The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-30

THE OFFICIAL ORGAN TAXES WATER--
IT EATS IT'S OWN WORDS AND TRIES TO SAVE
ITS CLIQUE FROM MERIrED CoNrEMpr.-The
storm of Indignation from the people, which
has burst upon the corrupt, inefficient and
imhecile radical clique now managing city
affairs has compelled a change of tactics.
The clique has ordered its organ to play q
different tune, and, obedient to its masters,
the organ, this morning, comes out with
startling display heads and denies that any
body has been robbed or any outrage of any
sort been committed in the ethyl The official
clique, and its organ, are compelled TO buy
up and discredit and sacrifice several of their
own men, IN order to make even a halfway
to do, in the hope Of averting from them
selves the deserved contempt of the people.
They deny every one of their own published
articles, thus showing that they were guilty
of nesdIessly alarming the people, in the first
plare, or,that they now deny the facts in or
der to save the credit.of their own corrupt
and imbecile clique.
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In regard to the garroting of stranger
near the pillow factory on Thursday night last,
the editors of the Union show their especial
.foEte totbeyiu lying without basis, or in
deet.witheut the slightest covering for their
faleshoods. They say:
''The robbery of stranger, near the plow
factory, as published in the Argus Of last Friday.
Likewise asfabrieatien,s devsed with the evident
purp the police into disrepute
ThesARGUs says, policeman Woods informs us"
&C.. We are authorized to say that this is a de-
EiiBn Eate "a Eehood 3 Policeman Woods informed
the EDITOR of the ARGCs nothing about the mat
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Why don sthe. tas6n quote what we did
say. instead of garbling it and classifying it +?
The Union would have its readers believe
that we said Policeman Woods was cogniz-
ant of the affair. We said no such thing.
| We said s-
policeman Woods informs US that it has been
reported to the proper authorities that man was
way laid at late hour last night IN the vicinity
of kleyla's grocery store, near the pillow factory"
| &c. dc.
| Policeman Woods did SO inform us, in the
presence of Policeman Mitsch, and this NOR
| ming be further says that he never made any
| denial of the fact to the editors of the Union
or to any one else. The Mayor called on
| him to enquire in regard to the matter. He
informed him just what he did us, that Mr..
Henry Rranfranz, highly creditable and
law-abiding German citizen had reported
the matter to the authorities. We called on
| Mr. o,,1 L. n@.xJ
that on the night in question, he reached
has home about one o'clock that he had not
been indoors five minutes before he heard
two loud cries for help that he lit his Ian
tern and ran out, and just then man came
stunning by, who stopped on seeing the light,
and said two men lad met him, thrown him
down, and robbed him of SIX dollars and a
halt, or seven dollars; all the money he hap
pened to have with him that he didn't care
for tbemoney and was very glad that he
he had not been injured. he then passed
on and Mr.. Ranfranz returned into his
house. Mr.. Lewis Updike, of the levee boat
] store, who lives adjoining the house of Mr..
Ranfranz, informs us that he, too, was
startled b. cries for help at the same hour.
Thus we have the testimony of two reliable
citizens to the effect that this robbery was
committed. and yet the radical organ propo-
ses to publish every man iiar who dares to
tell the truth and expose thscriminal incom'
! potency of its henchmen. -.s-~r.
The Union says we manufactured" this
story. in the first place. The. Union lies.
We had better authority for it than the
Union had for its stories about the Neeus
affair, the post Office affair, and the court
house square affair. The Union was the
first to publish these cases and make all the
sensation it could about them. Did the