The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13

Ever since Guyer has been county judge
he has made it his especial business to act
as agent fog the UQson and prevent sin
gle advertisement from publication in THE
ARGUS if he could avoid it, And since
j. V. Cook has been county clerk he has
been acting as tender to Guyer, in SINH
lar capacity. Even when the board of
supervisors direct Cook to procure work
done by the lowest bidder be never gives
this Office chance to bid on job. The
pigheadness of Guyer and Cook never had
an equal anywhere, unless in the carpet bag
cormorants who haye been robbing and
prosecuting the people of the south for the
last eleven years. They are both too ig-
norant and narrow-minded to be just or
fair towards political opponent. Elected
to positions in which it is their duty to
know no party, and to treat all citizens
alike, they have converted their offices into
partizan machines in the interest of the
Union printing Office. Most certainly it is
the right Of every person to have their
advertising done where tley wish it, and no
county Judge, except Guyer, ever presumed
to thwart peoples wishes in that respect.
But we have the proof that he has not
only done this but that he has positively
refused to issue the blanks to people who
had right to demand them,an has turned
them away with this declaration: III
tend to that matter myself. I'll see te
Iit"-and in one instance he said: IF tina
| is published in THE ARGUS I won't allow
the bill. Under this state of things We
appeal to our friends to assert their right
to procure their legal advertising done il
such newspaper as they prefer.
A case occurred the other day which
will illustrate the meanness of the county
judge and county clerk. Mr.. Cutter
went to the Office to get the notices, al
one of the executors of the will Of The
late Mr., Kale, and when he took them ht
said, Il suppose one of these must b
published in a newspaper" whereupor
doc" Webster spoke up and said, &C
we'll attend to that-all you need to d.
is to post up those you haye." Of course
Webster is only clerk and has to do a.
he is ordered or be turned out.
There is not person in the county blu
knows that if Mr.. Kale could be consulted
he would prefer the notice published il
The ARGUS. Plenty more such case
can be named. We have plenty of evi
dence that Guyer has said that no ad
vertisement shall be published in TIL
ARGUS if he can help it. and he always
tells people that "he will tend to thai
matter, " and this puts them off with the
idea that he has right to dictate as tC
what paper their probate advertising shall
or shall not be published in. He hash t
brains enough to treat political opponent
fairly and SO he runs the Offices of county
Judge and county clerk as partizan ma
chimes and in the pecuniary interes
Of the Union newspaper. We ask oul
friends, when they have advertising to do
to take the matter into their own hand
and procure it done at this Office if the!
wish to do so. The law requires such ad
vertisements to be published in som,
paper published in the county, and it i
manifestly the right of the parties interest
ed to select the paper. No county officer
before Guyer, was ever guilty of the out
RACES he has perpetrated, In respect t
this matter.