The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-26
TO OUR PATRONS.

We last week intimated to our friends that We
| thought it their duty to Immediately institute
| thorough CANVASS of their respective
townships in behalf of the ARGUS. This of
course viii have to be done BY few of the most
wide-arake, spirited men Of each precinct.
| But there is way in which each one of our
readsrs can help Ne great deal with but very
little trouble on their part. If every one who is
now taking the paper will get US just one more,
it would double our list 1t is very easy thing
for each one Of you to do, bnt in the aggregate
it would amount to good deal to u.s.
Will you do it? There is not single one
who reads this but could somewhere among his
neighbors pick up at least one name, and might
make IL half-a.dozen in half a day. Will you do
it?
Ifyou know single democrat anywhere in
your neighborhood who does not take the ARGUS
will you take the trouble to see. him before you
sleep, and get his name and The pay and send it
to US the next time you 60 to the post Office?
| Let it be laid down at once as fixed fact that
every democrat in the county ought to take his
county paper, and then let us 60 to work to ac-
complish that result. 1t can be done very easily
if every one will do little. VIII you do your
part?
| Make it rule every time you meet q neighbor
to ask him if he is taking the ARGUS, and if he
isn't, give him no peace till he does.
! When we say 'you" we mean you, the man
who is reading this article now. Will god do it
We have printed paper for you, through storm
| and sunshine, through hard times, and hard times
and have expended more labor, time, energy an6
| thought upon the subject than almost any Other
! man in any other business in this county; anG
| have-bareIy lived. We are willing to yield oul
place to any person the democracy will accept
We would much rather sell out and 60 into somt
other business than remain in this But if tn.
democrats want us to continue to publish pa
per for them, ought they not to go to work il
every neighborhood and get up as large a cir
| oulaton for the ARGUS possible
Now is the time to get subscribers for the AR
GUS. In the heat of political canvass the PEG
pie regard solicitations to subscribe as cleo
pioneering efforts. Now they do not, and nov
is the time for the democrats in every town il
this county to go to work and get up big lis
of subscribers for the only administration paper
in the county-the ARGUS, which win continue
its independent course, approving the right ant
condemniug the wrong and we look with conf
dence to the democracy of the county to sustair
US. We have no national, state county pa
tronage to sustain the paper, and it is to the
people-the democratic people that we look fol
approval and support. There nearly
loo thousand democrats in tie county, and if every
one of them would take the paper and pay for il
| there would be some encouragement in the bust
ness. As it is could do better at almost any
| thing else.
| Win you, who are reading this article, make
| an effort TO extend the circulation of the ARGUS
! in your neighborhood
| The terms of the paper will be found under
| the proper head.
| Democrat in the city of Rock Island should
| also make little effort to increase the circula
| ton OF the DaIy-they will find it quite necess
| airy to have q circuat 10 an audience to talk to
| if they expect to retain power in the city.