The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-12-06
pvNARKs BY THE ARGUS.

DO b sides, and the result VIII DC iooAeu A" WI"
much interest.
REMARKS BY HI ARGUS.
The correspondent of the Inter Ocean
makes a mistake in Mr.. Porter's name,
and in his majority in Buffalo Prairie,
and makes an ass of himself generally,
Il is really laughable to see the writing
and suuirming of the Republican ring in
this county over their defeat. First they
charged that a large number of Repubh
cans in Moline had been cheated into vot-
ing for Porter by a false or fraudulent tick
et But the more they examined that
matter the more they became convinced
that it wouldn't hold water. If anybody
was deceived, Mr.. Porter was not the de-
~eeiver or alder or abettor in the deception.
To persist in such a charge was to prove
that their own partizans were stupid asses
and unfit 70 exercise the right of suffrage.
They found out that nobody was deceived
or cheated, but that some of the best and
most intelligent men in Moline voted and
openly worked for what the Republican
ring is pleased to cali a fraudulent ticket
Ia ticket printed in a Republican print
ing Office, on the order of known Repub-
%icaus. who were in favor of Sam Porter
for Treasurer, and that nobody was de-
ceiyed, and no attempt was made to de-
ceiye anybody.
Cleland, Tor rather Cleland and his
| brother-in-law Gest, for Gest is the NOV
, ing cause in the laughable affair." deternl-
ined to ~contrive some way by which enough
of Porters votes could be thrown out to
f deprive the people of their choice. They
knew that the people elected Porter and
E refused to elect Cleland, but how to change
/ that result, beat the people and deprive
5 them Of their choice was what bothered
v them. At length somebody tells then
e that they don't believe the polls were KEEP
r open in Buffalo Prairie till I O'Clock anc
a they jump at the idea that by some tech
~nicality they can disfranchise the peopl,
of Buffalo Prairie and thus cheat the Peep
u lie of the county out of their choice fO
treasurer. They allege that Buffalo Prair
lie contains 240 persons entitled to vote
that only ll3 voted for reasurer-T9 70
Porter and "a for Cleland-and what the,
want is to make some court diStranchis
these ll3 persons because the other II
IT didn't vote or offer to vote They want t
Ie punish the lib men who did vote, becaus
,5 the l27 didu'tvOte, and didn't want to vote
lg Was ever anything more ludicrous? O
Is course NJ court will ever d9.any such thin
ST Ii Gest, Cleland Il Co. could show tina
d enough men offered their ballots for Gle
and at Buffalo Prairie, after tn
box was closed and before
O'Clock, to have changed the resul
t zen the court ought to order those ballot
u to be counted-or if any ballots were S
D. offered for anybody before I O'Clock an
not received and counted. then the cou'
nd should order them to be counted, b.
M they don't clai'u any such thing. The
rk don't even claim that they have been il
lis iured If the polls were closed before
to O'Clock, and they cut a most ludicrous fl
ure and asking redress when they ha'
on suffered no wrong. They must first sho
Ie- that they nave been injured by closing Il
he box before : o'clock. This they don't pr
1t tend. In fact we hear that only one III;
1t came to vote after the polls were close
in. and he wanted to vote the whole Farmer
hi Anti Monopoly ticket. In order to ha
DIS his vote counted, however, he must be al
| a to prove that he rendered it, and pro
we what names were upon his ticket. Unle
zee he can do this and show that the tend
1t was made before : o'clock, ne cannot ha
en- it counted. 1t is not a question of VII
will the men would have done who remain
hat away from the polls, but what thos, W
it, came to the polls did. Gest, Cleland
to Co. argue in this way There are l27 m
in Buffalo Prairie who didn't vote.
of they had voted they would have voted
ket Cleland therefore, Mr.. Court, won't y
inc please either count their votes for Clela
DIS, or refuse to count the II3 who did vot
In They admit that the majority of the p'
of pie who did vote preferred Porter to c
Iish land, but they want the courts to say Il
els. the majority shall not rule that the Il
ted iority don't know who to vote for that
be majority shall not have the right to V
cts. unless they vote for Cleland. That k
les. of argument takes well with Grant and
who carpet baggers down South, for that is
buy way Louisiana and some other South
est, States are now ruled. Gest, Cleland
red. Co. want to introduce that system in I
, a county, and asks the courts to help tn
fac do it. We don't believe it can be done
be- Illinois.
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