The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-15
Notes on The Elections.

-lflast season was an ''off year" is not |
this an offer? '-.S PAIL Pioneer.
"A month ago, it was New Hampshire.
Now it is Connecticut Next fall, unless |
somebody is careful it may be Massachu-
setts.-Sprinqfeld Republican,
The Republicans of Connecticut
staid away from the polls in sort of dis, !
gust at the drift of affairs. If the !
passage of the initiation bill by the Senate,
on Monday, had taken place last week, it |
IS probable that the Democratic majority |
might have been 1000 or 5000 more than |
1t is; and this in spite of the fact that the |
Democratic party in Congress is as deep in |
the mud as the Republican is in the univ !
Hartford Courant. =.
1t is not that tho
ocrats more people love the Dem
the vut the Republicans less, that
,lde in political affairs apparently
shows retiring ebb. Corrup-
tions in the collection and disbursement OF
the revenue, the appointment OF inefficient
and unworthy men to Office, and the
general mismanagement of affairs, can
have no other effect than to overwhelm IN
ruin the party that is responsible for them.
Boston Globe.
1t Is the SPcOUu NDlC0 VI tuC yOdl'
speaking even more loudly in comdemna-
ton of the extravaganza, the usurpatlon,
the arrogant interference and the reckless
mismanagement Of the Republican Govern
ment. Sanborn contracts, Jayne eXtor-
tions, currency imitation, Butler appoint
ments, Louisiana iniquities, all are swept
away with the Salary Grab and Credit
Mobiier scandals on which the verdict
was passed last year, and an indignant
people reasserts its purpose lOf denying
even moral support to tOttering Republl-
cansm. There is no mistake in this decls-
ion. Boston Post
-Sanborn and Jayne helped powerfully
to reflect IngersOll, Governor OF Connect,
cut and send Democrat to the Unltec
States Senate. The disgust that is gener
ally felt towards Mr. B. F. Buffers prom
inence as a nominal Republican representa-
tive was another factor in the situation
that went good way towards multiplying
Democratic votes. Still another difficult!
was the generally unsatisfactory course o
Congress thus far on the currency question
Hundreds Of voters held the Republican
party responsible for the course OF the in
flationists, though as large proportion o
Democratic Congressman favor imitation
4 .
ErpreSS.
This victory in Connecticut is evident
" due to the desire Of the people to fin
some way to check the thefts, and rebuk
the iuefliciency Of the National Admin:
tration; and they have used the Demo
cratic party for that purpose, and for n
other. The people are beginnin
to fear the terrible goal to which Butte
Richardson, Grant, and the rest are hurr,
ing them Brooklyn Eagle.
The Sanborn contract and the moiet
exposure, the shufiling and delay in NEE
ing the financial question: and the wa
Congress seems disposed to meet it, q
combined to demoralize the Republics
party in Connecticut, and there must |
some mighty brisk unloading befo,
fall, or this decentralization will be fouu
spreading with disastrous effect to ii
greatsCentral States, and in the election
the next National House of Representative
Our political ostriches in Pennsylvania ha'
their heads 80 deep in the sand, and the
fingers 80 intent on grabbing, that they G.
see nothing of this kind i Pittsburgh Ia
ming Telegraph.
The hopelessly and alarmingly disho
est course OF Congress in the matter of {
nnances' although shared in by Democrs
and Republicans alike, was natura
charged to the ruling majority and mo
justly the Republicans were held resnon
BILE for the desperate decentralization in +
public service, as evidenced by the Sa
porn contracts, the Custom House swi
dies the Simmons appointment, and I
rest ana Tor the extravaganza and IN
management which are now causing I
country such infinite concern. 1t is tr
that the resolutions Of the Republican St,