The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-01

A Two.HoRsE ACT, By POST OFFICE
RDITORS

The Grant- Hawley postmaster olsous
in this congressional district are in most
painful predcament. They ARE all struck
up in heap" and are struggling for their
lives to find some way to sustain Grant
and not condemn Hawley. Their post
Offices, their bread and butter, depend on
finding out how to doit. They've got to
do it-they're out of meat" We have
been grately amused in looking over sew
eral Of these post Office newspapers and
have laughed heartily over their efforts.
Grant is in favor of honest money; in
favor Of keeping the promises made before
election; in favor of maintaining the
credit and honor Of the country, on the
finance question, and they want to sustain
him-because he signs their commissions
Hawley voted for dishonest and debased
and deprecated money; he doesn't care
anything about the promises made by his
party in its platform, nor anything about
the honor or credit of the country-if he
can get a denomination. And he pro-
cured the appointment Of these post Of
fee and revenue Office editors and he can
put them out, as painful example made
Of one in this city proves
How the deuce, then, to sustain Grant
and not condemn Hawley bothers these post
Office editors terribly. They fave all tried
their hand at it, and they cut most ridiculous
figures in their efforts. Hobbs, the post
master-editor of the Geneseo Republic, we
think, slides over it rather the slickest OF
any Of them-but the effort is painful
one, even with him. Hobbs has pecu-
liar talent for saying what he don't mean,
as, for instance, in his keen ironical praise
of the Honorable W. w. Warner. But
even Hobbs struggles fearfully in his effort
to praise Grants veto and not condemn
Hawley. Here is specimen of the way
he does it:
president Grants veto of the Senate
finance bill, last week, created quite {
commOtion in Washington among con
gressmen and politicians. 1t was moi
looked for. The weight of opinion wa:
measure and put his signature to the law
and when it came back with his veto thu
establishment was very great. We do no
readily see whyl should have been. Tn,
veto was strictly in keeping with thu
president 8 views on finance as expressed
In each of his inaugural addresses and il
every message sent by him to Congress
and to expect that he would approve of a
measure that was intended To initiate the
volume OF currency of the country whetk.
er It would really have had that effect OF
not, was not doing justice to his honesty OF
intelligence.
III the vetoed bill would have increased
the amount of currency without unreason-
ably Initiating it, we should have been GLAD
to have seen it become law We think
Senators Logan, Morton, and other mem
bers OF Congress have demonstrated the
necessity OF more currency aud it was il
answer to such demand that the vetoed
bill was passed. But notwithstanding al
this, we fail to see wherein the Presiden
has lall himself open t. censure. He Ger
tainly acted consistently, and in strict ac
cordance with his frequently avOwed view
on the financial questi N. and nobody ha.
any right to suppose that his course woulC
be anything different from what it was
Jessn, Hobbs, jesse. IF the bill would
increase the amount of currency without
initiating it is good. Logan aud HawIey
have demonstrated, according to Hobbs,
that We THAT is Hobbs need more cur
rency.' THE bill was intended to infat,
the currency. Nobody need be surpris
ed that Grant vetoed it, 1--WE think i
was right to increase the amount but Gran
must veto it in order to be consistent.
That's the upshot of Hobbs on both side
of the fence at the same time.
This is about the neatest specimen of al
the eff rts TO tickle both sides that we hav,
seen. Hobbs will keep the post office.