The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-05-15
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LETIN the letter from Chicago published in
another column, is Republican Of the in
nocent kind. He is, We have no doubt,
given to the Republican pastime of extoll-
ing the soldiers of the Republic, and has
educated himself to believe that the leaders
of his party really desire to re-
ward the valor Of the men who saved
the Union. This weakness-this unsophisti-
Gated soetness, We may say-has led our
Republican correspondent into the belief
that the Republican State convention will
nominate General J. c. Smith for State
Treasurer. General Smith was, as our Ee-
publican correspondent says, one of the
flag-defenders of the late war, and now
suffers from wounds received in that great
struggle. But this fact gives to him no
strength with the Republicans of Illinois.
They pay soldiers with cheap currency
words. They praise them, and give the
offices 10 the men who stayed at home.
OF al the gentlemen anxious to obtain
the Republican nomination for the State
Treasurership, General Smith is the only
one who was soldier.
Mr.. Ridgway, the Republican machines
man, is an estimable gentleman. He is as
clean as new pin in person and character.
He shakes your hand with charming abili
ty. He wins you by saying: Yes" in
theinterogative tone, with alingering upon
the IS" that is original and unique. He is
also strong in prayer, but dashed with
worldliness enough to make him inofensive
to the respectable sinner; of meek deport-
ment. he walks with the careful step that a
man would employ walking in henney
foored with eggs; a good friend Of his
friends, he always gives guild pro quo, being
careful to not bankrupt himself by extra
vsgantly giving more that the bargain calls
for; a strong Republican, he has learned of
late years how 10 not hate all Democrats,
and within short time has actually edu-
Gated himself TO like few of them in mild
manner; Gold Bug. he has liberal hand
when the occasion demands. He is good
citizen, good man, good fellow, good
politician. and he is the coming man Of the
Republicans for State Treasurer. He was
not soldier; but he sympathized with all
the boys who were in the field. He cheered
them on TO the battle, and remained at
home making money-turning his dollars
over and over, doubling them every few
months.
Mr.. Hamburger, the next man to Mr..
Ridgway in the favor Of the managing
men Of the Republican party, is splendid
specimen Of the Republican Office seeker.
He is the clerk Of the Supreme Court for
the Middle Grand Division, and is much
esteemed by the Judges, all Of whom he
has kindly admitted to lis friend
ship. He is a self.msde man, and
is a bundle Of nervous energy. He
is now bouncing about the State like an In
dia rubber ball and as he bounces he talks
talks about himself-talks necessarily
buzzcs like a hive of bees, a big
live Of loud-buuing bees. He is not as
polished as Mr.. Ridgway, but the connois.
seur Of personal beauty would, in our opin-
ion, give to him the preference. He would
not quite, but he would almost answer the
description given by Hamlet Of the dead
royalty Of Denmark, when he said
"see, what grace was seated on his brow;
Hyperion's curls; the front OF Joyc himself:
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
station like the herald Mercury
New-lightcd on q heaven. kissing hill;
A combination and form, indeed,
Where every god did seem TO set his seal,
To give the world assurance Of man.
This
is little more than Mr.. Hamburger, but
it is so close portrait that every one who
knows our friend will not recognize him by the
picture. In short, Mr.. Hamburger is more
comcly man than Mr.. Mdgway, and has al
so other superior claims upon heparty. But
il is not true, as he boasts, that his nomina.
ton would induce all the Israelites Of Hi
nois to vote the Republican ticket. The
voters of that faith are not so clanish They
will not vote for II man simply because he
is Of their nationality and religion. lie is
boastful when he makes the assertion that
he can control their ballots. But there may
be some foundation to the report that Col.
Bob Ingersoll, the anti Christian, is anxious
to have Mr.. Hamburger nominated. All
things being equal, COL lngcrsol would,
as matter Of course, prefer Gen.