The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-12
patIu argus.
sa.uras, Rr,nina, Juns IL, ls60.
sRNATOR PoMEROY ON REEMAsOERY,
AND A RADICAL JOURNAL ON
POMER0Y.

One after another Of the "bright part
ular stars Of RAdcslism is going out in Il
politica! armament. Senator Pomeroy,
Kansas, is about to follow the impeac
ers and Sprague and others, and beeon
exiinguished as q Radical luminary.
has offended his censors, and the measu
of his punishment is being filed mp. 4
though Republican Senator IL Congress
be had the temerity to speak to the anu
secret society convention a. Chicago tn
other day, according tos Republican j'"i
nal of that city, as flows m
ale said that citizen Of '"eA'oH.i'.'
told him that Robinson would hot Oe con
v,oted Of the murder Of McConneli oecHuso
he was a Masoa, Tho speaker con
tended that these organizations were autHR
oristic 10 the country, and had no Oht7I'
STboy have taken away the Lord and we
know not where they have laid hun. lie
5;J nat see how ministers could leave their
congregations and % into lodges. lAp.
n,ause aud a voice, How can they do IT.
He regarded a man going into a lodge AS
turning bis back on Christ lie wanted the
convention 10 take high and clear ground.
lCries Of Amen Amen. lie recon-.
mended the course OF the convention, SAID
they would not have an easy victory cries
Of no, no, it was probably death to a
political man like him to express his senti.
meuts, for armies and Vaccinations were
opposed to them Secret societies Rre pro.
scrlptive and opposed to the safety aud good
government Of the republic. APPLAUSE
Tho Chicago Post follows up this repor,
Of Senator Pomeroy's remarks, with the fol.
lowing comments;
Now this is the merest Pecksulian in
which public man ever INDUCED, and no
one knows it better than the member Of the
Senate of the United States, who uttered
the words in question. For Senator Pome.
roy, the prince Of mouopoiists aud Subsld-
lists, whose reputation ia Washington,
whether justly or unjustly, ia more uuenyia.
bic than that Of any other man in tho Sen
ate, to sTaign thousands and tens Of thous.
ands Of men in this country, the latchets Of
whose shoes his uucleau fingers are un.
worthy to unoosc, in this manner, is, though
in keeping with the past career Of dema
gogue, shameful indeed. Tho question is
the Senator having got rich during his ca.
reer in Washington, We suppose with his
face all the while turned 10 Christ-what
does be want now? What new scheme IL
70 be put through?
We give place 10 the Senator'S offending
and to the ediiying reflections Of the Post,
not as q part Of controversy between Ma.
sons and auti.Masons, but 20 show the
estimation in which prominent western Re
publican Senator is held by leading organ
OF he party. 1t cannot be unfair or in any
sense Liberal TO accept Republican est.
mates Of Republican Congressman, for it is
reasonable 20 suppose that they are Judged
by their own parti2ans with as much charity
as can be safely expected Of them. Senate
Ross having already receiy ed h8 share q
Republican denunciations for his vugarty
profanity and other excesses not suppose
70 Rdorn IA United States Senator, the Po
here completes the case against Kansas, an
admitting that one of the most thrifty X,
publican States in the West il represente
in the Senate by vulgar black guard, an
by demsRogue whose official fingers ar
so unclean as TO be unworthy to unlooso tn
shoe latcbets of thousands and tens o
thousands Of his fellow cogntrymen in ma
sonic lodges. After the impeachment tria