The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07

the resolutions recently adopted by the |
Republican state convention, at Spring !
field, they have greater powers OF divination
than your humble correspondent. They
are an admixture of bad grammar, worse
sense. regeneration, and so constructed
that they can neither be answered nor
contradicted. A man may as well hope to
distinguish colors 10 the midst of inky
darkness, as to find out what to approve
aud what to disapprovc. If they affirm
anything, you cannot lay hold Of it, or if
they deny you cannot confute them
They are on par with Radical utterances
in general In other states where the
Republicans have adopted plat
form of principles, they are so
completely at variance with the no
torious practice Of that party that
their high surrounding declarations of re-
form and economy would only provoke
derision and laughter we're it not such
serious matter. | would like to have some
enthusiastic Republican take any set of
resolutions ever adopted by the party, as a
declaration of principles for the govern
ment OF the party. since 1860, and go
over them with me. carefully comparing
the preaching with the practice. If he IS
not satisfied with the exhibit, if he is not
fully convinced that the party has either
ignored or violated every declaration Of
leading principle, then his partisan
ship has got the better of his judgment.
In all the rascalities that have been un-
earthed by means of the Democratic
organization, there has been no repudia-
ton Of the Radical rascals by the Republi
can party, as an organization, but, on the
contrary, that party has endeavored to
shield them from the stigma that should
attach to all rascality in whatever form COM
mitted. OF all the investigations and ex
posture of Republican officials By the
present congress, Radical newspapers and
the Radical party have tried their best to
cover up the misdeeds of the thieves and
plunderers, and tried to break the effect
of the exposure, not by condemnation, but
by charging that among the mass Of
official rascality exposed in the ranks of
this party an occasional Democrat is
brought to the surface 1t is certainly no
justification of dishonesty on the part Of
leading members c. the Republican party,
that among the hundreds thus exposed,
now and then Democrat is tainted
with corruption. 1t does not palliate
Belknaps offense TO charge that Pendie-
ton was engaged in nefarious PRACTICES
1t is no excuse for Joyce, Mcdonald, Nc
Kee and the hundreds OF other late Radical
officials now languishing in Jail, that here
and there occasionally prominent Demo
crat has succumbed to the prevailing cor
ruption Of the times, and yielded his honor
into the hands of tic Republican party
Does Gen. Grant,as the official mouthpiece
of the Republican party, put the fiat oil
condemnation upon the numerous thieving
rascals who have been caught by Demo.
cratic policemen plundering the govern,
mcnt, by disowning them? On the con
trary, has he not thrown the whole weight
of his official influence, in the first place &c
shield, aud, when caught, to afterward
break the force ftheir dishonorabla fall
by giving them the moral support Of the
party Of which he is the head, and often
by re.instating them in more important
positions than those from which they were
driven by the people?