The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-18

Ben ButterW0rth cut very pau HgN eli
ure on the witness stand before the Inyes- .;
tigating committee at Cincinnati, lie :.
got man and called Tom Campbell-Who u
was retained by some of the most respect b
able merchants and business men OF Cln-
cinnati to see that all that was covered up |,
was brought to light-a liar, and was very :,
10th to tell what he knew, After his tes-
timony was in we were not surprised that {
he did not want to tell. Indeed, if we d
had been in his place, we think we would
have had a sick relation 10 China or the {
West Indies we would have to visit 30
we would not be called upon to testify. {
(Hartford Times.)
Secretary Schurz and Commissioner
Raum are to Join Sherman 10 his Ohio +,
stumpiug campaign. At this rate Hayes
will be the only head of the Bureau that
| is left 10 ashington--and it isn't certain
whether he or Mrs. Hayes will be at the
head of that.
washington Post.)
So far as we can learn, the principal
object of Mr.. Sherman's proposed stump
ing tour in Ohio is to assure his lncredu-
lous fellow citizens that resumption IS
fixed fact" Mr.. Sherman should invite
them to New York, the only place IN the
Union where he can show his resumption |
mill in actual operation.
Denver Republican,
In case that the United States should
open diplomatic relations with the newly
discovered people whose language consists
OF only three hundred words, there would
arise peculiar difficulty of communication.
! Mr.. Evarts' communications would need
to be translated into the new language.
, And what would theinterpreter dor How
would he manage to get even one sentence
into three hundred wordsI
3 (Atchison Globe.)
e Another civil service reform ghost has
, vanished. The president, when he at
tempted TO divorce politics from the civil
service, ordered all political organizations
; among the clerks to disband. Now it Is
d officially announced that the president no
e longer sees any objection to these associa-
O tons, and they are rapidly recognizing.
Oils. State Register.)
The Chicago Inter- Ocean says, that
with the full strength of the party out,
{ Florida is d republican state" That's all
d right, Hayes is letting EN- out as rapidly
|. as possible. Think of the pardon OF the
: first batch"
(Courier-Journal)
ut l. known too well that the black is first, last
? and always Republican. He knows that his best
a his only human friend is in the North. NJ Boston
y Traveller.
Do you really believe that, or are you a
- fool? The BLACK" is always for the man
4 or party which gives him good treatment
), and plenty OF pap, The Republicans stole
all his hard earned wages out of the freed
;, meas bank; murdered him in the South
~ to substantiate their stories Of negro
= massacres;" lied to him about Kansas and
. Northern Support, and fooled thousands
. of poor, penniless and ignorant creatures
to an Inhospitable region where his only
human friend" is leaving them to perish
l. or to be pauper burden on Kansas COM
10 munnities. An only human friend" who
robs murders and pauperizes must needs
Is be a human fiend'" 1t appears such is
l. the case. The human fend is Republi-
2, can.
lr Davenport Democrat)
e When Judge Noble declined the Dem
" ocratic nomination for Supreme Judge,
the Davenport Gazette spoke Of him in
l0 the most fattering terms. But now that
0 he consents to stay on the track the Ga
e. zette pronounces him double minded
in man, and unstable in his ways
N [St. Louis Republican,
mi When Congressman De La Matyr of In
e diana Was at Portland last Sunday he at
:. tended the Chestnut Street Methodist
III church, and it was the desire Of various
20 prominent members of the parish to heGS
< him preach, but the pious trustees and
n officials got their heads together and final
lily eopciuded that it might exert bad in
n0 fiuenee TO Sdnit a congressman to the
1g sacred desk. Mr. De Ia Matyr, who has
on been preacher for thirty years. says thie
ms is the first time in all his experience thai
he was ever refused a methodist pulpit
TX He probably understands by this time thai
or the blue bellied Puritanism Of Maine anC
he the GreeRbsck heFesies of Indiana are col
ell ors that don't mix.
II detroit Free Prsss1
= DR.. Chandler has been playing Little
ia Ruttercup" down in Maine, mixing then
eF babies up, as it were. In his last speech
be he declared that ''the stste-rights heresy
ev was killed by the war" and Immediately
.oa added that the issue to day il the same
~ as it was 10 1861
Au baltimore Gazettel
'm We feel called upon to contradict thu
At story which is floating around TO the effec
o, that Mr.. Hayes will contribute $4,000 tt
,ot advance the interest of the Republic
party in the Ohio campaign. Besides
re being a violation of tho rules of the cvi
he service, MIR. Hayes feels that it would be
zee unjust to the democratic party to use Mr.
al TiIden's salary in this way.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
80 We admit that Gen. Ewing is poor Il
Tom had stayed at home during the war
he sold calico at 65 cents per yard, and
ho sanded the sugar, and marked up the
err price of coffee every time the fedora
- armies met with reverse, he would have
40 been as thrifty and forehanded as Citizer
On Foster,
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let Languor, Its Cause and Eemedy.
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