The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-09
THE FARMERS ANTLM0NOPoLY CoUN-
TY TICKET.

I tlUA5A.
BY request of the Executive Committee
OF the Farmers County Association, we
give place TO the ticket nominated 10y the
Farmers Anti Monopoly County Conven-
ton held in the Court House in this city
on the 9Th ultimo, also the platform adopt !
ell by that convention. The action OF the
convention presents plain issues and the
ticket selected is entirely out Of the ordi !
nary run of county tickets No clique,
cabal. caucus or ring had word to say IN
making it No man On it sought nom
nation, but they all sprung directly from
. the popular heart, untettered by any form,
ceremony. or past observance. The quail
II # the candidates Is unexceptiOnable,
They are not only good and worthy men in
the common meaning Of these terms, but
they possess undoubted integrity and an
intelligence for above the ticket which has
been brought out III opposition to them.
The position occupied by them, and by
the party they represent is an honora-
Bile one 1t is an honest and earnest
; effort to get rid Of rings aud chques that
II prey upon honest labor, and to carry on the
government economically and intelhgently.
ne Read the resolution IN county affairs, and
X then think OF the effect Of perpetuating
as the old party ring with Guyer at its head
IS Read OF the expressions the people sufel
IN from mOnopOlies and from dishonest anC
r. incompetent officials The sentiment:
:, there promulgated are worthy the thought
'c- full consideration of all classes OF voters
50 The national life is now imperilled b,
Il legislation that threatens TO reduce thu
rel producing classes to the condition OF serts
N The products Of the field and workshop
Ter have been boldly seized upon by an arb
ng trary and irresponsible power, which ex
III acts its own tolls, and levies upon the earn
ings Of labor without restraint or limlta
he ton. To meet this successfully and check
Is tendency that can lead only to despotisn
the it is needful now to drop mere political dii
mas tinctions. and make the great interests
Ut the country the sole object of support.
sof !. docreed Thar bcrcof,rtb small bicker;n,
and personal divisions shall cease. "
- have had enough Of useless contention
= the past and it is high time people though
aud acted for themselves and for their ov
~ interests. The Farmers Anti Monopo
70 party of Rock Island county invites all wi
- agree with them in sentiment to act vii
- them at the ballot box and help lift son
80 of the burdens from the backs of labor,
The Macomb IN Eagle, forcibly sa,
that no hope need be expected from eth
of the old parties for the suffering indu
tries of the country. 1t says:
az The anti-monopoly movement is right
* it is based ON sound principles and mu
- win. But it will not win while dilly- dali
go ing with the old parties. The Wings
the North in 1854, could pass as stro
: anti slavery resolutions as any aboliti
meeting or convention. But the true an
az slavery men knew that their profcssio
- were hollow, because. as a party, til
.G:9 were still under bonds to the Wings of t
500 South. SO the Republican party of t
81 West can now pass anti-mOuUp0ly ant
I'D; milk-and water sort OF anti tariff reso
sS9 tons; but your true anti monopolist kno
= that the party as a whole is still in
: clutches of the bank, tariff and railrC
: monopolists of the East, and that
. real reform can ever proceed from L
80 party.