The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-29

that I'm 1885, n Democrat is elected ne win be in
and further. let the blame rest where it belongs
with the Republican party. The Democrats VIII
not be bulldozed scared or driven from the race
in 1Ss0,and Republicans may as well 30 understand
it.--Argus.
And we desire to say to our Democratic
opponents that DO Democrat will be in
stalled unless he is elected. although with
both branches of Congress in the control.
of the Democracy, the power is with that
party to throw out the votes of States arr
bitrarily and precipitate conflict. The
Republicans propose to strain every nerve
TO elect their candidates in 1880, and thus
prevent the control of national affairs from
passing into the hands of the Solid South.
They have no walk over" and they know
;t, and hence there will be no stay -at-home
vote. But every Northern State will go
Republican in 1889, and then the new
census will operate to give the North such
preponderance of power that even the
South will acknowledge the idiocy of its
making any further attempts to gain by
ballot what it forfeited, once and forever,
when it took up arms and struck at the
nations life.- Union
Here you have 1.-THE game is exposed.
The disguise SO long worn is thrown aside,
and underneath is the true scheme OF the
Republican party. That scheme is Cen
tralization." The southern states are to
have no voice-and even other Democratic
states are to be ignored in the grand pro-
gramme-the ideal political dream of the
stalwarts-a life lease ON the government
The states are to be overridden; state
laws trampled upon; individual rights
taken away; elections done away within
fact the scheme which these model loya-
lists propose to inaugurate is to force the
establishment of military autocracy with
Grant at the helm as dictator. They
realize that the people will not tamely sub
INIT, so to obviate trouble-Grant is to be the
man who shall build up a centralized aris-
tocracy supported By an immense army
and all refractory directors to the outrage
are to be taught that citizen has no
rights which a. Republican politician is
bound to respect Democrats are not to
be permitted to get control of the reins of
government. Bluff is good game gen
tlemen, but right here we desire to say,
and we mean it, too. that not all the Grants
in Christendom can or shall prevent the
installation of Democratic president in
1880, if he be elected. The Republican
managers are busily engaged engendering
political hatred between the north and
south. Blood curdling stories, highly
colored and favored to suit are peddled
broadcast as indicating the temper of the
southern people. The bloody banner of
- la Z
stained borders made to portray con-
dition of things which do not exist. But
for the Internal misrep presentation of the
south by the stalwart press, there would
would be one harmonious whole.
5 There is, can be but one purpose
in this constant agitation by Republicans
of the bloody shirt programme-lt means
that they want another war; they want
blood to retain lease on the i'll gotten
gains they possess. While the masses of
the Republican party are honest. the leaders
are so damnably corrupt, 50 stepped in
crime and corruption, that not even the
blood of their fellow men would check
them in their greedy ambition. The
Democratic party is to-day the only true
exponent Of liberty to all alike-the great
est good to the greatest number. On this
broad platform of universal liberty coupled
with demand for free trade and equa
rights in all things, the Democracy vii
win such an overwhelming victory, that
not even the unprincipled scalawags who
run the Republican political machine will
dare question the result. We desire to
again caution our opponents that. if in
1880 we elect Democratic president, and
we most certainly will,--he sciH be an
stalled.