The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-24
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

- nan lot QeuuflCkS.
-'Rah for Retrenchment and Reform.
Live within your means, - says
Uncle Sam Tilden.
The election approaches; the re-
manning time is short, and there are
several crimes of soh,ch Mr.. IIden has not
get been dccused
We notice by the report OF Blackboard
Ingersoll's speech in Chicago, that 1t was
the same old harrangue he delivered IN
Maine, Ohio, Indiana, and here. 1t Is
getting rather stale.
The Republican stump orators are
iGding that it is not so easy to make black
seem white 10 the eyes OF the people,
after all They cannot talk away facts,
nor make words cover up corruption.
Blaine shakes with terror at the bare
thought of solid south. But what are
his present theatrical tremors compared
with those genuine ones which he endured
when he besought Mulligan to give up those
damming lettersl
-OgIesby's meeting in Princeton yester-
day THE 23d) was miserable failure, most
of the Republicans leaving the hall while
he was speaking. Cd account of his bloody
shirt slang. and his endorsement of
| Grants administration.
The attempt to carry South Carolina
| for Chamberlain and Hayes is born OF the
desperation of Grantism, trembling on
| the verge of ruin. Grants proclamation
should be the death of The system which
it was fabricated to sustain.
| The chairman of the Democratic state
committee of Michigan writes from Detroit
that the Rev. E. Flowers, author Of the
atrocious story that Mr.. Tilden cursed
Union soldiers, has left town permanently
without paying his debts or grocery bills.
The only object in rejecting Tom
Henderson is to keep Haverstick in the
post office to give him an office where he
draws pay and does no work. All people
who like that should vote for Henderson.
All who do not like it should vote for Dun
ham.
"A local advertiser announces Blaine as
1.-THE great American statesman" and "the
prince of American ora.ors" Bah! He
is the great American liar, scoundrel and
robber. Read Hon. Abram S. Hewitt's
speech where he strips the hypocrite's hide
of and stretches it on the fence.
Blaine is first rate stump orator.
The only trouble with him is that he aoiN
tell lies and try to humbug his hearers
His weakness is moral. Thereto he
sold his influence when speaker, and
crouched and begged and wept when his
venality was brought home to him by
Mulligan.
james n Tyner. the present post
master-general, asserted in the Indiana
delegation at the Cincinnati convention
that he would not support Bristow if nomi-
mated. Soon after. Bristow and Jewell
were removed from the cabinet and Tyner
appointed postmaster general to exemplify
reform in the party,
Blaine is cheeky; but no one who
looks on him as he strides across the plat
form can forget the scene when he got
down on his knees TO Mulligan. beseeching
him with streaming tears not to give up
those letters: nor that other scene, when the
now clustering Blaine from Maine istole
the letters, and shot out of the apartment.
Senator Morton in his Indianapolis
speech at the commencement of present
campaign told his hearers that the
election of Williams governor of Indiana
in October meant the inauguration OF TildeD
: and Hendricks in March, 1877. Williams
is elected, and Morton has packed up and
!, gone to the Pacific coast to investigate
Chinese immigration.
When last heard from on the politi
: cal situation William NJ. Evarts declared,
| Governor Tilden deserves and will re-
'ceive the support of honest people, re-
: CARELESS of party interests and political
distinctions The hayesites would like
, him to take the stump if he will unsay
| this but he doesn't appear to be ready
on those terms.
of all the base and shameful mem
t bers of Grants various cabinets, Hamil-
t ton Fish is the worst. Belknap took
5 brides, Borie was a creature of false pre-.
fences, Robson robbed the treasury
5 Creswell plundered the post office. Deian7
defraudtd the Indians. and Williams st lie
money for a landaulet but Fish has had
: his son-in-law make profits out of the
r freien policy of the administration. IN.
|, Y SIM.
John A. Logan and John B Hawley, afte,
law was passed locating u s. military
: prison at Rock Island, got that law re
; peaed and located it at Leavenworth
3 Kansas. But little work has been done a,
|, Leavenworth. and the location may yet be
. restored to Rock Island. Vote for Dun
ham and he will make the effort to get the
:, institution restored to Rock Island. The
q place for it is back on the bluffs back Of
+ Wagner's brewery or on the Watch Tower
r near Milan. The buildings would be
magnificent and the business it would
! bring here would be very large.
!. OF course Republicans howl about
: the heavy registration in New York and
, Brooklyn. aud we therefore copy FROM The
n Sun. and the World, articles showing that
Z it must be done 10 person. The law there
is very different from ours and is not SC
+ easy to commit frauds there as here. New
: York and Brooklyn have never polled
I anywhere near as many votes 10 proportion
3 to population as Philadelphia has, and
!. there is no city 10 the union where such
outrageous frauds have been committed as
by the Republicans OF Philadelphia.
t AT Hebrew fair, held in st. Joe
IS Mo-. on the 2lst, Miss Clara Block was
$ the winner of beautiful and valuable
prize hat, receiving over 200 votes. to
about 1000 divided between three other
o young ladies. Miss Block is the daughter
u of our late esteemed townsman Aaron
IS Block. Her mother is also dead. MIR
z Jonas Bear, who was formerly in Mr.
q Blocks employ 10 this city, has handed us
e an account of this great fair, 10 the St
q 10 Herald, which says that '"fhe unex
It pected vote given to Miss Block was bu
just tribute to her charming and engag
~ ing manners and her sweet personal attri
u butes,
$ The utter recklessness of Blaine sine
;. the exposure of his venality by MuIliga1