The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-10

Jacobin- organ, and the right. to speak of
the recosk of%the couaty clerk, and that
right we shall exercise, at all times, and in
our own way.
The Union says, in relation 10 the record
ofthe county clerk - Sc
1--WE have his (Mr. KimbalPs) authority for
saying that he aid make the motion fsfarfed to,
and that the Arg Us commits deliberate falsehood
in denying it, r. st 'e
Don't you make the above rather steep,
neighbor? Did Mr.. Kimball autAorise you
TO say ''the Angus commits . deliberate
falsehood We guess not a-'--' - $780,
Very soon after the publication OF the
proceedings Of the board of supervisors last
September, in which the clerk records Mr..
Kiimball as having made the motion referred
to, Mr.. Kimball came TO our Office and voll
unfairly said, "Jim has got me down wrong,
in that matter--I didn't make the motion,
but don't care anything about it; ] would
have made it if necessary-but think eth
er Elliott or Wait made it, don't care
anything about lt-let it go; but 1t is down
a fig about, whether he made the motion or
not-nor did we introduce the subject in the
conversation. 1t was wholly voluntary on the
part of Mr.. Kimball This is the exact fact.
And in corroboration of it we win further
say that our assistant, Mr.. Parkhurst says
Mr.. Kimball told him yesterday, while stand
ing in front of his (Kimballs) new shop,
that he did not make the motion, that it
was enormously recorded, but he didn't care
anything about it. Mr.. Parkhurst did not
60 there upon that matter, nor did he know
one word of 1.-THE subject was introduced
BY Mr.. Kimball, who volunteered the remark
that he did not make the motion. 1t was
matter that Mr.. Parkhurst had never
heard . word about and knew nothing about.
This morning we called on Mr.. Kimball,
at his Office, and he said he did not recollect
the conversation in our Office he would not
say it did not occur, but he did not want any
controversy about it. He also said, in pres
ence of Mr.. Underwood, "there are thous.
ands of cases on our county records where
men are put down wrong as to motions
made-sometimes the man who seconded a
motion is put down as making it, and some
times men are put down as making motion
who made none at ALL" We thought the
word thousand" rather an exaggeration,
but that is the word he used.
We never claimed or intimated that the
county clerk purposely made wrong record
nor do we think so. But we do claim
that he is not infallible, or his record either,
and that he is just as likely to make errors
as any other person. And we claim that
our recollection and our word is Just as good
as his, or Mr.. kimbalrs, or the editors of the
Unson and we do not propose to allow
either one of them to misrepresent US. We
are also quite satisfied with the state of af.
fairs, in this case, inasmuch as there - the
positive evidence of two persons, on our side,
against that of one who is not positive, on
the other. In conclusion, we respectfully
submit that a paper which is SO destitute OF
any fxe& principle as the Union,and is com
PEELED to resort to such improper means, in
order to shield itself and party from deserv-
ed infamy, is either a very worthless paper
or works for very worthless party-or both.