The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-19
Only Two Parties for the Future.


After eighteen years of uninterrupted
republican rule, more properly called par
tizan misrule and class legislation, the
democrats have control of both houses of
congress. So wicked and partizan has
been nearly all Of the republican leglsla-
ton, so much in favor of the wealthy SO
persistent has it been to force the laboring
and producing classes to bear the burdens
of taxation, so continually for the encour-
agement Of subsidies, jobs and schemes
for perpetuating the power of the thieves
and rings, that very many honest men de
SPARED of the democratic party ever being
able to drive these men from the public
treasury and at the first opportunity
allied themselves with a third party.
This party, Of course, was controlled
by dishonest politicians, as is shown by the
action of their thirteen representatives in
the present congress, who, with pretense
of holding the balance Of power, and with
flourish of pretended Importance pro-
posed to sell their votes in the organization
of the house to the republicans for re-
cognition in the distribution of Offices.
This action ought certainly TO open the
eyes of every democrat in the third party
to the fact that they are only contributing
to perpetuate the power of the party that
has made all the legislation against which
action of these thirteen, to-
gether with the reforms instituted
and the economy practiced by the dem
ocratic majority in the lower house of
congress, and the determination Of dem
ocrats in both houses to undo the evil
legislation which, has reduced the value Of
real estate, unsettled all other values,
increased taxation and made the stealing
of millions possible, will show the honest
men in the third party.howt useless it is to
try to accomplish any OF the reforms they
desire through third party organization,
The effect cannot be other than to induce
them to vote in future with the democra-
tic party. Of course the men who have
been controlling the third party, who
have been active in it's councils for the sake
of profits. like Brick Pomeroy who is now
trying to make oil the greenback clubs il
this state pay him for services; or men like
James X. Magic, who held Office under
Gov. Cullom and drew his six dollars day
from the state treasury while he was or
ganizing the third party for the purpose o
dividing the democratic vote aud thus en-
surfing the election of the republican candi
dates; or those smaller samples of dishon'
est politicians who pretend to publish or
gans to represent the laboring men q inter
ests, while they sreaowned body and sou
by capitalists, that they might draw thei
support from the pittance these laborinG
men receive for their work, or perhaps
few lesser politicians who arc in the thirt
party for notoriety or in hopes of securing
some petty ofice-these men will doubles
struggle hard to keep up the third part
organization, but no man vino is honestl
in favor of reform can consistently contin
ne to follow such leaders; sophistry can u
longer blind their reason. They will prot
ably do little cOmmon-sense thinking fc
themselves. and for one We are willing I
abide with their conclusions, in the full b.
lief that their votes will not be throw
away or contribute to retaining in powe
the party and the men who have made a
the wicked legislation which they condem
in such positive terms, but that they wi
ally themselves with the party that no
has control of both branches of congress-
and what is more, by their acts, will kee
that control.