The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-02
"L.ied About"

So many conspicuous people have been
lied about During the last two years the
number of leading statesmen who nave
been cast away on inhospitable shores from
this cause is almost incalculable. They
are strevn all along the shore. And all OF
them have been lied about. Two years
400 a procession passed down the capitol
stems and scattered into the surrounding
country with their arms full of stationery
and other plumber, and never returned
They went out of the senate and out OF the
house, Some were fearful, some were IN,
dignant, and some were in state OF mind |
described by the gentlemen who was cap,
tured by pirates in the Gulf, when ne said
they stripped him and dashed him to the rig
ung and logged him on his bare back I'll
he was perfectly Disguised. But they SAID
TO the iuquiring minds which met them Cd
the way with the sympathizlng lnterroga
Iorv"What's the matter 2'-"Oh nothing
''only been lied about" Some of them fret
ted and vexed the columns OF newspapers
with explanations how and to what extent
they had been lied about, and what made
them think so. Others made addresses 70
reception committees in which they stated
distinctly and at great length that they had
been lied about, and some we remember
had banauets at which the the local clergy
man and the county poet We'd with each
other at the conclusion OF the feast IN
mangling the language in which the lying
had been done. There was an epidemic. OF
being lied about. Among the victims, il
we rightly remember, there was some such
person as q vice president.
And here the other day another process
cession stepped down and out, in whose van
there might have been carried descriptive
banner inscribed, Lied About" Mr.. But
Ter, returning to an admiring constituency
when asked what brought him back, woulc
doubtless answer, Lied About" To the
friendly Detroit person, greeting Michl
gans great war senator on his return t.
private life, and inquiring of him why h.
had not continued to intimidate the British
Lion in the senate, the gentle Zacharial
could give no other answer than Lice
About" and Lied About"is Carpenter.
response to Milwaukee's What's the mat
ter?" Oh.it was such an epidemic An,
it carried off SO many! Done, too, as al
the Administration organs agreed, by tn
Independent press. 1t was in view of tn
fearful mortality in political circles pro
duced by being lied about by the lndepen
dent press that congress enacted law t
meet such cases it was known as tn
Press Gag Law" and somehow was nc
popular. Mr.. Butler also threw himse
into the breach, and upon trequen
occasions denounced the press as NAL
cious, mischievous, and false, and once h
recognized it's superity by characterizln
it as a "forty-jackass mud-throwing pow
err" Notwithstanding all this the state
man of the period continues to complai
of being lied about, and every little viii
some new one is doubled up with it, ;
with sudden cramp,
Mr.. King of Minnesota has got it. .
very bad case. He went to Canada
advice of counsel when it first broke on
and the consequence was it went very hal
with him. The Minnesota legislature too
hand in discussing it, and William sto
up and 'cussed" them from afar by ma
The press INDUCED in reflection and col
ment upon the case, and he passed it ov
in silence. A committee called aloud I
him, but to those remote barren regio
where he had gone for treatment no COZ
mittee's voice scould pierce he hea
no committee A deputy sergeant'i
arms waited on him with summons;
treated the officer with consideration a
the summons with contempt. And tn
when congress had adjourned he dropp
down to Washington and demanded
Postmaster. General Jewell the reno,
of the Minneapolis postmaster. His cal
ness amused Mr.. Jewell That functiC
airy smiled upon Mr.. King insisting up
being recognized as the representative
the Minneapolis district, and consequen
entitled to the patronage of the district
could anything be funnier than that?
Jewell minated that there was jus
shade OF doubt about his being admit
TO the next congress. And then Will;
stated to the postmaster general that
had been lied about Another plain ca
Aud yet IN spite of it MIR. Jewell declil
TO remove the Minneapolis postmast
This is the worst case yet. Could
even get u postmaster removed Just
cause he had been lied about No W
der that the next day, in company W
ex-senator Ramsey, who had been
about also, aud had failed of reelection
consequence, he waited upon Mr.. Jewel
the street, and demanded to be vindica
by the removal OF the Minneapolis p
master. But Gov. Jewell, who has b
doing some very queer things, utterly
fused to yindicate him. With all the |
cedents that have heen set nv the or