The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-10-25
Row H y. THOMAS WAS BROUGHT OUT
DISCOVERY.

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tn break the moral force of the fact that
AZ, Tbomas was announced as candidate
for Treasurer BY over one hundred members
of the Republican party who reside chiefly IN
his neghborhood and therefore may be cs'i
ed his neighbors, and who best Know him.
the Union announces on the authority OF
"Port Byron gentleman" that our candidate
for County Clerk, Chas. W. Fogg, started
the movement and brought Mr.. Thomas be
fore the people. This "Port Byron genn'
man." we suppose, is that democrat "no
wrote the Union from that place 'na' nc
loved honesty and square DEALING anu ~
though lust a little less than eoPpefheau
L;us.,f ;,,suded to ,ote for the regular he
nubucsu pomjaee in preference to Mr.
Themes inst because Reid is the nominee
If bis party and Thomas isn't. II was
the custom for defeated political gen
erals who got into tight places during the
war, to have published glowing reports oi
their achievements and Of the mountains OF
rebel dead slaughtered by their herolsm and
of the ,error.stricken condition OF the enemy
with the assurance that the same had just
been brought in by "reliable contraoand
who had Just escaped from the rebel lines
and who was fully posted as to all the rebeI
movements and purposes. This "for'
Byron gentleman" is evidently doing" the
reliable con,rsband OF this campaign. lie
either knows nothing about this matter or
he wilfully misrepresents it, aud it would
not be marvellous if it should turn out that
there "a no such person and that no such
information hss been lodged with the Union.
Many Of that journals campaign facts are
already regarded as apocryphal. those
-. who know anything of the manner in which
Mr.. Thomas name was announced, kno"
that the movement to have him become
, candidate originated with his personal part!
: friends, and that the call was made by he
:, publicans. No honest man would pre'en'
a that Mr.. Fogg aud other Democrats did no
svmnAthize with the movement and wish
7, success, but that Mr.. Fogg originated
and brought Mr. 7. out is simply untrue
.. we'll as absurd Of course he desires III
". election and will vote for him.
The Union would have it's readers bellev
that the object Mr.. Fogg had in doing tn
mischief was dividing and weakening II
Renublican party and assures the mempe
"A of the party who made the call on M
- Thomas that they-one hundred and sew
Republicans, of moderate intelligence
40, least-hsve all been most woetully ba'
,nr hoozled aud caught in the net OIL Mr. rug
who, by his re narkable cunning has ensn'
81 their unwary feet. Pray, If a. is alleE
tha "griends to whom be- (Thomas) slIud'
uh- are simply ChOs ". FoFg,' who has be
does deceived or dragged into the metz VIE
very are the innocen,s who have been sIaugh'
'H ed? By what wonderful DISCUSSES was tn
,ha sudden undoing accomplished? Further
ioh Chas. W. Fogg, solitary and alone, orou
done ont Mr.. Thomas, how is it that the IN
"personally knows number who sig
Mr. Thomas 'tdEu WIZ hufC "'NN''y
dated him, on learning the facts, and
;s,ra. 20 straight for Captain Reid 2 These
,egis. certainly knew when they signed the
are what thew were doing: that they we're dec
RS are ing their preference for Mr.. Thomas a
;naependent candidate for Treasurer,
Mr.. Reid, the Republican nominee. /
corld not have been deceived by anyb
for the simple reason that there WAS not
= 'o' To conceal from them. The fact that
Peoria 10 co"ee"' ''''' W.. o,,
Fogg or any other Democrat expeet'
snnport Mr. Thomas, if q candidate,
he 10 certainly no trick the knowledge oil W
mora could have changed any mans purpose
the siguers are to be credited with ordi
intelligence, we must suppose they bro
was Mr.. Thomas GU, for the purpose Of ee'
'o', him. and the fact that Democrats expt
II TWO to vote for him would not have dete
them from signing upon any hypot
ira of consistent with nationality. VII! our n
,os, Dor enlghten its readers more spec!ti
ron. a and fully on the facts which have 50
deli these poor oe'roees" mt"
Of the II they we're 'u'4y 'haoe Auo"H 'n'oUs
Union others Of the signers would Il
scare too. Let US have them by all m
'noIds' and do not by silence allow innocent
nd ex vuv. nnnr, ruun =. -,n,ll. W.,
TAKEN Thomas ditch for want OF light.
DAD, on
Iissour To PRESERVE domestic serenity u.s.