Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-27

Blowing Hot and Cold.
From the Peoria Review.

Ksop, In one of his fables, tells of an
honest sheppard who kicked traveller out of
his hut because he blew his fsgers to warm
them, and his broth to cool it, Ii the shep-
herd had q chance at the Grant party of to-
day, he would serve it in the same way. In
order to divert votes from Greeley, il is com
PEELED 10 use contradictory arguments which
refute each other. To republicans it says:
You cannot vote for Greeley, because he has
gone over 10 the Democrats. He has &C.
cepted the Baltimore nomination, and has
thereby given the lie to his previous record.
If you vote for him, you are supporting
Democrat, and are placng IN power your
old antagonists. 1t blows hot to Repubh
cans
But for Democrats, an entirely different
argument is used. They are told, that in
supporting the Cincinnati nominees they
abandon their faith, aud accept for leader
the High Priest of Republicanism. That
the old, SCARED, tine-honored party, that
has flung its banner to the breeze for Fifty
years, now trails it in the dust by support
ing Horace Greeley. 1t is remarkable how
many high-sounding adjeetives the Grant
party now applies TO the men whom q few
years since it called copperhesds and trail
tors. How anxious IL has all at once be-
come for the integrity and preservation of
an organization that it formerly denounced
as reasonable and rebellious. How dear to
the Administration the Democracy has be-
come, il it will only cling TO the issues of
the war and thus help to elect Grant. 1t
blows cold to Democrats. Republicans are
told that Greeley is q Democrat, Democrats
are told Greeley is a Republican.
The fact is that the present campaign is
not fought upon issues that have heretofore
divided the Republican and Democratic
parties.
With the adoption of the Thirteenth Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments, all ques-
tons growing out of slavery and the war,
upon which parties had differed, we're set
tied. The Democracy do not seek to repea
the constitutional amendments. Both
North and South acquiesce in them as parts
of the supreme law of the land. The Lib
eral Republicans represented at Cincinnati
with the Democrats represented at Baltimore
pledged themselves in the language of their
platforms ito oppose any re-
opening of the questions settled by
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution" Upon
the new issues which are presented, is 6
Democrat or Republican inconsistent in
advocating universal amnesty civil service
reform, local self government, the suprema-
ey of the civil over the military authority
the largest liberty for the individual consis
tAni with public order, self government FOL
the State, and for the nation a return to the
methods of peace ard the constitutions
limitations of power? Is ii inconsistent fo
either Repu blicsn or Democrat to insis
that a reform in the distribution of Fedora
offices mast be preceded by Limitation o
the tenure Of q PresideAt to one term tina
the tariff question is a question to be settle'
BY the people that the public credit must b.
maintained; and that q return to speci
: payment is demanded by the business inter
eats of the country? Is it inconsistent 70
either to oppose further grants of the pub
lie lands to railroads or other corporations
These are the distinctive features of tn
platform framed at Cincinnati and adoptet
at Baltimore Does Mr.. Greeley contr&dic
his record by standing on that platform
Have Democrats ever opposed these primer
ples? They express only the Issues of To
n present upon which all can take SIDES, bu
= not questions OF the past, which have bee
forever settled. The trick of the Grant o.
gans is in attempting to fasten party name
,st which formerly represented antagonist
ideas, and as such we're acknowledged b
IS those advocating them, upon the same me
- who now agree upon new issues uuconnec
ed and bearing no relation to the old que
tions upon which they once differed. A R.
publican supports Greeley because he rel
- ressnts the true policy Of the present hOu
' A Democrat supports him for the same rel
son. Neither goes to the other, but bot
leave the things that were, to consider tt
things that are. An argument based upo
= names only, has shadow for fouudatio
- 1t is conceived in fraud, and uttered in i
,quitv, 1t will convince no one who is n
6 frat deceived. 1t is such an argument tn
;, double faced Grant organ makes, when
me tells Republican that Greeley is Dem
II. crat, aud Democrat that Greeley is a r
ow publican. 1t may gull few of the ignora
Tea of both parties, bat can influence no intel
the gent voter.