The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-17
POLITICAL soUED1uGs.
From the Boston Post.


IF Gen. Grant accepts the presidency il
will be chiefly because he is a poor man,
we are now told. Isn't il about time he
tried to do something to earn bis own liy-
ing? The White House was not intended
for a pauper asylum.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Mr. LIE Due is in the west He refuses
to tell his plans for grating sugar cane on
sorghum trees, as he says, department
officials cannot be too discreet" LIE Due
has pursued this policy faithfully, and
never publishes statistics until they are a
year old, for fear of their blighting.
From the Baltimore Gazette.
An exchange speaks in terms of eulogy
of the fighting qualities of our little army
on the frontier. There is no discount on
the fighting ability of the boys. With the
little army to do the fighting Sherman to
do the talking and John Pope to do the
dispatching, we ought to take care of our
selves.
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
There is probably no doubt whatever
that Conkling's evil influence over the
party IL the state and the country would
receive a fatal blow if MIR. Hayes admin
istratlon would continue to act upon the
principles which led it to displace Arthur
and Cornell. Instead, 1t is chewing its
leek With great fervor, and Mr., Evarts
and Mr.. Sherman propose to make
speech or two for Cornell.
From the Iowa State Register, Rep.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat is making
great ado over Stanley Matthews as the
latest addition and convert to the Graut
boom. That may help it some in Mis-
souri,. 1t will not in Iowa. People in this
rural part of the republic do not ask every
morning who Stanley Matthews is going
to support, in order to know who to be for
themselves.
Washington Cor, Baltimore SUM-
Ex-senator Poole of North Carolina
will, it is reported, issue in a short time an
open letter to the Republicans of the
South embodying the sentiments express
ed by him at the recent meeting of South
ern representatives in this city, and urg
ing all representatives in the South TO
vote against any candidate for the presi-
debcy nominated on the idea of solid
North. Mr.. Poole justly takes the sview
that il solid tSouth is to be condemned
then solid North cannot be defended.
From the Boston Herald
The idea that annual elections and
sessions of the legislature are essential to
the maintenance of popular liberty is
about as absurd as the appearance ID the
role of reformers of men who represent
the thing to be reformed. Oar legislature
sits i've or six months in the year, Half
Its time is spent in discussing stale qaes-
tions' IN which no new points are elected.
ana part of the other half in repeating or
amending the laws passed at the previous
session. About half of our legislation is
suggested oy lawyers who want special
case provided for. The great vice of the
state is too much legislation. The annual
election wastes time, costs money and dis
turbs business. An election once In two
years would be often enough. IF neces-
sary, short special session could be held
IN the of year to dispose of any pressing
business. Nobody would lose BY the
Snan9e but political strikers and lobbyists.
n FROM the New York Irish- American.
Mr.. Kelly has announced that he knows