The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-09-27
HAwLRY BEFORE TIE PEOPLE.
A Few Questions for our Republican Frient

! A Few Questions for our Republican Friends
> ANSWER Fool according to his folly and
he will probably comprehend, is q very old
but truthful saying, but one that was never
made to fit the genius of the Union. His
maadling rawlings are specimens of folly I'M
answerable. For instance here 10 one OF
! his questions:
a Who is the Democratic candidate for
Congress in this district ?
We will therefore tell this scribbler rho
i is not the Democratic candidate.
, The man who has served one term in
: Congress and gave all bis official patronage
to those who would promise to secure MS
re nomination, is not the Democratic can
didate
The man who goes bswling and Dragging
about the streets. that he is q candidate, ia
not the Democratic candidate.
The man who is q Frenchman among the
French, Prussian among the Ge-mans, an
infde among the free thinkers, and pur
tanical proscriptionist among his own
church people, is not the Democratic candi
date.
The man who voted TO relieve rich bank
ers from oper ten millions of taxes, aud vo-
ted to make the poor man pay heavier rat
on every article with which he clothes his
children, is not the Democratic candidate.
The man who voted TO excuse monied
corporations from paying sic millions of
dollars, and voted to make the poor man
: pay tariff of one hundred per cent on the
salt he uses on his table, is not the Demo.
cratic candidate.
The man who voted to relieve capitalists
of paying orer tnoenty millions Of taxes and
voted to make the farmer pay 24 per cent
on his small income, and an increased rate
of taxation on ever article he or his family
uses, is not the Democratic candidate.
|. The man who served two years and did
no. do single thing for his constituents, is
not the Democratic candidate.
The man who opposed and actually killed
the horse railway across the bridge at this
point because he was the attorney of the
|, ferry company, is not the Democratic
candidate.
The man who could not spend time from
his work Of securing the denomination to
attend to the numerously signed petition for
a change in our Aledo mail accommodations
is not the Democratic candidate.
The man who sold his vote to New Eng.
land capitalists and thus enable them to
keep more than their proportion Of the
: currsncy of the country and force a
dangerous stringency, in western business.
ia not the Democratic candidate.
The man who voted for Penn
sylvsnia and Massachusetts projections. to
the great detriment of ell western msnufsc-
e turers and an increased cos, to all western
q consumers, is not the Democratic can
e dids,e.
The man who made the most Infamous
8 speech ever written ON the admission of
8 Virginia, is not the Democratic candidate.
> The man who did all these things, who
voted against every western interest as the
, Republican cand date for congress in this
, district, and his name is John B. Hswley
This same Hswley is now hus,ling
around the district, buying up with offices
( and promises of office all he can to support
him. How he will keep these promises
many in the distric. can tell. How he will
vote for just such things as enumerated
above, we all know, provided the New
England and Pennsylvania interests should
need his vote to keep the people of the west
and south subject to their demands.
We repeat our assertion that he and his
= week nerved hacker the Rock Island Union
dare not answer or attempt to explain any
of the above charges.
He dare not and will not put any single
L expsnination of his votes upon any of these
q charges in black and white, SO that the men
u he is now begging and buying to vote for
. him can read them.
He viii tell them how loyal he was. He
Will not discuss single issue in which the
. people Of the west are vitality interested. He
may possibly tell what wonders his party
= are doing in reducing taxation, bu, he will
not dare TO look any farmers tax receipts
squarely III the face.
, Can he tell the people how it happens
that the congress of which he was a member
: has run up congressional expenditures under
Grants ADMINISTRATION, in a time of peace,
to fur times VII at they were under Bucha-
mans administration? Will he tell the peo-
pie how they have been economical when
/, under Johnson the congressional expendi.
I lures were $1,000, 467, and under Grant for
the same length of time they were $6,398
235?
VIII he tell the soldiers how he came to so
I forget his loyalty and love for them, IS to
vote to give them only six months to avail
themselves of homes and gave railroads ten
e years to gobble up whole empires of public
, lands
F., In ali the records Of congress we do not
find his voice raised against these gross out
$ RACES nor his vote recorded against the
gigantic frauds and stealinRs of the peoples
? lands and the peoples hard earned taxes.
3 Will he tell the people why out of the sir
5 hundred millions Of taxes they pay, the
government only gets about four hundred
; millions?
) Will he tell the people why the taxes have
been doubled and kept up on wooden goods
on iron, leather, hides, lumber, salt, coal,
provisions, tea. coffee and sugar? Is it
parposely to raise Z. s. bonds to a premium,
and to keep them at a premium-sll in the
interest of capitalists.
will he tell the people why this is now
the heaviest tax country on earth, and the
people here pay more for government than
any people on earth except the Turks or