The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-24
We Forgive Him, Now

TOT some WEEKS past We nave Deen grow
ing madden and madden at Bailey Daven-
port every day. Heretofore we have
thought pretty well of the man. Weknew !
that he had given a good many years Of
careful, yigilant, intelligent, and disinter-
ested service to the people of this city.
We knew that he was watchful of every
interest of theirs, early and late. He new
er forgot anything, of public nature, re
quiring his attention. He could always be
found at his post, by all classes, rich or
poor ready Is attend to their wants. He
was ever watchful of the public interests
the public good. He wasn't salary grab
BERN fact he never would and never did
take cent of pay from the public treasury
for his services, and he was never known
10 have any axe to grind wherein his in
terests confiicted with the interests of the
people generally He never was known
to prefer a personal or political friend in
any public matter, to the detriment Of
the public funds His stubborness in this
respect is well known to all-and it is OF
no sort Of use for any one to argue with
him upon any matter of this sort, when he
once makes up his mind as to his duty 70
the people His uprightness, honesty
andintegrity were never questioned.
But the most remarkable trait in his
character the one which most endeared
him to the mass of people, was that in all
his official and private life he displeased
the Little Blonde of the tnioR-that was
/ the best evidence in the world, to the peo-
pie, that he was doing his duty to them.
He kept that paper and all connected with
its clique in perfect misery, and their groans
were daily howled forth through the col
umns of their impccunious organ. AL
this convinced most the people that Mr.
Davenport was doing his duty to the pub
lie generally
But of late we have been panied to per
ceive in him an apparent want Of attention
TO the public interests by not givinl
that paper anything to find faul
/ about. In fact we began z
half suspect that Bailey was goin
back on tie people by trying to please tn
| Union clique-and we were treasuring vi
walls of wrath to be poured out upon hi
devoted head, on the very first ia
vOrable opportunity. We half sus
: peeted that he wasn't right on tn
E goose, and we had about made up our &c
itorial minds that we never would forgiv
him. We were wrong. Sunday morI
ing's Union has convinced us that we wer
= wrong that we had done injustice to Nj
Davenport that we had suspected hii
. without cause, for we then learned fr5l
that delectable and much-edited shet
that it was Bailey Davenport who cause
the river to fall and the northwest wind
blow, and drive a mass of ice and san
f around the fltering cisterns lat the wat,
) works. so that the water could not get in
e and then that Blonde little sheet proceed
! to warn Bailey Davenport not to let SUI
% an emergency beiall the city again
y We forgive Mr., Davenport, if he, in h
/ heart, ever meditated trying to get into IL
y good graces of the Union clique We nc
I55 know that we wronged him, for the ia
a that he has caused the river to fall low
st than ever known before, and then cause
y a strong northwest wind to carry ice al
ar sand into the entrance to the cisterns Al
a, thus cut of our water supply, shows til
y he wanted to give the Union a chance
- find falkland that he really had no fe
90 90 Of anything that the Little Blonde COT
an do. We forgive him. We think bett
ut of him than we did.