The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-30
HENDERsoN'S LAST CARD.
A sICKLY EFFORT TO SAVE HIMSELF
FROM DEFEAT.
A knife that Cuts Both Ways.

The Henderson folks at PRINCETON have
played their last card-and sickly one it
| is. They have sent out special tele-
gram" dated Princeton, Oct. 9th, saying
that John Bryant and C. E. Barney have
written a letter regulating Elliott. In
their telegram they say;
Elliott. II will be remembered. on accepting the
nomination OF the Independent Reformers repudlat-
ed the farmers state platform and declared ior spe'
Gle resnmntion, and now the Independent Reform
ers repudiate Gen. Eliott.
The whole thing looks like a canard, for
the reason that Elliott has not 'repudiated
the farmers state platform at al, or any part
of it. On the contrary, he and Mr., Flagg
have been stumping the district together.
Mr., Flagg is president of the Farmers
State Association, and is a strong hard
money, specie resumption man, and both
he and Elliott in their speeches claim that
their position is not inconsistent with eth
er the Decatur or Springfield Platforms.
The farmers are opposed to an inflated
and deprecated currency, and are in favor
of honest money an honest payment OF
the public debt of reform in our patent
laws; of government aid to great national
free water routes of hunting out and pun
ishlng frauds of all sorts, whether in the
pension bureau or anywhere else-and 10
favor of such reforms as will bring the
government back to the days of honesty,
economy, and frugality, thus reducing ex-
penses and taxes.
Gen. Elliott was nominated Sept. 24th,
and on that day. in Princeton, IN speech
,ccenting the nomination, he declared bis
position, which was accepted as the plat
form for the canvass. That platform has
been published every week since it was
made, and there is not word in it incon-
sistent with the state platform. No, no.
That's not what ails Henderson's folks
over in Bureau. They are afraid that he
will be beaten and therefore they have re-
sorted to the trick of a special telegram. ~
Now, does it look likely that old John
Bryant and c. L. Barney, who knew of
Ellotts speech on the day it was deliver
ed, would wait until Oct 9th before they
found out whether they liked it or not !?
Of course not.
Who is old John Bryant? An old Re-
publican, who was collector ofinternal rev.
enue and who has big unsettled account
with the government, He wanted to cap
ture our nomination for congress and get
us beaten. He wants, now, to help the
administration and settle his account
That what ails him.
| Who is G. f. Barney? A Republican
ex- editor of the Princeton Herald, a Hen
derson paper. He is just enough of a
| Farmers party man not to do anything to
hurt the Republican party. And that's
what ais him.
Did anybody ever expect these mer
would earnestly and honestly support the
Farmers Movement as against the Re
publican party? No. And nobody is go
ing to be fooled by their silly and trans
parent special telegram" The farmers
and the people generally, are going to vot
for Gen. Elliott and elect him--all the OLE
John Bryants and G. E, Barneys to tn
contrary notwithstanding. Gen. Hender
sons game is too thin. The people SCI
through it all.