The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-05-12
The Supreme Judre,hir
To the Editor of the Aneus:

To the Editor OF the AReUs
There is a queer CORRESPONDENT writes
for the Union on the Supreme Court
Judgeship. | do not quite understand
him, and | am confident he does not under
stand himself. The leading and grave OBJ
lections TO Craigs election seems to be that
ne has no sand in his eraw, and wears
his pants IN his boots and his tobacco in
ms mouth. These, | admit, are serious
errors, and | would advise Judge Craig to
wear his pants on the ordinary plan, and
when he chews tobacco TO keep it out of
his mouth, and by every manner of means
that he forthwith put bushel of = sand in
his craw, and that hereafter he may new
er be seen wearing tobacco Then, Craig
is one of those brilliant lawyers VINO never
practice outside of their own county," and
is successful there only because he knows
who to pick for jurymen. This funny
correspondent foOlishly spoils his story
by telling us that =" he Craig has been
for years and is now the paid attorney of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
the greatest railroad monopoly in the west,
as the records of the Circuit and Supreme
Court will show But this is not all of
the Inconsistencies contained in this droll
chapter We are informed that Craig is a
virulent copperhead and at the
same time are told that he was
elected a member of the constitutional
convention from Knox county, which
gave Grant majority of more than two
thousand five hundred votes over Seymour.
In 1868, and the same over Greeley, in
1872. Why this intense copperhead should
have been chosen over all others by the
strong Republican county of Knox is not
made apparent by the luminous correspon-
dent OF the Union. And, while this state
OF facts IS not so easily imagined, the
further fact that the Republican party of
that county should send a ''copperhead,
to represent them in the Constitutional
Convention, who wore his tobacco in his
mouth and his pants in his boots, is
lncomprehensible. Then, too the enlght-
ened Republicans of Knox and the most
wealthy railroad corporation in the West,
conhdes IN man without brains in his
head or sand in his craw, the one hav-
ing sent him to Springfield to make con
for the State and the other keen
ing him at Ottawa to look after its interests
before the Supreme Court of the State.
aud yet A. NJ Craig. ESQ, was unknown
tN'iN Wiz ltLlltc VI hHON County until
his name appeared at the Princeton conyen-
ton by the hands of copperheads and
soreheads, says this soft headed correspon-
dent OF the Union. It is a back handed
compliment TO the people of Knox county,
and particularly 10 the Republican voters
Of that county, and to the c., B. & O. L.
X. Company, that they have both honored
and trusted man whose legal briefs and
arguments, before correction resemble
Josh Billings letters"
MIR. Editor, do not know Mr.. Craig.
aud therefore shall not attempt 10 meet
this little stars 4 statements upon any
OF my own, but | submit, in all
candor, that this correspondent condemns
himself as unworthy Of belief: and. if
the enemies Of this farmers movement
cannot do better than this random cores
pondent, they had better submit the aues-
ton to the quiet and patient Judgment of
the people without discussion, as every
intelligent man must see that the writer in
the Union is small demagogue whose
careless statements amount 70 downright
talsehood VTTCAN