The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-14


Chicago Board of Trade asking the Com
missioners to establish two additional
grades of wheat, to-wit Minnesota No.
and Minnesota No. 2 1t is not probable
that. this will be done at present, at least
until the Board investigate the necessity
for it further.
The Commissioners have under conside-
ration several other knotty questions touch
ing the operation of the law, which they
will determine soon. They meet again
next Tuesday.
DEsMoINEs, July l2-The Polk County
Anti -Monopolists met in convention here
to-day, to nominate a county ticket, and
select delegates to the Anti Monopoly
State Convention. which meets here Aug.
l3. The Convention was large, every
township in the county being fully repre-
sented. The Convention was run entirely
by the farmers, and the proceedings were
harmonious. The following resolutions
were unanimously adopted, the seventh
one being one of the resolutions adopted
by the recent Republican State Conven-
ton:
First-That we will support no man for
Office who Is not, and who has not been, in
full sympathy with the leading interests Of
the producer and manufacturer, especially
as opposed to those who support monopo-
lies in any form.
| SecOBd-That our candidates must be
men OF integrity in every respect, with nc
entangllng alliances that can in any way
turn them from the paths of duty to the
whole body polite
7Hird-That all class legislation where
by any individual, or body of individuals
or corporation is benefited to the detri
ment OF the people is contrary to the prin
clples upon which our Government was
founded, and tends toward the destruction
of the Republic.
Fourth-That the doctrine of vesteG
rights under which railroad corporations
claim exemption from legislative contro
belongs to past age and despotic rule
and as it cannot exist without infringing
on the rights of citizens generally, it ha.
no legitimate place in the jurisprudence O
a free people.
FJh-That many of our public officer.
are now receiving enormous salaries for thei
services disproportionate to the rewards O
labor in the industrial pursuits of the peo
pie, tending to habits of extravaganza a
variance with Republican simplicity. in
ereasing the burdens of taxation, anC
creating an aristocracy which will soone
or later undermine the liberties of the peo
pie and we demand a reform in that direc
ton.
iSirth-That the action of the member
of Congress increasing their own salar,
was highly dishonorable, and all member
of either Congress who have accepted O
shall accept, appropriate, or cause to b
appropriated this extra salary to any pur
pose, except its rightful place in the Unite,
States Treasury, deserve our severest cen
sure, and prove themselves unworthy G
confidence in any place of public trust
and also, thar it was dishonorable in tn
Executive signing said bills, and we de
mand that the present Congress repeal th
law
Sepenth-That we are desirous of pohti
cal reform, and for honesty, economy, an
purity in all official administration. Ths
TO secure this is the duty of every citizel
and that to this end every good man shoul
J feel bound to participate in politics, and I
make an end of bad men forcing their electio
by securing party nomination, we declar
It the duty Of every citizea to oppose th
election of bad and incompetent ohcia
whether our own or apy other ticket
Etghth-That we demand the strictel
economy in national state and county a
fairs, and absolute responsibility in all of
cial relations, deprecating every violatic
and departure from the strictest official il
= tegrity, and insisting that every such vi
lation shall at once be brought to the a
i tention Of the courts, and that the salari'
Of officers shall be reduced and fixed so