The evening Argus., 1869-10-01

official duties, and their manifest inability
to successfully administer the affairs Of
government, are yielding their natural fruit
he dissolution aud annihilaton of the re.
publican party.
In this city there will bo a pretty lively
time though the republicans are deprived Of
one OF their active upporters-"Reddy tho
Blacksmith who IS Just now confined in
prison, though they hope to get him out in
time to have him aid at the election.
There is q general demand even among
tie republicans, for the repeal Of sll the leg
islative commissions, and the restoration OF
affairs to the hands ftbe people, You know
that republican legislatures IN New York,
despairing Of the success of their party in
this city or Brooklyn, set in motion a series
of commissions to control the business Of
the people and place over them q
set Of officers who could never
secure an election from the people whose
affairs they were sent to manage. There
was the Police Commission the Board Of
Health Commission the Park Commission ;
the Water Commission, and last Of all the
Infamous Excise Commission Even the
| New York Sun, edited by Charles A. Dana
formerly editor Of the Chicago Repu6ticaH,
denounces these legislative commissions, by
which officers are placed over the manage.
nent of the peoples affairs without their con.
sent, and to whom they are not accountable
for their actions. You, no doubt, have often
heard republicans extol the police manage.
ment in this city, and claim that the present
system is wonderful success Now Just
read what Mr.. Dana republican, says Of this
pet republican system, in the Sun, as follows {:
'Tho good founders of the Commission look
with q blush upon their work rs Il is Illustrated
to-day by the Metropolitan Police. The bandtti,
| whose natural enemies the police body ought to
| be- are stronger than ever on every square acre
| of territory which the Police Commissioners are
supposed to protect, and midnight travelling is
safer in the wilds Of Tennessee than in many Of
our most popuOus thoroughisres for in Iennes-
at midnight the thieves are asleep, while here
they are out in force. Indeed, in view of certain
recent high handed exploits of the highwaymeu
in Broadway at noonday, and, more startling
still, of the butchery of Mr.. Rogers In Twelfth
! street, We might regard magnificent high
| WAYS at midday as scarcely less perilOus thor
oughfares than those of Kansas in the days Of
Quantrell."
Mr.. Dana was Mr.. Iincou's assistant
secretary of war, at one time, and HIS "loilty'
cannot be questioned.
lie sharply condemned the piece Of hum.
buggery enacted at Gettysburg last spring ;
commended the confederate officers for de.
clinug to have anything to do with it; and
also counselIed the people OF the south to
have nothing to do with
| i Chose who, for the pccunary profit of
tavern keepers or other similar ends, invite them
to such humilinting reunions as that attempted
at Gettysburg, which every rejecting person
Enew would be dreary failure. From the start
it was only a thin disguise behind which charla-
tans and spectators could display themselves
and turn q penny, although many patriotic sol
ders were taken in by its specous pretences."
For a "loil" editor, that will do very well
notice that the court house ling in Rock
Island is pursuing its old tactics Of throwing
overheard every man who will not be their
subseryient tool. The hypocricy of that SET
in regard to soldiers is well known. They
caused the rejection, by the U. s. Senate, Of
} three of the most brave and gallant soldiers
of the county for postmaster, viz: Capt
Copp, Mai. Connolly, and Col. Williams
} They defeated Capt. Morris for the circuit
clerkship, and preferred q civilian. They
defeated two real soldiers for representative
} Messrs. Allen, of Port Byron, and Jordan
Of Coal Valley, and preferred that sham sol
, der. SickIes. They defeated another sol
: der Capt. Johnston, for the convention ,ant
| preferred Truesdale, civilian These are
enough to show their hypocricy in pretend
' ing to care anything for soldiers for offices
of honor or profit.
And in their rejection of Mr.. Thomas fol
( 81 hov va rrovap cpnrlnCIvplV q tha
no man, be he soldier or civilian, can bt
4 nominated for Office unless he will be The
willing tool of their ring, in everything
Mr.. Thomas has undoubtedly made the yer,
? best treasurer the county ever had. 1t vii
: not be forgotten that the ARGUS has unceas
ingly opposed the course Of this court hous
, ring in speculating out OF the people II
1 county orders; that it exposed the injustice
4 to the people generally Of such speculation,
and demanded that orders should be pa
/. in cash by the treasurer. Its criticisms ~
8 on the long series Of speculatons by Wal
b and others will not soon be forgotten. AM
s II opposed the first election Of Mr.. Thomas
i. believing that he wonld follow in the sam
) course. Contrary to expectations, MI
# Thomas, from the moment he got control c
r the county money, commenced to pay order
t in cash. The ARGUS Immediately acknow
s edged the fact and commended Mr.. Ihoma
!. for il. Not only did it commend him, bu
t. under its advice the democrats presented n
d candidate against him, at his second elet
e ton, but voted for him, thus proving tha
l. they we're acting from principle and Tor IN
l. good Of the people at large. Mr.. Ihoma
J. has shown that he could not be controIle
d BY the corrup. ring about the court hous'
IS and has always carried out, TO the letter, tn
d policy always advocated by the democrats {
lr the county in regard to the administration
is his Office. He has been honest and impa
p- tial in the discharge of his responsible dutle
ly treating all people alike, without regard
N their politics. The result in seen. lie
!, thrown overheard FOR an inexperienced On
ps untried person, who had wooden swor
ID presented to him as one Of the getters.up
lie the Crock Island Greys" And SO 1t Wi
be with every honest republican who doc
10 not bow down to the five or six families VII
or seem TO own and parcel out the offices l
es Rock Island county without any regard
b. the good of the public. u
'st By the way--I notice that the Maryiar
by Home Guard editor OF the R'm 10 GO"
of upon everybody who dares to question II
al divine right of the ring and, IN his Ign
rance, says:
lat "Mr. Trent has sought the aid OF the ne"
RS, paper which above all Others in this 3ec'lon'
1g, opposed to the soldiers and the soldiers eau
Of during the war pape. that opposed eve ,s
-ea step Of the government to suPpress the Eeoe'i
'sl and reconstruct the seeded states, etc. e'c'
eet The soldiers Of Rock Island county kno
Of that this sllusion to the ARGUS under Il
lis editorial management is base iatsehoo
RE- The ARGUS was the first to respond TO Il
the Ill of President ;ncoI, c. x nQO mt