The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-30
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viii our Senator and Representatives Rep.
resent their Constituents


resent their Constituents
No, they will not; neither will thew try
we mean Senator Shepard, and Repre-
sentatlves Warner and Johnston Let us
see about this. There is not man Of
average sense In the senatorial district who
does not know that nearly every Democrat
ana more than three quarters of the Re-
publicans of the district are Iopposed to a
protective tariff Every one knows that,
next to railroad extortions, the extortions
| OF the interests protected by a discriminat-
ing tariff are most frequently spoken
against by farmers, mechanics, merchants.
professional men and others in this district
| The same state of things exists in the ad-
| joining senatorial districts, east and south
OF u.s. Senator Whiting was at the Far
mers' Convention ia Kewanee in Novem-
Der which passed resolution strongly con-
demning protective tariffs, which he sup
ported by sensible speech, yet this same
Whiting, and Sanford, of Knox, who is of
the same faith, will both belle their pro-
fessions, and will vote with Shepard, War
ner and Johnston for Dick OgIesby for
u. 5. Senator, whom they know to be
an old high tariff fogy of the bIuest
stripe
Don't say they won't do this outrageous
thing, Don't say they will not disregard
the interests of their constituents, and do
this very thing, for they will do it. They
dare not do otherwise They dare not.
IS the word. VIII any one say that when
they get into party caucus at Springfield,
and are told by the leaders they must vote
for Dick, they will dare to presume to ut
ter single whimper of dissent? Vain
illusion They will quail under the crack
ct the caucus lash ike whipped puppies.
Their back bones will depart, and thew
will tremble like piles of jelly, and pite-
ously look up to their leaders and promise
obedience, and for single pat on their
heads will dance around their masters like
loyal puppies.
There eyes are wide open. There is
no mistake about Oglesby's opinions. The
Chicago Journal, the most orthodox of the
tariff papers, in its number Of July 2,
speaking Of Oglesby's speech at Decatur
on the 29th Of June, says, His views on
the tariff question were eminently states
manhke. The necessity of fostering our in
FAINT manufactures for the present. was
clearly demonstrated while at the same
time he admitted the ACCESSIBILITY of gradu-
ally reducing the tariff to the lowest extent
the bare safety of our manufacturing in
terests would permit.
There, farmers Of Henry and Rock Is |
land, Bureau and Stark, Knox and Mercer. |
you must not get below the figures which
the interests OF manufactures will permit.
on must support them, no matter how
heavy the burden on you.
And what bonny figure is the great
State of Illinois to cut in the L. S. Senate. |
divided On this great question -powerless
Logan on one side, 0 glesbyon the other /
while the people are for a mere revenue
tariff!
And this is not all; these muchly tenn
perance representatives are going to vote
for repeating the Yates folly over. The
habits Of Oglesby promise us nothing bet
ter than We had during the six years pre-
ceding Logan's term, when Yates was
drunk nearly all the time, and during the
last three years Of his term, was rarely in
his place, but loafed around saloons.
But as we have observed before. Shep-
ard, Sanford, Whiting. Warner and john
ston will support Oglesby. They dare not
10 otherwise. They will deliberately
their constituents rather
than face the frown of caucus. Prairie
CH5q.