The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-10-15

Inc lOllOWlnS cutOrial, WhlCn APP
peared in our daily Of Monday, in dis
arranged form, is repubished that our
readers may gather better understand
ing OF our meaning
WILL THE DELUSfON LAST2
Hon. Isaac Clements, tho Radical can.
| didato for congress in this district, Is try
ing TO win his recollection by deceit which,
for its b re two. facednoss is without par
allol in the poiticel history Of Southern
Illinois. He is all things to all men--frm
and ou,spoken in nothing, unless it
be in something to which everybody MS.
sents.
In Williamson county, where the hos
tllity TO the civil rights bill is general, he
declared his belief that tho measure found
no warrant 10 tho constitution; that it con.
templatod an invasion of the rights OF the
states, and at best, was of doubtful poll
Icy. He thought there were discrimmin-
lions IS inst tho blacks that should be for
o'dden, but the pending bill embraced
too much, aud would prove hurtful to both
races. A bill to cure existing evils-ono
warranted by the constitution and not OBJ.
noxious to the rights reserved to the States
and the people, might command his tavor
The didn't know'--but Sum ners bill
well, he didn't like i'll
This, we are credibly informed, is ID,
substance of Clements utterances, in ref
erence to the civil rights bill, among tn,
sn;i-eiyil rights Republicans of William
son county.
In jackson county, whore hostility tc
the civil rights bill is scarcely less intens,
than in Williamson, he ayowed like sen,i
ments. Proof we have of this in the direc
testimony of reliable men, and in the do
olaration of tho leading Radical psper O
the county that at least two of Mr.. Glen
onts' Democratic friends arc SO well sstls
ned with his position on this question thu
they can ana will lend him "a consisten
support
Additional and incontrovertiUle evi
dence can and will be furnished that il
Williamson and Jackson and olher por
tions OF the district whore tho masses ar,
earnest AMI ou!spolten in thoir opposition
to negro social and civil equality, Mr.
Clements avcws harmony of sentiment.
Passing to Alexander and Pulaski coun
les, whore about one-third OF the entir,
vote is cast by negroes. and where the sup
porters of the civil rights bill are quito a
numerous nS Radical voters we find tina
NJ. Clements has lett an entirely dilTeren
Impression. The negro population sup
port him, not because Of his financial mol
} icy not because of his advocacy of rive
improvement, for Mr.. HartzelI is, as al
Western men are, O friend of that meas
urci not because he has "made his mark
in congress aud reflected som of his plor,
upon Egypt, for he has not done, and i
incapable of doing either. They rally l.
his standard simply because of tho abso
lute Assurance they have received tha
when the civil rights bill lie put upon it
} passage in the house, he will, il he bar
, pens to be there, vote for it. For this rea
son the more intelligent negroes of Alex
snder and Pulaski counties will vote TO
Mr.. Clements, and the ignorant portion
led to the polls like cattle 20 slaughte
will, almost in solid body, do likewise.
No coaxing, no bantering, no mean
; known to the Opposition party can Undue
or compel Mr. Clements to come forwar
NOW, and openly svow his position on th
civil rights bill, either ia Cairo or Noun
City lie dare not DO II, his keepers al
advisers will not permit him TO do it, IN
til the very eve Of the election. At ths
hour, when IL will be too late to advise III
voters of the upper counties of his doubl,
; dealing, no will cotno forward, and wit
: counterfeit honesty, noisily proclaim hin
self and his party sworn friends of tn,
' miscsievous measure, ana declare his il
Il tenton to support 1t.
This is the programme; and the inca,
. tious friends Of MIR. Ulemonts in Uair
y do not hesitate to admit the fact. He Ina
" they agree, deluded tho Radical opponen
Of the civil rights bill and they fur,h,
=, agree, that his election depends upon II
successful maintainGnce of that delusio
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