The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-10
DEFEAT OF JUDGE POLAND.
The Breaking up Of Party Lines.

III tneTe Is any stdtc III luc Cuioh pup
posed to be cropping in hopeless party
blindness, ignorance and bigotry, it is our
good old native state of Vermont We
love every outline of its surface and every
stream and lake on its bosom, but its
politics are a hundred years behind the
age The great majority of the people
read nothing but Republican newspapers
they believe that the war of the rebellion
is still in existence, and that tariff SHOULD
be made to protect everybody who owns 6
merino sheep or runs mosqueto factory
That the dupes of the Republican party
leaders in Vermont, whose noses have beer
firmly held to the political grindstone by
about dozen families in the Republican
party in that state should dare to raise
their heads and think for themselves and
kick over the party traces is past belief.
Not all the corruptions of this most cor
rupt national administration and all the
grinding taxation heaped upon them
through the action of the protection pirates,
and the bank and railroad monopolists, could
wake them to a sense of their duty. They
have borne all this in silence, for years,
For fifty years ring of dozen families
has run the state, blinded and hum.
bugged the people, held the offices and
dispensed the patronage. Poland voted for
the back pay steal, pocketed the money,
Dragged about it in congress, and refused
to return it. Not even this could awake
the cringing slaves of party, in Vermont
Only one thing could make them realize
the dangerous centralizing and monopoly
tendencies of the Republican party, -and
that was the Poland Frelinghuysen gag
law upon the press Of the country, under
which an editor in any part of the Union
can be dragged to Washington and tried
for libel in the police court of that corrupt
city.
They have suddenly seemed to remember
that there was once poor Irish printer In
that state whose name was Mathew Lyon
that he was tried, convicted, fined and i'm
prisoned under the old John Adams sedi-
ton law, for criticising the administration
of John Adams and its management that
his press and type were secretly buried in
the ground by his friends, and that while
lying in a felon's cell their ancestors elect
ed him to congress, 10 rebuke to the ad-
ministration for fning him. They remem-
Der, too, that under Jeffersons admins
tration that odious sedition law was re-
pealed and that under James X. Polk S
administration, the fine assessed upon
Mathew Lyon, together with the interest
on it, was refunded to his heirs And
when they learned that Judge Poland and
a Republican administration had passed
the gag-law now in existence. they rebelled
and defeated the man who was instrument
tai in procuring its passage. They should
be equally quick to repudiate Grant, who
signed in, and every Republican who voted
for it.
Poland succeeded in packing the conven-
ton and getting the nomination, but he is
terribly beaten by the people. He receiv-
ed 5,749 votes bud Dennison, vino he de-
ieated for the nomination, received 7,O99
Chas. w Davenport, Democrat, received
2,022, and Mead, farmers candidate, and
scatterlng,93 As it requires majority in |
that state, to elect, on the first trial there is
no election-but Dennison will, doubtless, !
be elected at the next trial
As showing public sentiment on the re-
suit in Poland's district, we give, below, |
very few extracts from the hundreds of no
tees which have come under our eye. as
follows:
from heDetrOt Free Prsss-De,socra,;.
The lesson to be derived from the 20. |
suit in Poland district is a significant ono !
1t teaches that this year even in the
strongest districts the eiict of the marty
.hs carries but little weight; that
ana p Up viii not accept obnoxious men,
na,,v LAY 1h ;aey DO aOt fear the crack of the |
,nads VIII Sntp, a bolt was scarcely ever
five than IN ~ prospects of being effec |
p an :, second Vermont district. |
Jndoa p,lard,- Ifa'd-IEdeDeHdeak
nubi;csn cand It defeat, as the regular re
pgphcan canuluate Tor Congress in his de-
met, Is very decisive His total We vote us !.
SI4s, against 1909 for Dennisop I poi,; Is
Republican; 2,022 for Davenport, iDS em1s
erst, aud s3l for Mead, the granger emo csn9;
cate, and other outsiders. Two years sno
the vote cast ior Poland in the same d.
tnct was ll,oI9. Whence this dreadful
Iaiiins on 10 lSI4r 1t may be charged 70
the facts that Judge Poland was the regu,