The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-19
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Let Us Have a Bid all Around

Our Little Blonde postmaster is still
ki-i-i-ing around the streets because he
isn't city printer, and wants a chance to
make us work for nothing and find our
selves He wants chance to say what
we shall charge for work we were appointed
to door, in other words, he wants 10 Did
on work the Council elected this office to
perform. And he daily traduces and Wilt
fes Alderman Kelly because he can t have
n chance n bid on our work. He seems
IN labor under the impression that Alder
man Kelly ought to have repudiated the
action of the Council in electing city
printer, when he knows that every one of
the ten Aldermen, and the Mayor also,
ridicule and laugh at his nonsense. But
We will relieve the Council of his .tacks
in future, and give him chance to bid
We haven't the least bit Of an objection.
We consent. We agree to his proposition
but ut the same time we want him to
let all Rock Island come in and bid ON his
ofhce-the post Office There are great
many men in Rock Island better suited to
the office than he is !; and he knows that If
the people were to vote on the question he
could not get anywhere near majority OF
the people of this city to indorse him.
There are many people here who have
been here longer than he has; who pay
more taxes than he does: who have done
more to build up the place than he has
and who would make better post master,
than he knows how TO be. Where is the
sense, then, in paying the little Maryland
secessionist $4,000 year for doing littl,
or no work about the Office, when Their,
are plenty OF better people here wh'
would take the office for half that sum ant
devote all their time to it? Why is i
necessary for the United States Treasur,
to be robbed of $1,000 a year for the ben
eft of the Little Blonde
Then think Of all the county advertising
and job printing! He gets every dollar 0
( Nh't hpNS anu Has ipl SCt'is IN laCt, ~
more than twenty years, TO our persona
knowledge, the party n which he belongs
with an occasional brief exception, and hi
paper ana those of his predecessors, hav,
had that patronage with also an Occasional
year of the small city patronage And We
; every single newspaper of that party, ex
cept his paper, has died for want of sup
port-while THE ARGUS has lived, with0u
? it. Take away the postofice and the couu
ty patronage from him and he would brea
down in three months. Yet THE ARGU
has never whined or begged for his work
, THE ARGUS has relied ON the people 70
support and not in vain, either. His pa
per and those of his predecessors, hav
relied on party patronage, and all died, bu
the one now in existence-and that on
will die as soon rs the party patronage sha.
be Withdrawn.
I But we consent to his desire for chanc
to bid ON our work-only We want all tn
people in ,wn to have a chance to bid o.
his Office, and all the people in the count
chance to bid on the county printing an
advertising. We are willing to do almos
anything to please the Little Blonde. an
for that reason we make this proposition
viii this suit him. VIII he consent? Lt
us hear from the little pap-sucker on tn
question, at his earliest convenience