The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-19
UsURPiNs AUTHORITY

The anxiety for office, and power. aud
plumber by the GRANTEES, who were de-
feated by the people Of Louisiana is at
the bottom Of the whole business. and
Grant has stepped ontside of his sphere
and pretended 20 recognize PinchbecA rs
governor of that State n matter with |
which he has nothing whatever TO dc. To
some the act may seem an immaterial one,
but il has n prodigious retrospective aud
prospective operation. 1t establshe, me
particular legislature that assumed 70 I'M
peach Warmoth and MAKE Llhchheck
governor. il approves he unofficial and /
irregular methods by which that body AS /
sumes TO BE- the legislature; and 1t con
demus the ofhcill acts and proclamatlons |
of Warmotl and the officially returned
legislaturp that has acted with him. Nor
Is mi. al il will have the effect Of making
Antoine the defeated colorcd Republican
candidate. governor Of the State, instead
Of McEnery the Democratic candidate,
and the actually chosen governor Thus
the expressed will II the people Of the
state will be- anuulled the election set
aside, andA governor aud state officers not
wanted BY the people viii be- virtually
chosen by the President
All this is either right or wrong The
entire Administration press, with one
united voice, declare il 20 be right and
rejoice that the President has thus got nd
Of the pestiferous and tyranical Warmoth
But why did not the President get rid ct
Warmoth before, II he has a right TO do
such things? Warmoth i, not one whit
more criminal now than he was two years
ago. unless his opposition 10 the Admins
tration party makes him 80 We are
bound, then, 70 believe that the President
has decided against Warmoth because
Warmoth is hostile to Grant, and in favor
OF pinchbeck because Pinchbeck is tg,
Grant Suppose the positions we're evactl!
reversed-that Warmoth represented IN,
Administration party, and Pinchbeck the
Opposition-is there human being in the
land that does not know that in Hot ease
the government would uph''d Wurmoth
and overthrow Pinchbeck? Aud would
not the entire Administration press say
hat was right.
The President is treading gu dangerous
ground in this business aud even the unaui.
mou, approval Of his party which back.
him in his course cannot compensate him
for the mischief, he NAV he bringing on
himself aud the country The President
decides against Wamoth. though War
moth represent, the people Ia Louisiana
but how Is 70 in Arkansas? An almost
precisely similar condition exists there
with the respective position reversed
Why, then, does not the President decid,
against Baxter in Arkansas Brooks tn,
fusion candidate, makes exactly the sam
claims that Antoine makes ia Louisiana
how, then. can the President decide on
way in Louisiana aud different way il
Arkansas
The Little Rock Gdzeh, thus quietl
points out the trap which stands before tn
President.
The situation in Arkansas is precisel
the same as in these two States. with tn
difference that the Conservatives here &C
cupy the position Of the Radicals there an
vice versa The legal returning officers q
the counties have given certificates Of cleo
ton 10 q Radical majority in each house q
the Legislature. II the Conservative mi
nority Of each house who hold certificate
Of election shall organize separately fror
the Radicals, and set up legislature b
admitting others whom they believe tan
who doubtless were legally elected, the
We have the Alabama case with its politics
features reversed
So in Louisiana II Mr. Brooks an
other reformers shall invoke the aid Of tn
Federal courts, under the election and er
torcement laws 10 be consistent the L mite
States Court must uphold them.
=" If Grant and the Federal judiciar
support the Radical side in Alabama an
Louisiana, to he consistent they must hel
the reformers here with bayonets and d,
cisiOns.
The old story Of the wolf and tn
lamb will doubtless be again adorned
the course of the general government
regard 10 the election in the States Of Al
kansas, Louisiana and Alabama. Cor
gress will have as many reasons for ovei
riding each, as there are States ~ be ovel
ridden Clayton thinks Rice is mistake
in asserting in the Senate that the return
show that Brooks is elected, but declare
that the question will be settled by tn
proper tribunal In Louisiana the return
happen to be against the Administratio
candidate for Governor, Kellogg and II
United States Court, By the aid Of Unite
States artillerymen, interfere to prevel
the proper tribunal from settling Il
question. No argument is good again
the desires Of power