The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-04


that the report it gave of Maj Beardsley' |
mission to Louisiana was obtained from
him, and then it accuses us of falsely as
cribing to the representative of the Repub-
ican party Of Illinois statement that the |
Democrats committed thousand murders
on account of politics, this year. and the
Union kindly says it did not think we
would be guilty of such unfairness, be-
cause, the Union says. the statement had
reference to 1868. Now let us see whether
we or the Union are right. In the article
on which we were commenting occurs the
following sentence, in which Maj, Boards
ley said: A
Judge CuIlom, OF the district criminal court OF
New Orleans, a cousin of our governor-elect, Hon
shelby M. Cullom, and a fair-minded man who is
not Unidentified with either political party, estmat
ed that the Democrats had committed at least
Thousand murders DURING THE LATE CAM
PAIGN.
That looks Just little bit as though
Maj. Beardsley referred to this year-don't
it? But we have little more evidence.
Maj. Beardsley was so unfortunate, while
in Chicago, on his return from Louisiana,
as not to keep out of the way of newspa-
per reporters. Of course he tried hard to
do so, for everybody knows how he hates
to figure in the newspapers. But the re-
porters "corelled him" In room 81. on the
parlor floor of the Grand Pacific Hotel,
where Col. A. c. Babcock, chairman of
the Republican state committee, reigns,
Ame Babcock is the manager of the Illi-
nois Republican party, and be employed
Jim to go Louisiana And in the Chicago
papers of Wednesday morning, the Goth
ult., appear the result of interviews with
the Major. There were present, in
room 81. Abner Taylor, Charley
Farwel and Johnny Logan, and
Maj. Beardsley used the folio wing
words to Tribune reporter, viz:
Why. one of the criminal court Judges
told me that over 1000 neg~1es a0ere killed
WITHIN A YEAR, get not a man soas
arrested for the crimes"
This, of course, was the same Judge
Cullom alluded to in Jim's statement to
the Union, and the words "aotthin gear
mean within year from the time this man
was talking to Maj B. In Jim's report to
the Union he used these words: during the
late campaign" What does the Union
think about it now? Do these words,
''s0ithin gear, and during the late cam
paigm" refer to 1868? Maj. Beardsley
comes home and says, through the Chicago
Tribune and the Rock Island Union. that
the Democrats of Louisiana killed
oUer one thousand negroes during the
last gear on account OF their
political opinions and that not a man tods
punished or eUer arrested on account Of
these naWrderSI IF there is any truth
in the story it furnishes the very best
reason in the world why there should
be change of administration in that state.
Louisiana has Republican governor. with
powers, under the state constitution, as
great and comprehensive as those of the
third Napoleon in France. Almost every
county in Louisiana has a Republican
sheriff and district attorney, and where
one Of these officers fails of his duty Gov
ernor Kellogg has authority to remove
him and put another man in his place
The governor has power to appoint and
pay special local police in every county
at his own will, and in as great number
as he secs fit; he has authority to send a
brigade of metropolitan police into any
county at his own will, and has steam
boat at his command to move them. II
Is bis sworn duty to maintain the peace Of
the state, and no governor of any state
has, under its constitution and laws, such
great, and, in fact, unlimited powers
Why, then, the public will reasonably ask
t is this savage atrocity, for which even In
; dams would blush, suffered to go unpun
ished, and as Maj. Beardsley says mot ;
man arrested for these crimes2" If hi
! story is true, why haYe not Republican off
. GERS, with the federal power to back them
done their duty? If the thin tale of lying
Eliza Pinkston, whom Maj. Beardsle!
. claims the credit of bringing before thu
E board, is true, why did not the Republican
law officers find it out until month afte
, it occurred, and arrest the men she &C
) cuses? Why don't they arrest them now
7 Simply because her story is lie, AM
and proven, before the returning board, t,
J be lie, and. the woman notorious char
E acter. Read the testimony of her neigh
bors, in this paper
Republicans of Illinois how do you lik,
: the stories of your representative?