The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-07
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ROCK ISLAND, ..... ILLINOIS.
Mr.. scovel Bolts from Ethan Allen.

Mr.. Scovel Bolts from Ethan Allen.
CAMDEN, NJ, August 1876.
Ethan Allen, Chairman Liberal National Com
mittee,
Dear Sir: You ask me in your letter
of the 2lst inst. to lift up your (my) vote e
and rejoice like strong man for Hayes
and Wheeler
| cannot do it, and ! will tell you why.
ln 1872 we fought that good fight to-
gether, in which was proud of your COM
partnership. We then supported Horace
Greeley for president-a pure man, good
man, statesman and a patriot. The
Democracy at Baltimore, forgetting their
animositles, joined us in endeavoring to
restore and rebuild, upon the foundation
OF the amendments to the constitution,
which then promised and yet promise a
regrowth OF constitutional liberty, through
which, pure law shall be. the measure of
perfect freedom. Governor Austin Blair
"a man respected and revered by Mr..
Greeley says of Mr.. Tilden, the head of
the ticket: He makes no compromises
with corruption and never seeks to AVOID
the enmlty of the rings As a practical
reiormer he has led the way to the restora-
ton OF honest ard economical government
IN the only way possible by a vigorous as
sault upon the powerful combinations of
political spectators who have possessed
themselves OF the reins of government"
But You say MIR. Tilden is honest from
calculation and not from nature"
10 use homely proverb, why do you
look gift horse in the MOUTH? What
right have we to go into the motives Of a
statesman who has imprisoned or driven
into exile gigantic municipal robbers and
then tramped in the dust the powerful
and defiant canal ring of the state of New
York?
While we have been talking for reform
Governor Tiden has been acting reform.
The people cried aloud for a change of
! measures and men, Massachusetts, with
added thousands in every state, hungering
aud thirsting for honest government, asked
BrlstoW for president We were told that
he would apostatize, and Johnsonize the Re-
publican party, and Morton, and Conkling,
and Logan, cunning in their extremity,
lodging the real issue, have given us
Rutherford B. Hayes, unknown to the
cation save that he has been three times
governor of Ohio. We have nothing to
say against him. But does he fill the bill ?
The stream cannot rise higher than the
fountain. The fountain is corrupt. The
| slow poison of this administration
not slow enough-has penetrated the great
cohorts of oficeholding Repuhlicanism
| from the cabinet to the custom house.
VIII Mr.. Hayes be stronger than the con
veution which cried 10 triumphe to Grant
administration when the people had re-
! pudiated it with a uuanimity unparalleled
| 10 his ory2
1t seems to me mo" The campaign Of
| 1872 Was based on generous sentiment aud
sound policy. In supporting Hayes you
g. back; ! &c forward We are at last Z
h ingenious people There Is no north
10 south but the machinery OF Republican
jliucs waves over Us at once truncheon
and bloody shirt" as il the war had not
ended eleven years ago land seeks to kindlt
| old anmosities while inaugurating a policy
of passion. To this policy, which Hayes
must be pOwerieSS 10 resist, have never
given, and never can give my assent. Tho
people care little for the question,
| That has no business in this campaign
riden and Hendricks THE latter a vel
| beloved statesman Of Indiana, fully abreast
| Of the advanced sentiment OF the country
stand to day whore you and | stood at the
! Cincinnati convention OF 1872. We be
lieved them sincere then, when, conquerins
their prejudices, they joined hands with u.
| in fthti:g a corrupt administration.
And believe them sincere now. whcI
they promise the people an honest admin
| istrati0n.
Such platform would satisfy Lincoln o
Chase or Greeley or Sumner. But Rep
ublcanism now means Conkling and Nor
ton and Sargent and Logan as the powe
behind the throne; it means the continues
domination of an arrogant and nnscrup
ulous aristocracy of Office holders;it mean
power without conscience, and it mistake
audacity for craftsmanship. iolitcs is nc
profession; it is duty; ana because
believe it my duty | shall advocate tn
election of "Tilden and Hendricks
Sincerely yours.
JAMES NJ. SCOyEL.