The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-03
NOTES HERE AND THERE

-Belkuap has determined 10 60 to Cal
ifornia to live, unless the election of Hayes
reopens place FOR him In the cabinet.
If Gov. Hayes is an honest man in
his tax dealings with his fellow citizens,
the records at the assessor office in San.
dusSy county do him grievous injustice.
Don't miss the article in this paper
squelching out the lie quoted by the
Union as the language Of Gov. Vance.
Of course the Union will make no correc-
ton.
The employees on the Rockford road
complain that they cannot get their wages
that the managers have lot paid single
man north of BeardstOwn for two months
and they are beginning to ask, What's
the matter? haven't they got the money ?"
The students of Augustana college, on
Sunday, the oath ult adopted resolutions
complimentary to their unfortunate asso-
ciate lLorelle) who was drowned; of con
dolence with his relatives; to wear badge
OF mourning for his loss. and to attend his
funeralin body.
Cars will run to Perryton, next station
beyond Taylor Ridge, on the Rock Island
bring in 20 or 30 cars of stock for the east.
perryton is the best name for that station.
as 1t has an important local significance and
there is no post Office in the state of the
name.
The speech of Mr.. Peter H. Watson,
formerly Assistant Secretary of War under
President Lincoln, is a very thorough refu-
tation of the current falsehoods about Coy
Tllden's attitude during the war. II con
tains new and interesting statements on
the subject. and will be found in this
paper.
The Union falsely. accuses Democrats,
who are private citizens and then offers
that as reason why people should vote
against Tilden! Applying the same reas-
oning to the Unton's candidate for coroner,
how would he fare at the hands of voters?
The Unions candidate for coroner was
secessionist; he don't deny it to, day; and If
you ask him he will tell you, now. that
during the war he had to leave his board
ing house, 10 this city. because he was
secessionist. Will the Union apply the
same reasoning to him, when he is seeking
votes, as it does DIR. Piper, or to the Demo-
Gratis it lies about?
In 1862. when b. H. Kimball was a
candidate for sheriff against Charley Nc
Laughlin, the Republicans got an affidavit
from Ansel Briggs that Kimball said he
would rather live under jeff DaviS's gov
ernment than ours Mr. Kimball never
said any such thing. as was shown at the
time. If the editor of the Union wants to
knew what he did say let him go to the
library and look at The ARGUS for Oct.
9Th and Nov lst of that year, and publish
Kimball's letter. Mr.. Kimball is not
candidate for offiee--but he was re elected
| supervisor by about 100 majority just
after Briggs's affidavit which looks as
though the people of Rock Island didn't
put much confidence in Briggs's version of
the conversation.
The Union thinks, because DIR. Piper
was sugeen in the Confederate service,
that Tllden ought not to be elected presi-
dentl Grant appointed member of the
| Confederate government (Ackerman OF
Georgia. his attorney general; another
member of the Confederate government
| (Settle OF North Caroliua) was president
of the Republican national convention, and
was appointed 10 Office by the Republicans;
two Confederate generals (Moseby and
Longstreetl were appointed to Office by
the Republicans-and many more cases Of
the same sort. Did the Un,oa ever con
demn its party for this? DIR. Piper is not
a candidate for any offee-but the Uaioa
thinks it an objection to Tilden for presi
dent that DIR. Piper was a surgeon in the
lConfederacy! Bah!