The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-15
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getting rich on the free use of public
funds"
The DAYTON Democrat: John Sher-
man can find no better reply to the charges
of favoritism and maladministration, which
the Democratic press have made and Prov
ed against him, than to say that he finds
no time to read Democratic papers. sPer-
haps that is the reason so few of Johns
bluuders are corrected"
The Washington Post: Mr.. Sherman
should pause on the same stump where
MIR. Hayes shed those historic tears for
the poor colored people" on the day when
he knew Mr. Tilden was elected, and there
Mr.. Sherman should just weep a few briny
tears over the fatetul fall of Conkling. 1t
would be picture for history and poetry
aud painting, to say nothing of culture.
The Cincinnati Enquirer: "Ex-Sene-
tor Conover is a strong Grant man, and Is
expected to head a Grant delegation from
Florida in the next National Republican
Convection. He says Grant will be the
next Presidential candidate if he is strong
enough to be unanimously chosen, and, IN
any event, will have strength enough to
name the successful man. AS a further
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the Treasury Department at this time,
Copoyer SAYS he does not think Sherman
will be able to break the delegation OF a
single Southern State.
The Os,uego Palladium: When Mr..
Schurz was appointed to place in Mr.
Hayes's cabinet he resigned the position
of editor of the met he resigned the posi-
ton of editor Of the st. Louis Westttche
Post, but it is understood that that paper
still rejects the views of the present Sec
rotary of the Interior and that he has q
proprietary interest in it. This circum-
stance makes the views of this Hayes Re
publican organ a matter of some interest.
10 an article on the Saratoga lConvention
it says The nomination of Cornell as
the Republican candidate for Governor OF
New York was a blunder and crime.
The consequences are inevitable. AL
reputable Republican papers Of New Y rk
warned the convention not to obey the
command Of Cobkling, but it nevertheless
yielded TO the dictation of Conkling
Defeat at the election will be the result
1t the New York Democrats nominate 6
decent candidate they will win a splendid
victory, and all sensible people will ap
plaud." There can be hardly u question
that the st. Louis paper in these utter
ances reflects the views of at least one mem
Der of the Cabinet, and there is also rea
son to believe that if Cornell is defeated
neither President Hayes nor Secretarie
Evarts and Sherman will be among hi
mourners.
The Hudson Register: "Mr. ConklinI
asserts that the dogma of State rights
the same heresy which has once drenchet
our land in blood and buried 1t 10 taxes
again lifts its head and gasps at domin
iOn.' What if Mr., ConkIiDg could have
been stopped in the delivery of this mag
niloquent sentence, and compelled to defin
the heresy that drenched the land il
blood If he really knows what the here
sy was his answer must have been this
That, by an erroneous theory respectin
the nature of the American Union, multi
: tudes, of people had come to believe tina
: there is q reserved constitutional right i
every State to withdraw from the UnioI
whenever a majority OF it's people believ
that it is for their interest to do so 81
? far. so good, says the interrogatOr. Nov
e Mr.. Conkling, will you be good enough I
point out what dogma or what heresy ra
SEES its head o-day which bears the mo,
remote analogy TO that heresy Of State 81
o cession? You assert that the san
t heresy again aims ~ dominion Give I
= your definition of the heresy of the pr
-. sent, What is the State rights doctril
u that now threatens TO drench the land
blood, drown it in taxes, etc, etc.2 1t
all the merest 'bosh'-a waving of Il
same old bloody shirt"