The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-17

The Willimantic Journal, Republican
paper, comes to the conclusion that its par
ty is hopelessly rotten, from Grant down
to the tide-waiters, and calls for the forma-
ton Of new and honest party.
The Republican organ at Concord tells
the truth when it says only want of conf
dence in the Democratic party prevented
an overwhelming Republican defeat The
Democratic corpse in the road is the great
est obstruction to the funeral procession of
the Republican party.-BOston Herald.
lind.
No one knows exactly when the break
up will come, or how; whether it will be
gradual and gentle at the last, or sudden
and violent. But it is certainly coming
The signs multiply, almost from day to
day. Enough to know that the
people are everywhere in subdued but ON
NOUS agitation.-SprinQfeld Republican.
The Republicans, it seems to US, made a
serious blunder in the choice of their can
didate, most respectable old gentleman
though he is. There was something Of
charlatanism in trying to flatter the farm
ers by picking out one of their number who
had never been known to the politics of the
State .-Nelo- Hdpen Palladium Rep
There is something more omnibus in the
silence which envelopes public sentiment
at this time than those defiant individuals
comprehend who are nolsily congratulating
themselves on their triumphs. The gath
ering cloud portends popular tempest,
when it becomes ready to break, that will
| deluge them and their plans with its de-
structive force. 1t would be a fatal mis-.
take to suppose that the resolutions which
are slow of formation do not contain the
swift and sure thunderbolts of popular
judgment-Boston Post
The victory in New Hampshire is only
the precursor. The people are
awakenening to the necessity of clean
ing out" at Washington. - Cleveland
P.Giadedler.
The importance of this victory can hard
ly be over-estimated. 1t strikes the key
note of the campaign of 1874.
The people know for whose benefit the Sal
ary-Steal was enacted. They know into
whose pockets the lions share of the Gus
TOM House moieties flow. They remem-
Der whose brother-i law was at the bot
tom of the Louisiana usurpation. They
know who has used the patronage of office
to feed his Unsuitable greed They have
not forgotten who stepped out of his way
to praise the thieves of the Washington
Ring in his annual message to Congress
or who urged Simon Cameron Centennial
job upon the National Legislature Utico
| w ~ Observer.
The term Republicanism has lost its old
time significance. and instead of being s
name to conjure by, has become-it i.
scarcely too much to say-a load to be car
ried. The party which, in high places
processes economy and practices extrava
gance; which processes to listen to the
voice of the people, but turns deaf ear tt
its suggestions which processes to lift the
government above mere political intrieut
and showers its favors upon those WHIT
have little regard for them except for the
base uses to which they may be put, -
such party, no matter by what name i
may be called, will be known of men fo
what it is, rather than for what it professe
to be- it will be known by its fruit bette
than by its name.-B0Ston 4drertiser
rep