The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-31
s0ML FALsEHOoDs OF THE BRASS COL
LAR REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPERS
EXPOSED.
Mr., Hawley's Organs Persist IN Insulting the
Intelligence Of Their Readers.

Intelligence Of Their Readers.
Certain Republican br2s -. collar newspa.
pers place a very low estimate upon the IN
telligence Of their readers when they
charge that the Liberal Republican move
ment of 1872 was a Democratic movement
1t was organized, engineered, carried for,
ward and managed by Republicans. Hor.
ace Greeley and Gratz Brown, its nomi'
nees, were Republicans, as were most Of
the candidates everywhere. DIR. Trues'
dale. the candidate for Congress in this
district. was a Republican. And yet Re-
publican brass-collar newspapers insisted
on calling the movement, or the party, the
Democratic party, ETC., etc. The Demo
cratic party indorsed the movement and
its candidates, but had nothing to do with
bringing them out. Among the brass-col-
lar Republican papers noae exhibited more
e~frontery than a few of the flawley papers
in this district. They insisted that DIR.
Truesdale sought their nomination, and,
failing to get it-bolted while the fact
was he refused to be their candidate. They
insisted that he sought the Liberal Repub.
lican nomination, -while the fact wa that
he wrote a letter to the convention posi-.
lively refusing to be a candidate. Those
who had charge Of that letter suppressed
it, and secured his nomination, He was
not in the State at the time, but when he
returned they succeeded, after long and
earnest persuasion, in getting from him a
letter Of acceptance "a letter which was
written with great reluctance, for the rea'
son that he did not wish to be a candidate.
And now, the IIawley papers keep up
their old system OF falsehood and misrep,
resentation on this subject-notably the
Cambridge Chronicle, whose editor is Mr..
Hawley's clerk to the Committee on Claims,
This week it repeats the falsehood that
Calvin Truesdalc became the candidate
Of the Democracy against Mr.. Hawley,' -
which is a falsehood, ont and out. ''Tht
Democracy had no candidate, The party
was the Liberal Republican party" thu
Democracy joining and aiding it in trying
to overthrow the corrupt Grant party.
The Chronicle of this week also says
William Kerns, then before 1921
| Republican, is now chairman of the Demo
cratic Central Committee of the district.
| This is a shamefaccd falsehood, as the rec
! prd will show. The convention was he'll
At Princeton, September 3D.. 1t was callet
as "a Liberal Republican convention. 1t
| proceedings were published in TIE DAI
LY ARGUS, of September 4th, and from
that record we copy the following
MIR. Butcher moved that the delegation from cacl
county report the name of one man 10 compost
ongressil nal Central Commit ee. Carried. Tn
delegates reported the following:
Henry county Charles Durham.
Rock Island county-Wm. Kerns,
Lee County-FrederCk X. DutcheF.
Bureau county,. II. Elliott.
Putnam county-Wm. A. Kays.
After adjournment the Central me-
and organized by choosing cha les Durham, OF
Henry, Chairman, and Col. l. Ii. Elliott. of Bureau
NctTtlaiy'
This exposes the falsehoods OF the
Chronicle. The committee is not called
Democratic nor is Mr.. kerns its chair
man.
Some thirty years ago, when Mr.. Kern'
was a young man, and a resident of Ohio
he was a Democrat. But he was one OF
the early abolitionists, and one of the very
first Republicans, and has always been a
Republican since, unless refusing to veal
a brass ,llar and vote, with his eyes shut,
for any incompetent, corrupt or dlsrepu-
table candidate a ring caucus may force OF
the party makes him otherwise. 1T that
makes him other than a Republican We
reckon there'll be a good many such this
fall.