The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-03
Uorrg HTRE AND THERE,

California trains next Sunday over the
C. & N. W. R. R.
Thursday, November 30th, is to be
Thanksgiving Day throughout the United
States.
--Pleasanter weather to-day. IF the
Republicans don't call any more meetings
there is prospect of some good weather
again.
The post-traders' ring marches to the
music of the fifes Of Hayes and Wheeler.
Belknap is in command, and the ring
votes solid.
General W. s. Rosecrans has written
a letter favoring the election OF Tildeu.
Yet he will doubtless be called confeder-
ate and plug-ugly.
The Indian ring marches beneath the
flag of Hayes and Wheeler. Delano leads
the noble band, and every man votes for
Hayes and bigger contracts.
After the installation of the new
officers of Rock Island Grove No. %, U.
A. o. D. last evening, the members apd
friends had a pleasant dance.
Gen. Stoneman says that only twenty
out of seventy-fve major generals who did
active service in the army of the Union
during the late war were Republicans.
Eleven years after the war is ended,
we find the Republican parry stirring up
old animosities in order to carry an cleo
ton. When will reconciliation come, il
this policy is pursued?
The custom house ring is on the march
for Hayes and Wheeler. Murphy and
Jayne don't believe in Reform and better
times. They want the old times, which
were good enough for them.
1t is rumored that one of the editors
of the Unaon has signed contract with the
Forstin2 sisters agreeing not to dish EN-
up" any more in his paper. What he
receives in return is not publicly known.
The post Office ring is solid for Hayes
and Wheeler, Creswell will take no straw
bids" for the votes of the post Office ring
The bids must be solid and the money
hard, and the ring will 60 solid for Hayes
aud Wheeler.
The country demanded a reform
candidate from both parties. The Repub
icans kicked BristoW out OF their conven
ton, while the Democrats responded to tn
demand by nominating Tilden, the MAJ
above all others representing true reform
Citizens on Twenty-frst street, be
tween Second aand Third avenues, com
plain that people allow their hogs to ruu
at large and that they root up and under
mine the sidewalks on that street. There
a chance for the boys to make money b,
driving the hogs to the pound.
The whisky ring votes to man fo
Hayes and Wheeler. Those that are GU
of Jail will vote for Hayes in gratitude be
cause they are not in, and those that ar
in will be pardoned out to do the same
President Grant will see that the full vott
of the whisky ring is cast for Hayes anC
Wheeler.
The soldiers at Indianapolis sent
shot right through the bull's-eye wbel
they declared that the assumption tina
the union was saved by a party and no
| by the whole people, irrespective of party
is false, sIanderous, and unpatriotic; tina
it discredits the living and dishonors tn
dead, and we solemnly denounce the as
| sumption.
! The senatorial ring is unanimous 70
Hayes and Wheeler. Spencer, Logan
Morton, and Cameron don't want Re
former in the president s seat and an hon
est man to preside over the senate. The
don't want Reform or better times
Times cannot be better for them tha
they are, the idle working men and thei
starving families to the contrary notwith
standing. The senatorial ring will stan
up for Hayes and Wheeler.
The letter of Reality, from Coal Va
ley, exposing the falsehoods and misrep
reservations in the Union in regard t
the Durham meeting there was receive,
after our WEEKLY had gone to press
and is, therefore, of no particular conse
quence now. Had it been received il
time we would have tried to get it in
OF course we expect Republicans to ii
about our meetings, and the nameless Co;
Valley liar is no exception to the genera
rule.
After all the fuss the Union has mad
about that big Republican meeting j
Rapids City tomorrow evening, Ma
James NJ. Beardsley has respectfully do
clincd" to blow his horn in that village a
that time, and the party leaders have no.
secured DIR. Gregg to take his place-an
he will probably tell the people up thcr
that he was in rebel prison six month
} where he had nothing to eat but half Dc
cayed sow belly'-which, of course, zoe
to prove that the Republican party MAJ
ayers are honest and economical and n
reform is necessary. Maj BeardsleY a
tends Democratic meeting occasionally
he went to hear Mr.. Olson last evening
: but we have not heard of his making an
r Republican speeches this year. There ar
several other prominent Republican law
yers in Rock Island whose clarion voio,
have not been heard in the land this can
paign-which looks just a little bit
though they don't intend to be ''bossed'b
Haverstick, Jim Parks & Co.