The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-05
Mr.. Hawley in Cordova.


Hawley, of this city, made speech in
Oordova, which, for recklessness Of state
ment and perversion Of facts astonishes his
best friends. OF something must
be pardoned to the excitement of a
political campaign and of the occasion
but the absolutely false statements in this
speech astonish everybody. Under ordi.
nary circumstances no mans word would
be more implicitly believed than Mr.
Hawley's, and the wonder is that he
should have attempted to impose any
reckless statements upon the people of
Cordova. Tie usual excuse of speaking
under excitement can not be given, for pre-
vious to leaving for Cordova to make that
speech he wrote it out and handed it to
che editor Of the Union, as it appeared in
that paper of Sunday morning. 1t must,
therefore, DO considered an official report.
We have certainly never seen so many
misrepresentation and false statements 10
so short speech, We have not space to
answer them, all but will notice few.
Mr.. Hawley takes good care to praise
Grants administration. True. he offends
large numbers Of Republicans by so doing,
but he knows that, If Hayes shall be
elected, he will haye claim on the party
for defending it when others failed to do so.
He says:
The Republican party has maintained the credit
OF the country and has wisely administered Its af
fairs. II Is proud OF the record It has made >
The Republican party has faithfully administered
the affairs Of the government
Mr.. Hawley aud everybody else knows
that the Republican party has not wisely
adminsted the affairs of the country and
that its oldest and best men have denounced
it and left it because it has not done so.
He says:
For the first time since the beginning Of the war
the Democratic party has put forward as candidates
for the two highest offices In the gift Of the people,
two men who were openly aud avowedly IN sym
pathy W tn the rebellion. Everywhere the
Democratic party selects n its candidates for the
largest Offices men who during the war. were con.
specious for their opposition TO the government.
. Their candidate for the presidency was IN
full sympathy with the rebellion and selected
by the st. Louis convention because OF his known
opposition TO the war and because he was in full
rebellion was waged against the government by
the democratic party. The Republican party
carried the war to a successful termination. 1t
saved the union from destruction. II saved the
national credit 1t made our government strong at
home and respected abroad as 1t stands to-day the
proudest and gr eatest nation Of the earth. = In
Its palmy days OF power the highest ambition of
the Democratic party was TO raise and sell negro
babies and fog their mothers This 1t advocated
as divine right.
Here is string of quotations that. for
vileness and falsehood, are beneath the
lowest ward hummer. They are self-evi-
dent falsehoods-such transparent false
hoods that all persons OF even ordinary
intelligence know them to be falsehoods.
Mr.. Hawley knows very well that there is
not q word of truth in any Of them, and
he has disgraced himself in the eyes OF
all decent men by their utterance. He
knows that both Tilden and Hendricks
were strong supporters of the government
in the effort to put down the rebellion
there's ample proof of that from higher
Republican authority than Mr. Hawley
He knows that the war was not waged OF
put down by any party, and he should be
ashamed to assert it. His shocking false
hoods refute themselves.
Speaking of the last session of congress.
Mr.. Hawley says:
They removed sixty-seven employees appointe,
by "A Republican House of Representatives, forty
seven OF whom were Union soldiers. many OF then
disabled by wounds received in service, and IL
hlling their pace appointed forty.seven men VIII
had been In the rebel army.
Of all the campaign falsehoods, which
form the entire stock in trade of the Re
publican party, none is more utterly base
less than the one that ex confederat
soldiers have been given monopoly o
POSITIONS in the house of representatives
The lie has been repeated on every Stun
from Maine to Texas, and by every Repub
lcan speaker from Blaine, the arcl
corruptionlst, dom to the mos
Insignificant rossroads spouter. Th
whole story is the exact reverse of tb
truth, and known to be an utter fabrication
by nearly every one who has made tn
charge. The employees of the house are
232 in number, aud of these only % ar
ex-coDfederate soldiers. The union state
have l75 positions, while only 81 are he'll
by persons from states engaged in the re
bellion, and of these 81 many were loyal (
the union during the war. 81 of the oil
employees are retained, and the list include
ID colored men and Sc union soldiers, @
whom 10 we're wounded in the service
The number Of union soldiers empoye
is exactly double the number of confeder
ate soldiers, and the employees from unto
states are over three times as great a
those from rebel states.
The union soldiers employed by th
Republican house in the Add congress
numbered, as far as can be ascertained
only 80, so that the Democratic house ha
given employment to more union soldier
than the Republican house which precede
it. In other words, the Democratic hous
appointed three union soldiers for euer
too appointed by the Republicans.
Hon, VIM. X. Morrison, Of this stat,
chairman of the house committee on way
and means, in answering these charge
against the Democracy during the la.
hours Of the session, spoke as follows:
Another small piece OF hypocrisy
much practiced here by those who al
continually bewailing the removal
Union soldiers EUeyy man on tie disable
soldiers roll 1Cto has not died or uolu1