The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-18
THAT SUNDAY TRADE IN GENEsE0.
Tom MjIchrist Tells Two Stories About It.

Thos. E.Milchrist, Esq. ,of Galva, state
attorney for Henry county, and one of tn,
Galva, Kewanee and Geneseo clique tina
made that corrupt bargain on certain
Sunday, in Geneseo, to beat Hawley ant
Shepard and to secure the nomination O.
Henderson and Moderwell, was in towr
yesterday, and being rallied by severa
parties about that meeting did not always
tell the same story, as an ARGUS reporter
learns by comparing notes in severa
places.
One story Tom tells is that he had or
inordinate and unappeasable thirst 70,
Geneseo lager Galva or Rock Island la.
ger wouldn't answer; nothing but Gene.
SEQ lager would quench his raging thirst
and perhaps save his life. 1t was vel
along into Saturday evening There was
little social, neighborhood party of ladies
and gentlemen at his house, by invitation
to spend the evening. How to render an
excuse that would satisfy his wife and his
guests Tom couldn't quite perceive. Soon
a bright idea struck him. Tom is small
sized man, but he stood up under it and
rushed into the house to say that he had
just received telegram that Mr.. Buckles s
funeral was to be the next day, and being
Mason, he must be present The story
took, the people sympathized with him, he
bid his wife an affectionate good by, rushed
out of the house and got away,-but after
he had gone, some in1iscreet person sud
denly remembered and said that that funer-
al took place the Thursday prcrious! But
Tom, and Aleck Albro, and the rest of EN-,
we're on the road by that time, and they
drove from Galva to Geneseo that Satur-
day night, arriving sometime Sunday morn
ing, where, on that sacred day, they met
the whole gang of conspirators against
She pard and Hawley, fixed things and
started home that evening. Tom is silent
AZ TO how he made his peace with his
better half-but he admits that it was not
without serious misgivings that he. ap,,
proached the deceived manager OF his billed
shirts on his return. With the help OF
Bigelow and Veeder he made his peace in
the house but the deserted guests or that
party have yet to be settled with,
Another story Tom tells is that it was
nothing in the world but Sunday prairie
chicken feast, and had no reference what
ever to politics, or Hawley, or Shepard
in fact he don't remember as their names
were mentioned at ALL But in telling this
story Tom hesitates, stammers, and gets
confused Our reporter remembers OF
hearing him repeat, several times, some
such names as Staples, Miller, Crawford,
and others, and something about other per
sons from Prophetstown, but Tom, by that
time, was so incoherent that our reporter
could not make connected story Of what
he said. He admitted that there were o
good many well-known men in Geneseo
that Sunday; that he met some OF them
in the brewery; that they had prairie
chickens for dinner, and he really tried to
make cur reporter believe that it was as
innocent party of sucking babes as ever
assembled anywhere. And he continued
in his frantic way to laugh about it, and
try to make people believe that he and
Aleck Albro and that gang are so innocent.
But it won't 90 down. The people know
that on that Sunday, in Geneseo, corrupt
political bargain was made for the purpose
of sending Henderson to congress and
Moderwell to the state senate, and the peo-
pie will not ratify it. They will just clean
out that whole clique and beat all thell
candidates, the future good OF the he
publican party requires that they do 1t