The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-01-26
by sIcKLKs OF MOLINE.
The Radicals send Ninny to the General As
Ssmbly to DO Laughed At.


free will and act, in most notorious man.
ner, after having climbed above his natural
altitude, lily Sickcs of Moline, has pro.
claimed himself to be what every sensible
man Of either party, about here, always
deemed him, most unmitgated fool. he
has, with Dogberry, "written' himself down
al ass, in most legible and insifaCeAble
characters. We would premise, however,
before speaking further that lily Sirkles,
the individual, is too wretchedly insignificant,
bis political character aud his intellect are
too imponderable and impal pable to admit Of
serious newspaper attack. He is nothing,
il not permanently ridiculous. To level
anything but paSquinsde at 30 ludcrous
mark as Hys countenance. beaming with
PickwickiAn foggiuess through bis spectS.
Giles, would be akin to the hairbrained Quix
Ote's tourney against Punchinello, DeposO
Hirams spectGcles and, with Harlequin
swiftneSs, you deprive him of his sole ven.
cradle belonging, the solitary prop to his
Legislative dignity.
But while we would not attack Hiram
himself or do aught but derde his weak at.
tempIs to gain little newspaper notoriety--
by his series Of "Whereases, about the press
and It's correspondents we would dc.
nounce that nbominablo party zeal of those
radicals who have disgraced this county
by sending a pair Of spindle shAnks sur.
mounted by lignum vitae figure head Of
impenetrable density, the whole ornamented
with the meaningless tag or label, "Gener.
a., " to Springfield, possessed with creden.
tails as our representative in one branch of
the Legislature, But there is one feature
that, in measure, redeems the radicals
from blame lie was elected by the radical
rabble, not the intelligent men Of the party
who we're iarsighted enough to see that HI.
ram was that sort Of an individual that hurts
q pArty--a rascal and fool man who
was, a few years ago, indicted by n grand
jury in this county for perjury; man who,
as supervisor from Moline, improperly drew
the road money from the county treasury for
his town, kept it and used it, and then paid
the township IN stump.tsil or its equivalent
| thus causing loss TO the township and i'm.
properly making the prof, himself; man
who trauduIeutIy attempted to cheat the town
out Of the only fire engine it had man
who, when holding commission in the vol.
unteer service, resigned for tho purpose OF
enIisting TO get the the bounty offered to gil
the quota of his township, and then, as soon
as he was mustered as a recruit for Moline, by
an understanding at the headquarters O
Richard No. J, had his commission reiSsueC
thus, for the sake of the bounty offered
detrauding the government Of soldier
That's the man the radicals have sent t
the Legislature.
Butler may survive tho holy indignAtio
of honest men, for, though somewhat ju8tl
conceited, he is seldom ridiculous but JAG
} Rogers, or Tom. Florence, never. TIL
country could not listen to their Legislation
as il was drowned with the laughter which
was their birth,right. They had mistaken
their uvocation; they should have eel
decked in motley, aud tumbling on saw dust
So with Aunt Hiram-he has earned a rep
utstion that will be valuable to him if he
cultiyates the acquaintance Of Dan. Rice,
who would engage him at once as Panta
loom
He WAS, as We said, elected by the radica
rabbIe, and not By the intelligent men Of hi,
party, in this region He had cultivated q
certain portion Of the less intelligent rsdica
citizens of Moline, and employed them al
( whippers in at the precinct caucuses. With
them, lily is the very pink oflegislators, and
great men. His cheap title of General y
which he is said to have obtained in very
queer way, taken IN connection with his
spectacles, and an oracular way he has O
, pronouncing the veriest commonplHces as i
each word weighed Mt least pound, con
vinced them that if lily could once Obtain
standing room on the floor Of the genera
assembly, he would show the world thing
or two that would not only immortalize Iii
T ram, but would reYolutionize things general
ly. Well, these men went to work, an,
by the most petty fnessing on the part OIL
Hiram, in which thess several individual
were his willing servitors, and, by corrup
combination in this town, by which Capt
Morris lost the nomination for circuit clerk
and Maj Halves, Mai. Wilson, and Sergt
Payne we're thrown overheard for sheriff he
got the nomination, which in this county, il
equivalent to an election
Thus the radicals, in at all countensncinG
him and permitting the dull.headed gopher,
from Moline, TO burrow under them, ant
overtopple every decent candidate that pre-
scented himself for nomination, are guilty o
permanently disgracing the county and
working lasting damage to our interests fol
no matter how just or desirable piece o.
Legislation the county or any part of il
should require, it will always be tiuged By
the Righteousness Of the mouth.piece if pre-
scented by lily. That he was held at his in
trinsic value, which is any number of per
cent below even his present par, by large
number Of his own party, and they, the most
intelligent and respectable members of the
same, is indicated by two facts first, that
Palmer received 1922 majority, while Ky,
right here at home where his calibre is
weighed and general record kept, received
only 68l majority and, second, that prom.
inent radical declared in our presence, since
the publication Of the articles which we copy
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