, 1876-12-17

| THE HON, GEORGE ARMouR's C1r1zFysu1p.
On two or thrce occasions of late the Tim.
mas 'ntlmateq .nae tne Hon. george armour
PRESIDENTIAL Elector from the First Congress
! sional District, Is not citizen Of the United
| States. and consequently inelieiblo to hold m,
| frn;tod e+,+oe ofsoa 4. ,,,ns+ - o,,, 80 an..
onseu neu,t e'ates o1aee. AS n!os! u oui lsaucl.
p1ooa'a} KNOW, ae "as ootn IN ocotlana, ant
came to the United States at an carly age
Along in the 'fortIes he was resident Of at
tn ~ m n 1RIa ~ TX h1s mama waa mon
....1a -.,,+1 a -" 80 A4c' ~
shrtcvalty OF Las1le County. He declined thu
honor on the ground that he WAS moi
an American citizen. Subsequently,. Oh Junf
* 1aE5 hofore tho Hon I n Co+on ther
I 10 to'o, uolofe e', sn1 non. .. ~ oaton, tne1
Judge OF the Lasalle County Court he declared
public: When the Constitution of 1913 was
sdo,tad ~ oon+ainoa -,rov;aior +ho+ ora,r
.s..,.s - s~.ss..s.. -. 1.n., 80 s ~~.'
"n.1o ntase Anuao'tau' y. a"iai ass tnen r.
privileges Of citizenship. On the strength OF
this constitutional provision Mr.. Armour be-
,,aros th,t 1is aa,or,.,, o;+;,aaeh,,> ,1os .a,r,
4's'e1 H.4 1u.. 11e VA. a.snanp "s.s eo'-
pleted. anu hence did not take out any further
Ward, Mr.. Armour took IN active
part in challenging suspicious voters on
elcction-day. This raised 4 Democratic howl.
The Times then as now charged that he was nut
a citizen, though be had been 9 large taxpayer
for years. Shortly afterwards, In order to
clinch the matter beyond all possibility OF dis
pute, he determined to take out his second pa-
pers. This Air. Armour unhesitatingly says he
did, aud that to the best OF lis recollection his
then partner, the late J: ". Munger, went with
him to the office OF the County Court; and on
their way there met a mutual friend, whose
name cannot now be recalled, who went with
him. At the time Of the big fire COPY Of bis
original intention and The Certificate Of
naturalization were, along with mass OF other
then stood on the corner of Monroe street and
Michigan avenue. When Mr.. Armour met with
the Electoral College in Springfield, a few days
ago, he took the " iron-clad" oath, which,
among other things, provides that the affiant is
citizen OF the United States; and no one who
knows Mr. Armour would for an instant believe
that he would swear to what had no existence
in fact 49,
THE BREACH IN THE DEMOCRATIC RASKs
Is daily d widening n this State STATE Since TaE Il
Dan Cameron and his hosts the party has
grown in disrepute among respectable
Democrats, mud the violent ones have been
made the laughing stock Of the country. The
recent exploit Of Ed Merritt and Ed Berger, of
cratic State Central Committee at Springfield
on the 21st inst. to depose tue Hon. CYRUS e.
Mccormick from the Craftsmanship aud talk
war, has only complicated things and made the
split wider, The conservative element, which
Ed Merritt claims that majority Of the State
Committee asked Mr. Met Cormfck to call meet
ing, but that he declined to do so. I
:. Yesterday TRIBUNE reporter called upon
Mr.. Cyrus q. Mccormick ct his Office in the
Reaper Block to ascertain from him if Ed
Merritt's allegations were true When the re-
porter arrived, Gen. Dan Cameron was closeted
with Mr.. McCormick: When the door was
opened and the bold Daniel emerged from the
upon beholding the familiar features Of his old
time friend, TIE TRIBUNE reporter. He must
have felt that there was no balm in Gi1ead for
his dropping spirits when Mr.. Mccormick would
talk to that man: He snu1ted conspiracy from
MAR. So Daniel sat close to thc@partition and
listened to the conversation going on Within
Then when the reporter came out from his in
terriew. the hero OF many Tilden> battles re-
entered, and there once more must have
poured forth his pent,up feelings. Mr.. Mt
were now opposing him, after he had been a
friend to t1et1. He had no unkind
words for any. He did not Hike to
speak upon the subject Of Ed Mcrritt's
assault upon him in the Springfield Register. He
branded every statement in it rs false, however,
and said that lie would publish a card in The
TRIBUNE in regard to the matter. Only ono |
member had written to him rs to tho calling Of |
q meoting Of tho State Central Committee, and I
tfs Ms ns e. Sssgssk st that a n1d
Slr. Mccormick would certainly have issued the
notice OF time and place. +. II. Marsh. of |
Ogle County, and s. r. Landis, Of Wabash |
County, had written to Dan Cameron in regard |
10 the matter, but that was all, and nothing
further had been done in regard to chilling
meeting, SO far us he knew.
1T the Palmer House was called BY Cen Corse