mailing Of let
tiers, registered and unregistered, to
the Louisiana State Lottery or its
managers, or the payment of money
orders drawn in their favor: but the
letters, registered and Others, are sent
to the New Orleans National Bank,
and money orders intended for the lot
terry are drawn payable to that bank
We should like to know by what sort
of a law congress is to stop letters
from being sent to that bank or money
orders drawn in its favor. Is it pro-
posed that pOstmaSters throughout the
country, or the postmaster at New
Orleans, shall open all letters address
ed to that or any other bank the lot
terry may employ in its business and
withhold from delivery such as are
supposed to refer to lottery business,
or that express packages of money
from New Orleans shall be siezed at
any Office throughout the country on
suspi cion that the money is in pay
ment of lottery prizes? Hardly. Lou
isana alone can rid the country OF that
gigantic Swindle.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

The region in Colorado known as
Tin Cup is in culver of excitement
over the discovery Of what looks like a
gold mine of incalculable richness. The
lead seems to be mountainous in extent
and the lowest assay thus far made
places the yield at twenty-five ounces
to the ton. Two men are taking out
s., 900 worth of metal a day now, and
if the streak extends no further than
the length of their claim it is worth
half million.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

The Lake Champaign region, n. Y,
was visited by cyclone on Tuesday,
and the Bluff Point Hotel, on the lake
shore, owned by the Delaware and
Hudson company, was blown into the
lake, involving, it is feared, serious de-
struction of life, and it is feared that
number of persons who were out in
rOwboats have been lost. Sixteen or
more are said to be missing at that
DOint
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

ocratic platform, which leaned strong
~ toward the side OF hard money,
many Democrats on the one side and
Grcenbackers on the other "ilew the
track" and the combination state
ticket was defeated 10y from 1000 10
10000 majority.
Since then, however, Greenbackism,
as "A separate political entity, has pass
ed away, and Mr.. Steward, when tax
ing any part in politics, has ranged
himself on the side Of the Democracy,
and within the last few years especial
~, since the tariff rather than curren-
cy has become the great political issue,
he has on all lifting occasions been
strong and outspoken in his advocacy
of and devotion to the cause Of tariff
reform, and Of course in that behalf
labOring for the success OF the Demo-
cratic party.
Unlike Mr.. Hill, who at best is little
more than a political popinjay, Mr.
Steward is man Of ideas and has "a
mind Of his own. Voters of the Sth
district can rely upon him that he will
be the tool Of no faction or clique, the
Servitor Of no monopOlies, rings or
syndicates, and that to the bess OF his
ability he will faithfully represent his
constituents and strive to promote
their highest interests.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12
FHE NEWS.
THURSDAY.

The Appellate Court of Cook county
Yesterday affirmed the decree of di-
yorce granted by Judge Jameson to
Leslie Carter. The motion of Mrs.
Carter for new trial was overruled.
Mrs Carter should therefore be in
complete readiness to go on the stage.
Notwithstanding the suspension of
specie payment in Uruguay the run on
the banks at Montevdeo continues,
while in the Argentine Republic the
government has issued SlOO, 900 in
paper money to ease the financial
strain.
The anticipated financial collapse in
the South American republics, where
speculation of all kinds has been fast
and furious for the past two years,
seems to have arrived
General Clinton b. Fisk, the we'll
known PrOhibitionist, died yesterday
morning at his residence in New York
city.
Five men were killed in collision
on the Louisville & Nashville road
yesterday morning.
Many fatalities are reported to have
occurred on Lake Champlain during a
severe storm.
A rough official count at Washing
ton places the population Of st. Louis
at 44l, l24
The bill admitting Wyoming as a
state has gone to the president for
signature.
Over 700 people were killed by a
cyclone in Arabia.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

sylvania, however is not the success
of Democracy or Republicanism, Pat
tlson or Delamater, but whether Quay
shall be indicated. sin this proud
old commonwealth, "as then, y. Herald
says, though ordinarily as safely re-
publican as Vermont, there is always
somebody to be sandpapered or white
washed, the election becomes kind Of
diSinfecting business, and republicans,
sensitive under such processes, 60 into
opposition So it looks as if Mr.. De-
lamatcr may have hard time and Mr..
Pattison slip in by his former good
luck.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

The Farmers Alliance men up in
Hits Winnebago) congressional dis
trict have come to an agreement to
join the Democrats at convention at
Oregon in nominating Andrew Ash
ton, Of Rockford, as candidate for
congress against Hit. The combina-
ton includes not only all the Demo
Gratis and many hundreds of Republl-
can farmers in the Alliance, but the
Prohbtionsts in the district, who to
a man are opposed TO Hit.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

Nobody seems to be more distressed
than the Pennsylvania Republicans
that the cOlored brother at the South
doesn't get his rights. Fully fourth
of the Republican voters of Pennsyl-
vania are negroes: yet of the 204 dele
gates in the late Quay convention not
one was colored man: there is not a
colored man a postmaster in the state
and not colored man in the state
holds an Office worth $500 year.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-12

The claim of some of the republican
papers that the lottery in the LOuisi-
ana legislature was supported and
passed by its democratic members is
not borne out in his veto of the bill
by Gov. Nichols, who shows that it
was passed by the colored republicans,
twelve of whom in the house and four
in the senate gave the necessary two
thirds majority.