The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-09-11

him drop.
For county superintendent VIM. Ill. Gest,
the present incumbent, received 33 votes,
Marcus B. Osborn II, Rev. A. b. Hitchcock
10. A majority of the delegates wanted to
nominate Mr.. Osborn, on account of his fit
ness for the Office and his superior worth. as
| a man, and also as proper recognition OF
his services in the cause of the Union during
| the war,-but the autocrat of the ruling eli
que would not permit the delegates to do SO
| and he was showed aside for the attorney at
| law who now holds the Office This office is
now four years Office. and is worth nearly a
thousand dollars year.
For surveyor. NJ. A. Gould received %
votes Daniel Gordon, (present incumbent)
%, and G. X. McMurphy 5.
For county committee they appointed N.
| Belcher, postmaster, Port Byron, G. ID.
| Gould, of Moline, THE new court house oil
que postmaster, who turned kerns out,l
| John Peetz, of Rock Island, and G. B. Rick
| etts, of Drury.
The delegation having done what they were
ordered to do-went home.
Some of them wanted to have platform,
but the clique, with one crack of its long
whip, vetoed that idea on the ground that if
the real opinions of the party and their csndi
dates were openly avowed they would be
beaten out of sight. There were some men
in the convention who showed signs of uneas-
mess ut this cowardly, mum programme, and
who. privately. asserted that they wanted TO
| indorse the administration rejoice ut the
happy termination of the war; thank the
| brave soldiers for their services declare in
favor of taxing ., 5. bonds, &c. &c, but the
clique vetoed everything of the sort. The
| clique, majority of the convention, major
| ity of the party, and ali the candidates are
opposed to the reconstruction policy of the
| president, in favor of nesro-suffrage. and wish
| Andy johnson Was In very warm place,
| which shall be nameless. but they dared not
avow their opinions. They say that, to come
out fair and square on the great issues of the
day, either way, would hopalessly divide
| their party, and they therefore try to post
pOne the inevitable day by cowardly lodging
the questions now at issue. No committee
/
construct platform were crushed and the
people asked to ''go it blind"
The defeated candidates and their friends
denounce this trucking, time-serving, cow
ardiy policy of the office holding clique, and
say thai it would be more honorable TO be
defeated by an open and frank avowal of
their principles, their party have avowed
them in Iowa aud Minnesota. than to get Of
| nee by deceiving the voters as to the real
| opinions Of their party and their candidates.
But she views of the clique prevailed and the
cOwardly, lodging, non-committsl policy of
suppressing their opinions until after cleo.
ton, was adopted.
The truth is that the affairs of this county
| are controlled by the corrupt office-holders'
Clique and any man who dares to seek an Of
| fee, or run for one, without first asking and
obtaining leave from that clique, passes the
dead iine"-is politically shot, and forever
laid out. No such man will ever find his
name on the list of official candidates-he has
dared to refuse to put his nose on the clique
grindstone and ne is politically dead. He
can continue TO vote, but his ballot must be
such an one as is prepared for him by the
| court house clique. 1t may be little irk-
| some-may grind his ambitious soul, and
cause CALLING and maddening irritation but
he must 'stand up to the rack fodder or no
fodder" His fate is to be ruled, or--leave
the party.
Notwithstanding the loud crack of the Of
pc holders whip / delepates had the CON
age to say they did not want Wilson; Is re-
pudiated the pretensions of Jim Beardsley
Il objected to Thomas &c declared against
Gest, and p voted against Gould to 2S for
him.
But all these at last humbly bowed their
necks In submission to the Calling yoke of
their masters. Will they be quie. now? We
think they will, The lash has been soundly
and roundly applied-but they earned the
castigation by daring to express an opinion
of their own. and they will probably now ac
cept their fate, be submissive to their mas
tiers, and vote with u party which has drop
ped the ''Union," dare not avow its princi
plies. anu has put paddock on the mouth of
every one of it's candidates in order to steal |
into power by decelving the people as to their
real opinions.
In Wisconsin and Minnesota the republic
can state conventions were held on Wednes-
Day The convention in the first named state
refused. on direct vote, To indorse negro suf-
frage, while that in the latter named state
recognized negro suffrage as a cardinal doc |