The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-17
REPUBLICANS WANT MoDER-
WELL DEFEATED.
They Want Tricksters and
Traders Rebuked.
They Think Their Party will DO Purer II the
independent Ticket for Congress and the
legislature Shall be Elected,
And 20 the People Think.

We copy, below, in full, an editorial
from the Cambridge Chronicle, (Sept. 10TH
a Republican, paper, and the editor Of
which (Mr. George G. Smithe,) is Mr.,
Hawley's clerk of the Committee on
Claims, We have italicised certain por-
tons of the article in order to show that
the Chronicle is not committed to Moder-
wells support; that it charges that the
peoples wishes have been frustrated in all
their conventions; that set of corrupt
political gamblers have taken possession Of
the party in this and in Henry county and
that the best thing for the party is to have
all their candidates defeated. The article
deserves to be carefully read aud preserv-
ed. 1t is as follows:
We place in our list of Republican nom
nations this week, for the information Of
the public, the name of Il. &. Moderwell,
the Republican nominee for senator. IN
doing so aUe do not aoish to commit ourself
to any course aohaterer IN regard to It,
Our position with reference to that nomi
nation is most unhappy. bat we, shall not
hesitate to declare it. Mr.. Moderwell has
been formally nominated by the Republl
can district convention, and we regard him
as man qualified to represent the district
in the senate. We have no complaints at
this time to make against the convention
which nominated him. But we have seri-
Gus complaints against the county conven-
ton which selected the delegates to this
convention, and complaints against some
of the caucuses which gave to that conven-
ton the character that it assumed Those
objections have been pretty fully stated.
Our views of them have not changed.
Their effect has been to misrepreSent oar
people in all Of our conventions and to .frus-
trate their ,oishes We do not go so far as
to say that this should invalidate the NOM
ination of any candidate when it is not
shown that the candidate participated in
the fraud Note by The Argus-In an
other editorial in the same paper, Mr.
Smithe says: "Noder1ceH confesses to hare
made a bargain for the disposition Of his
vOtes We do say, however that sohen
set of political gamblers .fasten themselves
upon a party, and haJitudlly manipulate
and preuert its conventions by trickery and
fraud, carrying their ends against the ma
jority and multiplying the representative
principle an our cOnUentiOnS-in such q case
qye sag, there is no harm that can come TO
that party so great as the success of those
men at tie polls. We do not insist that
we in this county are fully in that situa-
ton, but we are we'll on the road towardit.
Those circumstances have occurred this
year and achateUer is necessary to do to
prevent their recurrence should be done,
on behalf Of the vital iuterests-the very
existence-of our party. For ourself, we
desire to do what will best secure the per
ment success and usefulness of our party,
by the dominance of honesty and princi
pies within it. The mass of voters are
impelled by honesty and by principle and
the official action of the party must be, Oh
it cannot retain their support. That it has
been in this county this year, we do moi
believe. The duty of everyone is to do tha
lchtch aoiH secure the continued uSetutnes
Of the party and what that is we confes
that We are too undecided to advise any
one
Upon one thing we are decided, for our
self, however aud that is that we should
not, as a publisher of a Republican pa
per reporting those conventions, disg use OF
cover up or ignore any improper practice.
Of our associates in the Republican party
and we have therefore reported them fully
and faithfully and candidly, as we saw
them