The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-24

here he Is, 5usHpreYlous tospennlDg the
leading editorial article in the Daily Union
| of this morning 1.-THE 24th.) Mark the
look of serious contemplation This mood
is customary before graphing with pom
derous subjects. 1t is his wonted habit
when he desires to vary his composition
from ponderosity to ridicule. No green
herb can distract his attention. Hayes
alone fills his penetrating mind. The de-
sertion Of Packard, through whose courage
and knavery His Frandulency" was made
commander-in-chief of the army-Packard,
who,i electing Hayes, placed His Fraud
ulency' under legal and moral obligations to
maintain him as governor of Louisiana, or
like man step down and QUITS about to
bring forth something for the edi6cation or
delectation of those on whose hands time
hangs so heavily that they read the second
page of the Union. Perhaps it will be
both, oftener neither. But just what the
above intelligent editor brought out in his
last effort is hard to tell even after reading.
Commence and read as follows:
Here's richnessl" The balloon has
collapsed. The bubble has burst. The
bottom has fallen out Is there any other
popular expansion to signify thing that
was, but isn't-a thing that was a some
thing of pretension a moment ago, and now
a nonentity2 If so, let's have it, and a
dozen more if possible, and then apply
them all, not to Packard, but to the Pack
ard government or pretense at New Or
leans. Was that "only one step from the
sublime to the ridiculous" ever made in
quicker time? Did the mountain ever
shrink into molehill on shorter notice ?
What magician wand does the new Pres
ldent WELD to exercise evil spirits2
Truly this Davenport intellectual giant,
who furnishes the editorial brains for the
Union in the absence of the ''seyen year
lexperience" fellow, who has gone East,
has offered delectable pabulum to the read
ers of the Union. 1t is indeed a pretty
fair stagger towards ridicule, as his man
ner, above, indicates But read on; in
the same article he says
No ridicule cab attach to him, Packard
ernor of Louisiana, and legally inaug.
{ urated as such, under the rules and regu-
latiOns Of the state statutes, he persisted
to the end, not merely in defense of his
own honest claims, but of right and JUS
tice and principle, and for the salvation
of the Republican party in Louisiana.
: In one breath he ridicules the Packard
: pretension and in the next extoIls the
: pretender as the defender of homes
claims" Evidently the presidents
t southern policy does not suit this brilliant
Importation Of Davenport talent, yet he
closes his morning meditation as follows
This result is vindication of the presi
dent S policy, or his success in restoring peac,
to Louisiana has been so brilliantly sue
cessful that the protests of those Repub
licans who wanted Packard sustained a
all hazards, and even by military power
to the bitter end, will amount to nothing
r and therefore had better not been made
Sensible advice. The people have no
e the remotest idea of another war, no
even to keep Republican office seekers il
: fat pastures or to reestablish the old prlc
Oh SUN do diG I6pL CSSutc0 ny tuS nOdC
ing of this article.
1t is to be hoped that the responsible
S will not prolong his stay in the east
is humiliating to the Republicans of Roc
h Island to be dosed with Davenport int
II lect Sadly do they miss the bought
{ Captain who, with all his faults. maintain
ed the dignity of his party leadership.
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