The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-04
She 99ai1g Afsns,
ROCK ISLAND, .rLxruors
How Goes the State.
(Tllinois State Register

The election is now practically onIy a
month away, and it behooves the democrats
OF the state to redouble their exertions tn
realize and complete the victory which is
within their grasp The democratic state
central committee has done good work. and
| q great deal OF it. That committee has.
| almost without funds, arranged for speak,
ers, whose appointments are published in
another column. Messrs. Conkrite and
litter, our candidates for state Offices, have
| been active anu alert ever since their NOM
nation, and Hon. VIM. M. Springer. our
candidate Tor congress, has done and is do
Ing good work, while our candidates for
the general assembly have also done well.
But beyond these general and local facts
we fail to see that the democrats of the
state exhibit that activity and zeal which
would reasonably be expected when it il
considered that activity and zeal are all
which is necessary to reclaim the state and
to place Illinois in the democratic column
We are not disposed to find fault, and GER
tainly cannot be accused Of sitting still and
grumbling, nor are we finding fault now.
Ii anything has been left undone to insure
success, there is still time TO remedy the
neglect or inactivity, and it is to this work
address themselves The eminent speak
ers" and leaders OF the party" can no doubt
do much, and we are not disposed to cues
ton the value of their work; but the indi-
Vidual democrats can be. as we believe,
quite as effective. The doctrines of the
democratic party are plain and easy to be
understood, and can be stated clearly by
men who can't make speech or write
sermon; aud when stated in their plaipest
and most homely form, convince and convert
men by their own weight. There is no
doubt. confusion of opinion as to the finance
question, but there are men in every town
and school district who got rich by farm
ing or other legitimate business, under the
administration of democratic principles.
while there Is no man In any part of the
State who has made money by legitimate
business aud kept it since the modern
school of political ficsncers has had con-
Etrol of the money of the nation. These
two facts are worth more to the cause of
the Democracy than all the speakers or
writer's as to hard money or soft money.
To-day the great crops of this state are
locked up in the producers hands, because
OF the existence of that protective tariff
which is intended to build up manufactur-
ing monopolles, and which therefore cuts
off the foreign demand for our produce.
The Democratic party is pledged to free
trade, and ono year of good crops, with
righteous tariff, would pour such food of
money into the country that the ''fatists"
could not get hearing in any school dis
trict In the land On such questions as
these-and these are the questions of the
day-one man who is democrat can talk
as well as another; and if the democrats
OF Illinois will but impress democratic
doctrine on their neighbors aud friends.
we shall carry the state with whoop. 1t
is the fashion to sneer at Democratic doc
trlnes as odd and bourbon" and ''be
hind the times, but there is nothing but
practical application of democratic doc
trine required to put the state and the ma
ton on the high road to prosperity.