The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-20

-Oc ty, Tn re isn't single caus of this Waa on
and multi pl ed libel Tut trays b. ar biacker
than a y of th ohenc ,harg d. y,n I tn charges
were u. e do not answer -uch z and
shameless ztud-we simply hold it up - the public
gaze
The public gaze is precisely the
thing needed for the facts above cited.
Under monarchial governments we canu
derstand that policy of decoruus secrecy
might be practised in the press, to conceal
from foreign contempt the crimes or the
follies of a royal family and its satellites,
and To deprive 'wickedness 10 high places
OF It's educating influence upon the youth
full and the unstable at home who would
have ~ power, after acquiring knowledge
Oft, h. punish or remove their rulers from
high place and power Yet even in Eng.
land the tollies of the Prince of Wales
youth were not wholly spared, and a states
man or party leader there, corrupt in his
public or his private life, could not live
day under the denunciations which would
fall upon him from the public press. What
betell the railroad jobbers in Germany?
Did the press of France keep utter silence
concerning their Boss Tweed who Haus,
manuized Paris and made fortunes for im-
peria flvorites and kinstOlks?
Under Republican government the
people may much more frankly be inform
cd Of the follies, corruptions, and crimes of
their servants and representatives. Why
do the people select, why do the people
change these at will, unless because of their
fitness aud competency as proved or dis
proved by their public or private behavior,
unless because Of the competency of the
people b. select and change them? And
how can the people get the knowledge they
require TO guide their selections and their
changes, except by the plainest truth. tell
ing in the newspaper press? Their honor
lies IN ejecting taithless public servants !;
not in hiding their crimes.
Does the Albany Euning Journal dare
to deny the literal truth of every syllable
which it very properly holds up to the
public gaze 2
/. With what other word than "mur-
derer should be described the crime of
Sickles in shooting Key? That was the
word written Of him by the pen Of William
Z. Bryant But we selected one of the
least luathsome acts in the mans life.
>. Is not John A. Bingham, our minis
ter 10 Japan, aud do not the books of the
Sergeant-at Arms show him 10 have been
salary grabber and do not the records of
Wilson committee show him Credit
VI ,blierist2
3. What man at last exposed as among
the bribees OF OdkeS Ames, was more con
cluslyely proved unworthy of belief and of
public trust than Dawes, of Massachusetts,
whom the uncaught Mobiierest in the
Speaker chair has reappointed to the
craftsmanship of the Committee on Ways
aud Means and the leadershipof the House
OF Representatives Caught Mublierist,
Dawes certainly was. We spared him the
harsher word which might have recalled
the Tact that he tried t0cOver that venalitv,
with talseheod afterwards exposed.
D. has not Speaker Blaine reseated
other caught Credit Mubilierists in the
chairmanships OF the foremost committees
OF the House, 10y whom all legislation is
shaped or suppressed with ease from that
official position2 The uncaught Mobiier-
list has deposited the law-Inaking power on
the INST Important matters in the hands
OF caught and proved Credit Mob7ierists
The tact y notorious, from Dawes to SEQ
field and Kelley.
.. The Tribune has published the evi.
dence that IA deDanchee sits in the chair
OF the senate. W hat is the rebutting
testimony. Grant, who gave character
t. Tom Murphy when he lost his place in
the Custom House and to Cultax when he
had barely escaped impeachment in the
Nlce-Pressdency, testities that Carpenter
was not drunk during particular hour Of
bis society. A hotel clerk testifes that he
sent Carpenter aud his cuupanion away to
Another house at Long Branch, there be-
ing no rooWs vacant. The Tribune reioins
by publishing the names OF scores OF per
sons received and assigned to rooms the
same day at the same hotel and recorded
on the hotel register delow the inscribed
names Ut the pair assigned to adjoining
roohs-no trains meanwhile having arrived
or departed.
o Does any one deny the venaty or the
perjury oi C1liax? The evidence abouuds
we could hil our columns with it, as they
nave been hlied What Srieler phrase
anu It's klndY
= Is 1t So SOON pretended that Wilson,