The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-16

near as effective in putting down your enemy
as ballots. Again we say: Elect the republic
can county officers and you put hundreds of
dollars into Barnes hands and enable him to 90
ON publishing paper to destroy the business
of the very men who have the power, by their
votes, to prevent it. 1t is of no use to say
that this or that man on the republican tick
ct is not Maine-law man and don't approve
of this abuse of our citizens who do not join
the alliance" This signifies nothing, for,
by electing these men to office you vote the
patronage OF their Offices into Barnes hands.
If you want to know just exactly how this
matter stands, ask Jim Beardsley or Thomas
this question "If you are elected, will you
withhold your patronage from Barnes, and
give It to the ARGUS ?" Everybody knows
what the answer would be.-they would not
do it. Then we say to these men who were
abused by Barnes, and whose recreations or
business he seeks, through the influence of
his paper, to destroy, that they have the pow
or, by beating the whole republican ticket,
and electing the democratic union and ad
ministration ticket-they have the power, we
say, by doing this, to withhold this county
patronage from him and thus relieve the re-
publican party of the incubus now hanging
about its neck.
And they have the power, too, by electing
the democratic union and administration
ticket, to render an essential service to a pa
per which has always defended them against
Malne-lawism, know nothingism and all the
injury attempted to be done them by the IL
liberal, partyisms which have, from
time to time, existed. We put the matter
thus plainly, because now is a time when,
by beating the court house clique ticket, no
party principle is sacrificed, and the people
who were so indignant against Barnes have
an opportunity to show whether they were
in earnest or not. They profess to act from
principle in regard TO restrictive laws upon
their trade and their recreations. They nei-
ther sacrifice any political principle or en-
danger any party measure by voting the dem
ocratic union and administration ticket. On
the contrary, they would thus make more
sure the measures of Johnson's administra-
ton which they profess to support.
But by voting the republican ticket they
vote directly against their own principles and
their own interests upon q question which
they have been more sensitive than any 9th
er. A vote for the republican candidates is
vote 70 support Barnes and TO direct him to
60 on abusing the Germans and advocating
the Maine liquor law. That is the plain,
straight question with them. We believe
that the people who then felt aggrieved have
too much spirit and Independence to vote to
elect officers who will throw the patronage of
their offices into the hands of the paper which
abused them. At any rate, we wish TO know
whether party drill when no principle Is to
be sacrificed, and when the democratic can
didates are personally equally deserving of
support) will control men to vote money into
the pocket of the man who thus Wiley ira
duced them, and who will continue to use his
position and paper to injure them. Their
votes will tel, and we believe they will tell
on the right side.