The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-18
KAssoN GOT DOWN AND Apollo
GIzED. FOR HIS LIES ABOUT
TILDEN.


GIzED. FOR HIS LIES ABOUT
TILDEN.
But Republican Editors continue to
Repeat the Lies.
The ignorance or the mendacity of Re-
publican editors is astonishing. They con-
tinue to repeat the falsehood that Gov,
Tilden was a Tammanyite. The Rock
Island Union speaks of Kim as "a man
trained in the school of the corrupt Tam
many ring and one of its leading spirits, "
and the Geneseo Republic says 'he was
a boon companion of Tweed-a dishonest
money. getter-every bit and grain as bad
as Tweed, and plenty more Of such ig-
norant or mendacious fafsehoods,
1t is not necessary for the Democratic
press to spend time or space on the sub
ject, for every intelligent man knows, and
every politically honest man admits that
Gov. Tilden was always the powerful, act
i've and aggressive opponent of Tweed
Tammany Ring, and that, for years, there
was a struggle between Tilden and his
friends, and Tweed and his friends, for the
mastery, resulting in the complete triumph
of Tilden over Tweed and Ills gang and their
incarceration in prison or exile from the
country. Haverstick and Hobbs know
this to be the truth. but, for party purposes,
they keep on repeating the mendacious
lies OF such creatures as Kasson of Iowa
whom S. S. Cox compelled.to retract, the
other day, in congress,
In the house Monday night, John A. Kasson of
Iowa. made a political speech in which he charged
Tilden with being a copperhead, a secessfonest a
disUnionist q ballot-boX suffer, and an al'v of
Tweed.
Mr.. Cox, replying to Mr.. Kasson, characterized
him as defender of Belknap and apologist of post
traders.
Mr.. Kasson called him to order for stating an I'M
| truth.
Mr. Cox-I say that he lied deliberately about
Gov. Tllden. applause and excitement
The Davenport Democrat says
Mr. Cox used the,proper term in speak
ing ofKasson's remarks. The Iowa mem
Der simply repeated falsehoods which
were too stale to be interesting. If Kasson
was not defender Of Belknap, he certainly
is man who took brides from railroad
companies, and whose official and moral
character is not such as to constitute him
the proper person to criticise the conduct
of any man"
The Chicago Times says:
Cox and Kasson fell into congenial
blackguardism in the closing hours of the
session. kasson, a rogue whom an Iowa
court found uniDjured by published
charge of bribery and corruption, felt him
self impelled to denounce Tilden as q
secessionist many years ago. Cox. feeling
himself impelled to defend Tilden. who re-
quires no defense against stuff of this sort
informed the briber that he lied" re-
mark whose truth did not justify its utter
ance-frst because the floor OF the house
should be sacred to the amenities of debate
and second, because there was no one OF
the floor who did not know that Kasso-
lied, aud third, because kasson knew him
self that he lied. Therefore, it will be re
marked that the afflicted patriots wht
preach most violently against Tilden ar,
either the iucriminated friends of tn,
whisky ring or the political jobbers VIII
recognize instantaneously the meaning o
Tildens election. Attacks of the KIM
kasson made in they house and vena
presses dole out from day to day but ali
the reform governor. His acts, which
) speak for themselves, are trumpet-tongue,
, against partisan clamors OF this indecen
sort That such men as Morton and kas
I son and Logan feel it incumbent upo
? them to expose" the Vaccinations O
Tideu, men who are in every sense tn
chief responsibles for the current dc
e moralization of administrative aud locs
= government, is an evidence at once of tn
i insincerity of the cause they advocate
4 and the impudence of the men VIII
= advocate it.
e And the Ioaoa City Fress says:
"Kasson stood up and lied about ii
den, and Sam. Cox stood up and Gale
n him liar in the house day before yestel
day
e Then the Republicans stood by Kasso
: for lying and went against Cox for telliu
the truth.
IL The house sat in an uproar for tire
W hours and at last Kasson withdrew his liz
to about Tilden and apologized for them an
10 then Sam. Cox withdrew his proper r
mark about Kasson and apologized for i
and there was peace.
J, After this performance it is hard
~ worth while to spend any more time in r
" futing the state falsehoods of Haverstit
~ and Hobbs,