Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-03
QailD Argus.

Early IN the discussion of the nroiaot FL,
the Liberal Republican party to hold a con-
Yention at Cincinnati, the N. Y. World
oic'atosiiy declared it to be the duty of the
Democrats and Democratic newspapers to
abstain from even suggesting suitable per-
sons Tor nomination at the convention. The
World insisted that it was to be a Republi.
can convention, in which no Democrat
should be found and with which no Demo
crat or Democratic newspaper should inter
fere. But for few weeks previous to the
meeting of the convention, the World vio-
lae1 its own programme and used all its
inhuence to procure the nomination of Mr..
Adams. The majority of that convention
believed Mr.. Greeley to be the better can
didate,-and the World bolts. In its issue
of May 3Osh, it says
We expressed The Worlds Judgment that
Charles Francis Adams would be heir most 40
esptabfe choice; as our Democratic friends in
| OonEssss and at the head Of Leading journals
elsewhere expressed their judgement this Judge
Davis woald be their most acceptable choice.
But neither We nor any other Democratic
journal Of wide influence, nor any Dem ocratie
statesman, threw the slightest obstacle to pre-
vent abe choice at Cincinnati Of Lyman Trum-
bull, Gratz Brown, Ex-sscretary Cox, Governor
Palmer, or ha f-dozen other leading Repu bIicans
whose natural connection with the Democratic
party had been ruptured by the war and its col
| lateral issues and contests.
Was it not Fan obstacle" to the choice o
any one but Adams, for the World to insist
on his nomination?
The World is wrong in another respect
The connection with the Democratic party"
Of neither of the men il names was "rup-
tured by the war" Neither Mr.. Adams,
Mr.. Davis, or Mr.. Cox were ever Democrats,
any more than Mr.. Greeley was. Messrs.
Trumbull, Brown and Palmer were once
Democrats, bat they left our party, on the
Nebraska question, in 1854, seven years be-
fore the war. Perhaps either of the gentle
men named would have been as acceptable
to the Democracy IS Mr.. Gresley-but
neither OF them more so. As strong obiec-
tons can be made to either of them as to
Mr.. Greeley. This paper has already sug.
gested what objections would have been
urged in case of the nomination of either
of them. Il only needed their nomination
to have brought out the objections and pro-
ducsd as much classification as now ex-
lists. The ARGUS would have cheerfully
supported either of them rad either been
nominated at Cincinnati and Endorsed AT
Baltimore. 1t will do the same in the case
of Mr.. Greeley, and quite as willingly as in
case of either of those named by the World.
The only proper and practical course, now,
seems to be, to leave the dead past alone :;
not discuss it at all-snd let all Who desire
to save the country from another four years
Of Grants corruption and bayonet rule act
together. Is it good reason why people,
who now agree, should be prevented from
acting together, beesuee they once disa-
greed Can the World inform the people
what Democratic principles, not buried by
past events aud not expressed in the Gin
oinnati platform, would be indicated in the
nomination of Mr.. Adams or of Judge
Davis in preference to Horace Greeley?