Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-24
MAJOR BEARDsLEY.

"Ths Uaion don't have AnytAing to say abOu
jim Besrdsley. Guess jim got his foot in i.
this tiue, wAsa romArk frequently heard on the
street to-day ANGUS.
The shove il as false IS the charges ma d..
against Major Bsardsley. The Onion ex plicitly
de0iSd'the charges aud the denial was copied
into the columns of the Akaus. We have t.
say further that Mai. Be rd sley's ooks sre of
ie,El records of the county, and are 81 all times
o sen for inspection, and hIs most malicious Gu
envy can detect no irrsgulArisy in any OF them
Maj. Bsardsley lie too well knowa aud respected
/ 10 this community TO nesd any defense from ths
vsnton and baseless attacks OF the eontem9ti-
bic Sab OF the ARGUs, who glOries in nothing
so much as in OBTAINING the character md mis-
representing the visvS Of our best oitissns.-
| Union.
Our contemporary is spAsnodic in it,
defense q the county clerk. The state
nen,s we made Wers made on Thursday
Yesterday Fridsy) the Union had not one
single word to say 10 regard TO the matter.
This morning it says it has explicitly de-
MED the charges" Now we will ask point
blank 1eniAls 10 ths following questions,
from the Union, D. o. Reid. and Major
Besrdsley:
Did not James ST. Besrdsley retain over
eleven hundred dollars rsmsiuing from the
Soldiers Re-U bioa fund. from the time be
received it last May until he reported to the
Board OF Supervisors IN September? Did
not the Board Of Supervisors direct him to
pay this money over TO the County Treasu-
rer? Did be not admit this fsct 10 the
ARGUs office, Rud state that he continued TO
Aold this money uGtil the Decem Ser SEES
sion? Did be not say to u, as an
excuse for holding this money,
that the county was owing him
three Thousand and Eve hundred dollars
up to December? Did be not also say tina,
he was good for tse eleven hundrec
dollars p Did be not retain the money.
after his three Thousand FIVE hundred
dollars had been paid to him By the csGnty
al the December session Of the Board o
Supervisors? Did he not state, in ans er
to our questions, that be continued to hod
the eleven hundred dollars Until the first o.
January, saying that 'ihe frat Of January
vas the proper time fosPayinR ii over?" Did
be not say that ne paid ifoUer on that daie a.?
Did he not several times repeat this as
ton IN the ARGUS od6oe? Did moi n n
Ried tell US that the money %as maid or.,
on the fourth OF Decent sr9 Does mi
his official secoua, chow tn, =.
money was paid over On the forteeug
OF December Do.- M, nj. o,,-v ,,.nt,
.. does nos now stand as origi
ally written2 Have not the date of tn,
month and the date of the year both bee,
changed? Dill not D. o. Ried a NIT to u
that these dates might have beel
changed p Can we not produce two reia
bic witnesses who are willing to swear posi-
lively that these dates have been changed
} When we make statements of the charac
ter we have made in this matter, we ar
careful to know before hand that we hAv
reason TO believe they are vel! founded
We do not approve of making poliIic'
= we are guided both by principle and policl
E We would intentionally DO no man AL in
jusiice-not even political enemy. b
sides, the truth is always arrived al soons
or later, aud the newspaper that argue
from a false standpoint can never sttsi
permanent public influence. Ais
: when we make statement, We do nj
swallow it ct the mandate Of Il
: first individual we encounter. tt
o editor of the Union cannot 81
r as much. He is cringiug lickspistle, wi
!. is veered about by every breath Of publ
v opinion; he is accustomed TO advocate OIL
i. measure or man to-day, and ths very rever
y to morrow; he is guided by neither princiF
If or policy, and com mands neither the respe
e OF his party or his opponents; he is vor
+ out whisky boat, whose bleAred eyes Al
Ie shattered nerves render him Totally incor
D. petent for any private or public position;
h stumble about our streets in state of
" gushing drunkenness on one ds
he and to ssume to be an apostle
ly temperance and morality on
the next, is fair plifcation of
consistency. OF course he ever stands res
to do the dirty work of his financial q
political masters.