The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-29

Wednesday, July 20. 1874
THE MDEPEHDENr CAHDIDArE 70.
STATE TREAsURER.
A Splendid Defense q Him bY a Republics
Reper. ROE rot d Z
The Champaign Gazette Of July J. MAJ
a violent and slanderous attack upon tn'
Independent candidate for State Ireasar
er, and this has been the whole stock =
trade Of the Grant newspapers IN TIL
State, which have been ringing the change
on the Islander of the Champaign Gasett
ever since that date. The following is tn
Gazette article: M as
DAND,eoRr.
This man L. the piebald candidate for state treas
urer. AT the breaking out of the rebellion ne ue'
clared he would wade knee deep In blood oeloIss
Federal regiment should leave Macoupin County
to fight the SOUTH Can we afford to iorget su .h
men nows Can we afford to reward "eA win
Pa Pa IL one of half.a-dozen unprincipled Williams
who put through the iniquitous Court House
scheme, whereby a debt of three millions OF DOL,
lars was seddled upongthe country. Can we Afford
to trust such o man with the handling Of the. peo-
nle's fupdss Can we afford to endorse Cores pc
culiar notions OF economy and reformS
For twenty years he has been an offce-seeker.
FOR Instance: -Four years ago he was candidate
for Sheriff of Macoupin County. on the Democratic
ticket. The Democracy carried the county py
about three hundred majority, but David Gore, the
nominee for Sheriff, was beaten by a majority OF
one hundred and ninety. And why! Because
there were charges against him and proven: ID
fraud In pecuniary transactions with his neighbors,
by misunderstanding stock. and offering to sell
diseased cattle; (2)-slander, in instigating and en-
eouraging scandalous reports concerning ms com ON
cussion which ensued; (4)-and by Implication and
corruption, based upon peculiar relations existing
front Of the Court House ~iniquity.
In view OF these facts. can the people afford 10
elect the corrupt oface-seeker copperhead, David
Gore, Treasurer of the loyal and Republican State
of Illinois! No!
To the above, the Ford County Journal,
another Republican paper, replies as fol-
lows:
''The desperation Of corrupt partisan
leaders was meyer 50 great as at this time,
and their whole stock in trade is SANDER
and vituperation of the most yiilainous
character. We clip the following "speci-
men brick" from the Champaign Gazette
of July list: Here the .Loftrnol inserted
the above extract from the GAZETTE and
then SAID
The above would make the most bit
ter political enemy of Mr.. Gore in Macou.
pin county blush with shame that any
man should pen such a trade of falsehood
against q man whose private and public
character has always been above suspicion
or reproach. We cannot imagine how any
man can pen such slanderous falsehoods
unless, like the hired assassin, he receive,
money for his yilhanous work.
AS Macoupin county was for oyel
twenty years our home, and we were Sec
rotary of the Republican Central Commit
tee Of that county during the year 1870
we believe we know something Of Mr.
David Gore, the building OF the new
court. house, and especially of the pohti
cal canvass which defeated Mr.. Gore for
sheriff.
Mr.. Cores opponent was the late Mr.
%Fishback, who was an old farmer like Mr.
Gore, and these men were nominated by
their respective parties because they were
men of spotless regulations and were both
the most bitter and persistent enemies of
the court house iring, Of which the above
specimen brick" has so much to say.
Mr.. Cores defeat aud that Of the whole
CuIpS I NlNhCE was u w nv iISN
use of money by the leaders of the Repub.
lican party in buying up voters that had
uniformly voted the Democratic ticket, and
hiring conductors Of construction and re.
pair trains to keep their trains out of the
city until the polls were closed. And the
further fact that Thad. LOOMS and his
friends were determined that Mr., Gore
should be defeated for his uncompromising
opposition to their stealings. Thad, Loom,
is had two reasons for this one was re,
veDge, and the other was. that Mr.. fish
back, the Republican candidate, was a
brother in.law to one Of the commission,
ers, who helped Mr.. Loomis build the
courthouse" and the whole court
house ring thought it would be better to
have a relative OF one of them in the sher-
lit s office than to have an open, bitter op-
ponent who was in the same party with a
majority of themselves. And instead of
Mr.. Gore being defeated, while the Demo-
cratic ticket was elected by about 800
majority, the Champaign Gazette
knows that the late Hon. John n. Nc
Millen and the Hon. q. A. ". Cloud,
the Republican candidates, were elect
ed with MIR. Fishback, and that they
were the FIRST Republican members of the
legislature ever elected from that county,
and that the whole Democratic ticket was
defeated. Instead of Mr.. Gore being zone
Of some half-dozen unprincipled villains
who put through the iniquitous court
house scheme, those half, dozen gents were
Thad. i. LoOruis, |. j. PEBBLES, and Geo.
H.. Holiday, Democrats, and A. Mckim
Dubois, Republican, J, NJ. Palmer, Repub-
lican governor of Illinois at that time, and
q. II. Hamilton, late chairman of the
Republican Central Committee and Repub-
lican candidate for the legislature in that
county, backed by their personal friends.
We worked and voted against Mr..
Gore, not because he was a copperhead
and a rebel. etc, because the charge was
not made. and would not have been be
lieved, if it had been. We voted against
him, not because he was a member of the
court house ring, because we knew that
he was not. We voted against him, not
because he was incompetent or dishonest.
because no man 10 that county who has
n respect for his character as a man will
make the charges. We voted against Mr.
TORE because we had always been a Re
publican aud believed that the principles
ana men OF that party were preferable 10
those represented by Mr.. GoTe-the Dem
ocratlc party-and. Ike other men. we
wanted TO see our party victorious. Aud
we Will support Mr.. Gore for state treas.
urer with the same zeal that we opposed
him four years ago; because all the politi- |
cal issues have changed, land the revelations
OF the last four years have demonstrate that
the leaders Of both the old political parties |
are corrupt and have betrayed the masses
OF the people into the hands Of the monied
combinations of the country for a share in
the spoils and plumber. We know Mr..
Gore TO be an honest, upright man. who is