The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-08
From the Spring Lake tMich,) Independent
The spsaksrship.
Tha following paragraph has appearoI1
:, tne Detroit Free Press and the Grand
Ranids Democrat:

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in the Detroit free freSs anu INV
Rapids Democrat: . .,,s,. n, !;
n,ssselect to the forty.fourth congress VINO Were
Al the close Of the session last week.
HHnanmously to support Hon. samuei D. h1"nu"A
for speaker Of the next house." # lie
These papers are leading Democratic
organs. The Free Press especially reach
"a into every congressional district In the
nation and its voice is influential. 1t Is
Conducted with marked ability and means
IN rive efficient service to the tgreat party
Il Tenresents. We therefore regret TO
see Il give complacent publicity to any
such abatement; not that there Ii any
trnth in ii. but because by 80 doing the
Free Press is giving encouragement 70 INC
perpetration Of crime against the Deno-
Mr.. Randall may be ever 50 able par
Uamentar,an. and in all other respects
fully qualified to discharge the imporsahISs
duties of speaker, but his eiec'ion woSiu
do great harm his party, In 'nas
he supported the salary grab and TOOK tne
hack nav. Will the Free Press please ex-
Dia;n how IL il going TO urge the election
ppSa Democratic administration on profess
sions of reform, in the face Of such Sc
lection as Mr.. Randall for speaker? Such
men as Messrs. Randall and Wood have
incurred an odium by their participation 10
the back, pay iniquity that absolutely sIor
bids their elevation to the speaker cnalr,
and every time their heads are presented
with any such pretensions, it is the duty OF
the opposition press to protest against
their aspirations until they and the mem
her of congress are made to distinctly un
derstand what the great patriotic and un'
mercenarv mass of the Reform and Demo
cratic parties desire. Messrs. WOOD han-
dali, Kerr, Cox and Lamar have peen
mentioned for the speakership; We NAYS
made our objection to Randall and Wooa;
The selection Of Lamar at this ame woqlV
be equally injurious because OF ms repe
record. The contest clearly shouiu DC NC
tween Kerr and Cox. Both are gooa me-
ha the man unless the west desires tn
presidential nomination to be given MI
T;lden, or desires to make MIR. Kerr II
candidate. As presidential nominee, MI
Kerr would be swestern man with
pronounced eastern record, and would
particularly strong in neither section.-
Every move of the Democratic party frol
now out should be made with view.
owing the candidate for president to eiti
er Indiana or Ohio which are the on
doubtful states to vote in October:
thew are carried the rest will follow with
whoop. II they are lost even Tilden cou
hardly save New York.
The election of Cox to the speakersh
would not in any way colnplicate the pre-
idential question but rather prepare {
way for western man, and it it result
in the nomination of Cox for vice pre-;
dent, it would give US man suitable
the place, strong both IN New ork a
Ohio, and with record acceptable to
formers.
From the Democratic Banner Williamsport,
The question is asked, wv no is >,
Randall 2" We reply that he Is a Phl
delphia politician of the Sam Josephs
Alderman McMullin stripe; an ard
worker with the rotten Radical rim
whose frauds ave made Philadelphia
itics by-word and a reproach, He
been hand aud glove with the "additi
division, and silence" gang, and it is hi
" appropriate that their special organ.
Press, should advocate his claims upon
Democracy for the high office OF spea
of the next congress. A salary grab
of the most unblushing kind, we tn
that it would consort well with the ac
Of the Democratic state convention
Wilkesbarre, which expelled Mr; 81
because he took the back pay while
voted against it, for the Democratic
reseptatives from Pennsylvania to al
cate Sam Randall, who Lot only, took
back nav, but voted and worked for it.
We would like to see Pennsylvania
ored by the election of one OF her son
the speakership, but, as Democrat,
feel that our party, as well as our ST
would be disgraced if by any chanc
back-pa grabber, trucking, scher
Philadelphia ward wire puller was phi
in position that statesman alone sh
aspire to. Sam Randall has been
and found wanting. As chairman o.
Democratic state committee 1t has
more than limited that he betrayed
trust aud his party His official reco
against him, his character ana pom
associations are against him, and the L
ocratic people of Pennsylvania,
through their delegates at Wllcksbarr
emphatically set their stamp OF condel
ton upon official stealing, protest ag
their representatives belieing them
aiding this salary grabber to pos
where his grabbing propensities coul
INDUCED in to the danger OF the int
of the country, and the certain dise
and defeat of the Democratic party;
We hope and trust that men like 70
Riley, aud others whose integrity Is u
peachable, will cut themselves loose
an association into which we believe
have been unwittingly entrapped; an
citation that can bring nothing but CHI
and disgrace upon themselves and
friends. Sam, Randall and Sam. Jos
are both excrescences upon the
fastened to it by corruption. and Ike
place by Republican ring influences.
Democracy covet neither OF them, an,
resent this barefaccd attempt to Z
upon them one of the worst memb
the Philadelphia Ring
From the Muscatine UowaJTribune
1t is scandal, as well as an ms
a g. IL ,tr,. that