The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-23
nrrocRAr1c.LIBERAL TICKET.
pFpuHIICAN TICKET.
THE HENNEPIN AND ROCK ISL
AND CANAL,
The Rock Island Union OPP
posed to it.

The Rock Island Union OPP
posed to it.
Henderson Gives II the Cold Shoulder BY
withdrawing Attention from It to
Logan's Railroad Monopoly
Scheme.
Elliott the True Friend Of Free Water Routes.
We have had the period of fraud, on
the part of the Union, to poison the pub
lie mind against John B. Hawley, mostly
with falsehoods concerning postothces
cadetships and the Mississippi bridge
Then we had the fraudulent caucusses, to
which Democrats aud Liberals were invited
to vote Hawley down. And now comes
the culmiuation of this campaign OF fraud,
in the attempt to deceive the Republicans
of the district as to who is the real friend
of the Rock Island and Hennepin Canal,
and therefore entitled to the nomination
for Congress. The Rock Island Union
which is never troubled by the inconsis
tency of its own records the Instructor
on this question. 1t has been violent
and bitter opponent of the canal for twenty
months past, but to serve purpose, IS
now warmly in favor of it.-Ddu, Gazette,
Aug. %.
The Rock Island aud Heunepin canal will never
be constructed until we have representative IN
congress from this district who il earnestly and
heartily in its favor and pledged 10 labor IN session
talker so much as worker. Talk is cheap ana
nowhere cheaper than in congress, Inc
Republicans Of Rock Island county have for years
desired the construction OF the hennepin canal, and
have become ont Of patience at nothing being done
Rock Island Union, Aug, %.
Early in the session of 1913 Mr.. Hawley
introduced his canal bill. The Rock Isl
and Union Immediately came out with q
leading article entitled what the West
Wants, in which it took grounds against
the canal, remarking
There are many objections TO canal transporta,
ton, and We question whether the money his pro-
ject would cost would not be more benefcally ex-
pended In building freight railroad.
Last winter Mr. Hawley introduced his
bill again, and the Union gave it friendly
reception by printing prominent articles
against it every few days. In its issue of
Dec. IA, 1873, it spoke approvingly of
Master Smedley's transportation address
before the State Grange and said
Hascley's Ho55y of a canal from Rock Island 10
on question tbat sg ean f Tor r D ne hs
dorsed this hobby"
On the 18th OF the same month, in an
article on 'retrenchment," speaking of the
sums wasted, the Union remarked that
millions more are proposed in sucb cil1 schemes
the digging of a canal from Rock Island 10 Hen
Hep pm he PEI po'.e' Q, ion" D. Ha"',g
pono.a 49, -. III
~, is noti,e.h,e ' mat sa NOT s,rc,. cr.rgo q,
farmers convention has epdo sed Congressman
ed The subject in the house several tines no noice
IL ~ U,,r1 VI w. ne n' o wen ninseIi pusHcu
ing such measuye. We doubt If he believes in its
Of Iis Constituents as 6etisse tin ''''''
On the LIST of January, '74-less than
eight months ago-the Union gave the ca
nal this dig:
want ro I'M those C9ngressmen s"ch nsre 6swho
canal from Rock Island 10 hennepin; and 10 her
fact that So JC bhis. OF western grain are frolen
either rot be ss a. E,g ssna TSa o on
sac o" no Se eoad not hs ay 6gr @o Sy
onstration"
WIN increasing Venom,on the Sth of the
month, TINS veraclous PRINT launched a
whole leader against the Hennepin canal,
ID which 1t SAID:
sho chi canal from tbe pHy 70 70 bp 1
river, half the money necessary 70 build new and
anything it during he five most important months
in = ~ ''A'' ""''' 'nsr' IL It's O'hen' 10 come
Again, on the 10Th of February. sneak
ing of the canal project. !" the Union 70.
marked
..Taxpayers object to expenditures of millions
iities ambitions" ~ N''Anes John L hawley's po-
Is more needed to show what an earn.
est friend of the canal the Rock Island
Union is? The choice extracts we have
served UP, it should be borne in mind, are
only scraps from long columns of the same
purport, the chief business of the Union
at that time being to excite hostility to the
canal, and to defeat it. Now. this same
reliable paper tells us that Henderson. n
big railroad lobbyist, who worked to helm
the railroads cheat Chicago out of her lake
front, and who has never in any manner
been identified With tho o.nal mill ,rorl |