The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-01-23
FOR PRESIDENT.

Throughout the western states there seems
to be great unanimity for George II. Pendle
ton for president. We give place, to-day. to
an article on the subject, from the Chicago
Times, with the remark that IRE have no can
dldate until the convention meets. Either
George Fl. Pendleton, General Dix, General
Hancock, Horatio Seymour, or any other of
the democratic statesmen, will suit us. We
60 for measures, not men, and we think the
people, in the coming election, will care less
for men and more for principles than hereto
fore. They want certain ideas put into
practice, viz:
/. They want and will have the white
race to rule
2. They want the public debt reduced by
the payment of bonds according to their ten.
or-those that read payable in gold they
will pay in gold those that do not read pay
able in gold they will pay in greenbacks.
And they will insist on payment being made
as fast as the bonds permit. For instance :
The bonds called fve-twenties are payable
any time between five and twenty wears
from their date, at the choice of the United
States. These bonds the people will insist
on being paid in greenbaeks at the expira-
ton of five years from their date, thus stop-
ping interest and placing the money
where it can be taxed like other property.
The people do not propose to violate or re
pudiate any contract but they do propose to
get the value of the uon.taxed bonds into
cash in the hands of their owners Just as fast,
as the reading of the bonds will permit, 80
that it can be taxed, and the United States
relieved from paying tax ON it. The radio
ais have caused the immense amount of
money invested in these bonds to be exempt.
ed from taxation and required the people to
pay interest on it. The democrats propose
TO reverse the thing, and cause the propertv
to be taxed and the interest to be stopped ::
but they propose to do it exactly in accord
ance with the contract.
3. They want the National Bank notes
all called in and greenbacks issued in their
place, and the banks closed up.
4. They want the tariff of duties remod.
eled and reduced to revenue standard tho
internal taxes and stamps nearly all abolish
ed, and make the tax on whiskey, tobacco
Injuries, and incomes pay the public debt.
.. They want a host Of civil and military
officers wholly abolished and the army and
navy reduced to strictly peace footing.
These, in the main, are the ideas which
will fill the peoples min Is in the coming
contest, and the men who are true to them
will be elected. The people will not s,op tn
enquire whether they are soldiers or civil.
lans-they only want to know if they are 90.
pable, faithful and honest.
The ARGUS is committed to no man or set
Oh men-out 1t is committed to the reforms
and the carrying out of the principles named
above; and either Pendleton, or Dix. or Han.
cock, or Seymour, or Judge Breeze, or Judge
Davis, Or John Quincy Adams, or Franklin
Pierce, or Andrew Johnson, or any other
good and true man will suit us, if he will car.
~ out these principles. We are willing to
trust the combined wisdom of the delegates
the people shall send to our national conven.
ton to select the standard bearers-and
when that is done we propose to take off our
coat and go to work to help to elect them.
RADICAL MISREPRESENTATION AVN