The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-11-03

We do not desire to resurreot the causes
that have induced this unfortunate feeling,
UNLESS A PERSISTENCE IN THE
INDISCRETIONS WHICH HAVE GRE
ATED 1T REQUIRES, and if that should
be- the case, WE SHALL Do THE WORK
THOROUGHLY.
These suggestions are offered to our
friends throughout the county, as being
VITAL to the STABILITY, CHARAC-
TER and SUCCESS of our party. WE
CANNOT AFFORD TO REPEL AND
LOSE THE SYMPATHY AND Coop
GRAFTON OF THAT "OLD GUARD"
OF GERMAN REPUBLICANS who
have ever been true to the principles of the
party, and have been the very backbone OF
our strength heretofore. We cannot afford
to let our great and intelligent organization,
which has, in the past, prided itself in being
represented by such men as Williams, Bush
nell, Browning, Jonas and the like, BE
FRITTERED AWAY INTO A MERE
MACHINE TO FURTHER THE PER
SONAL AND SELFISH INTEREST OF
ANYBODY-interest not common to the
whole comm unity. And, at the instance OF
SCORES of the TRUEST and BEST RE-
P%UBLICANS AMONG Us, we do what we
have repeatedly been pressed to do before,
viz: URGE UPON OUR FRIENDS,
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, To ACT
SOLIDLY IN THIS MATTER AS ONE
MAN. Turn out at your township meetings;
select your most judieious men; be i'm
pressed with and impress your delegates
with the CONTROLLING IDEA that
Adams county must be aUNITIN POLITI-
CAL ACTION.-Qnincy Whig.
Now read what the Peoria Repiep. a
strong republican paper says to republican
voters. II will apply in every particular to
Lord Hawley
H DUTY OF vorERs.
from the Peoria Review, RADICAL
Every citizen is influenced by two politi-
cal forces. His country and his party. He
owes q large and primary allegiance to the
nation, a slight and secondary teslty to his
political organization. The two are
easily served when 1t happens, as it ought
always, hat the efforts of q party are to
advance the best interests of the nation.
Parties, however, grow old, ~fossilize and
die. A line of policy that was liberal and
progressive once, may, and often does, in
. few years become illiberal and progressive.
1t may be the highest duty Of q man to
cling to his party at one time, while the
same principle will force him to leave it at
another, according as the principles that
actuate it are to advance the best interests
of the nation or to retard them.
The republican party had a rapid growth
and arrived quickly to maturity. 1t has had
grave questions to meet and to settle, but it
has met them in a humanitarian spirit, and
settled them on the basis of the soundest
philosophy.
Now the party inds itself threatened for
the first time with q peril within. Hereto
fore all its enemies have been foes without.
1t is forced to drop it's bold, aggressive
spirit, because there is nothing more TO
fight. Its past policy has been indicated,
and it has had the good fortune to live to
see its enemies acknowledge their mistakes
and agree that its course has been the
wisest possible.
No sooner, however, was this pressure
were discovered within. Men were found
holding high positions in its ranks who were
utterly unfi: for a private place therein
Men of furnished lives, doubtful morals and
blemished regulations, were discovered high
"a faN - ~ upOA
other mems republicanism.
1t is Fortunate, in some respects, that we
have arrived at our present attitude OF pro
found peace and quiet. We can now align
our ranks and dress up our front. But, to
do this, we must revert to first principles.
The germ of republicanism is founded OIL
the right of private judgment. This idea
was expressed in the old Higher Ls~ doc
t-,na ubiah plaaad "AnFa nnnGnIanRs
above. not only the dictstion of his party
even the statute.
This right we ought at the present time
to rigidly exercise. If republicans are to
fall into the old rut, and We are TO try and
force men into voting the straight ticket, we
then subject to all the evils of the eau
Gus system, and may as well relapse into
at once.
There are certain sphorisms used by party
papers to dragon men into the support OF
who are repugnant TO their moral
natures. The idea is frequently advanced
that to deposit a scratched ticket is half q
vote for the opposing candidate.
But it ia much more. To erase q mans
name from your ticket IS to administer n
rebuke to him and to the men who noml-
mated him. II is an eloquent protest. 1t
is saying TO the party, You must respect
the feelings OF the citizen" 1t is that power
which every citizen possesses of making his
presence and his protest felt. 1t is notonly
d privilege, but q duty. The test by which
a candidate is to be tried ought to be found
in the conscience of the voters. In NO other
way can the purity OF the ballot box be sus
tanned than by every man. submitting each
candidate to the crucible of his own judg
ment.
In times of great public danger the lesser
duty is sometimes swallowed up in the
greater. Many things have then to be Sac
riiced TO save the nation. But no such
crisis ID now upon US, and is not likely to be
Tor many years to come. If we would avert
all such dangers We must now,
and weed out all unworthy men from our
Offices.
We say, therefore, to every man, if there
be a person on your party's ticket whose
life you believe to be unworthy, whose prin-
you believe to be unsound, whose
whole career you are convinced is detrimen
tai to the people whom he misre presents no
less than to the nation at large, you are
guilty if you do not erase his name
from your ticket. You owe it to yourself,
you owe it to your country, to use your
power to send good men to represent you
If through the chicanery of politics bad men
have been foisted upon you in the name of
party, you ought to enter your protest
against it by erasing their name from your
The triumph of an honest opponent
s always preferable to the election of a dis
honest man from your own side
MEDICAL.