The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-23
Mercer County Correspondence.


HAMLET, August 81, 1876.
The detection in the Republican ranks
has become so alarming that some of the
faithful consulted together last week to try
and see if they could not create a little
enthusiasm and keep up semblance of
opposition to the vigorous onsets of the
Democracy. As result of this conclaye.
it was determined organize a club, engage
ltial music and stir the BOYS I'D little,
But thirk it will prove of little avail,
The amount of it is that, ever since the as
tendency of the Republican party to
power, they have been kept faithful TO
their party allegiance alone by the seduc-
tive influences of torch lights, glazed
caps, red breeches, and such other COR
geous paraphranal1a as attracts the fancy
of boys. The Republican party, without
these principal ingredients of Republican
party faith, would be like the play of
Hamlet with the character of Hamlet left
out Take man and put on him pair of
red breeches, furnish him with glittering
torch light or Chinese lantern, and he is
Immediately transformed into full
f1edged out-and-out rampant and" truly
loil' radical, Clothe him in the garb of a
respectable citizen and wash away the
foul aroma of the coal oil lamp, and he
sobers down into the cool and reflective
Democrat. This is the modus operaadI bv
which the ranks of the Republican army
have been recruited since 1860. The excite
ment of the torch light procession feyers
the brain to a pitch Of delirium, when
some patriotic Office holder intimates
that the rebels are coming again, and the
| disordered imagination of the men in the
ranks see an army of poor, disabled and
impoverished southrons marching in the
direction of Washington to capture all the
spoils of Office
What would be left Of the great and
glorious Republican party, without its
ninety thousand officers ? 1t would not
enthuse worth cent. 1t would not hang
together long enough to give one an op-
portunity to write its epitaph. And one
of the best sigus Of the times, augurinc
we'll for the success Of the Democracy in
November next, is the fact that the mass
of the Republicans will not longer come
down with the stamps wherewith to carry
on the campaign aud manufacture Radi-
cal thunder. Ask any Republican voter,
not an office holder, for the customary
contribution for campaign purposes, and
note the excuses by which he will evade
the time honOred assessment The truth is,
thatthe rings which have been controlling
the administration Of Grant have grown
rich at the expense of-noi the Democrats
alone, the masses ofthe Republican party
are taxed to pay the fiddler.
The goose that laid the golden egg has
been killed A Democratic branch Of
congress, through its investigating com
mittees, has been laying bare to the pub,
lie gaze the inside loiDgs of the leaders
who control the Republican party. And
fearful exhibition it is too,-such a
mass Of putrid corruption as should sicken
the most partisan honest devote at the
shrine OF party. | recolleCt, during the
war, one Of the cheap valentines in vogue
was picture representing a chaplain
bending in prayerful attitude over a pros
trate soldier, with enc hand resting on
the soldiers head, and the other stealing
the contents of his knapsack For the
chaplain, substitute the average Republi
can politician, with one untitled arm 10
yOking beniZens over the weeping form Of
the Goddess OF Liberty, while with the
other he Is extracting from her pocket TIT
revenues Of the nation, and you have &
vivid caricature Of Grants administration
In two or three weeks the time will be
duly announced by printed posters--tht
4 Tildenites Of this section will erect "a liberty
pole in front of the residence of ''Unclt
John" Hartman, the proprietor of tht
only hotel at this place. The occasion vii
! be enlivened by good band Of music, anJ
number of able speakers from this ant
adjoining counties will be present. A Til
den ana Hendricks club will be organized
at the same time.
| Several foundations are being dug fol
/ new buildings, at the new railroad town
: BY the way, we do not know what nam,
, TO apply to this new town. At presen
Hamlet people call it New Jerusalem.
The town has been laid out, and ere tw,
I months roll by. at least one dozen build
ings will have been erected. 1t will prob
ably be called perryton. Ed. ARGUS
The 'Greenbackers" will make an eli
fort TO form club at Uingles's Corner.
next Friday night Not much ma
terial in that neighborhood for paper men
They are all solid stuff, good as gold
aud almost unanimously for Uncle Sam
! my.
e The corn crop looks splendid and will b
! more than an average.
: There is an abundance OF fruit in thi
f section, and apples are as cheap as dirt.
= The Candor Brothers contemplate a
e enlargement to their post Office since TIL
g ARGUS agent was here. This firm inten
y erecting, this fall,a new store room to NEE
a the wants of their increasing trade.
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