The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-24
The Quincy johnson Club,

Some days since, we copied into our paper
the proceedings of johnson club organised
at Quincy In introducing these proceedings
to the atteution of our readers, we said:
s'Some of the leading and most influential re-
publicans of Quincy have organized a johnson
club, with view OF cooperating with all who
sustain the administration of President Johnson
The members of this club are all from the radical
party-not one of them democrat. They are all
prominent ctiae nd men of character and stand
ing in the community in which they live.''
The statements made in the above extrao.
are strictly true, and in this connection. we
may be permitted to remark that it il not
our habit to nsks statements about anything
that are otherwise. Yet, the Quincy Wig,
with characteristic boldness, denies that the Of
GERS and members of the johnson club of that
city are republicans, or that they were ever
influential and leading members OF that party.
The citizens of Quincy know that the state
msnt of the Whig is not true. The president
of the club is Mai. Henry Y. Sullivan, the
founder and for many years proprietor of the
Quincy Wing. lie has held prominent posi-
tions in the republican or radical party. tie
was, some years ago, receiver or register OF
the land Office, has been a radical m en- Der OF
the legislature, once q radical candidate for
mayor, and has always been as promiuen
and leading member of the radical party
as any other citizen of the place During
the war he held Office under Mr.. Lincoln, AT d
has never in his life voted a democratic tick
ct The vice presidents of the club are, DIR.
T. j. Drude, Col. w. 4. Lockwood, and Da u
iel G. Brown. all of them of the late radical
party. DR.. Drude was a candidate Oh the
radical or republican ticket for city physician
at the election last spring; Col. Lockvoo cd
was elected to & responsible ofhce on the rad
ioal ticket last fall ami Daniel u. Brown
was q candidate ON the radical ticket last
spring for alderman of the third ward. 1t
will be admitted We presume, that men are
not often placed In res ponsible honorable and
lucrative positions by any party, unless they
are somewhat "promi nent and leading In
that party. OF the executive comnlttee OF
Re cIub, Col. ]. c. Cox was "a candidate last
spring on the radical ticket for aide man OF
the 9th ward. and Col. W. III. Bsnnsson was
talked of by the radicals as their candidate
for mayor. Thomas E. Durant, one of the
finance committee, has never voted with the
democrats, but has been an active and eff
cient worker in the radical ranks. The cor
responding secretary, Geo. 4. Hunt, Esq is
an able lawyer, and was candidate ON the
radical ticket fer city attorney. Indeed
there is not one officer or member of the
johnson club at Quincy who was not unit |
within . very short time past, n Leading and
influential membsr of the radical party, and
hardly one Of them but has held some honor
able and responsible position in that party
Yet, the Hhig says ''there Is not a solitary
republican IN the city so poor as to do them
reverence" We presume they do not stand
as fair with their late radical friends they
did some months ago; but that doesn't alter
the fact stated by Us. that they had always
been prominent and Influential members of
the radical party. Many of them, too, were
colonies, ma ors, captains, etc, in the war
They were soldiers in the Union army. and
they have now left the radical party becaus
the radicals have turned against the Union
cause for which they took the field. They
have left the radical party. as thousands of
other leading and influential radicals through
out the country are doing.-Hanni6al Repu5-
lie. July 81.